TANZANIA
Natron Flamingo Ride
Safari Highlights
- 9 Days | 8 Nights
- Tanzania Northern Circuit
- Horse Riding
- Start/ End in Arusha
Tour Destinations
- N'garuka village
- Maasai Bomas
- Northbound
- Oldonyo Lengai
- River Bed
- The spring
- Natron
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Full Itinerary
Day 1
Arrive to Kilimanjaro International Airport
Upon arrival, you will be met by our representative and transferred by road for about thirty-five minutes to the lodge where the first night is spent.For the early arrivals, settle into the new surroundings and meet the other participants on the safari.
Sundowners and dinner at either at the lodge or if there’s a polo game on you go to the polo clubhouse for sundowners followed by dinner back at the lodge.For the late arrivals, you will reach your lodge late in the evening and enjoy lite dinner before head to rest and relax for next day adventure.
Day 2
Drive to the fly camp at N’garuka village
The following morning after a big English breakfast there is 4 ½ hours’ drive to the fly camp, north of N’garuka Village. Upon arrival the crews are waiting with welcome drinks and opened arms for everyone to join the safari team.
After introduction to the tents, which are bell tents, lunch is served and a safari briefing takes place. After lunch each guest gets given his or her horse and an afternoon ride takes place for everyone to get comfortable in the saddle. The day ends around the bonfire.
Day 3
Ride Through Masai bomas
Everyone is woken up to some tea or coffee, thereafter breakfast is served. The day’s ride is scenic and cultural and we ride through Masai bomas and encounter herd’s men out grazing their cattle.
Around midday we stop for a lunch break were we all have some refreshments under a nice shaded three. The lunch is either vehicle supported or you carry it in your saddlebags. Thereafter you continue and try to cover ground to reach our night stop before the sun hits the horizon.
Day 4
Ride to Northbound
Early wakeup call followed by an English breakfast before joining your mount. Directions are north bound for the day, with Gelai Mountain overlooking you from the East. The day’s ride leaves the Massai villages behind and enters the beautiful almost dreamlike scenery of the Natron region.
If lucky the day’s ride will encounter big herds of zebras and wildebeest roaming the opened landscape. Lunch break is taken place out in the bush before taking directions for the night’s camp.
Day 5
Ride around Oldonyo Lengai
Wakeup with coffee and tea before a bush breakfast is served. Thereafter everyone mounts his or her horses and the safari continues. Toda you will explore the areas around the only active volcano in Africa, Oldonyo L’Engai (Mountain of God).
Late lunch back in camp with time for a siesta. The afternoon is for everyone to relax allowing riders and horses’ muscles to rest.
Day 6
Ride towards the River bed
After an early breakfast at the camp this morning, you will have the longest and toughest ride ahead of you. You are covering about 60 km in close to 40 degrees Celsius temperature. With the volcano behind you, you enter a river bed that offers some shade and thereafter crossing the open landscape before arriving to the lunch break.
You stop in the shades of some big acacias, near to a river bed to gain some more energy for the last stretch of the days ride. The night is spent close to the hot springs, overlooking the lake.
Day 7
A walk towards the spring
After breakfast a 45 minutes’ walk takes place heading towards the springs which enters the soda lake on the eastern shores. After the exhausting heat and dust a rewarding dip adds to the enjoyment of the days adventures.
Enjoy lunch in the springs and walk or drive back to camp. A late evening ride takes place, enjoying the cooler hours before darkness with good chances of seeing hyenas and jackals searching for food on the mud flats of the lake.
Day 8
Departing Natron
Early morning departure, leaving the dry, desolate and hauntingly beautiful lake behind you, following the well know riverbed back to the lush, green grassland on the foot of Oldonyo L’Engai. The night is spent in a place now familiar to everyone.
Day 9
Fly to Arusha, Depart
Everyone wakes up after a good night’s rest. A sad farewell is due to happen, and everyone has to say goodbye to the camp crew. It is time to pack your bags and for the last time on this journey, together with your mount ride to the airstrip,
where a chartered plane is waiting to fly you all back to Arusha. Lunch will be served upon arrival to the lodge and showers available however if someone like to book day room before flying out, let us know in advanced.
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Trip Inclusion
- Park fees
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- All accommodation as stated in the itinerary
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- All Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
Trip Exclusion
- International flights
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips
- Personal items
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Alcoholic drinks
- Services not mentioned in the program
- Travel insurance
- Items of a personal nature
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