9-Day Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration Safari
9-Day Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration Safari
This 9-day Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration Safari will allow you to experience the greatest wildebeest migration in the world. You will visit both the Central and Northern parts of Serengeti National Park as you enjoy the game safari drives and view the trails of the wildebeests. On this 9-day Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration safari, you will also visit other national parks for game viewing. These include Tarangire, best for Elephant sightings, Lake Manyara, and one of the world’s wonders, Ngorongoro Crater. This 9-day Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration Safari is an all-inclusive trip that will start and end at Arusha Kilimanjaro Airport.
Summary Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport and transfer to Arusha Town for Overnight
On Day 2: Pick up from Arusha and transfer to Tarangire National Park.
Day 3: Tarangire Park/Lake Manyara Park.
On Day 4: Karatu/Central Serengeti Park.
Day 6: North Serengeti Mara River Area.
On Day 7: North Serengeti Park/Ngorongoro Crater Rim.
Day 8: Visit Ngorongoro Crater Floor and after drive to Arusha for overnight.
On Day 9: Transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport(JRO) for your flight to end the 9-Day Best of Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1:Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport and Transfer to Arusha for Overnight
Our driver guide will pick you up from the Airport after arrival and drop you in Arusha town for dinner and overnight.
Meal plan: Full Board
Drive time: Approximately 1 hour 20 minutes
Dinner and Overnight: Planet Lodge
Day 2: Pick up from Arusha and transfer to Tarangire National Park
You will be picked up from Arusha by your driver guide and depart for Tarangire National Park for a full day morning and evening game drive. You will first check in at your lodge, refresh, and then depart for a full day of wildlife viewing in the park. Tarangire National Park is well known for its huge elephants with an estimated 2,500 individuals, the beautiful, gigantic Baobab trees, the Tarangire River, and various bird species.
Drive time: Approximately 3 hours’ drive
Meal plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa Lodge
Day 3: Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, you will go for a sunrise morning game drive en route to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara National Park is the smallest National Park in Tanzania, but with a variety of wildlife for viewing. Hence, you will have a chance to see zebras, wildebeests, bushbucks, dik-diks, and guinea fowls, among other wildlife.
You’ll drive through bush tracks and explore the lake, which is home to a thousand flamingos, and the river’s twists and turns, finding elephants drinking and playing in the refreshing waters. In the late afternoon, you will do an optional short hike down the Great Rift Valley as well as visit the local community. During the hike, you will have a chance to enjoy the sounds of the forest and waterfalls surrounding the trails. You will have a picnic lunch and one more game drive to sunset before you drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal plan: Full Board
Dinner and Overnight: Acacia Farm Lodge
Day 4: Transfer from Karatu to Central Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, you will drive to Serengeti National Park heading in a Northwesterly direction. Head up winding, switch back road and into the Ngorongoro Highlands, and continue to the Serengeti National Park’s endless plains for an afternoon sunset game drive before heading to your overnight camp for dinner and overnight.
Meal plan: Full Board
Dinner and Overnight: Serengeti Sopa Lodge
Day 5: Transfer from central Serengeti to North Serengeti National Park
On this day, you will have full-day game drives to discover Serengeti National Park. This will allow you to see big cats, cheetahs, leopards, and lions. You’ll do a 6 am sunrise game drive to search for early bird grazers, followed by a bush breakfast at 8 am, and then proceed with a game drive to search for more wildlife. At lunchtime, you will have a picnic lunch and relax as you feel the beautiful Serengeti. After lunch, you will proceed with your afternoon game drive through the Mara River areas and later return to the lodge for overnight and dinner.
Meal plan: Full Board
Dinner and Overnight: Chaka tented camp
Day 6: North Serengeti Mara River area
Early breakfast before you drive for a full-day game drive in the Serengeti Park. On this very day, you will try to follow migration groups around the Mara River area. In the evening, drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight. Some of the wildebeests do not cross the river, and you may find them around the Mara River.
Meal plan: Full Board
Dinner and Overnight: Chaka Tented Camp
Day 7: North Serengeti Park to Ngorongoro Crater rim
On this day, you will go for a sunrise game drive and then transfer with an en-route game drive to Ngorongoro Crater rim for dinner and overnight. On your way, you will visit the Retima hippo pool for amazing views of hippos and other wildlife. You will also have the option of passing through the Olduvai Gorge. This area is where many people have made incredible archaeological discoveries. It’s also a beautiful area with lush, grassy land and Tanzanian Acacia trees sweeping majestically across the landscape. You can also opt to visit a Masai village and learn their nomadic culture and enchanting singing and dancing. You should surely try to compete with the Maasai males’ high jumps.
Meal plan: Full Board
Dinner and Overnight: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Day 8: Drive from Ngorongoro Crater to The Airport via Arusha
You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife after an early morning breakfast. The Ngorongoro conservation area supports a wide variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeests, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant elephants due to its year-round water supply.
The Ngorongoro Crater formed as a result of an erupted volcano thousands of years ago, and often people refer to it as the eighth wonder of the world. It is home to over 25,000 large mammals that live in harmony in the huge walled crater, which also houses stunning lakes, lush forests, and vast plains. Due to its size and diversity, the crater floor is comprised of distinct areas, ranging from forest, swamps, lakes, and springs, to open grassland and some sandy dunes. One of the features of the crater is a large but alkaline Lake Magadi, where large quantities of soda ash are extracted in the South Western corner. From here, a large number of flamingos, hippos, and other water birds like geese can be seen.
Meal plan: Full Board
Overnight and Dinner: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Day 9: Arusha to Kilimanjaro Airport(JRO)
Our driver will drop you back at Kilimanjaro airport for your flight back home to end the 9-Day Best of Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration safari.
