8-Day Tanzania Wildebeest Migration Safari with Hadzabe and Natron

• We will pick you up from your accommodation in Arusha and then proceed on a day-long safari to Tarangire National Park. Your knowledgeable guide will prepare a hot lunch amidst the wilderness. Enjoy an afternoon game drive before heading to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. This tranquil park in Northern Tanzania is renowned for its elephant migration, birdlife, and genuine safari ambiance, and it is often overlooked by most travelers on the typical safari route.
• After a whole-day game drive, you will be transferred to Farm of Dream Lodge in the evening for dinner, a warm shower, and an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, you will proceed with a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park. Your guide will prepare a delicious lunch with refreshing beverages.
• In the evening, head to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. Manyara is a birdwatcher's paradise with over 400 species, and you may even spot tree-climbing lions and majestic elephants in the acacia woodland.
• After a whole-day game drive, you will be transferred to Farm of Dream Lodge in the evening for dinner, a warm shower, and an overnight stay.

• After breakfast, you'll depart for Lake Natron, with stops at Engaruka Ruins, lakeside walks, waterfalls, and a village visit. Lunch will be served, followed by an overnight stay at Lengai Safari Lodge. These Tanzanian saline lakes in the Great Rift Valley, known as the East African Halophytics, are harsh for most life due to extreme salinity, heat, and rapid salinity fluctuations after rain. Nonetheless, they host vast flamingo colonies breeding on the surrounding mud flats.

• After breakfast, you will proceed with a full game drive to Serengeti National Park, enjoy a hot lunch in the afternoon, and embark on a Central Serengeti game drive. Check in to Osinon Lodge and Campsite for dinner and an overnight stay. The Serengeti offers captivating game viewing year-round, showcasing buffalo, elephants, giraffes, and diverse wildlife across varied habitats. February witnesses wildebeest calving for about three weeks, when the vulnerable young become prey, although they quickly gain strength and agility.

• After breakfast, embark on a morning game drive in Serengeti Central. Enjoy a hot lunch prepared by your guide amidst the wilderness.
• In the evening, return to Osinon Lodge and Campsite for dinner and your overnight stay. Witness a mesmerizing spectacle as a million wildebeest, guided by ancient instincts, engage in a frenzied three-week cycle of territorial conquest, mating, and survival, crossing crocodile-infested waters in their annual 1,000 km pilgrimage, resulting in a rapid population boom of over 8,000 daily calves.

• After breakfast, you will depart Serengeti for a full-day game drive in Ngorongoro Crater. Your guide will arrange a delightful lunch served at a fully set table.
• Enjoy an afternoon safari before heading to Ang'ata Ngorongoro for dinner and overnight. Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest unflooded caldera, spans 20 km, plunges 600 m deep, and covers 300 sq km.
• Visit Lake Magadi, a shallow alkaline lake in the southwest, home to flamingos, hippos, and diverse waterfowl.

• After breakfast, you'll depart for Lake Eyasi and embark on a bushmen tour. Enjoy a hot lunch during the day. Later, check in to Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. Lake Eyasi is home to small groups of Hadzabe bushmen whose language shares similarities with Kalahari click languages. Their population faced threats, especially during the implementation of Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa policy in Tanzania.

• You will wake up early in the morning and go hunting with the bushmen. Then, you will return to the lodge for breakfast. Afterwards, you will depart and drive back to Arusha, where lunch will be served en route.
• Your trip will come to an end, and you will be transferred to the airport for your departure flight.
• Alternatively, continue to your booked hotel for an overnight stay in Arusha.

End of tour.