8 Days – Wildebeest Migration Safari
Destinations
Ndutu Area, Serengeti and Ngorongoro
Duration
8 Days, 7 Nights
This Eight days Wildebeest Migration Calving Season safari includes visit to Ndutu area which is a transitional border between northern Ngorongoro and southern Serengeti where you will witness the birth of up to 8000 calves a day during this magic time for the great Wildebeest Migration. Although our safari is designed for calving season when the massive herds of wildebeest arrive in Southern Serengeti during the month of December, January, February and March, but you will as well visits the famous Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater which offers spectacular time to witness great games roaming in the wilds.
Day by Day Itinerary
Day 1: ARUSHA
Meet at Kilimanjaro airport or Arusha airport, after meet and greet you will be transfer to Arusha town,
Overnight at Mount Meru Hotel –BB
Day 2: ARUSHA – NDUTU AREA
Pick up from Arusha in the morning and drive to Ndutu area arriving in time for check in and lunch at your lodge. Afternoon embark on your very first Game drive in the vast plain of Ndutu coloured by unnumbered wildebeests followed by Zebras and gazelles and stalked by hungry predators
Dinner and overnight at Ndutu Safari Lodge or similar
Day 3 &4: NDUTU AREA
As the sun rises you will leave your lodge for an early morning game viewing and return in the late morning to a leisurely African breakfast. Thereafter you will proceed on with Game drive in the Ndutu plains which is the most famous ground in the world and it is here where the biggest mammals’ migration in the world drop their calves in a synchronized birthing to more than 400,000 calves with approximation of 8,000 calves born per day during the peak in the middle of February.
Add on experience at Ndutu area – If you want to experience uninterrupted views of wilderbeests migrations from the sky you may choose to book a hot air balloon ride, followed by a luxurious champagne breakfast. This activity is optional and seats need to be reserved in advance.
Meals and overnight at Ndutu Safari Lodge or similar
Day 5: NDUTU – SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, collect packed lunch drive to Serengeti National Park, unquestionably the best wildlife sanctuary in the world and a World Heritage Site astounding 14,763 sq kms full of wild paradise. The park is most famous for its annual migration of wildebeests and zebras and the Big Five population. Enjoy and cherish your first afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park to view the “Big Five” and other uncountable resident wildlife
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge or similar
Day 6: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, drive for full day game drives in the Serengeti National park, Tanzania’s best and most scenic game park in the world. Serengeti has a flourishing, permanent population of plains game which increases in year round by the migration of more than two million gnus and zebras which roams in the vast Serengeti plains about 10months year before cross ecological boarder to Masai Mara. The “big five,” elephant, buffalo, lion, and leopard are quite common. When the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers the most brilliant game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, groups of elephant and giraffe, eland, topi, Kongoni, warthogs cheetah, impala, Grant’s gazelle and maned lion prides feast on the abundance of plenty grazers and browsers.
Meals and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge or similar
Day 7: NGORONGORO CRATER
After breakfast, you will collect packed lunch and drive to Ngorongoro conservation area, a UNESCO World Heritage site for crater tour. The largest inactive caldera in the world (260 square kilometres), sunken or collapsed cone of volcano nowadays hosts the most unique ecosystem on Earth with more than 20,000 large grazing mammals and the largest concentration of predators on earth playing important part in the maintenance of the nature balance. Your experience will start by descending 2000 feet (over 600 metres) to the floor of the caldera to explore the Lerai forest inhabited by monkeys and huge elephant families, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos, the open savannah to sport many predators probably hunting to make their kill.
Wildly beautiful as it is, not surprisingly that Ngorongoro Crater has been called The Real Garden of Eden located in 2018 by American Biblical Archaeologist Stan Deyo. In the evening drive to Karatu area
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Farm House or similar
Day 8: AIRPORT
After breakfast, you will drive to Arusha for lunch, lunch on own account
Afternoon transfer to Arusha / Kilimanjaro Airport
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Safari net cost in USD inclusively accommodation, transport, Park Fees & Mineral Water
Inclusions
- Accommodation as per itinerary
- Game drives as Indicated on the Itinerary using Land Cruiser 4 x 4 – 7 Seaters
- English Speaking driver guide
- Mineral Water
- Return airport transfers
- Park entrance fees as indicated on the itinerary
- Meet and greet services
Exclusions
- Tips, Porterage, beverages, items of personal nature such as laundry, phone, fax, insurance etc.
- International flights, visas and airport taxes
- Any other item not mentioned on the itinerary
- Christmass and New Year Eve and New Year Supplements(24th, 25th, 26th and 31st of Dec 2022 & 01st Jan 2023 – per person $250.00
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