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DRAFT Itinerary for two week safari tour in Tanzania

Day 1-2: arrival at Dar es Salaam international airport; pick up and transfer to

Kipepeo Beach Resort (http://kipepeovillage.com/)

Southern Safari Circuit programme:=

Day 3: drive from Kipepeo to Arc Hotel, Morogoro (http://archotel-tz.com

Day 4-7: four day programme in Morogoro and surrounding area (to be

confirmed):=

1. In the early morning visit to the Apopo centre for training rats to detect

land mines;

After the Apopo visit, a horse riding or walking safari from SUA, the

Sokoine University of Agriculture, to the Morningside cottage in the

Uluguro Mountains,

2. Drive across the Uluguru Mountains to Kisaki, a village on the railroad

from Dar es Salaam to Zambia; overnight in local hostel;

3. Game drive into Selous Game Reserve via the Matambwe Gate;

4. Next morning visit to Maasai village near Kisaki; afterwards drive back to

Arc Hotel, Morogoro to stay another night;

Northern Safari Circuit Programme:=

Day 8: Drive to Hombolo, a village near Dodoma, the capital city of

Tanzania; lunch at the village followed by visit to the CetaWico winery

(http://cetawico.com); overnight in local hostel.

Day 9: Drive to Arusha; overnight at the Polo Safari Club between Arusha

and Moshi (http://www.golfandwildliferesorts.com)

Day 10-12: Horse riding safari in Arusha National Park, located between Mts

Meru and Kilimanjaro:= ‘The Iron Lady’s Ride’ (see following pages)

In the afternoon of Day 12 it may be possible to join a polo chukka (game)

with members of the Arusha Polo Club.

Day 13: Drive from the Polo Safari Club to Kipepeo Beach Resort in Kigamboni,

Dar es Salaam.

Day 14 and onwards: Stay at Kipepeo until flights back to Europe.

This two week safari-tour is offered for an estimated amount of 2500€ per person

excluding international flights. Final amount to be confirmed.

The budget includes transport and lodging at hotels or safari lodges in double or triple rooms) with full board (excluding drinks) and pick up and drop off at the Dar es Salaam international airport.

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The Iron lady’s Ride - Arusha National Park

- In the footstep of the Iron lady, Margarete Trappe

Group departures (minimum four riders required)

Destination Nights

Arusha National Park Ride

3 nights

Included while on Safari

Polo Club / Permanent camp The first night is spent at our permanent camp,

where we have combined spacious traditional safari tents with our permanent Polo Safari Club. The

camp is beautifully located on a wildlife estate with great views of Mt Meru and on a clear day Mt

Kilimanjaro. The camp overlooks the polo clubhouse and two polo fields where often zebras and

wildebeests are seen grazing. We have ten fully equipped tents, each with its own on suit bathroom,

flush toilet and white fluffy towels. There is WIFI in the clubhouse and a swimming pool, gym and spa




treatments to be enjoyed. All beverages and delicious home cooked meals are prepared for you at the

spectacular clubhouse (a replica of the Sultan of Zanzibar’s very own palace).

Margarete Trappe’s House Two nights is spent inside Arusha

National Park in Margarete Trappe’s old house, with views overlooking the magnificent Mount

Kilimanjaro. All rooms have on suit bathrooms and most of the time hot water.

Transfer back and forth from Kilimanjaro airport to the Polo club (at KHS set times and departures)

Qualified private guide, horses and riding

Flying doctor membership for each client (fly out insurance)

Arusha National Park fees

Excluded while on safari

International flights

Gratuities for the camp team and guides (guideline of 20-35 USD per guest per day)

Any personal purchases

Visas, medical and travel insurance, which has to be arrange prior to arrival




The Iron Lady’s ride itinerary

Safari Day 1, Arrive to Kilimanjaro

International Airport, here you will be picked up by one of the team from Kaskazi and driven for

thirty-five minutes to our polo club where the first night is spent. Settle into the new surroundings

and meet the other participants on the safari.




Over lunch a briefing will take place and shortly thereafter an afternoon introduction ride takes place.

This is a good opportunity for everyone to get to know their mount before heading into the National

Park the following day.

The afternoon ride takes place on our wildlife estate, home to plenty of plains game like zebras,

wildebeests, elands and if lucky there is a good chance of seeing one of the shyest and rarest

antelopes in Africa, the Gerenuk (also know as giraffe antelope). Back to the club in time for

showers and sundowners before dinner is served.

