Day 0: Arrival Day
This Luxury Tented Lodge Safari starts with arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport. Our guide meets you and transfer to Mount Meru Hotel.
Accommodation: Arusha Planet Lodge
Luxury Tented Lodge Safari Day 1: Serengeti National Park (North)
After breakfast, transfer to Arusha airstrip for your flight to the Northern Serengeti. You are departing around 7am and arrive at 10am for a game drive in Northern Mara region. Serengeti, among other incredible wildlife and stunning views is famed for the annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundred thousands of zebras. They frenzy bout of territorial conquests and mating happening from July-October. Witness an actual survival of the fittest as these animals plunge through crocodile-infested waters. The wildebeest produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again.
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Lobo wildlife Lodge
Luxury Tented Lodge Safari Day 2: Serengeti North (Kogatende)
After breakfast, we depart for Serengeti North for a game drive viewing the great migration. River crossings at Kogatende starts in August as the mega herd settles into the area. Between August- 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.
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Mbuzimawe Lodge
Day 3: Serengeti North (Kogatende)
After breakfast, you proceed for a full day game drive viewing the great migration at Mara area. Resident wildlife numbers are exceptionally high in the Wagakuria area. The key feature is the Mara River and there is a great chance to see the herds cross the Mara River to the north on one day and back south a few days later. Please note that it can be very difficult to witness crossing and is sometimes a matter of luck. A herd can be seen next to river and only decide to cross a couple of days later. This area is a stunning region with kopjes, woodland, riverine vegetation and open plains, similar to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve.
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Mbuzimawe Lodge
Day 4: Serengeti National Park (Central Seronera)
After breakfast at the camp, we drive to Serengeti central. This is Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park and a world heritage site. Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains. You can see more than 200,000 Zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers an amazing game-viewing in Africa. Great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Lodge
Day 5: Serengeti Central (Central Seronera)
After breakfast, have a full day game drive in Central Serengeti. Apart from the large mammals, Serengeti is also home to gaudy agama lizards. Rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite koppies. Wide varieties of dung beetle were found, and around 500 bird species have been recoded ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Lodge
Day 6: Serengeti Central (Cental Seronera)
This is another full day game drive at Serengeti National Park, known for its healthy population of resident wildlife, particularly the “big five”, named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters:
Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem.
African Leopard, reclusive predators, are commonly seen in the Seronera region. You can find them throughout the national park, with the population of around 1,000.
The herds African Elephant are recovering from population lows in the 1980s caused by poaching and are largely located in the northern regions of the park.
African Buffalo is considered by many to be the most dangerous of the big five. Reportedly they are causing the most hunter deaths, with wounded animals reported to ambush and attack pursuers.
Rhinoceros are spanning between black and white subspecies. Among big five game hunters, the black rhinoceros is preferred, although it is now critically endangered.
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Serengeti Serena Lodge
Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater Tour
After breakfast, we will have an early morning game drive to Ngorongoro inside the Crater. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is an extensive highland area along the eastern arm of the Rift Valley, with the world-renowned Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point. Ngorongoro was established to conserve wildlife and other natural resources. It also safeguards the interests of indigenous people and promotes tourism. Late afternoon leave the Ngorongoro Crater for Tarangire
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Coffee Lodge
Day 8: Tarangire National Park
Today, we will proceed to Tarangire for a full day game drive in the park located slightly off the main safari route. Tarangire National Park is a lovely quiet park in Northern Tanzania most famous for its elephant migration, and birding safari with a quiet atmosphere.
Meals: B,L,D
Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa Lodge
Luxury Tented Lodge Safari Day 9: Back to Arusha
After breakfast, we head back to Arusha and pass by a shopping market on the way. After which, we will either take you to Mount Meru Hotel, or facilitate your transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flight.
Meals: B,L
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