6 Day Wildebeest Migration Safari

6 Days Wildebeest Migration Safari

6 Days

Every Trip Helps Support Conservation

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Departing Arusha

Road Safari

Overview

The Great Wildebeest Migration – the annual migration of giant herds of grazers across Northern Tanzania and Kenya is a truly spectacular event. Over two million wildebeest, zebras and gazelles move through the Serengeti and Masai Mara ecosystems in search of green pasture, in a regular pattern. One of the most sought-after experiences for wildlife and nature enthusiasts, the Great Migration is the ever-moving circular migration of over a million animals across the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. The ever-moving columns of wildebeest, joined by a host of companions, follow an age-old route in search of grazing and water. This journey takes them across the plains of the Masai Mara in Kenya, all the way south into Tanzania, through the Serengeti to the edge of the Ngorongoro Crater, before circling up and around in a clockwise direction. Along the way, high drama is always present, as thousands of animals are taken by predators, and thousands more are born, replenishing the numbers and sustaining the circle of life.

Tour Highlights

  • You can see the Great Migration in Tanzania all year round they migrate in a circular motion around the Serengeti National Park as such it is an ongoing event.
  • The migration undertaken by the wildebeest is an annual event which sees one and a half million wildebeest accompanied by hundreds of thousands of zebras and numerous other antelope species as they search for pastures greener.
  • The animals follow a clockwise movement through the Serengeti following the rains for the lushest of grass.

Safari in Details

Day – 1 Arrival
A privately driven vehicle will provide you with a transfer between the hotel and airport. After your guide has loaded up your luggage you will be driven through Arusha admiring some of the sights. Your guide will brief you on your itinerary en-route.

Day – 2 Arusha – Serengeti
Depart after your early morning breakfast for Serengeti. This will include normal border crossing formalities to take only a few minutes. This is drive will take up to 8 hours through rough road. Serengeti National Park is probably the most famous and most visited reserve in Tanzania and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. Enjoy your en route game drive at Serengeti plains.
Enhance your safari adventure in the comfort and serenity of Mbugani Camps, located in the famed Serengeti National Park. Whether you’ve experienced the wonder of the Serengeti before, or you are embarking on the voyage of your dreams, Mbugani Camps provides you with the perfect balance of natural surroundings and the comforts of home.

Day – 3 Serengeti
This morning’s African adventure begins with an exploratory game drive through Tanzania’s oldest and most recognized National Park, the Serengeti. This location offers the most expansive game viewing in Tanzania. From predators to prey, great herds of grazing herbivores to tactically cunning packs of carnivores, life on the plains of the Serengeti can best be defined as a complete “circle of life.” A photographic dream unfolds before your eyes as giraffes and elephants feast on tasty shrubbery, whilst impalas, gazelles and buffalos dance carefully through the plains as to not become the latest meal for on-looking lions, cheetahs and hyenas.

Spend the day taking in the spectacle of the famous wildebeest migration. This annual migration through the Serengeti and Masai Mara is one of the safari highlights of Africa.

Day – 4 Serengeti – Ngorongoro
This African journey continues as you board a privately driven vehicle, accompanied by a local tracker-guide for your visit to the overwhelming large Ngorongoro Conversation Area. You’ll depart the Serengeti National Park grounds at a somewhat slower pace as to get in some more game-viewing. An optional stop at the Olduvlai Gorge is highly recommended, where at the Serengeti Welcome Centre you’ll have an opportunity to marvel at a panoramic view of the surrounding area from the lookout point.
The massive Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is often referred to as “The Cradle of Mankind.” Beginning in the eastern Serengeti plains, the gorge is roughly some 48 kilometers long. Resulting from millions of years of natural erosion, this gorge boasts a steep-sided ravine that cuts and stretches its way through the Great Rift Valley along eastern Africa.