Safari Day 2,

Wake up calls with tea and coffee; breakfast is served anytime from early hours. After breakfast we

drive for about twenty minutes to Arusha National park gate. Here the horses will be waiting, ready

to be mounted and shortly after we will ride into one of the most beautiful parks in East Africa. The

vegetation will change from open grassland to rainforest. We may expect to meet elephants,

buffaloes as well as other game of the plains such as leopards and rare bird species like Suni, Red

Duiker, the magnificent Hartlaub's turaco and much more.




The feeling is magical as you enter into the big canopy forests. Lunch will be served ‘en route’, with

time for a small siesta afterwards. After lunch the ride continues through leopard and black and

white Colobus (monkeys) land. Later on, during the ‘golden hour’ we will arrive at Margarete

Trappe’s old house where we spend the night. Margarete Trappe is known as the ‘Iron Lady’ from

her actions during the First World War. “If, as children, we were thrilled by Buffalo Bill we should

have been still more spellbound by Mrs. Trappe’s adventures, the adventures of the fearless woman

with her two legendary horses, Comet and Diamond, and her two inseparable Alsatians dogs. Like a

phantom she would suddenly appear, like a phantom she would vanish; as intimate with wild animals

as is they were tame.”




Our horse riding trek follows in the tracks of Margarete Trappe’s original trails through the precious

wooden land of the park. From her house, located at the foot of Mt Meru, there is a stunning view

across the mountain plateau towards Mt Kilimanjaro located some 50 km away. We will arrive at the

house in due in time for showers and sundowners before we conclude the day with dinner under the

stars.

Safari Day 3,

In the morning you may wake up hearing the very talkative Colobus monkeys. After breakfast we

mount our horses and ride towards the area where the 1962 action movie ‘Hatari’ (Danger) with John

Wayne was shot. Half way into the morning ride we start the climb (on horseback), aiming to reach

the massive “Fig Tree Arch” big enough to fit five horses underneath its arch. The ride continues

until lunch, which we will enjoy near a waterfall, located about 2000 meters above sea level. After

lunch we start heading back towards camp. Before dinner it will be possible to visit the Momella

lakes using our safari vehicles. At the lake we expect to watch hippos and rare water birds.

Sundowners at the lakes before heading back for showers and dinner.

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Safari Day 4,

We will again wake up hearing the Colobus monkeys chatting in the early hours of the morning.

After breakfast we start riding back towards civilization. We’ll enjoy the last morning with our




mounts in this magical place on earth, full of wildlife, history and tales. Late morning, we will arrive

at the Arusha National park gate where we dismount and say farewell to our four legged friends.

From here there are a few options, some will continue onto other safaris or stay another night or two

at the polo club and maybe practice and play polo for a few days.

About Arusha national park

The entrance gate leads into shadowy mountain forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and

colourful turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic

blackand-white Colobus monkey is easily seen. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular

Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep, rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo

and warthogs.

Further north, rolling grassy hills enclose the tranquil beauty of the Momela Lakes, each one a

different hue of green or blue. Their shallows sometimes tinged pink with thousands of flamingos,

the lakes support a rich selection of resident and migrant waterfowl, and shaggy waterbucks display

their large lyre-shaped horns on the watery fringes. Giraffes glide across the grassy hills, between

grazing zebra herds, while pairs of wide-eyed dik-dik dart into scrubby bush like overgrown hares on

spindly legs.

Although elephants are shy in Arusha National Park, and lions absent altogether, leopards and spotted

hyenas may be seen ‘slinking’ around in the early morning and late afternoon. It is also at dusk and

dawn that the veil of cloud on the eastern horizon is most likely to clear, revealing the majestic snow-

capped peaks of Kilimanjaro, only 50km (30 miles) distant.

But it is Kilimanjaro’s unassuming cousin, Mount Meru - the fifth highest in Africa at 4,566 metres

(14,990 feet) – that dominates the park’s horizon. Its peaks and eastern footslopes protected within

the national park, Meru offers unparalleled views of its famous neighbour, while also forming a

rewarding hiking destination in its own right.

Passing first through wooded savannah where buffalos and giraffes are frequently encountered, the

ascent of Meru leads into forests aflame with red-hot pokers and dripping with Spanish moss, before

reaching high open heath spiked with giant lobelias. Everlasting flowers cling to the alpine desert, as

delicately hoofed klipspringers mark the hike’s progress. Astride the craggy summit, Kilimanjaro

stands unveiled, blushing in the sunrise.




Margarete Trappe

Africa’s greatest huntress - “Jeyo”... Mother of the Masai

“If, as children, we were thrilled by Buffalo Bill we should have been still more spellbound by Mrs.

Trappe’s adventures, the adventures of the fearless woman with her two legendary horses, Comet and

Diamond, and her two inseparable Alsatians. Like a phantom she would suddenly appear, like a

phantom she would vanish; as intimate with wild beasts as though they were tame, she was venerated

and feared by the locals like a supernatural being. The dark spirit of Africa with its spells and




witchcraft, its magic, symbolism and ritual furnish a background against which such a figure almost

assumes a mystic significance.

