1th day:Arusha – Mto wa Mbu – Karatu

Early in the morning departure for Mto wa Mbu. Depending on your preferences, the tour can be done by bike through different plantations to Lake Manyara. You will discover plantations of bananas, cabbages, papyrus and rice fields on the way. You will learn how to cultivate bananas and brew beer from the same fruit. 

As a reward for listening, you can even taste it! If you are lucky a few fishermen by the lake will tell you about their profession. On the way back, you will eat a typical Tanzanian meal made of ugali (corn polenta), dagga (small salted and dried fish) and okras (small green vegetable) among others. Supper and night in Karatu. 

2nd day: Karatu – Ngorongoro Crater
Early morning breakfast at the hotel followed by departure for the Ngorongoro Crater, considered by many the eighth wonder of the world. The crater, more precisely called the caldera, is 12 ½ miles in interior diameter and shelters an incredibly rich fauna and flora in its center perfectly protected by a 2,000 feet rampart. 

You’ll experience exceptional moments among all large mammals of East Africa (elephants, lions, rhinoceroses). In the middle of the crater is a lake formed by the rains, which sometimes pour large masses of water into the bowl of the crater. That allows us to see hippopotamus lounging and buffalos relaxing there. Second night in Karatu.

3th day: Karatu – Datogas and Hazabe tribes – Massai village
you’ll leave early in the morning to visit the Datogas and Hazabe tribes. These are two tribes of hunter-gatherers who shoot with a bow and arrow in front of you before lighting a fire without matches to roast the animal they have just killed. 

They will show you too how to find and drink water one meter deep in the earth purified by the sand through which it flows. You’ll learn how to shoot with a bow and arrow and you will dance with them. In the afternoon you’ll leave for the Maasaï village. You’ll get a closer look at their everyday life: 

Where and how they live, what they eat, how they care for the animals, and maybe the most interesting: you’ll learn to recognize some herbs and plants and how to prepare ointments according to traditional medicine. You’ll stay there for supper and overnight.

4th day: Maasaï village – Arusha
First, you’ll enjoy spending more time with the Maasaï before you’ll return completely amazed and disoriented by these ancestral customs to Arusha. Return to Arusha. Last night in Arusha in the same hotel, or departure for your flight back home or extension of your stay, for example in Zanzibar.