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Fly-in safari   A wonderful opportunity to visit the remotest National Park in Tanzania and then track for chimps in the Mahale Mountains, staying in extremely comfortable camps. Country Tanzania Duration 9 nights Best Time to Visit May - February Accommodation Tented camps and Lodges Activities Game viewing, bird watching, fly camping, chimp tracking, nature walks, fishing, snorkelling. Places Visited Arusha, Katavi National Park, Mahale Mountains National Park. Guide Price From £3200.00 per person sharing

Day 1
Depart from London on the daylight flight to Kilimanjaro, via Amsterdam.  On arrival in Kilimanjaro you will be met and transferred to stay at Moivaro Coffee Plantation for one night.
Terms: Dinner, bed and breakfast

Day 2
This morning you will be transferred to Arusha Airport for the light aircraft transfer to Katavi National Park.  On arrival you will be met and transferred by 4 x 4 vehicle to stay at Chada Katavi for the next three nights.
Terms: Full board including all game activities

Katavi  National Park Katavi National Park is the remotest and least known of the Tanzania parks.  A wonderful place where you will never see another game vehicle, endless plains and mile upon mile of ground to cover whilst looking for game.  The huge herds of buffalo and hundreds of hippo and crocodile make this a truly spectacular destination.

Day 5 
This morning you will be tranferred to the airstrip for the light aircraft transfer to the Mahale Mountains National Park.  On arrival at the airstrip you will be met and assisted to the huge wooden dhow for the transfer along Lake Tanganyika to stay at Greystoke Mahale for the next 4 nights.
Terms: Full board

Mahale Mountains National Park  This national park on the shores of Lake Tanganyika is extremely remote and difficult to access, but well worth the visit.  The park is famous for its chimpanzees, and scientists, mainly from Japan, have been studying the primates for 20 years, during which time one group has been habituated to human contact.  The highest peak in the park, at 2460m, ensures that moist air blowing in from the lake condenses there and falls as rain.  This rain supports extensive montane forests, grassland and alpine bamboo.  Numerous valleys intersect the mountains, and some of these have permanent streams which flow into the lake.

Suggested Combinations

• The Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti National Park. 
• The Selous.
• Zanzibar and Coast.

This is a suggested itinerary only and is entirely flexible. Arrangements can be tailored to your exact requirements.

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