6-Day Great Migration Ndutu – Calving Season Safari

On your arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, our airport office representative will meet and greet you and assist you with any visa or passport control issues. We will welcome you to our office for refreshments where you will meet your guide. You will transfer to Arusha for dinner and your overnight stay at the hotel.

Arusha is a city in Tanzania, East Africa. Situated at the foot of the volcanic Mt. Meru. It serves as a gateway to safari destinations.

Main Destination:

Arusha (City)

Accommodation:

Kibo Palace Hotel

Mid-range hotel located in Arusha (City)

Meals & Drinks:

Dinner (Breakfast & lunch not included)

Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast at the hotel, we will drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. For lunch, your driver will set and prepare the table in the car shade for a full hot meal (soup, bread rolls, main dish, fruit salad) with a glass of wine, tea or coffee. After lunch, we continue the game drive until before evening, then return to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

Lake Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded and even a first-time visitor to Africa might expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants.

Main Destination:

Lake Manyara National Park

Accommodation:

The Castle at Ngorongoro

Mid-range lodge located less than 1hr drive from Lake Manyara NP

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

After your breakfast at the lodge, we'll leave for Serengeti South in the Ndutu area for a whole day of game drive; watching the big group of migrating wildebeests. Around lunchtime, your driver will find a spot to set up a table for your hot meal.
You'll have soup, bread rolls, a main dish, and fruit salad, along with a glass of wine, tea, or coffee. After lunch, you'll continue your game drive until it starts getting dark. Then, we'll head back to the lodge for dinner and to sleep overnight.

Explore diverse habitats like swamps, woodlands, soda lakes, and the famous Serengeti short-grass plains. See huge herds of wildebeest and zebra. In February, most wildebeest calves are born over about three weeks. The open grasslands leave them exposed to predators, but they can run within minutes of birth and keep up with the herd within three days.

Main Destination:

Southern Serengeti National Park

Accommodation:

Nyikani Migration Camp Ndutu

Mid-range tented camp bordering Southern Serengeti NP without fences

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

You will have an early breakfast at the camp, followed by a full-day game drive in Serengeti South in the Ndutu area. Watch the wildebeest migration and see a lot of predators, including lion, leopard and cheetah. Return to the camp for a hot lunch and an afternoon rest. In the late afternoon, go on a game drive until the evening when you will head to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Lake Ndutu is alkaline like most of the other rift lakes, however, the water is still drinkable and used by a wide array of wildlife. The majority of the wildebeest migration can normally be found on the short-grass plains from December to April. The area is usually heavily populated with elephants, birds and resident game.

Main Destination:

Ndutu (Southern Serengeti NP)

Accommodation:

Nyikani Migration Camp Ndutu

Mid-range tented camp located inside Ndutu (Southern Serengeti NP)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Breakfast at the camp is followed by a game drive in the Ndutu area, exploring the grassy plains and woodlands, tracking the massed herds of wildebeest and zebra. Witness the birth of new calves and trailing predators such as lion, cheetah and hyena on the hunt. During lunchtime, your driver will set and prepare the table under an acacia tree with our beautiful car shade for a full hot meal (soup, bread rolls, main dish, fruit salad) with a glass of wine, tea or coffee. After lunch, we continue with the game drive until the evening, then head to Ngorongoro for dinner and our overnight stay.

The Serengeti is perhaps most famous for the great migration. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebra 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.

Main Destination:

Ndutu (Southern Serengeti NP)

Accommodation:

Naserian Safari Camp

Luxury tented camp located inside Ngorongoro Highlands

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

After an early breakfast at the lodge, we drive to the crater for a game drive until the afternoon. During lunchtime, your driver will set and prepare the table in the car shade for a full hot meal (soup, bread rolls, main dish, fruit salad) with a glass of wine, tea or coffee. After lunch, we will continue with the game drive. In the late afternoon, we drive back to Arusha where we will drop you off at the airport.

The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20 kilometer across, 600 meter deep and 300 sq km in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other waterbirds can usually be seen here.

Main Destination:

Ngorongoro Crater

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)

All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)