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Arrival day: |
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Kilimanjaro Airport - Arusha: |
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Airport transfer with private
vehicle and guide, Amani Afrika
donates $50 per person
to Support for
indigenous Children
program, a non-profit
organization supporting
which provides funds to
supply food and mosquito nets to the orphanages in
Tanzania (www.sichildren.org).
Arusha is a city of northern
Tanzania surrounded by some of
Africa's most famous landscapes
and national parks. Beautifully
situated below Mount Meru on the
eastern edge of the eastern
branch of the Great Rift Valley,
it has a pleasant climate and is
close to Serengeti, Ngorongoro
Crater, Lake Manyara, Olduvai
Gorge, Tarangire National Park,
and Mount Kilimanjaro, as well
as having its own Arusha
National Park on Mount Meru.
International flights arrive at
Kilimanjaro International
Airport, and regional flights
use Arusha airport.
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Day 1: |
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Tengeru Cultural Tour: |
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Introduction:
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Tengeru is located 12km from Arusha
town, along the Arusha-Moshi. The
village stands as peri-urbun village
with homesteads situated in lush
green canopy of bananas. The
villagers are involved in
sustainable small-scale farming.
All programs are well organized,
educational and relaxing at the same
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Day tour option: |
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Coffee plantation and lake Duluti.
A guided tour to our coffee farm
will provide you with enriching
knowledge and information, starting
with the origins of coffee to
harvesting time. Then you will
participate
in
the
processing of coffee beans from
roasting them to tasting the cup of
coffee/ you have made.
Have a break by taking well prepared
tasty traditional food with family.
Then you will be guided to refresh
your mind at the Lake Duluti -a
walking and bird identification
tour. Listen to the Meru legends
about the lake. |
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This is done by our local guides to
show you the green slopes of
Mount meru
to experience the warmth of an
African home. Tengeru cultural
programs was founded with the aim of
providing our clients with a touch
of local life. This provides a
quickly contrast to that of our
neighbours, the MAASAI. We give an
opportunity to our clients to visit
places of interest and participate
in the daily activities within our
area. |
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The programme has the pleasure to
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Education tours through a local
coffee farm participation in
planting trees as part of our
environmental conservation project.
A visit to local primary school in
the village, A visit to historical
sites (polish refugees graveyard). A
day visit to Mt. Meru Forest and
waterfalls A visit to the colourful
farm products market (Saturday,
Wednesday)
Canoeing, birdwatching at
lake Duluti (with a meru legend) |
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Profits will be used:
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To support tree planting and local
projects like Water projects,
Schools, Hospitals etc. |
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Day 2: |
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Day tour option: |
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Planting trees/visit to the water
fall
As nature love it is our
responsibility to fight against
deforest ration. We run the project
to plant trees along the local
river, water sources and on the
foothills of Mt.meru to preserve
environment.
You are welcome to join hand with us
to bring hope to these environments.
The tour will be ending with a visit
to the waterfall after a working
day. |
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Day 3: |
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Day tour option:
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Visit to a primary school/polish
graveyard.
In the village there are two primary
schools. One is a handicapped children’s
and the next is a teaching practice
primary school.
A choice to visit and play with kids or
be a part of their class will give you a
touch of local child level experience.
After your lunch visit an old stone
quarry site developed after WW.II
whereby more than 100 refugees from
Poland were brought to Arusha. Most of
them died of malaria and influenza and
were buried in this area. |
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Day 4: |
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Day tour option:
(Mt.meru Trekking) |
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This is a challenging uphill walk,
criss crossing small-scale farms of
bananas, coffee and vegetables. You
will see the rolling hills giving
the environment an admirable look.
Our guide will lead you to the
Mt.meru Forest where you can spend
your day viewing birds and trees.
Finally you will relax and take your
lunch next to the waterfall of about
70m long in the forest. |
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Day 5: |
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Arusha - Tarangire: |
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Game viewing with your
expert guide in
Tarangire National Park.
Includes national park
fees. Enjoy lunch
(included in tour
price). Enjoy afternoon
game viewing with your
skilled guide. Tarangire
National Park is
probably one of the
least visited of the
northern Tanzanian game
parks, and retains a
real air of undiscovered
Africa, particularly in
the south of the park.
Just a two hours drive
away from Arusha. It
lies a little distance
to the south east of
Lake Manyara and covers
an area of approximately
2,850 square kilometres.
