Wildebeest Migration Safari | Bushland

Tour Description (Day 2 Day Activities)

Visiting some of the best wildlife game viewing areas in Africa, Lake Manyara, home to pink flamingos and the tree-climbing lions, Serengeti National Park home to the big cats and the annual wildebeest migration, and the Ngorongoro Crater home to the big five, lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo.

Day 1: ARRIVAL

You will be met at Kilimanjaro Airport by your driver/guide or our representative. He will transfer to Arusha for overnight at Kibo Palace Hotel or Arusha Hotel. Bed and breakfast basis

Day 2: Arusha – Tarangire National Park

After breakfast, depart for Tarangire, Tanzania’s third-largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetah, and up to six thousand elephants. Overnight at Maramboi Tented Camp or similar camp. All meals included.

Day-3-Lake Manyara National Park-Ngorongoro Highlands

Morning drive west Lake Manyara National Park splendid views of the Great Rift Valley wall to Lake Manyara National Park for game viewing drives. The Park boasts a spectacular array of diverse terrain as well as plant and animal species. Established specifically to protect the elephant herds that have made the area renowned, the park provides an amazing wildlife experience. … Elephants are not the only animals that Lake Manyara is famous for. Lake Manyara is a shallow alkaline lake at an altitude of 960 m (3,150 Ft.), formed in a depression in the Rift Valley System. … In extreme dry periods, the surface area of the lake shrinks as the waters evaporate and at times the lake has dried up completely. A packed lunch will be served at a picnic site. Late afternoon drive to the Ngorongoro highlands for dinner and overnight at a lodge.

DAY 4 – Serengeti National Park.

Breakfast. Morning drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Authority and on to Serengeti National Park with game viewing drive en-route. A packed lunch will be served at a picnic site. Serengeti National Park offers unparalleled wildlife viewing in a vast and un-spoilt environment with endless plains that stretch for hundreds of miles boasting huge herds of African wildlife. The Serengeti encompasses Serengeti National Park and several protected game reserves and conservation areas maintained by the governments of Tanzania. In the late afternoon arrive at your camp or lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day-5-Exploring Serengeti National Park

A full day exploring the vast Serengeti with its endless plains looking for the big cats. The Serengeti hosts the largest mammal migration in the world and is a popular destination for popular African safaris. It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge, or crocodile infested river can hold them back. Meals and overnight will be at a tented camp or lodge.

DAYS 6 – Ngorongoro Highlands

After breakfast, you will a game viewing drive en-route to the Ngorongoro Highlands with the option of visiting the Oldupai Gorge Museum site that holds the earliest evidence of the existence of human life. The leaky’s found hundreds of fossilized bones and stone tools in the area dating back millions of years, leading them to conclude that humans evolved in Africa. A packed lunch will be served at a picnic site. If time allows you may want to do a coffee tour or a cultural tour in the town of Karatu located on the Ngorongoro highlands. You will have dinner and overnight at a lodge.

Day-7- Exploring the Ngorongoro Crater.

After breakfast drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for game viewing drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the Largest Unbroken Calderas on the Planet with over 25,000 Wild Creatures in the Caldera More Prides Per Capita than Anywhere on Earth. The Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtakingly beautiful setting and the best place in East Africa to see the Big Five, Lions, Leopard, Black Rhino, Elephants, and Buffalo. It is one of the world’s most astonishing and among the 8th wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The black rhino can easily be sighted in the crater. Think of another place in the world where you can see such a unique setting with diverse scenery, prolific wildlife and birdlife, and an ecosystem like no other.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area covers mountain forests, woodlands, grasslands, lakes, swamps, and two major rivers. A packed lunch will be served at a picnic site. In late afternoon ascend the crater and continue a short drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY 8

After a leisurely breakfast drive back to Arusha arriving by mi-day.

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