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Tanzanian School Group Holiday

Trip type: 
Wildlife & Schools
Adventure level: 
2. Gentle
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Africa, Tanzania | 9 days
Trip code: 
SGT
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School Groups
What's included: 

Transport: Chartered bus, 4WD safari vehicle

Accommodation:  6 nights camping

Meals: Full Board

Local Group Leader throughout

1 free teacher place per 10 paying students

Trip Highlights: 
Exploring diverse physical geography
Visit the National Parks to observe the local wildlife
Study the Masai tribe's nomadic pastoralist lifestyle
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Standard Itinerary

  • Day 1 - Depart UK
  • Day 2 - Arrive Arusha
  • Day 3 - Ngorongoro
  • Day 4-5 - Serengeti NP
  • Day 6 - Lake Manyara
  • Day 7 - Arusha
  • Day 8 - Fly Home
  • Day 9 - Arrive UK
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Day
1

Depart UK

Overnight flight to Tanzania

Day
2
Arrive Arusha

Arrive Arusha

On arrival at Kilimanjaro International airport you will be met and transferred to Arusha. (50 kms/ 1 hr) Set at an altitude of 1,390 metres, Arusha is surrounded by fertile land. Arusha was once the headquarters of the East African community in the days when Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were members of a communications and customs union and remains one of Tanzania’s most attractive and lively towns. In the afternoon we explore the town. Overnight: Masai Campsite (D)

Day
3
Ngorongoro

Ngorongoro

This morning you cross the Great Rift Valley, one of the most dramatic features on earth. Stretching from the Dead Sea in Jordan to Mozambique in the south, it is up to 100km wide in places and hosts an enormous diversity of wildlife. Your journey takes you through the lands of the Masai - probably the best known tribe in Africa - and on to the famous Ngorongoro Crater. Ngorongoro is one of the most picturesque settings for observing wildlife and with about 30,000 resident animals, there is excellent game viewing here all year round. The photographic opportunities are unrivalled! You spend the afternoon in the crater in 4WD vehicles, accompanied by a local driver/guide(s). Encounters with animals are frequent in this Garden of Eden and there is a wide variety of game to be seen. Lake Magadi, the soda lake at the floor of the crater, is home to thousands of flamingos and nearby there is a pool where splashing hippo laze in the sunshine, watched by a profusion of water birds. This is also one of the best places to see the endangered black rhino. Leaving the crater you follow the road climbing steadily up its precipitous inner edge. You spend the night on the rim of the crater, from where vantage points offer magnificent views over and down into the caldera. Nights here can be particularly cold. (Driving time to Ngorongoro crater approx. 4 1/2 hours, excluding game drives) Overnight: Simba Campsite, Ngorongoro NP (BLD)

Day
4-5
Serengeti NP

Serengeti NP

This morning you make your way to the Serengeti (approx. 5-6 hours). En route you'll stop at Olduvai Gorge; this famous archaeological site is where some of the oldest humanoid skeletons have been discovered and visit the small museum exhibiting many of the fossils and relics from the area. Made famous by the Leakey family, this anthropologist’s dream is where the origins of man are said to have emerged. You continue onwards to the most famous of Tanzania's national parks. Established in 1951, the Serengeti is well known for the annual migration that takes place across the savannah plains (migration begins in the south from December to March and arrives at Ndutu from April to June); thousands and thousands of animals as far as the eye can see. Even before reaching your campsite in the middle of this vast plain you are certain to make many sightings of large animals. Arrival at camp is therefore expected in the late afternoon. There will be plenty of time to explore the sweeping grass plains, rocky outcrops (kopjes) and sparsely wooded river valleys of this incomparable park, where lion, cheetah, leopard, wildebeest, zebra, giraffe, gazelle and perhaps even wild dog can be seen. Tonight you camp beneath clear starry skies surrounded by the unfamiliar sounds of the African bush. Facilities are basic and although ablution blocks consisting of toilets and wash areas exist, water is not always available - especially in the dry season from June to October.
Serengeti NP Usually you search for game in the early morning and return to camp for breakfast before setting off again for the remainder of the day. You take a leisurely lunch in one of the park's designated stopping areas, outside of which it is not permitted to leave your vehicle. The exact route depends largely on where the best wildlife sightings are thought to be, though later in the afternoon you head back to your camp site. Your first overnight stop in the Serengeti will depend on the season that you are travelling, as a camp site will be chosen where it is easy to reach the herds of the great migration. 
Day 3 Overnight: Campsite, Central Serengeti (BLD
Day 4 Overnight: Serenera Campsite, Serengeti (BLD)

Day
6
Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara

After breakfast, with picnic boxes, drive to the lush Ngorongoro Conservation Area and proceed to Manyara Area. Time for a final safari experience as you head to Lake Manyara (215kms 4-5 hrs). You set up camp for the last night before embarking on an afternoon game drive. The lush greenery and dense vegetation of Lake Manyara National Park offers a very different habitat to the open grasslands of the Serengeti. Once inside the park keep your eyes peeled for its major attraction - the tree-climbing lions, although there is no guarantee! There are plenty of other things to see too - elephant, hippo, baboon, giraffe and buffalo as well as a huge variety of bird life, both resident and migratory Overnight: Jambo Campsite, just outside Lake Manyara NP (BLD)

Day
7

Arusha

After breakfast, drive back to Arusha via the Craft Markets of Mto wa Mbu with picnic lunch boxes.  The afternoon is personal time to explore Arusha (to be supervised by a Tour School Leader).Lake Manyara to Arusha 120kms approx 2.5-3 hrs. Overnight: Masai Campsite (BLD)

Day
8
Fly Home

Fly Home

This morning if time permits and it is a school day, you will visit the Arusha Childrens Trust where you will have the opportunity to meet local children and join them in their lessons.  After an early lunch, you transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your overnight flight back to the UK.

Day
9

Arrive UK