5 Days Lodge Wildebeest Calving Safari

Today we drive to Tarangire National Park, for excellent game viewing. Tarangire is a small park which offers some excellent sights. Generally in the dry seasons Tarangire comes alive as wildlife and birdlife congregate on the Tarangire River, which is a permanent source of water. We spend the night in our lodge beautifully set inside the park with stunning views and a unique atmosphere. In the late afternoon we travel just outside of Tarangire National Park for dinner and overnight.

We head towards the Serengeti National Park. En route there is an opportunity to visit Olduvai Gorge. It is within this steep sided ravine that Louis and Mary Leakey made some of the world’s most important archaeological discoveries in the 1950s. Here in a small museum we are able to see evidence of our ancestors that have been dated back 2.5 million years. After lunch we drive into the Serengeti itself and the rest of the afternoon is spent game viewing in the vast plains that are broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje. In December, January and February we will normally meet the migration with large herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. There are always plenty of resident animals, such as giraffe, buffalo, and elephant, and many large predators such as lion, cheetah, and leopard.

We have another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and it you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah.

Today after breakfast at the lodge with lunch boxes depart the lodge for a half-day game drive on the Serengeti plains, explore the park till late afternoon start the drive to nabi hill gate while having a game drive on the route, after a lunch stop at the gate proceed with the drive to Ngorongoro high lands towards Lodge for dinner and overnight The Lodge is outside Ngorongoro.

After breakfast at the lodge with lunch boxes depart the hotel have a short drive to crater descend road for a half-day game drive on the crater floor, today expect to see a lot of wildlife very close from the vehicle, Zebras, Wildebeest, Jackals, Hyenas, Hippos, Lions are the animals to be seen through you if you are lucky you will see the Black Rhino after lunch you will start the hitting the road back to Arusha and drop off at the airport or to the hotel where our service ends.