5 day trips

Our 5 day trips are perfect itineraries for keen, fit bikers who would like a challenge and welcome the chance to get well off the beaten track, and explore some of Tanzania's most beautiful and isolated areas. A 5 day trip could be the center piece of a short visit, it can be combined with one of our other trips, or with a safari or mountain climb to make an unforgettable 'multi sport' holiday.

Arusha to Lake Natron 220kms optional extra 40kms!

Day 1 Depart Arusha for a day’s cycle up into the Monduli Mountain range. A number of tough uphill climbs are optional and will bring you into some exciting countryside that has great mixtures of terrain caused by erosion. Camping in a village campsite. Optional 40-70kms

Day 2 Today’s cycle takes you down into the Rift Valley, where you spend the day! Fantastic scenery, and a mixture of rocky and dirt cycling. This is just what you had imagined bush cycling ought to be! Maasai open campsite. 40–50 kms

Day 3 Out in the open plains, a mixture of cycling on dirt tracks, single tracks and cross- country. Great day of cycling with views over to Oldonyo Lengai, the Rift Valley wall and the seasonal soda lake, which you pass en route.
Village campsite. 40kms

Day 4 Following the Rift Valley wall you head north towards Lake Natron, potentially hot day as you cross open country. Plains animals, which have been around on the past few days, are once more accompanying you, at a distance!
Open Maasai camp. 50km

Day 5 Today you reach the mountain that has been on the horizon for the last few days. An amazing pyramid style volcano, you may have been lucky enough to see the lava lights at night. An amazing days cycle made worthwhile by the scenery.
Village campsite or upgrade to permanent camp. 40–50 kms

Arusha to Mto wa Mbu 210kms plus optional extras!

Day 1 Depart Arusha for a day’s cycle up into the Monduli Mountain range. A number of tough uphill climbs are optional and will bring you into some exciting countryside that has great mixtures of terrain caused by erosion. Camping in a village campsite. Optional 40-70kms

Day 2 Today’s cycle takes you down into the Rift Valley where you spend the day! Fantastic scenery, mixture of rocky and dirt cycling; now you’re into what you had imagined bush cycling should be like! Maasai open campsite. Optional 40–50 kms

Day 3 Out in the open plains, a mixture of cycling on dirt tracks, single tracks and cross-country. Great day of cycling with views over to Oldonyo Lengai, the Rift Valley wall and the seasonal soda lake, which you pass. Village campsite. Optional 40kms

Day 4 Today you explore some of the local village area, visiting old ruins and taking a leisurely pace southwards along the edge of the Rift Valley wall. Your destination is a forest nestled against the Rift wall in which you set up camp. Optional 40kms

Day 5 You reach your destination, Mto wa Mbu (river of mosquitoes)
A steady cycle either though the forest or around the edge takes you along dirt tracks through a sprawling Maasai village. Optional 40kms