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TANZANIA BY HELICOPTER

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ITINERARY

Day 1: Arusha

Meet you helicopter and pilot at Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Settle into Tanzania as you spend your first night in the Siringit Villa. Afternoon flight up to Mount Kilimanjaro.

Siringit Villa, 1 night. 

 

Day 2: Manyara and the Northern Rift

After breakfast set off to Chem Chem lodge in the Manyara National Park. Game drives and guided walks from the lodge.

A sundowner flight over Lake Natron and Ol Doinyo Lengai.

Fly up to the Ngorongoro Crater where you will meet vehicles for a game drive in the Crater, picnic lunch out.

Chem Chem Lodge, 3 nights. 

Day 5: Lake Eyasi and Southern Serengeti

Fly out over Lake Manyara and Lake Eyasi to Mwiba Lodge.

Game drives and guided walks from the lodge.

Join the Hadza tribe as they hunt and gather.

Mwiba Lodge, 2 nights.

Day 7: Grumeti National Park

A scenic flight over the Serengeti into the Grumeti National Park.

Spend three nights at a Singita property in Grumeti. Game drives, guided walks and other activities.

Singita Sasakwa or Sabora, 3 nights.

Fly by charter plane to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight home.

End of Safari

DAY 1  

MOUNT KILIMANJARO & MOUNT MERU

Mount Kilimanjaro stands at 19,341 feet above sea level, the highest and most famous mountain in Africa. Mount Kili has three peaks, Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira.  The peaks are topped with glaciers and often in cloud. A helicopter tour brings a new perspective to the grandeur of its slopes, the magnitude of life it supports and the beauty of its contours.

Mount Meru is a dormant volcano, located in the Arusha National Park. It is an extremely volatile mountain, with its first eruption 1.5 million years ago, blowing out close to a third of its circumference. The last eruption was in 1910.   It stands at a height of 14,968 feet, making it the fifth highest mountain in Africa.

SIRINGIT VILLA

Siringit Villa is a luxury six bedroom exclusive villa. This spacious and elegant property, overlooks the green of the Kili golf course with Mount Kilimanjaro in sight.

The generous bedrooms are exquisitely decorated. There are pleanty of spaces to relax and acclamitise within, inclduing in the gorgeous living room, the private dining room, the lush gardens, the relaxing terraces or the invigorating lap pool.

 

DAY 2 - 4  

LAKE MANYARA AND TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

Manyara is best known for its tree climbing lions, the soda ash lake that attracts thousands of pink flamingos, one of Tanzania’s biggest elephant population and breathtaking scenery.

The unique lions in the park have the capability to climb trees; being nocturnal animals they spend most of their day resting up in the big fig trees and at sunset they descend when the temperatures are cooler.

THE NGORONGORO CRATER

A unique wildlife area and UNESCO world heritage site.  It is the world’s largest inactive, intact unfilled caldera.   The crater, which formed when a large volcano exploded and collapsed on itself two to three million years ago, is 610 metres (2,000 feet) deep and its floor covers 260 square kilometres (100 square miles).

THE NORTHERN RIFT

A spectacular scenic flight over the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the volcanoes that make up the Northern Rift of Tanzania, a totally unique and dramatic area. The volcanic region of northern Tanzania has an incredible diversity of landscapes, rich in Maasai culture and an abundance of wildlife.