4 Days Arusha National Park Horse Ride

Wake-up calls with tea and coffee, and breakfast is served anytime from early hours. After breakfast, the drive is about thirty minutes to the Arusha National Park gate. Here, the horses will be waiting, ready to be mounted, and shortly after, you will ride into one of the most beautiful parks in East Africa. Here, the vegetation will change dramatically, from open grassland to rainforest. With good chances of seeing buffaloes, and giraffes, all your plains game, elephants, and leopards are present, however harder to spot, along with rare species such as Suni, Red Duiker, the magnificent Hartlaub’s turaco, colobus monkey, and the endless bird life.

The feeling is magical as you enter the big canopy forests. Lunch will be set en route, with time for a small siesta. After lunch, the ride continues through Leopard Country, and as we head towards our night stop, we will pass by Margarete Trappe’s old house. The legendary lady is known and remembered as the Iron Lady from 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. Like a phantom, she would suddenly appear, she would vanish; as intimate with wild beasts as though they were tame.”

These are some of the tales about Margarete, whose old riding paths this horse safari follows through the holy forests of the park. Arrive at camp, based on the foot of Mt Meru, in time for showers and sundowners, then dinner under the stars.