Migration Safari 8 Days

<p>Our Driver Guide will pick you at the airport transfer to Arusha. Depending on your arrival time, you can decide to refresh and take your time by the pool after the long journey before meeting for briefing this evening.</p><p>Overnight at a standard hotel in Arusha. Half Board (bed and Breakfast) included.</p>

<p>After breakfast our guide will pick you from your accommodation in Arusha and transfer to Arusha Airport for your flight to Kogatende Airstrip. Approximately the flight to Kogatende takes 3 hours. </p><p>On Arrival in Northern Serengeti our guide will meet you and transfer to the accommodation in time for lunch. After the meal, head out for your first game drive in Northern Serengeti. Normally in between July, August and November months there astonish numbers of wildebeest and other animals at the banks of Mara River. Overnight in a luxury tented camp in Northern Serengeti. Full Board meals included.</p>

<p>As you awake for a second day in Northern Serengeti, you can contemplate that parts of this northern area can easily match the Southern Serengeti for the abundance of wildlife viewing, especially between July and September.</p><p>After your breakfast, you will embark with your driver-guide on a full-day game drive, looking out for elephant and buffalo, eland and gazelle. Maybe you’ll be lucky enough to spot something really special: perhaps a cheetah, or even a rare black rhino, of which a small population are resident here. Of course, during these months the Great Migration remains the real focus, with the mighty Mara River proving the obstacle for wildebeest as they seek to cross to and from the Maasai Mara in neighboring Kenya.</p><p>Overnight in a luxury tented camp in Northern Serengeti. Full Board meals included.</p>

<p>Before leaving the northern part of amazing Serengeti, we take the opportunity this morning to spend more time observing this wonder of the natural world. As well as the huge herds, other animals in the Serengeti include giraffe, gazelle, impala, hartebeest and waterbuck – your driver-guide will be on the lookout for these, as well as some of over 500 species of birdlife that have been spotted here, and will be able to tell you all about them.</p><p>In the afternoon, we return to the central part of Serengeti, where you will be taken to your accommodation for relaxation and your evening meal.</p>

<p>Waking up in the Serengeti is something really special. Sights, sounds and smells of Africa are all around us, and ahead is a full day of adventure in the world’s most famous national park. After breakfast, we start today with the morning section of our game drive in Serengeti National Park as we head to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Overnight in Ngorongoro Conservation Area</p><p>Not: For those who have booked the Balloon Safari for today, you will be picked up from the camp at 05.00 hours for a 06.00 hours departure. If you wish to book balloon safari, please let us know in advance, The price is $540 per person. After your 60 – 90 minute (depending on wind condition) aerial adventure, experience bush breakfast and champagne, thereafter your driver guide will pick you up for your full-day game drive.</p>

<p>This morning we will have a very early start to make our way to the crater where we will we descend from the upper rim, driving down a steep track that drops a staggering 600m to the grassy plain, lake and marshes of the basin floor below. The crater provides a unique wildlife spotting experience and is home to the Big Five. Among the animals to watch out for are elephant, lion, cheetah, buffalo and rhino. The perennial marshes teem with birdlife.</p><p>The crater itself, technically classed as a caldera, owes its existence to the violent fracturing of the Rift Valley over a period of some 15 million years ago. At one time a volcano occupied this spot that then became extinct and collapsed into the empty magma chamber beneath it leaving only the gigantic natural basin which is now considered a veritable 'Garden of Eden'. Picnic lunch will be served at the crater</p><p>In the evening relax at the pool spend the rest of the day at leisure in a standard hotel accommodation in Ngorongoro.</p>

<p>Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This less visited lake lies at the base of the Eyasi escarpment on the western rift valley wall. This afternoon you will be introduced to the extraordinary people who belong to an indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’ (hunter-gatherer Bushmen). The tribe inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe. You will visit these tribes, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more. Some wildlife and a wide range of bird species can be viewed during walks around the lake, which can be arranged.</p><p>In the afternoon transfer to Arusha. Overnight at a standard hotel in Arusha -Half Board (bed and Breakfast) included.</p>

<p>Our Tour ends today. Our guide will transfer you to Kilimanjaro International Airport/ Extend your safari with Zanzibar holiday.</p>