Our Painting Safaris are an exclusive chance for artists, experienced or aspiring, to savour the beauty of Africa at a pace which allows you to appreciate the smallest detail. Set up an easel under a thorn tree. Dine beneath the stars and sleep in luxury under canvas.
Travel with local amateur artist and experts to the world renowned wonders of Tanzanian wildlife and people. Your holiday travel and accommodation on safari will be arranged by Foot2Afrika.

The Painting Safari aims to give the creative opportunity to all international arts by linking them with local arts here in Tanzania. The idea was generated after we traveled with a young Tanzanian painter who made some amazing paintings on Safari. The Painting safari will not only give you the adventure of a life time but will also bring you to a cross cultural point where by after Safari you will visit our local artists centre and share work and ideas. Our art workshop in Tanzania aims to bring Artists into the community and exchange ideas and experience with less advantaged youths.
Our objective is to meet the local people, observe the wildlife, seek new vistas, paint at every opportunity - and really enjoy ourselves at a gentle pace. You can choose the itinerary below or create your programme.

Day 1 Saturday: Kilimanjaro

Workshop members will be met at Kilimanjaro International airport and transferred to the tented lodge where a warm welcome and a light supper await you. After a brief camp introduction you will be shown your luxurious tented rooms which stand on wooden platforms in the foothills of west of Kilimanjaro.

Day 2 Sunday: West Kilimanjaro
After breakfast in the banda we will go on a familiarization tour and hope to encounter the elephants and other wildlife. The camp is an ecologically sensitive enterprise and $20 of your nightly fee is a donation to Kilimanjaro Conservancy. After lunch the first workshop will take place on the dining veranda. Our Guide Artists will begin with a demonstration and give personal attention to everyone as the group paints and sketches, getting to know each other and the medium with which to work.

Day 3 Monday: West Kilimanjaro to Engaruka

Dawn heralds with tea delivered to your tent veranda. We will depart for a location on the foothills where we capture the first beams of sunshine slanting across the plains. On returning to camp lunch will be served. After packing our bags we say goodbye to the Ndarakwai staff and head for the airport to fly to Manyara. We will be met by the drivers and vehicles that will be with us for the rest of our trip and depart for the Rift Valley. On the way we will make a short stop in Mto Wa Mbu. A bustling town where all the tribes are represented and all nations meet. Market stalls laden with fruit and spices, tinkers, tailors and curio shops. An opportunity to sketch the colourful scene. A drive along the foot of the escarpment will bring us to camp by tea-time. After settling in, a game drive at dusk will end the day.

Day 4 Tuesday: West Kilimanjaro
Dawn wake-up once again! We drive to a nearby Maasai manyatta where the cows and goats are being milked in the early morning light. Breakfast is served beside the car. Practice life/location-painting with warriors, womenfolk, children and domestic animals. Return to camp for lunch and afternoon rest. We take the low road to the far hills for tea and supper.

Day 5 Wednesday: Engaruka
Tea at dawn will give us an early start. We will be welcomed at the nearby Manyatta by the age-set chief and his very extensive family for a day of 'Life and Location' painting. The Maasai, their domestic animals and their homes are a fascinating colour-rich subject. These people will charm and delight you with their welcome, humour, elegance and grace.

Day 6 Thursday: Lake Natron
After breakfast in camp we will visit the isolated village of Engaruka. Travel through magnificent volcanic country for a few hours will bring us to our overnight camp at Ngare Sero river. Lake Natron is a forbidding and surreal environment, a soda lake of ever changing shades of pink and red, sharply contrasting white soda crusted edges, alkaline mud flats, fresh-water inlets and a feeling of eternal space, at the lowest point of the Rift Valley. Truly peace in the wilderness. to paint sunset view over the distant plains to Rift Valley.

Day 7 Friday: Loliondo, Serengeti
On leaving Lake Natron we climb the walls of the escarpment to enjoy the fabulous views over the length of the wildest part of the Great Rift Valley which rent the continent of Africa asunder millions of years ago. We will stop to practice a watercolour wash and enjoy a picnic lunch before heading for our camp under canvas in the Loliondo Hills. Here a hot shower and a sundowner await us among the shady acacias.

Day 8 Saturday: Loliondo, Serengeti
Loliondo is the gateway to Serengeti. Wake to 'early morning tea' before setting off for a days' painting on the savanna, where breakfast will be served. After returning to camp for lunch, the afternoon can be spent in areas where painting will take place. We will choose a sunset location to practice very quick watercolour washes.

Day 9 Sunday: Loliondo, Serengeti
An early start will bring us to a location where morning light slants across the rocky outcrops through the fever trees. We will spend the time reviewing paintings and sharing ideas.

Day 10 Monday: Ol Duvai Gorge to Ngorongoro
This morning we depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. We visit the Olduvai Gorge where Luis and Mary Leakey discovered the earliest remnants of mankind. The near-human Hominids - over two million years old. A mere crack in the surface of the Serengeti, the gorge is the result of geographical, geological and evolutionary events that have rendered history available to our eyes. We climb to the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater and reach our lodge in time for sunset.

Day 11 Tuesday: Ngorongoro to KIA
The African sunrise should not be missed on your last day in the crater. Clouds shift and part, the lake below gleams iridescent. Breathtaking . . . however, the crater can be covered completely in an early misty haze. As a special end to your trip, a tour of the fabled Ngorongoro Crater, eighth wonder of the world. The exciting drive down what was once only a path for Maasai herdsmen, who still travel the same route to graze their herds on the grassland below, brings us a day spent with all the big game, except giraffe which cannot negotiate the towering lava walls. The animals of the crater are so disdainful of humans that one can take startlingly close photographs, a source of your own to continue the wilderness painting experience at home. Lunch will be a picnic in the crater. At the end of this eventful day you will depart by plane from Manyara to Zanzibar or to catch your homeward flight in the evening.