
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. You will visit Serengeti National Park, the no.1-ranked national park. Following, You will visit the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest caldera with grassland & a setting of jaw-dropping beauty. Furthermore, You will visit Tarangire NP, famous for its age-old baobab trees, as well as Lake Manyara NP, known for its tree-climbing lions.
Important to Know
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Rates are per person and exclude the international flight from/to your home country.
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This tour accepts children who are 1 years and older.
Rates & Pricing
$ 3275 USD
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This tour is offered by Msangai Adventures
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This operator reserves the right to change rates advertised on Tanzania-uncovered.
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If you request changes to this tour, the advertised rates will likely change.
Arrival:
- You will be collected from airport.
- Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.
Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, you will be picked up from your accommodation in Arusha or from the airport, and head straight to Tarangire National Park in the Manyara Region. Ranking as the 6th largest national park in Tanzania and covering an area of 2,600 square kilometers, it is most popular for its large elephant herds and is usually very dry, in fact, drier than the Serengeti.
However, its vegetation is much greener with lots of grass, vast areas with mixed acacia woodlands and some of the wonderful ribbons of the aquatic forest. Also, do not forget about the giant baobab trees that can live up to 600 years, storing between 300 and 900 liters of water. In the afternoon you will break for lunch.
After lunch, the game drive continues until you start driving to your lodge. It is now time to relax, dine, swim and relive the memories you collected during the day.
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
Accomodation: Marera valley lodge
Day 2: Tarangire National Park to Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will depart to Serengeti via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. On the way, you will enjoy scenic views of Tanzania, hop off the vehicle to view the Ngorongoro Crater and experience the Serengeti plains. Serengeti National Park is a World Heritage Site teeming with wildlife. Over 2 million ungulates, 4,000 lions, 1,000 leopards, 550 cheetahs and some 500 bird species inhabit an area close to 15,000 square kilometers in size. Today, most visitors come here with one aim alone – to witness millions of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and eland on a mass trek to quench their thirst for water and to eat fresh grass. During this great cyclical movement, these ungulates move around the ecosystem in a seasonal pattern, defined by rainfall and grass nutrients. Lunch will be offered on the vehicle during the safari. By late afternoon, you will arrive at your designated lodge to rest, dine and cherish the greatest moments you gathered during the safari.
Meals: All meals
Accomodation: Tukaone Serengeti camp
Day 3: Gamedrive in Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you start game drive towards the North of Serengeti National Park for great migration near river crossing with our picnic lunch, lunch at lodge /campsite. The park has endless plain which is a home for lion, leopard, elephants, cheetah, buffalo, wildebeest migration, eland, wild dog, gazelle, crocodiles and many more. Also, you will enjoy variety of birds that decorate the park with different sounds. In the evening you will drive to your camp in the heart of Serengeti
After lunch, you continue with the game drive. By late afternoon, you will head back to your lodge to rest, dine and cherish the wonderful moments.
Meals: All meals
Accmodation: Sero Tented Camp
Day 4: Gamedrive in Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, have full day game drive in the Northern of Serengeti National Park for great migration. The great migration is the world’s longest overland migration. The complete migration route is around 800 km (500 mi). South of this migration route covers the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where around half a million wildebeests are born between January and March. By March, at the beginning of the dry season, roughly 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebras start to migrate heading north towards Maasai Mara. To get to the Maasai Mara, the herds have to cross the Grumeti and Mara Rivers where around 3,000 crocodiles lie in wait. For every wildebeest captured by the crocodiles, 50 drown.
You will carry your packed lunch which you will enjoy when making a pit stop in your safari vehicle. After lunch, you continue with the game drive.
By late afternoon, you start driving to central Serengeti lodge, dine and cherish the wonderful moments.
Meals: All meals
Accmodation: Sero Tented Camp
Day 5: Ngorongoro crater to Arusha
After breakfast, you will check out from lodge and start the game drive with packed picnic lunch.
The magic of Serengeti National Park is not easy to describe in words. Not only seeing, but also hearing the buzz of millions of wildebeest so thick in the air that it vibrates through your entire body, is something you will try to describe to friends and family, before realizing it’s impossible. Vistas of honey-lit plains at sunset are so beautiful, that it’s worth the trip just to witness this.
Around early afternoon you start driving towards Nabi gate signing off Serengeti National Park and arriving at lodge.
Time to dine and cherish the wonderful moments.
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Accomodation: Kankiri lodge
Day 6: Lake Manyara to Arusha
After an early breakfast you leave your lodge and drive to Lake Manyara. You make a short stop at Rift Valley viewpoint above Lake Manyara before you drive into the park. Lake Manyara is one of Tanzania’s smaller parks but it has an amazing variety in nature and wildlife. Inside the park you will drive through lush groundwater forest, marshland and savannah.
Among the animals you are likely to see here are baboon, vervet monkey, black and white colobus monkey, hippo, buffalo, elephant, warthog, giraffe, impala and many species of birds. You stop for lunch on a picnic site inside the park.
In the afternoon you leave Lake Manyara and drive back to Arusha where your guide will drop you at your accommodation or airport.
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Included
- Parking fees
- All activities (unless labeled optional)
- All accomodation
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation
- All taxes/ VAT
- Meals
Excluded
- International flights
- Additional accomodation after tour
- Visa fee
- Tips for safari guide
$ 3275 per person
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