8-Day Mara River Great Migration

After breakfast, your tour guide will pick you up from your lodge with a packed lunch in hand and transfer you to Tarangire National Park. Tarangire is renowned for its diverse landscape, featuring nine different vegetation zones. The park is particularly famous for its abundance of ancient baobab trees, the largest trees on the continent, which dominate the landscape and create a dramatic backdrop for wildlife sightings.

The Tarangire River is a lifeline for the park, attracting a wide variety of wildlife, including a large variety of bird species and animals such as lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, and antelopes. The park is especially known for its large elephant population, offering unique opportunities to observe these majestic animals and their family dynamics up close.

After completing the game drive, we will drive you to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and your overnight stay.

After breakfast, we will depart from Karatu and drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area with picnic lunch boxes in hand. You will ascend the crater highlands, making a brief stop at the rim for a breathtaking view of Ngorongoro Crater. This will be an unforgettable moment, especially for first-time visitors.

As we continue into the Serengeti, you will understand why the name translates to "endless plains" in Swahili. The park covers 6,900 square miles, and for most of the journey, the plains will extend to the horizon, defying your senses and perception of distance. The Serengeti is known for its abundant wildlife, especially big cats and large predators like lions, cheetahs, leopards, and hyenas.

After a full day of game drives and enjoying the natural beauty of the parks, we will transfer you to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and your overnight stay.

After breakfast, you’ll head to the northern Serengeti and the Mara River to witness the Great Migration. Our safari guide will find the best spot for viewing.

The northern Serengeti offers a chance to escape the crowds, as it is wedged between the central Serengeti and Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve. This remote and relatively inaccessible region sees fewer visitors, allowing travelers to enjoy gorgeous landscapes of green rolling hills, granite outcrops, and acacia woodlands dotting open savanna. You'll witness incredible wildlife, including massive herds of wildebeest and zebra making the dangerous crossing of the crocodile-infested Mara River during the Great Migration. Meals and your overnight stay will be at a carefully selected accommodation.

Awake early and enjoy breakfast before continuing with your game drive to witness the Great Migration. Later, we will drive back to the central area of the park for our overnight stay.

Serengeti National Park is one of Tanzania's largest parks, boasting diverse landscapes and habitats, including grassy plains, swamps, lakes, savannah, and mountains. It is renowned for its great migrating herds of zebra, antelope, and wildebeest, which depend on the rainy season for food and water. You may have the opportunity to witness thousands of animals during this spectacle.

Additionally, be prepared to see resident predators, such as leopards, cheetahs, and lions, playing their vital role in the circle of life.

After an early morning breakfast, your driver-guide will pick you up with lunch boxes and transfer you to the Ngorongoro Crater.

Ngorongoro Crater is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the natural wonders of Africa. It boasts the largest uninterrupted caldera in the world and is home to approximately 30,000 large mammals year-round. The crater features a river, several swamps, a soda lake with a high concentration of flamingos, a forest, and open plains. Within a short time, you can expect to see many animals, including buffaloes, lions, cheetahs, and various bird species such as flamingos, eagles, and buzzards.

After the game drive, there will be time for a picnic lunch near the beautiful hippo lake. Following lunch, we will have a short game drive before ascending the crater and heading to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and your overnight stay.

After breakfast, our safari guide will collect you from your lodge with a picnic lunch box in hand and then transfer you to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive.

Lake Manyara National Park is renowned for its arboreal lions, which are often spotted hiding within the branches of trees, as well as numerous colonies of baboons that populate the forest and will accompany you along the road from the moment you enter the park. Despite its small size (205 square miles), the park boasts breathtaking scenery, including lush acacia forests, giant figs, and mahogany trees. It is also well-known for its growing population of baboons and blue monkeys. Other permanent residents of this park include giraffes, elephants, impalas, and a large number of buffaloes. The lake is also home to a significant population of hippos.

After lunch and an extensive game drive inside the park, we will drive directly to the hotel for dinner and your overnight stay.

After breakfast, you will have some free time to relax at the lodge. If you wish, you can go on a short tour in Arusha and do some shopping with our guide. Later, you will be transferred to Arusha or Kilimanjaro Airport for your departure back home or to another destination.