Eight Days Migration Safari
8 DAYS TANZANIA SERENGETI MIGRATION SAFARI IN JULY OCTOBER (MARA RIVER CROSSING)
$6000-6100 USD
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Safari summary
This 8-Day Great Serengeti Migration FLY IN – DRIVE OUT With a full day in northern and Central Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Eyasi and Lake Manyara national park, So us as Kitano Tours and Safaris. We have been designed safari packages specifically to focus on and to increase your chance to see the great Serengeti Wildebeest Migration. We have designed the itinerary to include both the Lobo area (area north of the central Serengeti National Park) and Wagakuria area (remote northern Serengeti National Park) where the majority of the wildebeest migration can normally be found from Mid-July to October. This itinerary has been designed that you fly in-Drive back from the Serengeti National Park to Arusha town. The wildebeest migration from mid- July to October involves the river crossing which take place across the Grumeti river and Mara River found in the northern part of Serengeti National Park. The major river crossing during the wildebeest migration takes place during July to October along the Mara River. The wildebeest after crossing the river continue to the northern part of Serengeti National Park and also to Masai Mara reserve in the southern part of Kenya.
About this tour
Tour type | Set-date, set-itinerary, group | |
Main focus | Game drives | |
Activity level | Easy activity | |
Best months | All months | |
Countries | ||
Parks |
Fine details
Safari highlights
- Wildlife sanctuaries
What’s included?
- Accommodation
- All drinks
- Meals
- Park fees
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Alcoholic beverages
- All drinks
- Hot air balloons
- Laundry
- Meals
- Spa treatments
- Tips and gratuities
- Visas
Itinerary
Fly to Northern Serengeti
Serengeti
Early in the morning after breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel by guide and drive to Arusha airport for flight to North Serengeti. After you arrived, proceed to a game drive in the wilderness tracking the Great migration trails. We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch we will enjoy an afternoon game drive in the area. The wildebeest migration can normally be found in the Wagakuria area from Mid-July to October, depending on rainfall patterns.
Serengeti
Northern Serengeti (Kogatende
Serengeti
After breakfast, enjoy a full day game drive in the Kogatende/Wagakuria area. Resident wildlife numbers are exceptionally high in this area of the park, with prides of lion up to 30 strong, however, from Mid-July to October the area turns into a wildlife paradise. The key feature is the Mara River and it is not uncommon to see the herds cross the Mara River north on one day and then back south a few days later. Please take note –Finding a crossing is very difficult .
Kogatende
Kogatende) - Central Serengeti
Serengeti
After breakfast, enjoy a full day game drive in the Wagakuria area. Resident wildlife numbers are exceptionally high in this area of the park, with prides of lion up to 30 strong, however, from Mid-July to October the area turns into a wildlife paradise. The key feature is the Mara River and it is not uncommon to see the herds cross the Mara River north on one day and then back south a few days later.
Central Serengeti
Seronera Area)
Serengeti
After breakfast, enjoy a full day game drive in the park. The area around Lobo and the Grumeti River has good resident game throughout the year. Non-migrating animals like elephant, buffalo, gazelle, zebra, lion, leopard and cheetah can be seen here all year round. The game viewing is very good and you can follow game for long periods without seeing other vehicles
Seronera Area
Serengeti (Central) – Ngorongoro
Serengeti
Proceed with morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti with a lunch and leisure break at the lodge in the midafternoon. The term Serengeti means endless plains in Masai language. In the central plains there are carnivores like leopard, lion, hyena and cheetah. This park is normally the scene of the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra that occurs between the Kenyan Mara and the Serengeti.
Ngorongoro
Ngorongoro Crater- Full Day Tour
Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, descend into the crater with lunch box enjoying the game drive for more than 7 hours. Millions of years ago, a volcano the size of Mount Kilimanjaro rose from the highlands of northern Tanzania. Its eruption formed the largest unflooded caldera in the world, the Ngorongoro Crater. Now inactive and filled with wildlife, the crater is a playground where you can enjoy game drives in in search of the Big Five.
Ngorongoro Crater
Manyara/Karatu – Lake Eyasi
Lake Manyara
Explore wild, uncharted territory in southern Serengeti. Lake Eyasi, located in the immediate southwest of Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania, is one of the several beautiful lakes in the East African Rift Valley. The mildly alkaline lake stretches for about 50 km to the southwest with the vast plains of the Serengeti in its north. Go on a hunting expedition with a Hadzabe family
Lake Eyasi
Tarangire
Tarangire
On This day you leave Manyara and drive towards the Tarangire National Park. You will arrive at Tarangire in 1 and a half hour-time. Your driver will take care of the paper work at the park’s gate then you will embark on your last game drive • The Tarangire National Park has the highest density of elephants and large baobab trees that dot the grassland in North Tanzania and you can view these animals all year round in which the herds often can reach an impressive number of 300 animals.
Tarangire
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