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If you want to see the largest herd movement of animals on the planet and also visit the best national parks in northern Tanzania, this is the perfect itinerary for you. The focus during this trip will be on the western part of the Serengeti, where the Great Migration across the Grumeti River from May to July. The herds of wildebeest en zebra must outsmart the huge Nile crocodiles and fast-flowing water before facing predators waiting on the other side. An amazing spectacle.
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Welcome to Tanzania
Once you set foot in Tanzanian soil, you will immediately be embraced by the friendly nature of the people. Outside our representative awaits with a broad simile to welcome you, and accompany you to the lodge where you will receive heartfelt welcome. During the journey, you will catch a glimpse of Tanzania amazing landscape, and perhaps the ever presence Impressive Mt. Kilimanjaro. Upon arrival, we will be provided with a briefing for your entire safari.
Destination: Arusha
Accommodation: Kibo Palace Hotel
Breakfast: at the lodge
Morning: The Rift Valley landscape drifts past as your guide heads for Tarangire National Park, the least visited reserve on the itinerary but one capable of delivering fantastic game viewing. Home to Tanzania’s biggest elephant population, Tarangire supports large numbers of buffalo, giraffe, zebra, and many antelope species, most evident during the dry season when concentrations of animals at the life-giving Tarangire River are at their peak June-October. Explore the park’s rich habitats from the life-giving River, a landscape dotted with baobab trees, swamps, and open plains at your own pace. Here you may see lion, cheetah, leopard, impala, and a good count of birdlife.
Lunch: We will enjoy a picnic lunch in the park.
Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll continue our game-viewing drive to witness the wildlife of Tarangire National Park. Afterwards, we’ll head to our, permanent lodge in the midst of the wilderness.
Dinner: At the lodge.
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area or retire to your room, and rest to be ready for tomorrow’s discoveries.
Destination: Tarangire National Park
Meal included: B, L, D
Accommodation: Tarangire Simba Lodge
Breakfast: At the camp.
Morning: We return to Tarangire National Park for a morning game-viewing drive. The variety of wildlife here is excellent, from lion, cheetah, zebra, and Cape buffalo to a wealth of birdlife. Elephants are plentiful here, traveling in large herds that are not often seen elsewhere in Africa. After several hours of game viewing, we’ll head to our lodge inside the Ngorongoro conservation area.
Lunch: We will enjoy a picnic lunch in the park.
Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll continue our game-viewing drive to witness the wildlife of Tarangire National Park. Afterwards, we’ll head to our lodgings, a permanent tented camp in the midst of the Ngorongoro conservation area.
Dinner: At the Camp.
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area or retire to your room, and rest to be ready for tomorrow’s discoveries.
Destination: Ngorongoro conservation Area
Meal included: B L D
Accommodation: Lions Paw camp
Breakfast: At the camp.
Morning: We drive through the Ngorongoro conservation before descending, 610 meters down to the grasslands of the crater floor, an area of about 265 square kilometers. Despite its small size, the Crater is a Big 5 country and the openness of the terrain means easy and rewarding game viewing. You will spend the day exploring the crater floor, stopping to picnic on the grasslands amidst the grazing herds. Formed by a massive volcanic eruption, the world’s largest intact and un-flooded caldera provides a year-round home to an astonishing 25,000 large mammals including black rhino, wildebeest, and zebra along with Africa’s densest concentrations of hyena.
Lunch: Picnic at the crater
The Crater’s forests shelter elephants and buffalo, and its wetlands are home to hippos and flamingos while lions, jackals, leopards, and caracals make up the full range of predators. After lunch, you leave the crater behind and drive to the Serengeti National Park.
Afternoon: We’ll reach our carefully selected tented camp by mid-afternoon and you’ll have time to settle in before dinner.
Dinner: At the camp.
Evening: You are free to remain in the main dining tent area or around the campfire to discuss the day’s wildlife.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Mawe tented Camp or Similar
Breakfast: At the camp.
Morning: We’ll set out to explore the vast expanse of the Serengeti, where the wildlife sightings are typically at their peak in the early mornings and late afternoons, when the temperature cools. The multitude and diversity of wildlife species in this huge protected area are unrivaled anywhere on the planet. Serengeti, in fact, is the Maasai word that means “endless plain.” We’ll return to camp in between game-viewing drives for lunch.
Lunch: At the camp
Afternoon: After time to relax, we’ll head out on our afternoon game-viewing drive. Our guides will again help us identify the more elusive animal species, such as bat-eared fox and golden jackal, as well as rare birds like the purple grenadier and the red-cheeked cordon bleu. See if you can spot the odd-looking Secretary bird.
Dinner: At the main dining tent.
Evening: You are free to remain in the main dining tent area or around the campfire to discuss the day’s activities.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Mawe Tented Camp or Similar
Breakfast: at the camp
This entire day is set aside for game drives upon the western corridor of Serengeti. The Serengeti, the habitat of an abundance of wildlife such as impala, buffalo, elephant, giraffe, and hippo, is more well-known for its great migrating herds of zebra, and wildebeest. The animals’ game viewing is determined by the rainfall and varies from year to year. From (April to June) the animals move from the southern region, dominated by grassland, and to the west dominated by hills, and woodland.
Lunch: Picnic in the wilderness
Evening: Spend the nights in the so called –migration camp, strategically located close to the migration, ensuring you won’t miss a single moment of the action.
Destination: Serengeti National Park (Western Corridor)
Meals: B L D
Accommodation: Asanja Nyasirori Tented camp
Breakfast: at the camp
Rise up early ready to start your day in the western corridor of Serengeti that will bring you wildlife adventures that will fill you with memories. Your driver guide can choose from the number of loops when searching out wildlife opportunities for you; there depart from and re-connect to the main road visiting different types of vegetation and exploring varied habitants. Two important river cross in this region and the permanent pools create by the grummet and the Mbalageti ensure that animals can be seen all the year round.
Lunch: at the camp
Elephant, giraffe, baboons and lions are all resident here, but the migration sets a different scene entirely. Huge crocodiles lurk in anticipation of the river crossing looking to pick off wildebeest or two as their herds plunge into the waters for the other side, safety in numbers? Not always so perhaps you will see not only crossing but a kill as well. Patience will bring it rewards for crocodiles and for you, the visitor, poised your camera
Dinner: at the camp
Evening: Spend the nights in the so called –migration camp, strategically located close to the migration, ensuring you won’t miss a single moment of the action.
Destination: Serengeti National Park (Western Corridor)
Meals: B L D
Accommodation: Asanja Nyasirori Tented camp /Similar
Breakfast: at the camp
Enjoy a delightful breakfast before setting off to explore the banks of the Grumeti River on a guided game drive. The Grumeti River is the backdrop to the spectacular river crossing of the wildebeest migration when thousands of wildebeest attempt to cross these crocodile-infested waters. Enjoy a relaxed lunch before a final game drive on the way to the airstrip for your flight to Arusha.
Suggestion.
You can extend your holiday with a visit to the crystal clear waters of the tropical Island of Zanzibar or Pemba.
Destination: Arusha
Meal: B, L
Accommodation: No accommodation
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