ITINERARY: 8TH - 10TH MARCH, 2025

 

The EAPCE’25 Post Conference Field Excursion in the Northern Circuit will be conducted for three days from 8th to 10th March 2025. The excursion route will start from the Eyasi Wembere Rift Basin to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The delegates will be able to view the Eyasi Wembere Rift Basin, visit Tarangire National Park, view the Gregory Rift, visit the Olduvai Gorge (the locality of the Human Ancestor - Australopithecus boisei), the Shifting Sands, and the famous Ngorongoro Crater.

The trip will also offer an opportunity to view an extensive exposure to the East African Rift System (EARS), one of the world's famous geologic wonders.

DAY 1

Delegates will be picked up at Dodoma Airport and drive to Singida-Sekenke where they will have a clear view of the Sekenke Border Fault, which is the margin of Eyasi Wembere rift basin, and be introduced to Eyasi Wembere basin’s geological setting in the relation to other rift basins, hydrocarbon potentiality and the exploration activities conducted so far in the area.

In the afternoon, delegates will drive with a packed lunch to Burunge Tented Camp in Tarangire for dinner and overnight.

 

DAY 2:

After breakfast, delegates will have a game viewing in Tarangire National Park where they will see the giant baobab trees, different wild animals such as elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, antelopes, gazelles, buffaloes, zebras, warthogs, etc.

 

 

Delegates will have a picnic lunch at the Park, and in the late afternoon, will drive to Country Lodge Karatu in Karatu for dinner and overnight where along the way to Mto wa Mbu they will have a stop view of the Gregory Rift, Manyara Lake, and the exposed Oolitic and fossiliferous Limestone outcrops (Lake Beds).

 

 

DAY 3:

After breakfast, delegates will drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where they will have an opportunity to see the magical shifting sands. These are volcanic sand dunes made of volcanic ash from the active Oldonyo Lengai. This is the one of the most amaizing ash dunes in the world that gradually blown Westward across the planes at the rate of approximately 15-29m annually.

Then delegates will visit Olduvai Gorge, a very important site for anthropological history and understanding of early human evolution. At the site, delegates will see the skull and bones of earlier humankind and the very well-preserved oldest sediment succession ranging from 2.1 Ma to 600,000 years ago.

 

 

On the way back, delegates will have an experience of cultural aspects of Maasai tribe lifestyles with wild animals and traditional houses at the Maasai Boma area.

 

 

Delegates will then descend to the Ngorongoro Crater that is one of the seven world heritage sites. While in the crater, delegates will have an opportunity to learn its geological evolution and be able to see various wild animals like lions, antelopes, zebras, elephants, buffalo etc. Delegates will also see the Crater Lake with both salt and fresh water.

Delegates will have a picnic lunch inside the Crater near the fresh water Lake then drive outside the Crater along the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater and drive to Arusha for dinner and overnight at Green Mountain Hotel.

 

DAY 4: DEPARTURE

Fees:
US$ 1,100 per person non–residents,
US$ 998 per person for East African residents

Includes meals, transport, accommodation and park entry fees. Final Fees are to be confirmed based on the applicable fees during March 2025.

 

Contact:

Mr. Partick Kabwe,
Petroleum Geologist,
Tanzania Petroleum Development
Corporation
P.O. Box 2774, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: +255 763 588290
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