10 Days Northern Tanzania Exclusive Safari (Journey for the Wildebeest Migration River Crossing)

This 10 day exclusive Northern Tanzania safari is a classical adventure to one of the most celebrated wildlife conservancies in Africa particularly in the wildlife extravaganza.

Tanzania host the second largest terrestrial mammal migration, The Great Wildebeest Migration which is one of the 7 natural wonders in Africa and one of the 10 natural wonders in the world at large. The wildebeest migration climax is during the River crossing where mammal grazers try to cross the crocodile-infested river, lying underwater in a long wait to catch their prey. The wildebeest migration river crossing in August moves north, passing through the Lobo area (north of Central Serengeti National Park) and the Wagakuria area (remote northern Serengeti National Park along the Mara River) en-route to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve.

Duration of the Safari: 10 days

Number of People: Tailored According to your Interests

Starts & Ends: Arusha.

Availability: All year round

Places to Explore in Tanzania: Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire National Park

Tour Overview of the 10 Days   Northern Tanzania Exclusive Safari

• Day 1:  Arrival & Transfer to Arusha.
• Day 2:  Fly from Arusha to Tarangire National Park.
• Day 3:  Drive to Lake Manyara National Park
• Day 4:  Transfer from Lake Manyara to  Ngorongoro Crater.
• Day 5:  Full day Game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater
• Day 6:  Transfer to Seronera in Central Serengeti.
• Day 7:  Central to Northern Serengeti
• Day 8 & 9:  Northern Serengeti in  Kogatende
• Day 10:  Serengeti – Arusha

Upon your arrival to Tanzania, you will be warmly welcomed by our professional English speaking safari guide who will then transfer you to your already booked accommodation in Arusha. You will then check in your hotel where you will have your lunch, dinner, and an overnight stay.

Your safari guide will brief you about your 10 days exclusive Northern Tanzania safari and if time wishes you can make a city tour in Arusha before sunset and then head back to the hotel for dinner and an overnight.

Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner.

Accomodation: Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge/ Arusha Safari Lodge.

Day 3: Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park.

After the morning breakfast you will check out at the lodge and enjoy a morning game drive through the park while on your way to Lake Manyara National Park. On arrival in Lake Manyara national park you will have a simple evening game drive and then transfer to your lodge for dinner. After dinner, you will have a night spotlighting game drive in the park and then back to the lodge for the overnight.

Lake Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s bird life. More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably 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 are  expected to be seen.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner

Accommodation: AndBeyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge/ Lake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge.

Day 4: Transfer from Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro Crater

Depart after breakfast for an extended morning game drive in  Lake  Manyara National Park and in the afternoon, drive to Ngorongoro for the evening  Ngorongoro Crater rim walk. At dawn, check-in to the lodge for dinner and overnight

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner

Accommodation: Melia Ngorongoro Lodge/ Gibb’s Farm.

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater

After an early breakfast, we will venture into what is undoubtedly one of the ‘Natural Wonders of the World’ The Ngorongoro Crater.  Large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze while sleeping lions laze in the sun.  The endangered black rhino spends the early hours grazing on dew-laden grass, before returning to the thick cover of the crater forests.  Lunch will be served in the Crater flow followed by an afternoon game drive which will be full mersmirizing creatures like the remaining Large tusker elephants in Africa, you will also enjoy nocturnal animals waking up to start their hunting, before returning in the late afternoon to the Manor

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

Accommodation: Melia Ngorongoro Lodge/ Gibb’s Farm.

Day 6: Game drive En route to Central Serengeti National Park.

Today you will enjoy a leisure breakfast at the Lodge on the crater rim and then depart for a game drive en route to Central Serengeti. A hot lunch will be saved in the afternoon.

A million wildebeest with other mammal grazers each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Accommodations: Serengeti Safari Lodge/ Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.

Day 7: Full day Game drive in Serengeti while following the Great Migration.

Early morning you will enjoy a hot air balloon safari where you will enjoy Serengeti from a different perspective while watching a million of wildebeests herds graze the endless plains of the Serengeti.

After breakfast, depart for a full-day game drive in Serengeti National Park Central part the Seronera, You will have lunch in the middle of nowhere as your watching thousands of wildlife surrounding you. In the evening drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Accommodations: Serengeti Safari Lodge/ Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.

Day 8-9: Explore Northern Serengeti.

After breakfast, you will head to north of the Serengeti for a full-day game drive in the wilderness tracking the Great migration trails. Witnessing a million wildebeests, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 mile) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. You will enjoy your dinner and overnight stays at Serengeti Migration Camp

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 10: Fly from Serengeti back to Arusha.

Following breakfast, you are invited to join one of our guides on a Walking Safari along the banks of the Grumeti River.  After a leisurely lunch, you will once again take to the road for a game drive en-route to the airstrip for the return flight to Arusha and then transfer to the airport for a return flight.  During the flight, you will see, from the air, the ever-changing landscape of the bush and mountainous topography that reminds us of Tanzania’s violent geological past.

Meal Plan: Breakfast and lunch