8 Days The Great Wildebeests Migration Safari (August to October)

Day 1: Arrival

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport you will be met by a Tales of Tanzania Transfer Driver and driven to your lodge where the remainder of the day is at leisure – rest in your room, enjoy a refreshing swim in the pool or explore Arusha and the surrounding areas.

Accommodation: Ilboru Safari Lodge

Meals & Drinks:

• Dinner (Lunch not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 2:Tarangire National Park

Today after breakfast you will be collected from your lodge and drive to Tarangire National Park with lunch boxes. The drive to Tarangire National Park is about 110 Km and takes about 2 hours from Arusha
Tarangire National Park is a huge park best known for its large herds of elephants, but it’s also great for lion and leopard, wonderful for bird life, great variety of landscape and wildlife. The gorgeous Silale Swamp, towards the south of the park, is magnificent and almost always rich in wildlife taking advantage of this reliable water source. The park provides water not only from the swamp, but also from the Tarangire River and during the dry season it’s the primary source of water for animals from the entire area, making for fantastic viewing.
After a full day in the park, we will drive to Karatu town for overnight and dinner.

Accommodation: Burunge Tented Camp

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 3:Lake Natron

Today you will travel to the wild and remote Lake Natron which is situated at the base of Africa’s only active volcano, Oldoinyo Lengai and is known as the Mountain of God to the local Maasai people. The area around Lake Natron contains some of the most harsh and amazing scenery in Africa and is utterly breathtaking.
Together with your Guide, you will be accompanied by a local Maasai Guide and walk up to the Engero Sero Waterfalls. Winding up through the shady gorge you will reach a beautiful natural swimming pool surrounded by steep rock walls showered by cascading spring water where you will have the opportunity to swim.

Accommodation: Africa Safari Lake Natron Tented Camp

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 4: Lake Natron

Lake Natron is one of the most alkaline lakes in the world and home to millions of tiny crustaceans. The lake is a haven for literally thousands of flamingos and it is one of the most important flamingo breeding grounds on earth. It is the landscape rather than the animals that is the attraction here and the area around the lake is dry, desolate and hauntingly beautiful.

After breakfast you will walk out across the baked mud to the shores of the great Soda Lake. From here, you can look back at the memorising view of Oldoinyo Lengai standing tall amongst the rolling hills and flat plains.

You will then travel to to the Serengeti National Park which is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world. With countless predators including lion, cheetah, leopard, more than two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson’s gazelle, and a quarter of a million zebra, it has the greatest concentration of wildlife on our planet.

After plenty of time allocated for you to observe the wildlife, we will drive to the Camp.

Accommodation: Mara Kati Kati Tented Lodge

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 5:Serengeti National Park

Today you will venture deeper into the world-famous Serengeti on a full day game drive in search of the great wildebeest migration.
Northern Serengeti, is known as the hub of the great migration. The landscape is characterized by vast stretches of savannah interspersed with acacia trees and riverine woodlands. Wildlife can be seen along the banks of the Mara River and visitors can view the annual spectacle of the half a million migrating wildebeest. Commonly spotted wildlife include: a multitude of plains game such as buffalo, zebra, gazelles, impala, giraffe as well as lion and leopard.

You will have your lunch in the park thereafter continue with the game drive. In the evening you will drive back to your camp.

Accommodation:Mara Kati Kati Tented Lodge

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 6:Serengeti National Park

Today you will enjoy another full day game drive as you travel between the Northern and Central Serengeti.

You will have your lunch in the park thereafter continue with the game drive. In the evening you will drive to an authentic intimate tented camp set in a secluded part of the game-rich Seronera Valley in Central Serengeti.

Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 7:Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Today you will drive to the stunning Ngorongoro Crater. It’s a 2 hour drive from Serengeti. This Crater is the world’s largest intact collapsed caldera (volcano) which is a self-contained ecosystem with its own unique population of wildlife in a confined area of amazing variety.
The crater boasts lots of lions, hyena, fantastic bird-life, serval, Cape buffalo, zebra and gorgeous landscapes – Also there is an added advantage of seeing Rhino’s, if you are lucky. The view from the veranda of the lodges are breath taking especially in the morning with the early morning mist, because of the high altitude (It can be visited at any time of the year)

You will have your lunch in the Crater and then continue with the game drive. In the late afternoon you will drive to Marera Valley lodge located in Karatu town for overnight.

Accommodation: Marera Valley Lodge

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 8: Lake Manyara

This is another lovely park, lying roughly between Tarangire and the Ngorongoro Crater. It boasts a beautiful little groundwater forest where you can spot Blue Monkeys lots of giraffe, elephants, lion, leopard and a very pretty lake dusted pink in the distance with flamingos.
Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy.
You will enjoy your lunch box in the park and continue with the game drive. In the late afternoon you will be driven back to your lodge in Arusha or to the Airport.

Price

2 people    3 people    4 people   5 people  6 people

$3015       $2,753     $2445        $2,363       $2206