On this ride with Kaskazi Horse Safaris your ride in Arusha National Park, which is where Margarete

lived until she passed away in 1957, we follow her old hidden pathways through the bush where this

legendary lady rode on her two loyal thoroughbred mounts, always accompanied by her two

Alsatians.

Margarete Trappe arrived on an ox wagon 1906 from the coast. Her courage and pioneering spirit set

the tone when she travelled the picturesque Meru-Pass, at which her new home - Momella - was

situated. A big farm was created and built by the Trappe family where they kept cattle, horses and

goats and enjoyed the surroundings and the abundant wildlife.

The start of the First World War brought a cat-and-mouse game between

Margarete Trappe and the English soldiers and earned her the nickname Iron Lady for her

stubbornness, strength and courage as she scouted for Von Lettow Vorbeck in his “Ice Cream War”

with Frederick Courtney Selous.

However fate was not kind to Margarete. Disowned and bankrupt she returned to Meru and started

rebuilding a new farm called Ngongongare or Yejo’s - her Maasai name.

Financial survival was however finally secured by highly profitable trophy hunting after she became

the first female professional hunter in East Africa. Fittingly, her last tribute was paid by her beloved

elephant herd as they gathered around her house in 1957 when she passed away.

Margarete’s son Rolf leased the property to Paramount Pictures as the setting for the classic movie

“Hatari”, starring John Wayne and Hardy Krüger.

Mrs. Trappe’s tales would fill an entire volume and this is not the place in which to tell them. All the

same I cannot resist mentioning one episode, the one which marks the end of her wartime activities; it

is such a charming story.

At that time the German defence forces had been compelled to withdraw into the interior. Under

cover of darkness and forest, Mrs. Trappe had slipped through the British lines and delivered two

large transports of cattle and provisions to General von Lettow. But a large convoy of horses led by

tired German farmers had been surrounded by the British; there was scarcely a hope of getting it

through. Then Mrs. Trappe with her crew had taken over the whole operation. With the help of an

alleged deserter she had misled the British as to the direction she had taken, had driven the horses

through forests and over mountains where no one had dreamed it possible to find a way, and, without

losing a single one, had brought them through the British lines.




Now she could do no more and was anxious to return to her farm where her three small children

awaited her impatiently. She rode straight into the middle of the nearest British headquarters and

gave herself up. A British Captain questioned her. A British General busy with his papers at a nearby

table glanced across her now and again. The hearing dragged on. There was not much she would say.

“You know, Mrs. Trappe, that you will have to be interned,” said the Captain finally. “Mrs. Trappe

will remain at liberty,” the General stated, looking up from his papers. The hearing continued. “You

will have to leave your horses here,” said the Captain. Mrs. Trappe declared that she had promised

General von Lettow to shoot the horses sooner than to surrender them to the British. “Mrs.

Trappe will keep her horses,” said the General. Then they came to the arms. Here, certainly, there

was nothing to be done. Mrs. Trappe was obliged to leave them and to undertake to bring along any

ammunition in her possession.

She brought the ammunition on the following day. When the British officer opened the chest in

which the cartridges were packed he found also a little box of silver rupees, which Mrs. Trappe had

forgotten to take out. The British officer picked up the coins; all of them had a hole through the

centre. “What is the meaning of this?” he enquired curiously. “I shot those in a pistol-shooting

contest,” Mrs. Trappe replied. “You must show us how you could do that,” said the General once

again joining in. Three coins were placed upright on a board. They were hardly visible. Mrs. Trappe

raised her pistol, took a swift aim and fired quickly once, twice, thrice. All three coins had been hit

dead center. The General plunged his hand into the box of rupees. “Send these coins home to your

wives,” he said to the group of officers who were watching, “and tell them your experiences here

with a German woman.” Then, turning to Mrs. Trappe: “You are a good sport and a brave woman.”

He shook hands. “You may keep your weapons.” He smiled and took his leave.

Mrs. Trappe kept her weapons and her horses. She rode home and settled down to look after her

children and her huge farm. “

From “MLA an African game paradise” by Maximilian von Rogister




The adventure has come to its end and reality is waiting around the corner.

Safari ends for this time

Photo Gallery




From Kipepeo Beach Resort and Sinda Island south of Dar es Salaam:




From Selous Game Reserve




Hippos in the Wami River

There are hot springs both within and right outside Selous Game Reserve




Visit to a Maasai village near Kisaki:




From Morogoro and the Uluguru Mountains:




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