7-Day Northern Serengeti Migration Safari with Mara River Crossing

• The Tarangire national park has the highest surrounding of wild animals like elephants and large baobab trees that dot the grassland in North Tanzania, and you can view these animals all year round in which the herds often can reach an impressive number of 300 animals. Between July and October, many animals from the surrounding areas come to the Tarangire River for drinking. Visit the park during the dry season. You will witness an unforgettable natural wonder as you can observe wonderful creatures such as lions, giraffes, buffaloes, wildebeests, and zebras, as well as various types of antelopes and gazelles and, with little luck, you can also spot a python! This area is, during the dry season, also a haven for bird watchers with over 550 species, including the Masai Ostrich -the world’s largest bird. Around lunchtime, you will stop at a suitable picnic place before the afternoon is dedicated to more wildlife watching. Before sunset, you will be taken to your Camp or Lodge in Manyara (Mto wa Mbu) overnight.

• After breakfast, we proceed with a game drive toward Serengeti national parks opposite the farmland of Karatu and Ngorongoro conservation area. This part is famous for the abundance of lions and leopards that can usually be seen quite easily. A visitor heading toward the central Serengeti Park area known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti's species. We continue with a game viewing in the central area and enjoy the views of endless plains and stunning wildlife like cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, hippos, ostrich, jackals, hyenas, and hyrax. We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park.

• After breakfast, we head toward the northern Serengeti national park, the Wagakuria area. We do the game drive route from the Lobo area to the Wagakuria area. As we head north, a visitor can sight and see a lot of wild animals at Serengeti, like giraffes, plain game, herds of buffalo, and elephants. In mid of July to October, a movement of animals passing through the mara river herd of wildebeest gazelle and zebra begin their spectacular annual migration northwards. In their wake, follow predators, lions, cheetahs, and wild dogs with vultures circling. We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge, and after lunch, we will enjoy an afternoon game drive in the area. The wildebeest migration can normally be found in the Wagakuria area from Mid-July to October, depending on rainfall patterns. A long stretch of the Mara River runs through the northern Serengeti National Park. 

• After breakfast, a visitor enjoys a game drive to the Kogatende area, and much wildlife is found there. This camp is used for the Serengeti Mobile Green Camp from July till the end of November when the migration is in the Northern Serengeti and hopefully crossing the Mara River. The camp is approximately 20 minutes from the Mara River and set up on a ridge under large evergreen trees overlooking a large part of the Northern Serengeti wilderness zone, where a large group of wildebeest crosses the river and can enjoy wild animals in peace. A visitor can also use Hot Air Balloon to enjoy wild animals in this area.

• We proceed in the morning and afternoon with a game drive in central Serengeti with lunch. After enjoying a driving game in Serengeti, a visitor can take hours a break at the lodge in the mid-afternoon. Central Serengeti means endless plain in the Masai language and is surrounded by leopards, lions, hyenas, and cheetahs.
• This park is normally the scene of the annual wildebeest and zebra migration between the Kenya mara and Serengeti it includes a variety of bird species like eagles, ducks, geese, egrets, vultures, secretary birds, ibis, stork, herons, pelicans, cranes, and guinea fowl. The Serengeti National Park is arguably the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, with over 3 million large mammals. About 35 species of plains animals can be seen there, including the “big 5”, Elephant, Rhino, Lion, Leopard, and Buffalo. Other common species found here include hippo, giraffe, eland, impala and other antelope types, baboons, monkeys, and a profusion of over 500 species of birds. 
• After having your lunch, you will proceed with the game drive to view and see wild animals located in Serengeti. After that, you will transfer to the gate of Serengeti to check out of Serengeti national park. Then you will proceed with the game on the route to Ngorongoro Crater. Dinner and overnight at a Camp or Lodge at the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater.

After breakfast, we descend into the crater and enjoy the game drive by looking at wild animals for over 7 hours. Here you will explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, where we may see flamingo wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, lion, and elephants. Visitors should enjoy the game drive at Ngorongoro Crater and see a wild animal. After a short period, you will drive back to Manyara for overnight.

• We continue with a game drive to Lake Manyara national park Visitors should enjoy a national park. This park is smaller but offers many wild animals, which can attract customers; the wild Animals are found in Manyara, like elephants, hippos, giraffes, buffaloes, and antelopes. Lake Manyara national park is a small park at the base of the Rift Valley escarpment. Its groundwater forest offers a nice change of scenery from the more savannah-dominated parks. Although the park is known for tree-climbing lions, big cats aren't that easily seen. Elephants are prolific and are the main attraction. After the full-game drive, we head back to Arusha or Moshi.