3-Day Tarangire, Ngorongoro & Lake Eyasi Hadzabe Safari

Your driver-guide collects you in the morning and heads south-west into Tarangire National Park. Tarangire holds more elephants than anywhere else in Tanzania, with herds of 50 to 100 gathering along the Tarangire River, alongside lions, leopards, giraffes and over 550 recorded bird species.

The park's baobab-scattered plains give it a landscape unlike anywhere else in the north. You'll spend the day driving through it with stops wherever wildlife appears, before heading to Eileen's Trees Inn for the night, roughly a 1–2 hour drive from the park.

An early start takes you down into the Ngorongoro Crater — a collapsed volcano 600 metres deep and 260km² wide, home to more than 30,000 animals. Expect the highest density of lions in Africa, resident black rhino, large bull elephants and flamingos gathered at the soda lake on the crater floor.

You'll spend the day driving the crater floor with a picnic lunch included, before climbing back up to the rim and returning to Eileen's Trees Inn for a second night, ready for an early departure to Lake Eyasi the next morning.

After breakfast, you'll drive roughly 2–2.5 hours to the shores of Lake Eyasi, home to the Hadzabe — one of the last hunter-gatherer communities in Africa, still using bow-and-arrow hunting and click-based language passed down for generations. You'll join a small group for a guided morning bush walk, observing traditional hunting and gathering techniques first-hand.

Afterwards, you'll visit a nearby Datoga homestead to see their traditional blacksmithing, where metal is still hand-forged into tools, jewelry and arrowheads. In the afternoon, you'll be transferred back to Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport, marking the end of your tour.