6-Day Tanzania Safari to Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

On the first day of your wildebeest migration safari in Tanzania, you will be picked up in Arusha town and drive to Lake Manyara for game drives. Lake Manyara is a pleasant little park with lavish greenery practically throughout the year and a variety of wildlife across the park.

Among the animals found here are elephant herds, zebras, giraffes, dik-diks, and hippos by the lake, along with more than 400 bird species recorded in the park. You will have a picnic lunch and continue with game drives until later in the early evening, when you will head to the Karatu region for an overnight stay at Country Lodge or Olea Africana Lodge. Lunch box and dinner included.

After an early breakfast, drive across the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and enter Serengeti National Park through Naabi Hill Gate. Continue with game drives across the endless plains of the Serengeti until late in the early evening, when you retire to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay at Serengeti Mara Heritage Camp. All meals included.

This day will be spent on game drives in the Northern Serengeti regions, including the Lobo, Bologonja, and Kogatende areas. You will also visit the Mara River banks on the Tanzanian side to try to witness the river crossing of the wildebeest migration herds, joined by zebras and gazelles.

During this time, numerous predators and big cats follow the herds into this area, so there is a good chance of seeing spectacular wildlife behaviour such as hunting. Overnight stay will be at Serengeti Mara Heritage Camp. All meals included.

We will continue with the activities stated the day before.

After breakfast in the morning, we drive back slowly through Central Serengeti with a game drive until Naabi Hill Gate, where we exit Serengeti National Park. We then continue to the Ngorongoro Crater Rim.

You will have the opportunity to visit Olduvai Gorge or a Maasai Village at an additional cost if you wish. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Rhino Lodge. All meals included.

Early in the morning, we drive down the Ngorongoro Crater walls to the crater floor, where we will spend the better part of the day on game drives in this eighth wonder of the world, also referred to as the Eden of Africa.

Here, we may be able to spot animals that we might have missed in Serengeti and Lake Manyara, and with a bit of luck, you can see the Big Five - elephants, lions, leopards, buffaloes, and rhinos - in a single day's game drive. Later in the early evening, we will drive back to Arusha town, where your safari ends. Breakfast and dinner are included.