TOUR OVERVIEW:
TANZANIA GREAT MIGRATION – NORTHERN SERENGETI to CENTRAL SERENGETI
In this itinerary of 11 Days – the Tanzania Wildebeest Migration will occasionally occurs From July, August to September, at the Mara River in Northern Serengeti affords the most dramatic river crossings. At the extreme northern end of the Serengeti National Park, privileged observers can overlook the climax of the mass migration whilst they enjoy the newly conceded comforts of safari travel in Tanzania. Fierce and deep, cliff-sided and rain-swollen, the river takes an enormous toll of the exhausted and terrified wild cattle that surge through its torrential flow, some drowning helplessly, foundering in narrow defiles, floundering in mud, falling victim to crocodile, staggering, exhausted to dry land and often, in confusion, returning to the same scene of their ordeal allowing the cycle to repeat itself.
On a Serengeti North Mara River Safari with us, you can realize that this is home of wildlife, the ungainly animals demonstrate their strength and courage, each an expendable unit of a single wildebeest herd entity determined to survive. Within a landscape defined by starkly rising hills of the western escarpment beyond the golden plains, the struggle continues as the slightly depleted migration herd staggers onward, still trailed by hundreds of hopeful predators. In this untouched wilderness, there are year-round delights; memorable concentrations of big game, portly hippopotamus and grinning crocodile. It is the season of cheetahs, leopards and lionesses with their young cubs. Numerous small mammals hide in the rive rine woodlands. Climbing hyrax, mongoose and nocturnal bush babies inhabit the fig trees.Greet wildebeest Migration will lead you to remaining unforgettable memories/safari you have never experience.
This safari will merge more than four parks to visit, where you’ll have enough time to explore Tanzania parks as Mount Kilimanjaro National Park, Tarangire National Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Serengeti National Park and finally to Ngorongoro Crater.
Mount Kilimanjaro: Enjoy a half day trekking trip on stunning Kilimanjaro mountain, you need to climb Mount Kilimanjaro but you can’t climb Kilimanjaro in a day, but our day tour to this unique and unforgettable Kilimanjaro trekking trip at a snow-capped mountain will give you an excellent taster of why Africa’s highest peak is so popular in the world.
Tarangire National Park: This unforgettable Tanzania safaris, tours, holidays and travel packages will take you to Tarangire National Park, which features some of the greatest concentration of game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater – but less crowded and unspoiled – possessing a wild and unkempt beauty.This park known as home of bull elephant and other animals as Wildebeest, zebra, common eland, gazelle, buffalo.
Lake Manyara National Park: This safaris or holidays travel tours will also take you to theLake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The size of the park makes it perfect for a one-day game drive and is notably famous for it’s tree-climbing lions and other many animals.
Serengeti National Park: This safaris or holidays travel tours will also take you to the Serengeti National Park, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. From this area you’ll going to spend more than 4 days for the wildebeest Migration.
Ngorongoro Crater: This safaris will also take you to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game and arguably the densest population of predators and carnivores in Africa. Here you’ll witness an amazing spectacle of Tanzania wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals.
DAY 01: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport to Arusha.
Distance: 43 Km
Welcome to Tanzania.On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you’ll meet your safari guide/driver who will transfer you to Arusha city to Green Mountain Hotel for dinner and overnight. You’ll get a chance for safari briefing or introduction before your dinner.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Green Mountain Hotel
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 02: A Day Trip to Mount Kilimanjaro
Distance: 119 Km
Non – game viewing time: 2-3 hrs
After breakfast your safari driver pickup and transfer you from Arusha to Moshi Marangu gate.Your day tour begins at 07:00hrs Drive 3hours to the Marangu Gate, where you’ll register at the gate with the Kilimanjaro National Park authorities, and begin hiking at around 11.00hrs The Marangu Route, which you follow today, approaches Kilimanjaro from the southeast.You’ll be attempting to reach the Mandara Hut and will only trek through the lower altitudes, taking our picnic lunch on the way to the Mandara Hut. Once you reach the hut at 14:00hrs, you’ll stop for a rest for 30 minutes and then descend slowly back to Marangu Gate for 2.5 hours. Your Company Travel vehicle will be waiting to pick you up and return you to your hotel in Arusha, arriving at 20:00hrs, at Green Mountain Hotel for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Green Mountain Hotel
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 03: Arusha to Tarangire National Park.
Distance:130Km
Non – game viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs
After breakfast the tour departs. First stop is Arusha Town for any last minute purchases before you head off on safari. Afterwards you head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the center of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebras. In Tarangire National Park northern Tanzania’s you will enjoy finest birding. The low baobab-clad plains and fever-tree groves here support many cool species including three Tanzanian endemics and near-endemics: Over 550 birds species found in the park including Ashy Starling, Yellow-collared Lovebird, and Rufous-tailed Weaver. The lush grasses are full of ground birds like Northern White-bellied Bustard and both Red-necked and Yellow-necked Francolins and many others. Later afternoon you’ll drive to Karatu to Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 04: Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park.
Distance: 50 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hrs
After tasty breakfast from your hotel the tour will departs to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara National Park offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats. Acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps and the lake itself. And thanks to this the small Park is able to support a large number of animal species and incredible bird life. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world, also include Buffalo, Elephant Wildebeest, Zebra, Waterbuck, Warthog, Impala and also Manyara health population lion are famous for their tree-climbing antics. Later afternoon you’ll drive to Karatu to Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 05: Lake Manyara to Northern Serengeti.
