Great Migration
Overview
Arusha · Northern Serengeti · Central Serengeti · Ngorongoro · Tarangire
Every day here is private — your own guide and your own vehicle — so the order holds but the hours are yours to move.
You are met at Kilimanjaro International Airport and driven to Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge, among the coffee plantations and the gardens outside town.
Nothing is planned for the rest of the day, which is the point of it.
Your Stay
Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge
After breakfast you transfer to Arusha Airport for the scheduled bush flight north.
Your guide meets you at the airstrip and the first game drive starts there. In season the herds are massed across these plains, waiting to cross the Mara River.
You finish at Nimali Mara.
Your Stay
Nimali Mara
A whole day in the north, given to the crossing points along the river.
Your guide follows the herds and puts you near a crossing whenever one is building — thousands of wildebeest and zebra bunched on the bank before they go into the water.
Between crossings there is a great deal else to see across the open country.
After breakfast you drive south through the Serengeti, game-viewing all the way.
The central Serengeti holds its predators and its plains game all year, and the afternoon goes on the Seronera area before you reach Meliá Serengeti.
Your Stay
Melia Serengeti Lodge
An early game drive in the central Serengeti, then the road south-east off the plains and up into the Ngorongoro highlands.
There is game for much of the way. The evening is a quiet one at Lion’s Paw Camp.
Your Stay
Lion's Paw Camp
Optional today
After breakfast you drive on to Elephant Springs, taking in the country and the game on the way.
The day is a slower one: time to look at the landscape, rest, and take stock of what the last few days have shown you.
Your Stay
Elephant Springs by Karibu Camps
Optional today
A last game drive in Tarangire, among the elephant herds and the old baobabs.
Depending on your flight there is a picnic lunch, and then the drive 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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