8-Day Serengeti Safari from Arusha with Migration Tracking

• You'll be picked up from the airport or Arusha and depart for Tarangire National Park.
• You'll enjoy a full-day game drive in Tarangire. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient baobab trees, the giant trees of Africa, dot the landscape and dwarf the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, which meanders through the park, attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, and antelopes to various colourful birds. The park is famous for having the largest elephant population in Tanzania. During a safari here, you will have the chance to observe many families of elephants interacting quietly.
• With a stop for a picnic lunch at an observatory inside the park, you will be able to view animals drinking water in the river, and at times even lions attacking a thirsty zebra or wildebeest.
• Continue game viewing and finally return to the campsite for dinner. There is a possibility for a night game drive in Tarangire.

• Depart after breakfast and drive across the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. Although only 205 sq miles in size, this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and its incredibly lush acacia forest of giant figs and mahogany trees, home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to many buffalos, giraffes, elephants, and impalas. There is a Hippo Lake, where large numbers of hippos usually gather. This park has become famous for its climbing lions and the flamingos on the lakeshore. The landscapes here are stunning and very different from the Serengeti, for example. The game drives are done along the shore of the lake, providing incredible views of giraffes and buffalos in the foreground, with the lake, flamingos, and flat plains on the horizon. You'll have great photo opportunities.
• In the afternoon, return to camp for dinner.

• Today, you're off to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration.
• Your drive today is spectacular as you travel up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a bird's-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater.
• Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you as far as the eye can see is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti means "endless plains" in Kiswahili. This 6,900 sq mile (18,000 sq km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals, including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson's gazelles. Large predators, including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey that migrates throughout the park.
• On the way into the Serengeti, you have the option to stop at the famous Oldupai Gorge, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made their discovery of the first man who walked the earth.

• After breakfast, have a full day in Serengeti National Park with morning and afternoon game drives. Serengeti means "endless plains" in Kiswahili. This 6,900 sq mile (18,000 sq km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals, including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson's gazelles. Large predators, including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey that migrates throughout the park.

Extra tour recommended: the wonderful balloon flight over the Serengeti plains.

• On day 5 and day 6, you will be driven across the vast plains of the Serengeti in search of the migration. The migration's location depends on the time of year and could be as far as the remote north of the Serengeti near the border with Kenya, or it could be in the south, in the Ndutu Area.

• On these two days, you will be driven across the vast plains of the Serengeti in search of the migration. The location of the migration depends on the time of year and could be as far as the remote north of the Serengeti near the border with Kenya, or it could be in the south, in the Ndutu Area.

• Today, you will wake up very early for an early morning safari before breakfast to spot the animals when they are more active and to enjoy a fantastic sunrise.
• After the game drive, return to the camp for brunch. This is followed by a transfer to Ngorongoro, the 8th Natural Wonder of the World. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads across 102 sq miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark. Almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa inhabits it, including the rare black rhino. The crater has the greatest concentration of wildlife on the planet. The giant bull elephants that reside here have enormous tusks due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are among the most incredible elephants you'll ever see in your life.
• Arrival in Ngorongoro will be in the afternoon. There is a possibility for an afternoon walking safari in the Ngorongoro Highlands.

• Very early in the morning, descend to the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most incredible places on earth.
• After a stop for a picnic lunch near the Hippo Lake and more wildlife viewing in the afternoon, drive up the steep road out of the crater and return to Arusha.