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.
Your Polecat Safaris guide meets you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and drives you to Gran Meliá Arusha.
The rest of the day is yours, to rest before the safari starts.
Your Stay
Gran Melia Arusha
After breakfast you transfer to Arusha Airport for the scheduled bush flight north.
The first game drive starts at the airstrip. In season this is crossing country, with wildebeest and zebra gathered in their thousands along the Mara River.
Your Stay
River Camp by Karibu Camps
A whole day in the north with your guide, following the herds as they move across the plains and down to the river.
Where the herds are, the predators are too, and a day this long gives you the best chance of being there when something happens.
After breakfast you game-drive south through the Serengeti to its centre.
You arrive at Lala Salama in time to rest after the journey.
Your Stay
Lala Salama Serengeti Camp
A last morning game drive in the central Serengeti, then on through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Lion’s Paw Camp sits close to the crater rim, which puts you first in line for tomorrow.
Your Stay
Lion's Paw Camp
Optional today
An early breakfast and down onto the crater floor for a Big Five game drive — lion, elephant, buffalo, hippo, hyena, and the endangered black rhino.
After a picnic lunch you drive on to Tarangire and Lemala Mpingo Ridge.
Your Stay
Lemala Mpingo Ridge
A whole day in Tarangire, with its elephant herds and its ancient baobabs, working along the Tarangire River with your guide.
Then back to Mpingo Ridge for a second evening.
Optional today
An early game drive, out before most of the other vehicles, while the air is cool and the animals are moving.
Then the road back towards Arusha. Flights allowing, you stop at Shanga, where artisans make jewellery, glassware and textiles by hand.
On 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 8-day rate looks like for your party. We reply within one working day.
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