Day

Activity

Overnight

1

After breakfast, descend into the crater for a morning tour With lunch inside the crater. After lunch, proceed to Nainokanoka village, where you set camp and walk the rim of the Olmoti crater and visit the Munge waterfalls before returning to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Nainokanoka

2

Depart for Kamnana village, walking through the Embulimbuli Depression following the cattle trails which passes through forests and grasslands. Your overnight camp is set in the bush some distance from the village.

Kamnana

3

Early departure. Start walking following the path, which leads trough open grassland area, bush land area and forests, gradually gaining height to the rim of the Empakaai crater. Camp is set on the rim, before descending into the crater floorcovered with dense equatorial forests, grass and volcanic lake. Animals like buffaloes, reedbucks waterbucks and different species of birds can be seen at close range during the walk around the lake.

Empakaai

4

Depart for Naiyobi village circling the crater rim, descend on the northwestern side.

Naiyobi

5

Depart in the morning following the dusty paths downhill and off the crater highlands to Muowongoni Masai village. Overnight camp at the edge of the village

Mwongoni

6

Leave in the morning before the sun is hot to follow the winding path across bare volcanic rocks and dust lava soil. The path rounding the north-western floor of the active Mt. Lengai crosses river Ngarasero the nearby village Camp is set near the river and a bath here is very refreshing. Early morning between 0300.am and and 04.00am your transfer jeep drives you to the foot of Mt. Lengai to start the trek to the peak at 2878m.

Ngaresero

7

Descend from the mountain at about 0100.pm Then you will participate in a lunch tour of Lake Natron by jeep. Return to Arusha.