7 Day: The Great Wildebeest Migration Tour in Tanzania, Africa

Wildebeest Migration Overview

This 7 Day Serengeti Wildebeest Migration Tour is where you can combine with a cultural experience program in Tanzania. The most popular and largest world mammal migration is available in no other places in the world other than Northern Tanzania!

Day 1: Transfer to Arusha (JRO).

You will be transferred to Arusha (Hotel in Arusha) by our safari guide. You will also get a short safari briefing at the Hotel and leaving you to relax and have dinner.

Day 2: Tarangire National Park.

After breakfast, we will leave early to the Tarangire National park. This is the third largest park in Tanzania and it is characterized by amazingly large herds of elephants.

Also, the park is popular with its Baobab trees and the Tarangire River that flow all year round. Many animals; predators and the preys alike gather around the river where you can do excellent game viewing. Overnight is at Lake Manyara Wildlife lodge for dinner.

Day 3: Travel to Serengeti via Olduvai Gorge

After breakfast, we will leave for Serengeti via Olduvai Gorge, the site of the Leakey family discovery of fossils 50 km long and in some places 90 meters deep. It drains the slopes of the nearby mountains plus of human and animal ancestors dating back to almost two million years.

Olduvai Gorge is a canyon carved by water through the southern part of the Serengeti Plain. The gorge is about the Serengeti Plain. Its chief claim to fame is the rich treasure-trove of human and animal fossils that it has yielded. Meals and overnight at Serengeti wildlife lodge or Ikoma tented camp.

Day 4: Full day game drive in Serengeti

After breakfast, we will take your packed lunch for a full-day game drive in the wilderness of Serengeti tracking for the Great migration trails. A thorough explanation including the migration calendar will be provided to you.

And in the evening we will drive back to the Serengeti wildlife lodge or Ikoma tented camp for dinner and overnight

Day 5: Travel to Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, we will take your packed lunch for a game drive in Serengeti. And in the afternoon we will depart to Ngorongoro where we will have meals and overnight stay at Rhino lodge or Ngorongoro wildlife lodge.

Day 6: Full day game drive in Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, we will do our game drive (with a picnic lunch) inside the Ngorongoro Crater. Very few animals migrate in and out of the crater with its 2000 ft.

high walls, therefore expect to see all BIG FIVE (lions, elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, and Leopards) in one place, other animals are zebras, flamingos, jackals, antelopes, baboons and monkeys, wildebeests, many birds and other species approximately 25,000 large animals are in Ngorongoro crater.

The guide will be in contact with other safari drivers and will amaze you with his skill in locating hidden animals. After great exploration in the crater, we will drive back to the lodge. For overnight and dinner at your lodge.

Day 7: Lake Manyara

We depart for Lake Manyara National Park early in the morning. Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of the park. At the backdrop is the wall of the Great Rift Valley, before which lies the groundwater forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the Soda Lake.

We enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise that has more than 350 species of bird.

The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions. After great exploration in the Lake Manyara national park, we will drive back to Arusha overnight. At the impala hotel in Arusha or drive to Kilimanjaro airport for your flight.

Key Information

Highlights

Skill Level

Physical Distancing

Safety Features

Include

Transportation in tourist 4 x 4-wheel drive Tanzania safari vehicles with VHF Radio communication and pop-up roof for easy viewing and photographing,

Excluded

Arrival By Airplane