Archeological & Historical Sites Tours Package

Package Overview

Visit world renowned archeological sites; Olduvai Gorge, Laetoli & Engaruka and Kondoa Rock Art Sites.
Full game drive to Tarangire National Park, home for elephants, baobab trees different species of bird.
Visiting Tarangire River where most of animals in the park depend for the water, experience the nature and greenish of the park and environment surrounding.
Full game drive in the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater,”the Garden of Eden.”
Be accommodated at a hotel and lodge.
Trip Highlights

Explore the magnificent Amani Forest Nature Reserve and Bagamoyo.
Full game drive to Saadani National Park & Mkomazi National Park.
Explore the wonders of Mafia Island Marine Park and Zanzibar Island
Be accommodated at a tented camp, hotel and lodge.Any other transfers, Any optional Tour, Any Airfare and visas, Telephone calls and bar drinks while in the lodge/hotel, Any Extra service offered by lodges/hotel, Gratuities/tips.

Day wise Itinerary

• Day 1 : Arrive in Arusha

  Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO), a representative from Across Africa Nature will warmly welcome and pick you up with a private 4×4 safari vehicle and transfer to Arusha (approximately 50km or 31miles) a 45 to 50 minutes drive on a tarmac road for overnight at Lake Duluti Lodge or similar (Dinner included). Starting from pick up at the airport and throughout your safari, our experienced and passionate driver-guide will give you an enriching knowledge about the people of Tanzania, wild animals’ behavior, their natural environments and other intricacies. Our representative will have a short safari briefing session with you at the lodge and leave you to relax and have dinner. This will be a truly life-enriching safari experience that will be lifetime memorable. Karibu Tanzania!
• Day 2 : Arusha – Ngorongoro Crater

  After breakfast with your picnic lunch, drive to Ngorongoro Crater for full day game viewing, dinner and overnight at the Ngorongoro Crater Lodge.
• Day 3 : Visit Olduvai Gorge, Laetoli & Engaruka

  After breakfast take lunch boxes and drive to Oduvai Gorge, the most famous paleoanthropological sites in East Africa. It is the site where Mary and Louis Leakey discovered the first well-dated artifacts and fossils of some of our earliest human ancestors, including Homo habilis, Paranthropus boisei, Homo erectus and finally Homo sapiens. The site is located in the Great Rift Valley.
  After two hours at Olduvai Gorge, proceed to Laetoli, west of Ngorongoro Crater. You will see the hominid footprints preserved in volcanic rock 3.6 millions years old. They represent earliest signs of mankind in the world. The location was excavated by archaeologist Mary Leakey in 1978 and others followed, finding in this area many tracks of the presence and remains of hominids.
  You will then drive to Engaruka to see an abandoned system of ruins located in the Great Rift Valley. Here you will get to see irrigation and cultivation systems which are deemed as one of the most important archaeological sites in the Great Lakes region. Sometime in the 15th century, an iron age farming community, housing several thousand people, developed this complicated system.
  
  Guide will help you to identify old graves, house walls, irrigation canals and terraces, and explain the various theories about the rise and fall of the farming community. Enjoy enroute, the colourful birds and butterflies, remnants. Of the German era, and also visit an ‘orpul’ or Maasai slaughterhouse. Rift Valley escarpment tour from the ruined city, narrow footpaths wind up the Rift Valley escarpment. Climb the escarpment guided by a Maasai warrior, who will help you spot many colourful birds and show you trees and plants that the Maasai use for making food and medicines.
  Late afternoon, drive to Serengeti National Park, dinner and overnight at Ndutu Safari Lodge, enjoy game viewing en-route.
• Day 4 : Serengeti National Park (ndutu Area )

  Early morning game drive, then head back to Ndutu Safari Lodge for breakfast. Spend your mid morning at leisure enjoying usage of recreational facilities provided at the lodge. Have lunch at the lodge.
  
  After lunch, drive to Ndutu area on the border between Ngorongoro and Serengeti. Enjoy game viewing en-route to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
• Day 5 : Serengeti to Lake Manyara National Park

  Enjoy a morning game drive around Ndutu Area. Lunch is at the lodge.
  After lunch drive to Lake Manyara National Park arriving with game viewing on the way to the Lake Manyara Serena Lodge. Check-in for dinner and overnight.
• Day 6 : Lake Manyara National Park to Kondoa Rock Art Sites

  Lake Manyara National Park to Kondoa Rock Art Sites.
• Day 7 : Explore Tarangire National Park- Arusha

  Earl Morning after breakfast start full game drive in Tarangire National Park with picnic lunch box . Home for elephants and baobab trees, different kinds of animals like warthogs, antelopes, zebras, leopard, hyenas and dikdik. Also you can see different species of bird at the park, visiting Tarangire River for more game viewing. Then at 4pm drive back to Arusha for Dinner and departure back home.

Inclusions

• Hotel
• Sightseeing
• Driver guide, mineral water, lunch box, park entry fee and a 4WD safari vehicle.

Exclusions

• Any other transfers, Any optional Tour, Any Airfare and visas, Telephone calls and bar drinks while in the lodge/hotel, Any Extra service offered by lodges/hotel, Gratuities/tips.

Terms & Conditions

This Tour is Offered by

• Shangarai Village, P O Box 116, Duluti, Arusha, Tanzania
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• XXXXXXXXXX@acrossafricanature.com View Mail ID

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