The day, step by step
Times are a guide. Your guide adjusts the day to the roads, the weather and how you want to spend it.
- 7:30 AM: pickup in Arusha
- Your guide collects you from your hotel. The park gate is less than an hour away.
- Morning: game drive
- Through the forest, where colobus monkeys feed in the trees, to the rim of Ngurdoto Crater, then out to the Momella Lakes. Flamingos gather on the lakes in some months.
- Midday: picnic lunch
- Lunch at one of the park's picnic sites, often with a view of Mount Meru.
- Afternoon: walking safari
- With an armed ranger you walk for about two hours across grassland and along forest edges. The ranger reads the tracks and keeps a safe distance from buffalo and other animals.
- Late afternoon: back to Arusha
- A short drive back to your hotel, usually by 5 or 6 PM.
