Kilimanjaro climbing trips

Safari to Serengeti, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, National Parks, Ngorongoro Crater and

mkomazi umba game reserve denotes northern circuit tourist safari in Tanzania

 SAFARI ITINERARIES STARTS EITHER MOSHI OR ARUSHA AND FINISHES IN ARUSHA/MOSHI.

 THE CLIENTS ARRIVE BY DOMESTIC PLANE FROM DAR ES SALAAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

 ORARRIVE DIRECTLY BY KLM, KENYA AIRWAYS/PRECISION AIR OR AIR TANZANIA

DIRECTLY FROM ABROAD.

Arusha National Park
The park has three distinct zones: Ngurdoto Crater (often discribed as a mini Ngorongoro), the

 Momella Lakes, a group of shallow alkaline lakes fed by underground streams, and Mount Meru,

one of the most rewarding mountains to climb in Africa.
Animals here include buffalo, elephant, hippo, giraffe, zebra and a variety of antelope, blue monkey

 and black and white colobus monkey, leopard and hyena.This is the best also for bird watchers

and walking safaris.

Lake Manyara National Park.

Lake Manyara National Park is a unique park designated as a Man and Wildlife Biosphere Reserve.

Hemingway describes Lake Manyara National Park's magnificent hunting country in "The Green

Hills of Africa". Mahogany, sausage tree and croton are alive with blue monkeys and vervets.

Elephants feed off fallen fruit while bushbuck, waterbuck, baboons, aardvark, civet, the shy

pangolin and leopard as well as the black rhino, all make their home in the forest.
Manyara is sanctuary to elusive buffalo and hippo, giraffe, impala, zebra and the famous residents

- tree climbing lions.Lake Manyara itself is a magnet for birdlife and a kaleidoscope of different species

 can be found around its shores, including huge flocks of flamingoes. The park is ideal for a day trip.

A four-wheel drive is recommended during the rains. The dry season is from June to September and

January to February.

Mt. Kilimanjaro National Park

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, reaching a height of 5,895 meters, a

dormant volcano, with the diameter at its base being 40 miles. There are two main

snow capped peaks, Kibo and Mawenzi. Although it can be climbed year round the

 best times of the year for climbing are between August and October and January

and March, from mid March to May it is the wet season.
There are six different routes up the mountain ranging in degree of difficulty and there

are many tours operators running organised trips.

Climbing mount kilimanjaro is a life adventure holiday that attracts many tourists

to visit Africa, particularly Tanzania. We have complete professional Mountain

climbing guides for climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, Meru and Oldoinyo Lengai trekking.

Kilimanjaro trekking can be through Machame, rongai,marangu, shira,

western breach, londrosi/lemosho and umbwe.

 Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a huge area containing active volcanoes,

mountains, archeological sites, rolling plains, forests, lakes, dunes and of course,

Ngorongoro Crater and Olduvai Gorge.
The views at the rim of Ngorongoro Crater are sensational. On the crater floor,

grassland blends into swamps, lakes, rivers, woodland and mountains - all a heaven

for wildlife, including the densest predator population in Africa. The crater is home to up

to 25,000 large mammals, mainly grazers - gazelle, buffalo, eland, hartebeest and warthog.

 Ngorongoro is the Eighth Wonder of

the World not only that but also designated as a World Natural Heritage Site.

In the northern, remote part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, you will find Olmoti

and Empakaai Craters, Lake Natron and Oldoinyo Lengai, Mountain of God, as named by

the Maasai. Lake Natron is the only known breeding ground for East Africa's flamingoes.
The ruins of a terraced stone city and complex irrigation system lie on the eastern side

of Empakaai - the Engakura Ruins. Their origins are a mystery as there is no tradition

of stone building in this part of Africa.

Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti is on of the world's last great wildlife refuges. This vast area of land supports the greatest remaining concentration of plain game in Africa, on a scale unparalleled anywhere else in the world. The name comes from the Maasai 'Siringet', meaning endless plains. Equal in size to Northern Ireland, the Park contains an estimated three million large animals, most of which take part in a seasonal migration that is one of nature's wonders.

