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Tanzania Walking adventure walking safari
Tanzania
"This is adventure walking safari, enjoying the really
nature of landscape Fauna and Flora of Tanzania. You will be
escorted by Our Guide and Armed Ranger , also Donkies will
be escorted by Young Maasai carry all camping gears and food
stuff"
AASTW 01: 6 Tanzania Walking Safari - Tour to Ngorongoro, Lake
Natron, Mt. Oldonyo Lengai active Volcano
6 Days Empakaai Crater Trek
The Crater
Highlands consist of an elevated range of volcanoes and
collapsed volcanoes, which rise from the side of the Great Rift
Valley and run along the Eastern edge of the Ngorongoro
Conservation Area. The peaks include Oldeani, Lemagrut, Olmoti,
Loolmalasin, Empakaai, Ngorongoro and the active Ol Doinyo
Lengai. They all have a number of impressive peaks - with steep
escarpments, crater lakes, dense forests and grassy ridges,
streams and waterfalls. The area is secluded and rarely visited
but offers some of Tanzania’s most jagged and extraordinary
scenery and some of the finest trekking. Most walking is done
at around the 3000m mark though there are more routes available
to the more adventurous.
Day 1 - Ngorongoro Crater
We
depart Arusha town in the morning and drive via Lake Manyara
National Park for lunch and an afternoon game viewing before
proceeding on to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Overnight at the Simba campsite on the crater rim.
The Lake
Manyara National park is serene and beautiful with main
attractions of a rich bird life, tree-climbing lions, its
elephants, and hippos that you can see at closer range than most
other places. Lake Manyara is an alkaline lake and at certain
times of the year hosts thousands of flamingos and a diversity
of other bird life. Although it is one of the smallest parks,
its vegetation is so diverse enabling it to host a variety of
wildlife habitats.
The Ngorongoro
crater is the world’s biggest whole volcanic caldera at 8300 sq
km and is frequently described as one of the wonders of the
world, not only because of its geological magnificence, but also
because it serves as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some
of Africa’s largest populations of large mammals. Ngorongoro
and other freestanding mountains are volcanic in origin, formed
during the fracturing process that created the Rift valley 15 to
20
million years ago.
Day 2 - Olmoti Crater
Departing the campsite after breakfast we drive up to
Nainokanoka Masai Village on the slopes of Olmoti mountain
where we pick-up the local guide/and ranger and start the ascent
of Olmoti crater. Olmoti crater is a sunken caldera that can
only be reached on foot and is about a 3-4 hours walk to the
rim. From the rim you could walk to an appealing waterfall
where the Munge River leaves the Olmoti crater. Water
collecting in the crater flows down the falls and eventually
runs into Lake Magadi in Ngorongoro Crater. We set camp back at
Nainokanoka village close to the Masai boma.
Day 3 -
Empakaai Crater
After breakfast we depart Nainokanoka village and follow Masai
cattle trails northeast across the grasslands of the Embulbul
depression, towards Empakaai crater, reaching the lightly wooded
crater rim on its southern edge, which normally takes 7 - 8
hours. Almost half the floor of the 6km wide, 300m high
Empakaai crater is taken up by a deep soda lake. Blue monkey,
buffalo, and bushbuck are likely to be seen on the rim, which
boasts good views of Lengai Volcano, Kilimanjaro and Lake Natron.
The crater floor is home to a variety of antelope and water
birds. We set camp on the crater rim for the night.
Day 4 - Empakaai Crater rim trek
A path circles the whole of the crater rim and we can follow
this to reach a low point on the western rim. The views from
here down into the crater are spectacular. The steep inner
walls are densely forested and drop to the flat crater floor,
which is partly submerged under a lake, often surrounded by huge
flocks of Flamingos.
There is a good chance of seeing wildlife here as the Masai are
generally not allowed to cattle graze. It is possible to descend
into the crater itself and camp by the lake, although this means
carrying the camping gear, as it is too steep for the donkeys.
You will require extending your trip by one day if you wish to
do this. Instead you may opt to camp on the rim for two nights
and descend to the crater floor for the whole day.
Day 5 -
Nainokanoka Masai Village
After breakfast we return from Empakaai via the western trail
and spend the night back at Nainokanoka village close to the
Masai boma.
Day 6 - Ngorongoro crater tour, Arusha
After
breakfast we descend into the Ngorongoro Crater with our vehicle
for the half-day crater Tour. After lunch we break camp and
depart back to Arusha town where you will be dropped off at your
hotel.
Ngorongoro Crater is one of
Africa’s
best-known wildlife viewing areas and one of
Tanzania’s
most visited.
Within its
walls are a variety of animals and vegetation, including
grasslands, swamps, forests, saltpans and a fresh water lake.
You are likely to see lion, elephant, rhino, buffalo, and many
of the plains herbivores such as wildebeest, Thomson’s gazelle,
zebra, reedbuck, as well as thousands of flamingos wading in the
shallows of Lake Magadi
– the soda lake at the craters base.
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