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Day Trips from Moshi & Arusha

Single days out, whether you have one spare day before a climb or you are recovering after one.

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Materuni Waterfall & Coffee Tour

The best single day out from Moshi: a green walk to a waterfall, then a Chagga coffee tour where you take the beans from tree to cup yourself.

  • Materuni waterfall and cold pool
  • Pick, roast and pound your own coffee
  • Chagga village and lunch

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Chemka Hot Springs

A spring-fed pool of clear turquoise water under fig roots, about an hour from Moshi. The right thing to do the day after a climb.

  • Clear, warm spring water
  • Fig tree roots and rope swing
  • Picnic lunch at the pool

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Arusha National Park Day Trip

Game drive, walking safari and canoeing in one day, in a park that sits under Mount Meru less than an hour from Arusha.

  • Walking safari with an armed ranger
  • Canoeing on the Momella lakes
  • Colobus monkeys in the forest

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Hadzabe & Datoga Cultural Day

A dawn start to join a Hadzabe hunting party, then a Datoga homestead where brass and iron are still worked by hand.

  • Dawn hunt with Hadzabe men
  • Fire started by friction
  • Datoga blacksmiths at the forge

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Tarangire Day Safari

A full day among Tarangire's elephant herds and baobabs, out and back from Arusha in a private vehicle.

  • Dry-season elephant concentrations
  • Giant baobabs
  • Private vehicle and guide

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Kilimanjaro Day Hike to Mandara

Walk on Kilimanjaro without committing a week to it: through the rainforest from Marangu Gate up to Mandara Hut and back.

  • Inside Kilimanjaro National Park
  • Rainforest and colobus monkeys
  • Maundi Crater viewpoint

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Lake Manyara Day Safari

A small park that suits a single day better than almost any other: groundwater forest, a soda lake full of birds, and the floodplain under the Rift Valley wall.

  • Flamingos, pelicans and cormorants
  • Groundwater forest and its baboon troops
  • Manyara's tree-climbing lions

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Ngorongoro Crater Day Safari

The whole crater in one very long day. It is a five-hour drive each way from Moshi, and it is still worth it.

  • Descent to the crater floor
  • The highest density of big game in Africa
  • Black rhino, lion and hyena in one bowl

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Lake Chala Day Trip

A crater lake on the Kenyan border, fed by underground springs from Kilimanjaro, ringed by a 170 m rim. Walking, canoeing and swimming, and almost nobody there.

  • A caldera lake straddling two countries
  • Walking the crater rim
  • Canoeing and swimming

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Marangu Village, Waterfalls & Chagga Caves

A Chagga day on the lower slopes: a coffee farm, banana beer, the tunnels the Chagga hid in during the wars, and a waterfall fed straight off the Kilimanjaro glaciers.

  • Traditional Chagga houses and a coffee farm
  • The Chagga caves and their tunnels
  • Marangu waterfalls and a cold swim

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Maasai Village Visit

A day in a Maasai kraal that welcomes visitors — the houses, the cattle, the singing, and a conversation rather than a performance.

  • Inside a working kraal
  • Traditional singing and dancing
  • Maasai beadwork and ornaments

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Tanzanite Mines at Mererani

Tanzanite is found in one place on earth — a strip of ground 7 km long near Mererani, an hour from Moshi. With a permit, you can go down into the workings.

  • The only tanzanite deposit in the world
  • Descend into the pit and tunnel system, if you want to
  • How a rough stone becomes a cut gem

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