8 Days Wildebeest Migration Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara
Overview
9 Days wildebeest migration tour Tarangire,Serengeti, Ngorongoro crater , lake Manyara and Arusha national park joining group camping safaris. The safari will take you around the best places in Tanzania, visiting places such as Lake Manyara which is famous for its tree climbing lions, The Ngorongoro Crater which is known also as the Garden of Eden, Serengeti National Park Tarangire national park and and chance to see great wildebeest migration while grossing Mara river.
Safari package INCLUDES
- Transfers in both directions between the International Airport and Arusha
- Two nights’ accommodation in Arusha town which is night before your tour and after your tour.
- Extended 4 x 4 luxury safari jeep with pop up roof for game viewing
- Professional safari guide and well speaking English.
- Professional safari cook Entrance fee for all national parks.
- Accommodation at basic camping during the safari full board
- Camping fees at all national parks.
- Ngorongoro Crater fees
- 18% VAT to our entrance fees.
- All Government taxes,
- Free WIFI in safari jeep
- Unlimited drinking water.
- Flying doctor Services.
Safari Package EXCLUDES
- Tanzania Visa
- Personal Expenses (e.g. laundry, telephone, beverages, etc.)
- Optional Tours (balloon rides USD. 550 per person), should be booked in advance
- Tips and gratuities to your safari guide and cook
Details
Day to Day Itinerary
We will pick you from Arusha airport or Kilimanjaro airport for overnight in your accommodation in Arusha city.
After your breakfast in the hotel around 8.00am you will leave to Arusha National Park, and its 40 minute drive from Arusha town. The park has an incredible variety of fauna and flora, which cannot fail to impress.
The entrance gate leads into shadowy montane forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and colorful turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white colobus monkey is easily seen. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo and warthog.
Further north, rolling grassy hills enclose the tranquil beauty of the Momela Lakes, each one having a different hue of green or blue. There are shallows sometimes tinged pink with thousands of flamingos. The lakes support a rich selection of resident and migrant waterfowl, and also shaggy waterbucks that display their large lyre-shaped horns on the watery fringes. Giraffes glide across the grassy hills, between grazing zebra herds, whilst pairs of wide-eyed dik-dik dart into scrubby bush like overgrown hares on spindly legs. You will be able to see buffaloes, waterbucks, giraffes, warthogs and zebras can all be seen year round as well as many different bird species. After your full day game drive our driver guide will drive you back to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Pick up from Arusha hotel at 8.00m then take 3 hours driver to Tarangire national park and you will have full day game drive inside this park later you will drive to Jambo lodge for dinner and overnight . Location of Tarangire national park is 115km from Arusha .and cover area square of 2800km.Wild animals drink water from Tarangire river where the name Tarangire come from. The park has major attractions which are a large number of elephants ,climbing trees pythons and baobab trees. Also you will be able to see lions, leopards and other animals
After waking up this morning you will have full breakfast, pack your luggage in the safari jeep, then you will start to do en-route game drive to Serengeti .with your lunch inside the jeep.
On the way you will be able to view beautiful of Rift valley, view of Ngorongoro crater and you will reach Serengeti around 3.pm.
You will have an evening game drive in central Serengeti where you will be able to see the sunset, and after you will have dinner and overnight in Seronera campsite inside Serengeti
Major attraction in Serengeti are endless plain and great Serengeti wildebeest migration which involve 1.5 herbivores and followers, predators use to move from one area to another almost all parts of Serengeti because of drought. Our driver guide will make sure you will able to see part of wildebeest migration. The movement of vast numbers of the Serengeti’s wildebeest, accompanied by large numbers of zebra, and smaller numbers of Grant’s gazelle, Thomson’s gazelle, eland and impala you will be able to see them in Serengeti.
In this day you will wake up early morning and have your full breakfast ,then you will start your game drive inside Serengeti , and our driver will drive you to northern Serengeti. Our driver will drive you to the key areas in Serengeti
To observe this mass movement of the wildebeest and all the drama it entails, but we’d recommend the flash-points of the Mara River, , and the Ndutu Plains. River crossings at Kogatende starts in July as the mega herd settles into the area. Between July to October, game viewing is at its best with river crossings pretty much guaranteed every day. There is no distinct movement as the herds tend to cross back and forth over the river, following the rains and subsequent fresh grasses.
In late June and July, the migration moves into north-western Serengeti. Thus, these are the best months to see the migration in the western region of Serengeti. And, in August to September you can see the Great Migration in northern Serengeti
In this day you will wake up early morning and have your full breakfast ,then you will start your game drive inside Serengeti , as you will have full day in Serengeti our driver will drive you to the key areas in Serengeti.
We will make sure that you will follow wildebeest migration where they will during your tour with us.
The Great migration varies every year the best chance of seeing it is during June up to September while the wildebeest calving is from January to March ,for the July up to September our driver will be able to take to northern Serengeti where they be able to see the great wildebeest migration crossing the Mara River. A million and a half of these majestic animals’ travel throughout the year as they look for fresh grazing pasture and follow the rainfall for better water sources and after your full day game drive you head back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.
You will wake 5.45 for early breakfast and see the Sun rise inside Serengeti, after you finish your breakfast you will do early morning game drive up to 11.30am then you head back to campsite for the hot lunch and pack your stuff in the jeep .
This time after finishing your hot lunch you will proceed with game drive in Serengeti while heading to Ngorongoro crater in Simba campsite for dinner and overnight.
You will wake up around 5.30 am for your breakfast, after breakfast you will descend to Ngorongoro crater floor where you will able to see all big five, also you will see different types of birds, black rhino available inside crater. In this day you will have your lunch inside the crater while watching nature and high concentrations of flamingos.
Later after 6 to 7 hours game drive inside crater floor you will start ascend from crater passing through campsite for packing all luggage inside the jeep ready to drive back to Jambo lodge for dinner and overnight. On this day after crater tour you will have a walking tour inside mto wa mbu village where you will experience how local people live, see banana plantations and you can taste local food also.
After your breakfast you will head to lake Manyara for a full day game drive , inside the park you will be able to see climbing tree lions and a lot of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake and you will visit a hot spring . Also the same day you will visit Maasai boma where you will see how they live and learn their culture and traditions then later drive back to Arusha for dinner and overnight.
