Great Migration
Overview
Arusha · Tarangire · Lake Manyara · Central Serengeti · Western Serengeti · Ngorongoro
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.
Nothing else is asked of the day. Settle in, and get ready for the parks.
Your Stay
Arusha Serena Hotel, Resort & Spa
After breakfast, west to Tarangire — the ancient baobabs, and the elephant herds the park is known for.
A day in the park with your guide, looking for lion, giraffe, zebra and buffalo among them, and then on to Escarpment Luxury Lodge for the evening.
Your Stay
Escarpment Luxury Lodge
Optional today
A half-day game drive in Lake Manyara National Park: groundwater forest, a great deal of birdlife, and the lions here that climb trees.
Elephant, hippo, baboon, blue monkey and flamingo are all likely before you leave the park and climb into the Ngorongoro highlands.
There you set out on foot with a guide and a ranger — the same country, at walking pace — before Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge on the crater rim.
Your Stay
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Optional today
Through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and down onto the Serengeti plains, with game the whole way.
You stay at Sametu Camp in the central Serengeti.
Your Stay
Sametu Camp
After breakfast you head west into the Western Corridor, where the migration moves through between May and July.
A day of game viewing on the way, and then Lahia Tented Lodge.
Your Stay
Lahia Tented Lodge
A full day in the west — remote country, the seasonal migration, and the resident predators that stay when the herds have gone.
In the afternoon you work your way back to the central Serengeti and Sametu Camp.
Your Stay
Sametu Camp
Optional today
One last morning game drive in the Serengeti, and lunch before you leave.
Then back into the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Lion’s Paw Camp on the crater rim, where a guide takes you on a late-afternoon walk around the camp with the highlands falling away below.
Your Stay
Lion's Paw Camp
An early breakfast and down onto the crater floor, the best place in Tanzania to look for all of the Big Five in one drive.
Afterwards the road back to Arusha, and a last evening at Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge.
Your Stay
Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge
Time allowing, a visit to Shanga after breakfast — a social enterprise where artisans with disabilities make things by hand from recycled materials.
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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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 9-day rate looks like for your party. We reply within one working day.
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