8 Days Serengeti Migration safari

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro international airport or Arusha domestic airport, you’ll personally be met and escorted by our driver-guide to your first night lodge accommodation in the heart of Tanzania’s safari center where you’ll spend the night; your professional safari guide will brief you during dinner on various aspects of your itinerary. Extra activities, including swimming, shopping, or visiting nearby museums in Arusha city will be made available for those who arrive early.

Depart early to Lake Manyara National Park for a biking excursion in Mto Wa Mbu village, followed by hot local lunch. After lunch, we will proceed to Manyara NP for a game drive. The park is green throughout the year because of its underground water sources. Its verdant color attracts hundreds of spectacular varieties of migratory and wetland birds flying overhead. It also attracts huge populations of flamingos because its shallow alkaline-saline (salt) soda lake creates an ideal environment for microorganisms to grow that these flamingos feed upon. Manyara’s natural habitat also includes large troops of baboons, velvet monkeys, blue monkeys, tree-climbing lions, hippos, giraffes, zebras, buffalos, warthogs, impalas, Thomson-gazelles, and Grant gazelles. Leopards, cheetahs, rock/tree hyrax, kudus, elands, bushbucks, waterbucks, and dik-diks also live in this park. Activities like Forest Hike– 2.5 to 3hrs, Nature Walk–1hr to 1.5hrs,Village Walk–2.5 to 3hrs are also advised to do

After breakfast, we proceed to the endless Serengeti plains by way of the lush Ngorongoro Crater Highlands where fertile soils grow crops such as wheat, corn and coffee. The name “Serengeti” comes from the Maasai word ‘siringeti’ which means “endless plains”. You will see why it’s called so once you see its ocean of grassland savannas stretching to the horizon as far as the eyes can see. The patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves. Later in the evening, we drive to the camp for evening leisure and hot dinner. Lodging: The Whisper Tented Camp Meal plan: Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch to northern Serengeti Kogatende area following the great migration at Mara River. The game drive will be along the Mara River and other interesting places in the north where the big groups of wildebeests will be at that particular time. After the full day of game drive, we will drive to the camp for evening leisure and hot dinner. Lodging: Serengeti Wilderness Camp Meal plan: All Meals provided

Full day of game drive along Mara River following the great migration; arrive at the camp for evening leisure and hot dinner. Lodging: Serengeti Wilderness Camp Meal plan: All Meals provided

After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch for a final game drive in Serengeti national park. After lunch, we will drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro Crater. As soon as you have reached the edge of the crater rim, the crater appears half a mile below, inviting you to gaze at this jaw dropping natural wonders. “Often called the eighth natural wonder of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. About 2 million years ago the Ngorongoro volcano erupted, and its walls collapsed. The volcano floor sank to create a natural enclosure with its 600m tall walls. Now, at over 19 kilometers wide, Ngorongoro Crater is filled with great areas of acacia forest, hippo filled swamps and open grasslands. These different habitats contain over 30,000 animals – including elephants, warthogs, flamingoes, magnificent birdlife, the rare black rhinoceros and all the predatory cats. The Maasai can also be seen grazing their cattle alongside the buffalo and wildebeest”.

After breakfast, we drive to the Ngorongoro Crater and descend into it for game viewing. Ngorongoro Crater was formed over 3 million years ago. It is inhabited by a unique ecosystem of more than 25,000 animals. In the grass steppes and Acacia forest, you will find almost every type of animal from the East African savanna. The Big Five (rhino, elephant, Cape buffalo, lion, leopard) and most of the animal species found in the Serengeti, including zebra, hippos, wildebeest, and cheetahs can be viewed close up in Ngorongoro area. The Ngorongoro Crater ecosystem maintains the historic balance between people and nature in a way that is not possible in other parks. After lunch, ascend and proceed to Tarangire for evening leisure and hot dinner at the Lodge. Lodging: Corfield tented Camp Meal plan: All Meals provided

Today you will have and early morning game drive in Tarangire national park, one outstanding feature of this park is the huge number of enormous big baobab trees –these giants known as upside down trees are a strange and a wonderful sight on their own. After lunch you will be transfered to Arusha or to Kilimanjaro airport for your flight back.