WONDER OF THE WORLD WILDEBEEST MIGRATION CROSSING MARA RIVER

10 DAYS 9 NIGHTS

PACKAGE TYPE: LUXURY

PRICE: FROM $4,965.00 pp

BEST TIME: JULY TO AUGUST

Overview

This 10-day safari is to see the Great Wildebeest Migration and will give you an opportunity to experience more than ten of the thousand of the wildebeest travel in a circular migration, following seasonal rains, across the Serengeti Plains. Their grazing and trampling of grass allow new grasses to grow, while their waste helps fertilize the soil.

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Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport – Arusha region.

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO), your driver guide will pick you up and drive you to Arusha for your overnight at your booked hotel for resting and preparing for your Safari.

 

Day 2: Arusha to Tarangire National Park – Full Game Drive

After breakfast head off to Tarangire National Park for a morning and afternoon game drive. Enjoy an afternoon game drive through the park with a picnic lunch. This Park is known for its holding one of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Lions, giraffes, and zebras are well seen and over 500 different bird species to find.

 

Day 3: Tarangire National Park to Serengeti National Park – Full Game Drive

After breakfast head off to Serengeti National Park. This is undoubtedly Tanzania’s most famous park. Great herds of the wildebeest migration, buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of elands, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle are resident at any time of the year. Lions and leopards are easily seen. You will enjoy a late afternoon game drive in the park.

 

Day 4: Central Serengeti to Northern Serengeti National Park – Full Game Drive

After breakfast, we will drive across the plains of Togoro and through the Mbuzi Mawe kopjes (small hills) as we make our way into the park’s northern reaches. Upon arriving in the Kogatende region, you’ll go out in search of both the Wildebeest Migration crossing the Mara River and the famous Big Five

 

Day 5&6: Northern Serengeti National Park – Full game drive

After breakfast, you will start your game drive around the Kogatende area, searching around the kopjes looking for carnivores and the large migration groups that will be preparing to cross the Mara River into Kenya. From here will eventually meet the Mara River itself the home to large numbers of hippos and Nile crocodiles.

 

Day 7: Transit from North Serengeti to Central Serengeti National Park – Full game drive

After breakfast, we get right on the road to Center Serengeti National Park. Our drive takes us back through the Serengeti via a different route, offering plenty of opportunities to spot many animals as far as the eye can see.

 

Day 8: Transit from Central Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater – Leisure

After breakfast, your driver will take you from Central Serengeti to Ngorongoro National Park for resting and prepare for the next day’s trip.

 

Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater National Park – Full game drive in the crater
After breakfast, you will travel to the adventurous trail that takes you into the Ngorongoro crater. Grass steppes and acacia forests are home to almost all the species of animals found in the East African Savannah. In only a few hours of driving from Central Serengeti, you will have the chance of spotting the big five – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhinoceros and leopard.

 

Day 10: Manyara culture tour then Arusha Town

After breakfast, you head off to the multi-cultural town of Mto wa Mbu. Here you will be met by a local guide who will give you a short briefing on the upcoming tour – exploring the village and its surroundings on foot. During your experience, you will witness traditional wood carvers as well as local artists at work. After a traditional African lunch, you will have the chance to visit the local school in the village and meet the students and teachers. In the afternoon your driver will drive you back to Arusha town.

Price Includes

  • Airport transfers to and from Kilimanjaro airport
  • Accommodations and meals as per itinerary
  • All national park entry fees
  • Inclusive service of a professional driver and guide
  • Food, drinking water
  • All game drives with four-wheel drive Toyota land cruisers open sides guarantee each person to have a window

  Not included:    

  • International airfare, 
  • Alcohol
  • All items of person nature
  • Travel insurance
  • Visa and visa fees
  • Airport departure taxes
  • Laundry will be an extra fee
  • Tip for your professional tour driver guide

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