Great Migration
Overview
Arusha · Northern Serengeti · Central Serengeti · Ndutu · 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 Kahawa House in Arusha.
An evening to get over the flight before the safari begins.
Your Stay
Kahawa House
After breakfast you transfer to Arusha Airport for the flight north. Your guide meets you at the airstrip and the drive to Nimali Mara is your first game drive.
The north is open plain, rocky kopjes, valleys and woodland. The migration is far to the south at this time of year, which leaves the resident game and a great deal of space.
Your Stay
Nimali Mara
A full day in the north, for the north’s own sake rather than for the herds: the kopjes, the valleys and the woodland, and the animals that live there all year.
With fewer vehicles about outside the migration months, sightings tend to be unhurried, and there is time to stop, watch and photograph without moving on to the next one.
Your Stay
Kuria Hills Lodge
A morning game drive in the north, then south through the park, the country changing around you as you go.
The drive continues as a game drive across the central plains and kopjes, and ends at Meliá Serengeti Lodge.
Your Stay
Melia Serengeti Lodge
After breakfast, a game drive south across the central Serengeti towards the Ndutu plains, where the herds gather for the calving between December and March.
You arrive at Safari Haven Migration Camp, and the afternoon is a game drive around Ndutu.
Your Stay
Safari Haven Migration Camp
The whole day goes to the calving. The southern plains become a nursery as the wildebeest give birth, and the young draw the predators in.
You take a picnic lunch rather than coming back to camp at midday, so the hours go on the herds, the calves and whatever is hunting them.
Optional today
You leave Ndutu after breakfast for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and go down onto the crater floor, where elephant, lion, buffalo, hippo and, with luck, the black rhino live in one of the densest concentrations of wildlife anywhere.
After the crater, on to Elephant Springs for the night.
Your Stay
Elephant Springs by Karibu Camps
A full day in Tarangire, the park of the great elephant herds and the ancient baobabs.
An unhurried game drive for elephant, lion, giraffe, zebra and buffalo, with a great many birds besides.
Your Stay
Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge
Optional today
An early game drive in Tarangire, while the animals are active and the park is still quiet, then breakfast and the road towards Arusha.
On the way you stop at Shanga, a social enterprise that trains and employs people with disabilities.
Then Kilimanjaro International Airport and 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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