8-Day Northern Serengeti Migration Safari with Mara River Crossing

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Day 01

Arusha – Tarangire – Manyara/Karatu

• Early in the morning, you will leave Arusha town and drive to Tarangire national park. After reaching, a driver will take care of the paperwork at the park gate then you will go on your first game drive at Tarangire national park. 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.

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Day 02

Lake Eyasi Tour – Back Manyara

• Lake Eyasi is a seasonal shallow endorheic Salt Lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau, just south of the Serengeti National Park and immediately southwest of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands of Tanzania. The lake is elongated, orientated southwest to northeast, and lies in the Eyasi- Wembere branch of the Great Rift Valley wall. In the afternoon, you will be introduced to extraordinary people from an indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’tribe and Datonga tribes. You will visit the tribes and learn about the way of tracking animals and medicine plants. In this area, it is easy to find and see wild animals, and a wide range of bird species can be viewed. In the late afternoon, you will drive back to Manyara/ Karatu.

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Day 03

Manyara/Karatu – Serengeti

• After breakfast, we proceed across the Great Rift Valley’s floor, up the escarpment, and traverse the Ngorongoro Conservation area in what will ultimately be the pleasant, beautiful scenery of the Serengeti National Park. Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We’ll proceed to the Lobo area, located just north of the Seronera area (central Serengeti National Park). The wildebeest migration normally passes through the Lobo area every year around July / August on route to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve and again in the late October / November route to the southern Serengeti National Park. After visitors enjoy a game drive, they will stay at Serengeti National Park.

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Day 04

Serengeti (Seronera Area)

• Early in the morning, after breakfast, a visitor should enjoy a game drive in the park at Serengeti national park; you will continue the descent to reach the Seronera area with a good view of wild animals. Non-migration animals like elephants, buffalo, gazelle, zebra, lions, leopards, and cheetahs can normally see here because it’s where wild animals pass to reach Serengeti National Park.

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Day 05

Serengeti (Central) – Northern Serengeti (Kogatende Area)

• 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. 

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Day 06

Serengeti (Central) – Northern Serengeti (Kogatende Area)

• After breakfast, a visitor enjoys a game drive to the kogatende area, resident much numbers of 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.

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Day 07

Days 7: Serengeti (Central) – Ngorongoro

• 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 in 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.

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Day 08

Days 8: Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha

• 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 animals. After a short period, you will drive back to Moshi/ Arusha.