14 Days Tanzania Cultural Safari

Day 1: Arrive in Tanzania

You will be picked up at the Julius Nyerere International Airport and transferred to your hotel in Dar es Salaam City, where you will relax and rest after a long flight; you will also have dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Dar es Salaam City Tour

Our Dar es Salaam city tour will take you to Magogoni Fish Market, National Museum, the Village Museum, Mwenge Carving center and Kariakoo, on this day will have city tour exploring some of the famous attractions in the city, at the end of the day you will have a ideal picture of what real Dar es Salaam is, Dar es Salaam is the largest and most populated city in East Africa.

Day 3: Dar es Salaam to Arusha

On this day you will fly to Arusha with morning flight from around 10 am arrive in Arusha for lunch and after lunch we have a town tour get to know the Arusha town the heart of Tourism, you will drive to town and do some walk in the town, refreshing and getting prepared for the coming adventure.

Day 4: Arusha to Mto Wa Mbu

On this day after your breakfast you will drive to Mto wa Mbu, Bustling with a variety of cultures from around Tanzania, the little town of Mto Wa Mbu lies at the entrance to Lake Manyara National Park. A local agricultural hub, the town is famous for its crops of rice and the distinctive red bananas that Tanzania is known for. A half-day tour of the town in the company of a local guide gives travelers the opportunity to interact with local farmers, as well as artisans, craftsmen and painters. A sampling of the local banana beer adds a unique taste of local flavor. And later after your traditional lunch you will visit a Maasai boma and see the lifestyle of this legendary tribe up-close. Along with a guided tour of the boma and an introduction to the local Maasai population. Later drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Culture Experience in Lake Eyasi

After breakfast you will join the Hadzabe and interact with them and meet the bushman guide and enjoy the bush walking safari and hunting activity with the hadzabe bushmen, the hadzabe are the indigenous ethnic group in the north central Tanzania living around lake Eyasi in the central rift valley, the hadzabe are the only remaining hunters and fruit gathers in East Africa and later after lunch you will meet the Datoga tribe one of the few remaining African tribes that still smelt iron to make tools for their daily activities. Later you will drive to your lodge to have some rest, enjoy dinner and overnight.

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, taking picnic lunches with you and drive to Ngorongoro crater descend down to the crater floor for a full day of tracking game with your guide. The crater is 610m deep and 260km2 wide, making it the largest Caldera in the world. The crater contains all the big five animals (lions, elephants, rhinos, leopard and buffaloes), hippos, cheetah, antelopes and spotted hyena. Also in the crater you can see different species of birds. Other game such as velvet monkey, jackal, foxes, rock and tree hyraxes, warthog, gnu, zebra and hare. Dinner and Overnight Ngorongoro Conservation.

Day 7: Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Serengeti National Park

Early Breakfast at around 8.00a.m, then proceed on an en route drive to Serengeti National Park. On your way you will have a chance to interact with the masai tribe, enjoy with them and learn about their culture. Serengeti is undoubtedly the best known wild life sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural and scenic values it as the greatest of plains concentration of plains game in Africa, Also known worldwide for its endless plains, wildebeest –migration, pride of lions and other predators like hyenas, cheetahs and leopards. Crocodiles can be found in the Grumeti River, as well as hippos, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles. You will arrive at noon then enjoy your lunch together with your guide then you will check in and proceed with afternoon game drive, then later drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 8: Full day in Serengeti National Park

After breakfast leave the lodge for game drive with parked lunch, in the middle of Serengeti national park. You have another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top; we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich. We return to our special Camp for the night after this amazing experience.

Day 9: Serengeti to Mwanza

On this Day earlier after breakfast depart to Mwanza City where you will spend the rest of your day enjoying the views of the largest lake in Africa, Lake Victoria, here you have a chance to explore the city as-well get a chance to experience how the people live here, visit the mwalone fish market, Bismarck rock and more attractions in the city.

Day 10: Mwanza to Shinyanga Region

On this day after your breakfast you will pack your things and start driving to the Sukuma Land, Sukuma, and The Sukuma live in northwestern Tanzania on or near the southern shores of Lake Victoria, and the territory has been divided into nine administrative districts of the Mwanza and Shinyanga Region. The northern area of their residence is in the famous Serengeti Plain. Sukuma families have migrated southward, into the Rukwa area too, We will drive into the interior of the region to meet the pure Sukuma tribemen as our aim is to enjoy uniqueness and authenticity of these beautiful tribe, upon your arrival you will set your tents as usual, then enjoy some walking around the village while interacting with the tribe members as your chef prepares a wonderful meal, later you will come to enjoy dinner and overnight.

Day 11: Full day Sukuma Culture Experience

On this day after breakfast you will enjoy this beautiful tribe by interacting with tribe members from they way they live, sometimes try to eat some of their traditional food, be among them and enjoy their traditional dances.

Day 12: Shinyanga to Tabora (Wataturu tribe)

On this day after your amazing breakfast you will drive to Tabora Region with your packed lunch you will arrive in Wataturu Area in the afternoon, here you will set your tents, then later enjoy some walking in the village while interacting with tribes men as your chef prepares dinner for you.

Day 13: Full day Wataturu tribe Experience

On this day you will have a full day experience with Wataturu people, Wataturu is a tribe that lives in the central part of Tanzania, they are skilled pastoralist and their tradition is still alive and very interesting to be among them to learn and experience about them.

Day 14: Airport Transfer/Back Home

On this day you will have an early breakfast and you will be transferred direct to the airport to connect you with a flight back home.

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