Day – 5 Ngorongoro – Tarangire
Transfer after breakfast for Tarangire National Park. Probably is one of the least visited of the northern Tanzanian game parks, and retains a real air of undiscovered Africa, particularly in the south of the park. Just two hours’ drive away from Arusha. It lies a little distance to the south east of Lake Manyara and covers an area of approximately 2,850 square kilometers. It is named after the Tarangire River that flows through the park. The swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the largest number of species in one habitat anywhere in the world; on drier ground, the Kori bustard – the heaviest flying bird – can be found. Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Tarangire National Park.

Day – 6 Ngorongoro – Tarangire
Depart after breakfast for Nairobi via Arusha where you will make a stop over for your hot lunch in a local restaurant. Proceed on to Nairobi arriving by 1600 HRS. Depending with your International flight for check-out.

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5 Days Tanzania Luxury Safari

5 Days Tanzania Luxury Safari

5 Days

Every Trip Helps Support Conservation

Personalised Journeys From Start To Finish

Departing Arusha

Road Safari

Overview

Join us on our Luxury Predator Safari as we view one of the planet’s most impressive wildlife events. From late December through to March & April the Great Wildebeest Migration congregate on the short grass plains of southern Serengeti stretched out towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. During these months we see an immense build-up of predators along the Ndutu plains and probably the best time of the year to few a cheetah hunt anywhere in Africa as approximately 500,000 gnus are born during the calving season in February. This journey includes another UNESCO World Heritage Site; the World’s largest caldera, Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Tarangire National park is for our fellow Elephant admirers, boasting Tanzania’s highest population of African Elephants. We also venture down the road to visit the flora dense Lake Manyara, National Park. A paradise for any ornithologist and known for its Tree Climbing Lions.

This tour combines lodging with tented camping; in which we believe to be the perfect way to experience a safari as you listen to the sounds of the African bush in some of the most unique and extravagant lodges in Tanzania.

Tour Highlights

  • Join us as we journey on the famous Big 5 Luxury Safari travelling through two UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
  • The World renowned and a contender for number one safari park worldwide, Serengeti National Park and the World’s largest caldera, Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
  • After we venture down the road to experience the flora dense, Lake Manyara National Park with an attempt to spot the Tree Climbing Lions and home to an incredible array of bird species playing paradise for an ornithologist.
  • Our Big 5 Safari combines lodging with tented camping; in which we believe to be the perfect way to experience a safari as you listen to the sounds of the African bush without compromising comfort.

Safari in Details

Day – 1 Arusha To Lake Manyara National Park
8:00 am pick up from accommodation in Arusha by your guide and depart for Lake Manyara National park to spend the afternoon game viewing. Dinner and overnight within Karatu at Ngorongoro Oldeani Mountain Lodge.

Day – 2 Karatu To Serengeti
After breakfast we depart for Serengeti, climbing The Great Rift Valley escarpment, transiting through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area onwards to the Seronera plains. As we enter the Naabi Hill gate we spend the remainders of the days light game viewing with dinner and overnight at Dunia Camp.

Day – 3 Serengeti National Park
This morning we depart for a sunrise balloon safari followed by a champagne English breakfast. Afterwards, we depart for a full day exploring Serengeti National Park, this day is flexible in that we can either take a picnic lunch or early morning and late afternoon game drives and lunch within the camp. Dinner and overnight at Dunia Camp.

Day – 4 Serengeti To Ngorongoro
After breakfast we enjoy our final morning exploring Serengeti National Park with a picnic lunch. Afternoon we depart for Naabi Hill gate and enter Ngorongoro Conservation Area where we have the opportunity to stretch the legs during a crater rim walk with an NCAA ranger. Late evening we make our way to Ngorongoro Highlands for dinner and overnight.

Day – 5 Ngorongoro To Arusha
After breakfast this morning we descend the crater rim for game viewing on the crater floor with a picnic lunch. Afterwards, we ascend the 600m high crater walls and depart for Arusha or Kilimanjaro for onward connections. Recommend booking evening flight departing after 18:00.

What’s Included

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Tanzania Suggested Safari Packages

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