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4 day safari | 2019

Serengeti © John Moller Highlights Tanzania Safari

Ngorongoro Conservation Area and Mwiba Wildlife Reserve.

Scenic flight over the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Ol Donyo Lengai.

Wildlife experience - Burunge Wildlife Area and Lake Manyara.

Visit the Hadza people, living near Lake Eyasi.

© John Moller Tanzania It i n e ra ry

Day 1: Mwiba Wildlife Reserve Wildlife and savannah landscapes of Mwiba Wildlife Reserve and the famous region of Serengeti. Scenic flight over the Ngorongoro Crater, to Ol Donyo Lengai and Lake Natron Mwiba Lodge, 2 nights

Day 3: Burunge & Lake Manyara Fly eastwards to the Burunge Wildlife Area located between Lake Manyara and Tarangire. The region has a diversity of habitats and exciting wildlife viewing opportunities. Visit the Hadza people, living near Lake Eyasi. Chem Chem Lodge, 2 nights

Day 5: Safari ends! Serengeti © john Moller This phenomenal National Park, created to preserve the path of the world’s largest migration circuit, covers nearly 15,000 km2. It provides an exceptional landscape for wildlife - and the ultimate safari experience.

Serengeti Mwiba Wildlife Reserve, part of the great southern Serengeti ecosystem, borders the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Far off the beaten track, guests have nearly fifty thousand acres to themselves!

Established to protect one of the more unique areas within the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem, Mwiba Wildlife Reserve offers excellent game viewing year round. The Great Migration passes through here in the green season, and in the dry season you’ll see an abundance of animals gathering around the watering holes.

Mwiba Reserve Located in the Mwiba Wildlife Reserve, set among huge stone boulders, ancient coral trees and shady acacias, Mwiba Lodge is the newest addition to the Legendary Expeditions portfolio. Mwiba Lodge Eight exquisite suites, with elegant decor combining traditional and modern elements, have given ‘bush luxury’ a whole new meaning. The suites have their own spacious lounge decks with sprawling views over the African wilderness. As part of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem, Mwiba provides an unmatched safari experience with extraordinary game viewing and rich cultural interactions. Close to the Kenyan border within the Gregory Rift Valley lies Lake Natron, one of the most important flamingo breeding grounds on earth.

Its alkaline waters are often bright red in colour, due to the salt-loving micro- organisms that thrive here.

Caustic and forbidding in nature, Lake Natron is strikingly fascinating, and a spectacle worth experiencing. L a k e Natron

© Michael Poliza On the northern Tanzania boarder within the Gregory Rift Valley, stands the astonishing mountain of Ol Doinyo Lengai - the “Mountain of God” in Maasai.

Unique in that it is the only known active to erupt natrocarbonatite (sodium-rich) . Its lava fountains harden midair, then shatter like glass.

Ol Doinyo Lengao rises majestically about 2,000 meters from the East Africa Rift Valley depression to a summit elevation of 2,890 meters.

Ol Doinyo Lengai Burunge is located between Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks in Northern Tanzania. This wildlife corridor is of high conservational significance, with game passing through year round.

On the plains, lions and cheetah make for exciting game viewing. Herds of elephant and buffalo roam through the corridor, and in the dense woodlands in the inner part of the concession, leopards, eland and lesser kudu can be seen.

Burunge

© Chem Chem Lodge Within the Burunge, on the western side of the wildlife concession lies Chem Chem Lodge - offering bush luxury and privileged access to this incredible wildlife rich wilderness.

Chem Chem Lodge Chem Chem has eight tented cottages, created from canvas, lava-stones and wood. Blended perfectly with the natural environment, each tent has an outdoor shower and wooden deck where you can watch the African sunset. Chem Chem has a spacious central main house, surrounded by natural bush, overlooking the Great Rift Escarpment and Lake Manyara National Park. The pool is hidden in the trees and is a welcome escape from the afternoon heat. Stretching for 50km along the base of the vast Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem offering a wilderness experience in diverse habitats.

Its alkaline waters attract over 400 species of birds, the most prolific are pink flamingos that flock here in thousands, and its acacia woodland is a haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions.

L a k e M a n y a ra © Chem Chem Lodge On the banks of Tanzania’s Lake Eyasi lives the world’s last hunter-gatherer tribe - the Hadza. They live a life unchanged for more than ten thousand years, hunting baboons, birds, antelope and buffalo with hand-made bows and arrows, in a hot desolate landscape. Their language, Hadzane, is rhythmic and punctuated by clicks, and believed to be the oldest still spoken. About one thousand Hadza still live in caves, and no laws, taxes and or money is of relevance to them.

Hadza people Tanzania

Tree climbing lions, Lake Manyara End of Safari! @ John Moller SIMIEN MOUNTAINS

YANGUDI- RASSA

s b a h r l g h o e a z a l b a t AWASH BABILE DIDESA ELEPHANT SANCTUARY

GAMBELA ABIDJATTA- SHALLA

SENKELE

BALE BOMA BALE BOMA MOUNTAINS

OMO NECHISAR

BADINGLO MAGO YABELO STEPHANIE

GARAMBA MALKA KIDEPO SIBILOI MARI VALLEY

Lake Turkana Murchisons Falls

Mount Elgon

Samburu

Mount Kenya

Lake Victoria Maasai Nairobi Mara

Grumeti Reserve

Lake Natron Mwanza Serengeti Ngorongoro Tsavo East Crater Kilimanjaro MWIBA Lake Mwiba Manyara Wildlife Reserve chem chem

Tarangire

Mahale Mountains

Katavi Singita Faru Faru

Ruaha Mikumbi Udzungwa

Selous

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Serengeti © John Moller