Great Migration
Overview
Tarangire · Lake Natron · Northern Serengeti · Central Serengeti · Ngorongoro · Lake Eyasi · Lake Manyara · Materuni
Every day here is private — your own guide and your own vehicle — so the order holds but the hours are yours to move.
Your Polecat Safaris guide meets you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and drives you to Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa.
A quiet evening before the safari begins.
Your Stay
Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa
After breakfast, west to Tarangire — giant baobabs and the elephant herds the park is known for.
A full day of game driving, and then Elephant Springs by Karibu Camps.
Your Stay
Elephant Springs by Karibu Camps
Optional today
North through the Great Rift Valley to Lake Natron, one of the strangest and least visited places in Tanzania.
Ol Doinyo Lengai stands over the lake, and there is time for the waterfalls or the shore. You sleep in air-conditioned glamping tents at Africa Safari Lake Natron.
Your Stay
Africa Safari Lake Natron
After breakfast you cross into the northern Serengeti, where the migration gathers along the Mara River.
An afternoon game drive, and then Enkutoto Acacia Collection.
Your Stay
Enkutoto Acacia Collection
A full day in the north, looking for a crossing — the herds going into the river, and the crocodile waiting for them.
It happens when the herds decide, which is why you have the whole day for it.
Optional today
A game drive the length of the park, south towards the central Serengeti.
You stay at Sametu Camp by Karibu Camps, out in the wilderness.
Your Stay
Sametu Camp
One last morning game drive in the central Serengeti, and then on into the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Lion’s Paw Camp sits on the crater rim, an afternoon to rest before the descent.
Your Stay
Lion's Paw Camp
Optional today
An early breakfast and down onto the crater floor, for a game drive in search of the Big Five.
After lunch you leave the crater for Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp, near the shore of Lake Eyasi.
Your Stay
Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp
A morning at Lake Eyasi with the Hadzabe, who still live by hunting and gathering, and the Datoga, who work as blacksmiths.
Later you move on to Jungle Pearl Resort for the evening.
Your Stay
Jungle Pearl Resort
After breakfast, a game drive in Lake Manyara: forest, flamingos, and the lions that climb trees.
Then back to Arusha and Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa.
Your Stay
Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa
Optional today
The Materuni waterfall in the morning, reached on a guided walk through coffee farms and rainforest.
Then the Kikuletwa hot springs, where the water is warm and very clear, for a swim before your last evening back at Arusha Serena.
A slow breakfast, and then a private transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flight.
Everything below is settled before you travel. What isn’t covered is listed just as plainly, so nothing on this trip arrives as a surprise.
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Four questions — what you'd like to see, who is coming and roughly when — and the team in Arusha comes back with dates, the camps that are open and what the 12-day rate looks like for your party. We reply within one working day.
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