It is named after the Tarangire
River that flows through the park. The
swamps, tinged green year round, are the
focus for 550 bird varieties; the mobs
of elephant are easily encountered in
any season. |
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Day 6: |
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Tarangire - Serengeti: |
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Wake up very early in the morning
for a transfer to Serengeti. No
visit to this part of the world
would be complete without calling in
at Olduvai Gorge – site of the
Laetoli hominid footprints, Oldupai
Mu- seum and many fossilized
hominid, animal and plant
specimens. A self-guided tour of
the museum and a short lecture
provides an excellent start to
learning more about the history of
hominids and other mammals. Game on
route to Serengeti. |
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Day 7: |
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Full day in Serengeti: |
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Game viewing with your
expert guide in
Serengeti National Park.
Includes national park
fees. Tanzania's oldest
and most popular national park, the
Serengeti is massive in size, 14,763
sq km (5,700 sq miles). Famed for
its annual migration, when some six
million hooves pound the open
plains, as more than 200,000 zebra
and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join
the wildebeest’s trek for fresh
grazing. Yet even when the migration
is quiet, the Serengeti offers the
most expansive game-viewing in
Africa: great herds of buffalo,
smaller groups of elephant and
giraffe, and thousands upon
thousands of eland, topi, kongoni,
impala and Grant’s gazelle. Enjoy lunch
(included in tour
price). Enjoy afternoon
game viewing with your
skilled guide. Enjoy
dinner (included in tour
price). |
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Day 8: |
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Serengeti-Ngorongoro: |
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The 14 763 square kilometers of the
Serengeti is made up of a variety of
different habitats – plains, kopjes,
river and forest. The vast size of
Tanzania’s premier National Park
makes game viewing only one aspect
of the Serengeti as the scenery is
simply breathtaking. Morning game
viewing with your skilled guide.
A good camera is an
essential item to take with
you as well as lots of spare
batteries, memory chips, film...
There is no bad time to visit the
Serengeti as every season has its
own special highlight – even the
rainy season has the daily thunder
and lightening to look forward to.
Changing seasons and light patterns
form the most beautiful backdrop to
view Africa’s majestic and
incredible wildlife. Leave the
Serengeti around 3pm, heading to
Ngorongoro crater rim for overnight. |
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Day 9: |
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Ngorongoro Crater - Arusha: |
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The first glimpse of the Ngorongoro
Crater is an unforgettable experience.
Although commonly referred to as a
crater, it is actually a caldera. At
over 20 km’s across and 600m deep the
Ngorongoro Caldera is the largest
unbroken, un-flooded caldera in
the world and clear testimony to this
regions volcanic history. The most
renowned part of the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area, this unique feature
is legendary for the more than 25 000
wild animals that occupy the
crater-Floor.
In addition to the large
population of grazing animals,
the small soda-lake (Lake Makat) is home
to flamingos. Africa’s Big-5 - Lion,
Elephant, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino are
all to be found here along with Hippo,
Zebra, Warthog, Eland and many of
Africa’s other wild animals. Leave the
crater around 3:30PM driving back to
Arusha for dinner and overnight. |
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Departure day: |
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Arusha and beyond: |
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This morning we have an
adventure de-briefing
followed by transfer to
your Arusha departure
point or JRO for your
travel beyond. |
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Price Includes: |
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All park entrance
and camping fees
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Cultural fee
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All ground transport in a comfortable
private safari Jeep, fitted with pop up
roof for easy photography and game
viewing whilst on safari
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Camping accommodation as per itinerary
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Local
evacuation flying doctors insurance
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Crater fees
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Services of an English speaking tour
driver/guide.
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Mineral water 1.5lt per person per day
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Salary for the Professional English Drive Guide
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Activities as per itinerary above.
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Use of radios/phones to increase your safety.
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Price
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Airport transfers
(we can arrange on a request)
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Any local
or International flight
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Accommodation on arrival and after
safari (we can arrange on a request)
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Hot and cold drinks
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Hot Air Balloon ride over Serengeti, book with us
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Tips to the driver/guide and all items of personal
nature/use
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And all not mentioned in the itinerary above
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Payment of the program
price constitutes your
acceptance of the terms
and conditions set out
at
http://amaniafrika.com/Terms.htm |
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