The great show on earth
8-Day Serengeti Wildebeest Migration Camping Safari
$1520-1680 USD
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Safari summary
This is an 8-day Tanzania budget camping safari visiting Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Tarangire National Park. Your accommodation will be on a budget campsite during the safari. Most campsites are inside the national parks except those at Lake Manyara and Tarangire.
About this tour
| Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
| Main focus | Game drives | |
| Activity level | Easy activity | |
| Best months | All months | |
| Countries | ||
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Fine details
Safari highlights
- Bird watching—with professional guide
- Photography safari—with professional guide
What’s included?
- Accommodation
- Airport transfers
- All drinks
- Meals
- Park fees
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Internal flights
- International flights
- Tips and gratuities
- Visas
Itinerary
Arrival and Overnight in Arusha
Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be welcomed by Dancing Simba Safaris transfer driver and taken to the Arusha Tourist Inn. You will spend the rest of the day at your leisure in Arusha city or at the hotel. We will have a tour briefing in the evening as we prepare for the upcoming safari. Your accommodation is on a bed and breakfast basis.
The charity Hotel
Arusha to Lake Manyara NP
Lake Manyara
After breakfast, you depart for Lake Manyara National Park on a full-day game drive with picnic lunches. The journey will take you to Lake Manyara Fanaka Lodge for your dinner and overnight stay. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty gold 600m high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem with a setting praised by American novelist Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa.” The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara.
Fanaka Lodge
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti
After breakfast, proceed to Serengeti National Park for a game drive with picnic lunches. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at a campsite inside the Serengeti National Park. A million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life, go on a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating. Then, a brief population explosion occurs as more than 8 000 wildebeest calves are born daily.
Budget friendly camp
Serengeti Migration Tour
Serengeti
The entire day is set aside for game drives in the Serengeti. After breakfast, we depart on an amazing game drive. The great diversity of Serengeti's wildlife is evident here—look for buffalo, hippos, elephants, giraffes, antelopes, Thompson's and Grant's gazelle, and lions. You will be more than astonished if you are there during the spectacular wildebeest migration.
Budget friendly camp
Serengeti to Ngorongoro
Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast, we will have a game drive in Serengeti National Park to see the park's beauty. Then, after a picnic lunch, we have a game drive en route to Ngorongoro Crater for dinner and an overnight stay at a campsite inside the Ngorongoro Crater.
Budget friendly camp
Ngorongoro Crater Tour
Ngorongoro Crater
Breakfast will be ready at around 5:50 am, and we will descend the crater at 6:00 am. Today's game drive will take approximately 6 to 7 hours, with a picnic lunch at a site on the crater floor. Next, we venture onto the crater floor for an up-close view of the resident animals of this World Heritage Site. Finally, drive back to Fanaka Lodge and Campsite in the afternoon for dinner and your overnight stay.
Fanaka Lodge
Tarangire and Transfer to Arusha
Tarangire
We will meet you at your campsite at 7:30am and have a safari briefing before departing for Tarangire National Park. Your first safari experience will be the thrilling game drive through the vastness of Tarangire National Park. You will arrive in good time for lunch. In the afternoon, we will have a game drive through the park and later drive back to Arusha for our overnight stay at The Charity Hotel.
The Charity Hotel
Arusha to Kilimajaro airport
After breakfast, we will take you to Kilimanjaro International Airport, or you can extend your trip with a beach holiday in Zanzibar. Today marks the last day of our safari.
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