1 day · Day trip
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.
Is this trip for you?
Trip type
Private departure
A single day, planned around your pickup time and your interests, with your own vehicle and guide.
Ages
All ages
Day trips are the easiest way to travel with small children or with anyone who would rather not sleep under canvas.
Fitness
Easy to moderate
Most day trips involve an hour or two of walking on uneven ground. The Kilimanjaro day hike is the exception and asks for a full day on your feet.
Group size: 1 to 7 travellers per vehicle
Day by day.
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Arusha National Park
We collect you early and drive to Ngurdoto Gate. The morning is a game drive through forest and around the Ngurdoto crater rim, with black-and-white colobus in the canopy. After a picnic lunch by the Momella lakes there is a guided walk with an armed ranger among giraffe, buffalo and waterbuck, and canoeing on the small lakes if conditions allow. Back in Arusha or Moshi by evening.
- Overnight
- Your own hotel
- Where
- Arusha National Park
- Driving
- About 1 hour from Arusha, 2 from Moshi
- Meals
- A picnic lunch
Where you sleep.
Not applicable
Day trips return to your own hotel in Moshi or Arusha the same evening. If you have not booked one yet, tell us and we will suggest somewhere in the right part of town for your pickup.
We book against availability for your dates rather than naming a property we may not be able to get you into. Your written quotation names every lodge and camp before you pay anything.
What is included
- All park entrance and administrative fees
- A packed lunch
- 1.5 litres of drinking water
- Transfers from and to your hotel
- 4x4 transport for the day
- Professional English-speaking guide
- Staff fees
Not included
- International airfares and departure taxes
- Visa fees
- All items of a personal nature
- Tips and gratuities for your driver and guide
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
When to go.
Year-round
Every day trip on this page runs in any month. Waterfalls are at their most impressive during and just after the rains, and the Chemka springs are warm whatever the weather is doing outside.
Questions about this trip.
Can we do a walking safari here?
Yes, and it is the reason to come. Arusha National Park is one of the few parks in the north where you can walk with an armed ranger, among giraffe and buffalo.
Will we see elephant or lion?
Very unlikely. The park has almost no lion and elephant are rare. What it does have is giraffe in numbers, colobus monkey, buffalo, flamingo on the Momella lakes and the best view of Kilimanjaro from anywhere at ground level.
Is it a good first day after landing?
It is an excellent one. It is an hour from Arusha, the walking helps with the flight, and it sets up the rest of the circuit.
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