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gorillas, then the spice islands
Ten nights from Bwindi's Nkuringo gorillas through Entebbe to six nights of reef and forest on northern Pemba Island.
- Private Safari
- From $10,330 pp
- 2 guests
- 10 nights
trip highlights
- Manyara Green Camp stands beneath the Endabash Waterfall in the remote southern half of Lake Manyara National Park, where the gorge draws elephants and buffalo in the dry months.
- The walk from Empakai down to Lake Natron crosses Rift terrain led by Maasai guides toward the soda lake below Ol Doinyo Lengai.
- Lake Natron sits beneath the Mountain of God, where guests wade the Ngare Sero gorge to waterfalls and walk the flats among lesser flamingos.
- Serengeti Green Camp moves with the wildebeest and holds permits for guided walking safaris across the open plains.
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Northern Tanzania at Walking Pace
Eleven nights link the northern circuit from a single arrival night at Arusha, beneath Mount Meru, out to the far side of the Rift. From the quiet southern half of Lake Manyara National Park you cross on foot from Empakai down to Lake Natron, the alkaline soda lake below Ol Doinyo Lengai, before finishing on the Serengeti plains with a camp that moves with the wildebeest.
The route is built around walking, with armed guides and, on the plains, a national park ranger. Game drives, night drives and canoeing fill in around the trail. You stay in low-impact tented camps and one lightweight mobile camp on the hike, plus a country inn on the first night, each placed for the terrain it sits in rather than for polish.
Daily Itinerary Breakdown
Arusha Beneath Mount Meru
Northern circuit safaris begin here, at 1,400 metres on Mount Meru's southern slopes in the eastern arm of the Great Rift Valley. You land at Kilimanjaro International, thirty to forty minutes east along the Arusha to Moshi road, and wake to the mountain's outline before the drive to the parks. Rivertrees Country Inn occupies a former coffee estate on the banks of the Usa River, with lawns running down to the water under jacarandas and a troop of black-and-white colobus monkeys working the canopy above the gardens.
- Accommodation at Rivertrees Country Inn
The Quiet South Of Lake Manyara
Three nights in the remote southern half of Lake Manyara National Park, the part most day-trippers never reach, where forest closes in and the gorge carries animals between the escarpment and the lake basin. In the dry months the Endabash is one of the few water sources for miles, and it draws elephants and buffalo down to drink within sight of camp. Days run to morning and afternoon game drives, night drives and walks, with canoeing when water levels allow and a treetop walkway eighteen metres up. Manyara Green Camp sets eight tents on raised decks along the Endabash River, directly beneath the waterfall.
- Accommodation at Manyara Green Camp
Walking From Empakai To Lake Natron
Two nights on the trek that crosses the Rift on foot, descending from Empakai toward Lake Natron and the alkaline flats below Ol Doinyo Lengai. This is self-propelled travel through country that behaves like nowhere else in Tanzania, reading the ground at a pace no vehicle allows. You sleep in Simple Lightweight Camp, a lightweight mobile camp carried along the route rather than a permanent property, put up where the day's walking ends.
- Accommodation at Simple Lightweight Camp
Lake Natron And The Mountain Of God
The walk reaches Lake Natron, a hyper-alkaline soda lake at the southern end of a private Maasai concession, its shallows stained red and orange beneath crusts of white salt. There are no game drives here. At dawn you walk out onto the flats where lesser flamingos feed, and wade up the Ngare Sero gorge to waterfalls cool enough to swim in; Ol Doinyo Lengai, the carbonatite volcano the Maasai call the Mountain of God, is climbed at night for sunrise. Lake Natron Camp runs nine tented suites on elevated decking beneath camouflage netting, with a spring-fed pool at its centre against the constant heat.
- Accommodation at Lake Natron Camp
Walking The Serengeti Plains
Three nights on the open Serengeti, in a camp positioned within a few hours of the wildebeest and away from the busier parts of the park. Walking is the reason it exists in this form: armed guides, with a national park ranger, lead outings from a couple of hours to a full day, reading tracks, grasses and insects. Game drives run morning and afternoon as standard. Serengeti Green Camp is taken down and rebuilt to keep pace with the herds, south near Nabi Hill from December to March for the February calving on the volcanic soils, and north to Kogatende and the Mara River crossings from around July to October.
- Accommodation at Serengeti Green Camp
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ruaha’s baobabs and the zanzibar coast
Ten nights linking Ruaha's escarpment game drives with the coral reef and Swahili coast of Zanzibar.
- Private Safari
- From $10,300 pp
- 2 guests
- 10 nights
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- Private Safari
- From $11,577 pp
- 2 guests
- 10 nights
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