The annual migration of more than 1.5 million wildebeests as well as hundreds of thousands of zebras and gazelles is triggered by the rains. The wet season starts in November and lasts until about May. Generally the herds congregate and move out at the end of May. Their movement is a continual search for grass and water - the moving mass of animals requiring over 4,000 tons of grass each day. The exodus coincides with the breeding season which

causes fights among the males. As the dry season sets in the herds drift out of the West,

one group to the North, the other north-east heading for the permanent waters of the

northern rivers and the Mara. The immigration instinct is so strong that animals die in the

rivers as they dive from the banks into the raging waters, to be dispatched by crocodiles.

The survivors concentrate in Kenya's Maasai Mara National reserve until the grazing there

is exhausted, when they turn south along the eastern and final stage of the migration route.

Before the main exodus, the herds are a spectacular sight, massed in huge numbers with the

 weak and crippled at the tail end of the procession, followed by the patient, vigilent predators.

The vegetation in the Serengeti ranges from the short and long grass plains in the south, to

the acacia savannah in the centre and the wooded grassland concentrated around tributaries

of the Grumeti and Mara rivers. The western corridor is a region of wooded highland and extensive

plains reaching to the edge of Lake Victoria.
The Seronera Valley in the Serengeti is famous for the abundance lion and leopard that can

usually be seen quite easily. The adult male lions of the Serengeti have characteristic black manes.

Hot air balloon safaris is very rewarding experience in serengeti, masai mara kenya.

Balloon safaris will enable you to have panoramic view of wildlife.

Tarangire National Park
The permanent water supply of the Park means that during the summer,

the animal population here rivals that of the Serengeti with wildebeest,

zebra, eland, elephant, hartebeest, buffalo, gerenuk, fringe eared oryx

and flocks of birds of many different species. Prime game viewing months

are between September and December.

Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge is the Archaeological Site in the northeast of Tanzania within

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, in which early human fossils were first discovered

in 1911 by German entomologist who was looking for butterflies. The name was

derived from early European miss spelling of "Oldupai" the Maasai name for the plants

that grow in that area. It has amazing landscape that resulted from the tectonic forces,

which created the Great Rift Valley million of years ago. Long ago the area was covered

by ancient salt lake, which vanished, and leaving salt deposits exposed in its walls

 until today. The steep sided gorge is nearly 90 meters high and its extension is

50 kilometers long. The importance of this area lies on the uncovered archeological

 remains; fossils remain, including the bones of early hominids, stone tools, marks

and a building site. Other sites within the area are Laetoli site, Lake Ndutu Sites,

and Nasera Rock Shelter. Apart from Olduvai Gorge, which reminds us of the origin

of mankind, there are also the ruins of the ancient city, which are marked by stone

terrace and the complex irrigation system at Engaruka.

You will not find giraffe as there is not much to eat at tree level, or topi, because

the competition with wildebeest is too fierce, nor will you find impala. The crater

elephants are strangely, mainly bulls. There are a small number of black rhinos here too.

The birdlife is largely seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh

water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.

Northern Safaris
Arusha - Tarangire - Lake Manyara - Ngorongoro -  
Serengeti - Olduvai Gorge.

Safari, in Kiswahili, simply means "journey". But in English it has become a synonyme for a wildlife viewing

adventure in the African bush. 'To go on safari' In Tanzania is, and always will remain a fascinating.

The Big Five
You may hear of the Big Five before going on Safari, from an old book, or from a nature documentary.

Today, they are five of the animals which people most want to see while on Safari. One hundred years

ago, amid pith helmets, mosquito boots, and 'darkest Africa', the Big Five were the most sought after

animals to hunt. They were the fiercest, the most dangerous animals; the animals that would

hunt the hunter.

Explorers of East Africa went home with stories of lions and leopards in the tall African grass,

of rhinos that would charge at the mere smell of a person, of the buffalo hidden in the bushes,

 and of the terrors of an enraged elephant.

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