Day Trips While In Tanzania

.You might be travelling or already in Tanzania either for a business, safari, visiting a friend, volunteering or personal issue and you left with 1 or 2 days and wanted a suggestion on how to spend your remaining day before flying out. Our recommendation is to offer activities which may turn your day and tempt you to escape the boring world and expose you to all the beautiful places close to Arusha. Check the suggestion below and decide the course of your day with us.

Tour Details

Materuni Hiking Cultural And Coffee Tour

On arrival, you will meet our charming staff with a signboard written your name, after meeting and greetings and then take off from Kilimanjaro (JRO) or Arusha Airport (ARK) and depart for the trip.

 

Distance:

Kilimanjaro airport to Arusha: 50 Km (1-hour drive)

Arusha airport to Arusha city: 5 km (25 minutes drive)

Day 1: Arusha to Materuni Waterfalls

After breakfast at your hotel, the tour will depart for a day of hiking, coffee and a cultural tour at Materuni. This village is located at the downslope of Mount Kilimanjaro.

At the village, we will have a high time hiking to the waterfalls and enjoying the scenic downfall. Significantly the water resulted from the melted ice at the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. We will visit a coffee plantation and learn from residents how they plant, treat, and harvest the coffee, how they dry it and how they make coffee locally until it comes to your cup ready to drink. All these processes will be undertaken by you with assistance from locals. We will enjoy local traditional dishes as lunch at the village, we will test local brew and local beer made in the village and later evening we will drive back to Arusha. End of the tour.

Kikuletwa Hot Spring

On arrival, you will meet our charming staff with a signboard written your name, after meeting and greetings and then take off from Kilimanjaro (JRO) or Arusha Airport (ARK) and depart for the trip.

 

Distance:

Kilimanjaro airport to Arusha: 50 Km (1-hour drive)

Arusha airport to Arusha city: 5 km (25 minutes drive)

Day 1: Arusha to Kikuletwa hot spring

After breakfast at the hotel in the morning, you will be picked up from there and enjoy a morning walk around the city. In the city, you will visit, the local market, clock tower and Maasai market. We will then depart to Kikuletwa hot spring with lunch boxes and mineral water. Today you will spend all your day swimming and enjoying the local manicure from small fishes which made this place their home. Not to mention, the later evening will drive back to Arusha. End of the tour.

Tarangire National Park

On arrival, you will meet our charming staff with a signboard written your name, after meeting and greetings and then take off from Kilimanjaro (JRO) or Arusha Airport (ARK) and depart for the trip.

 

Distance:

Kilimanjaro airport to Arusha: 50 Km (1-hour drive
Arusha airport to Arusha city: 5 km (25 minutes drive)

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

After breakfast departs to Tarangire National Park. Moreover, you will take off with lunch boxes, and enjoy a full-day game drive in the park. Exclusively in the afternoon, you have a picnic lunch, then continue with a game drive.

The park consists of natural vegetation mainly of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa.

This African National Park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringe-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings.

Late afternoon we will drive back to Arusha. End of the tour.

Ngorongoro Crater Tour

On arrival, you will meet our charming staff with a signboard written your name, after meeting and greetings and then take off from Kilimanjaro (JRO) or Arusha Airport (ARK) and depart for the trip.

 

Distance:

Kilimanjaro airport to Arusha: 50 Km (1-hour drive)

Arusha airport to Arusha city: 5 km (25 minutes drive)

Day 1: Arusha to Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, the tour will depart for Ngorongoro. Exclusively you descend into the crater with a lunch box and enjoy a day game drive.
The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world. Either case is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhinos.

Significantly the area is enhanced by a year-round water supply. Nonetheless, the crater supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, and hippo, as well as giant African elephants.

Another big shot for this picturesque national park is its unique ability to accommodate a huge population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs as well as the ever-elusive leopard. We will enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor.

Late afternoon drive back to Arusha. End of tour.

Lake Manyara National Park

On arrival, you will meet our charming staff with a signboard written your name, after meeting and greetings and then take off from Kilimanjaro (JRO) or Arusha Airport (ARK) and depart for the trip.

 

Distance:

Kilimanjaro airport to Arusha: 50 Km (1-hour drive)

Arusha airport to Arusha city: 5 km (25 minutes drive

Day 1: Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast, the tour will depart for Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara National Park offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats. Acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab-strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps and the lake itself. And thanks to this the small Park can support a large number of animal species and incredible bird life. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world. Nevertheless, the lions here are also renowned for their tree climbing. You have a day to enjoy what the park offers and then in the late afternoon will drive back to Arusha. End of tour.

Arusha National Park

On arrival, you will meet our charming staff with a signboard written your name, after meeting and greetings and then take off from Kilimanjaro (JRO) or Arusha Airport (ARK) and depart for the trip.

 

Distance:

Kilimanjaro airport to Arusha: 50 Km (1-hour drive)

Arusha airport to Arusha city: 5 km (25 minutes drive

Day 1: Arusha – Arusha National Park

After breakfast,  you will take off from your hotel in Arusha and then drive to the Arusha National Park.

Markedly, The park contains a mysterious variety of plants and animals, which always never fail to impress. In fact, Hollywood superstars also pin this park to film the famous movie known as “Hatari” Consequently Hardy Kruger alongside the legendary John Wayne did their best indeed.

To clarify your trip includes a visit to the Ngurdoto Crater where waterbucks, giraffes, warthog, buffalo, baboons, and zebras reside all year round along with different bird species.

In general, an armed ranger is responsible to escorts you on the walking safari.  For that reason, you have unlimited possibilities to experience the wildlife very close in a safe way. Significantly such an opportunity should not be missed because only a few national parks offer particularly that kind of trip experience. You are likely to enjoy the picnic lunch, especially in the park, and then, proceed with the tour in the safari jeep through the Park. Then after a full day of enjoyment and excitement, we drive back to Arusha. End of the tour.