Distance:265Km
Non – game viewing time: 5 – 6 hr
After breakfast from the Lodge with your picnic lunch box, the tour will depart to the Northern Serengeti for a game drive in Northern Mara, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, you descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. Serengeti, among other incredible wildlife and stunning views is famed for the annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundred thousands of zebras, a frenzied bout of territorial conquests and mating happening from July-October. Witness an actual survival of the fittest as these animals plunge through crocodile-infested waters. The wildebeest produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again. Early evening drive to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 06: Full Day Northern Serengeti (Koga Tende).
After breakfast, the tour departs for Serengeti North for a full day game drive viewing the great migration. River crossings at Koga tende starts in August as the mega herd settles into the area. Between August – October, of course during these months the Great Migration remains the real focus, game viewing is at its best with river crossings pretty much guaranteed every day. There is no distinct movement as the herds tend to cross back and forth over the river, following the rains and subsequent fresh grasses. Early evening drive back to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English guide
DAY 07: Full Day Serengeti North (Koga Tende).
After breakfast, you’ll proceed for a full day game drive viewing the great migration at Mara area. Resident wildlife numbers are exceptionally high in the Wagakuria area. The key feature is the Mara River and there is a great chance to see the herds cross the Mara River to the north on one day and back south a few days later. Please note that it sometimes happening to witness river crossing as a sometimes a matter of luck. A herd can be seen next to river and only decide to cross a couple of days later. This area is a stunning region with kopjes, woodland, river rine vegetation and open plains, similar to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve. Early evening drive back to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 08: Northern Serengeti to Central Serengeti.
Distance:112Km
Non – game viewing time: 2 hrs
After breakfast at the lodge, you’ll drive to Central Serengeti, Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park and a world heritage site. The Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers an amazing game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle. Early evening drive back to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 09: Full Day Central Serengeti.
After breakfast, you’ll have a full day game drive in Central Serengeti. Apart from the large mammals, Serengeti is also home to gaudy agama lizards; Rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite koppies. Wide varieties of dung beetle were found, and around 500 bird species have been recorded ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills. Early evening drive back to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
Note: If you have booked the Balloon Safari for today, you’ll 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 $545 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 central Serengeti game drive.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 10: Central Serengeti to Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Distance: 145 Km
Non – game viewing time: 3-4 hrs
After breakfast you’ll have morning game drive in the Serengeti National Park. In the Seronera Valley you might be lucky to see predators hunt as animals gather at the waters during the dry season. After lunch at a picnic spot you’ll slowly drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro Crater. As soon as you have reached the crater you will have a superb view of the caldera. This approximate 20 km wide crater is part of an UNESCO World Heritage Site and is home to over 20,000 animals. You’ll stay at Ngorongoro Tortilis Lodge for Dinner and Overnight on the crater rim from where you will be able to enjoy an incredible sunset.
COMPANY OFFER:
If you’re interested the company will offer you for free visiting designated Maasai Cultural Bomas one on the road from Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater, to learn more about their unique culture, to take photographs, and to buy mementos if you like them.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Tortilis Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 11: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.
Distance: 190 Km
Non – game viewing time: 3-4 hrs
In the morning let the sounds of birds and wildlife awake you in the distance. After a warm scrumptious breakfast, hop in your jeep and begin the descent into the “world’s largest Caldera”. One of the best places on this Tanzania Northern Circuit Safari to spot the Famous Big Five – elephants, leopards, lions, buffalo and black rhinoceros. You’ll descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife for a half day’s safari tour. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. You’ll visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater; you’ll have your picnic lunch in the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Late afternoon drive from Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha City to your hotel or Airport drop off.
Departure Instructions:
This Tour ends at Kilimanjaro International Airport at 17:30hrs, you can only depart on this day if you have booked a Domestic flight which departs from Kilimanjaro International Airport at 19:40hrs and onwards or an International Flight which departs at 21:00hrs and onwards. Otherwise, you’ll need to book a post night Accommodation if you are departing with any earlier flight.
Tour Includes:
Mupana Tours Trip Safety: AMREF Flying Doctor Insurance
Mupana Tours – Transport: 4X4 Custom built – Toyota Landcruiser
• Pop-up Roof, Opening Sliding windows, Seat Belts, Heavy duty wheels, and Extra Fuel tanks
• Refrigerator for cooling drinks, one pair of binoculars per couple, Eco friendly Trash Bag,
• Wi-Fi on board during safari, Charging Outlets type Plug G for charging Cameras and smart phones
Mupana Tours – Trip Crew: Professional English-Speaking Driver guide
A Friendly, Experienced and Passionate Driver Guide expert at a wide variety of skills: Flora and Fauna, Tanzania’s cultural and natural history
Mupana Tours Treat – A Special Safari Hamper
• Soft drinks and Water during game drives
• A bottle of Wine
Arrival and Departure Transfer: TO/FROM Kilimanjaro International or Arusha Airport
One arrival Transfer
One departure Transfer
Accommodation: 2 night in Arusha, 9 nights on Safari
1st night
Green Mountain Hotel on Half Board (Dinner&Breakfast)
2nd night
Green Mountain Hotel on Full Board (Breakfast– Packed Lunch&Dinner)
Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge on Full Board (Lunch, Dinner, Breakfast, Packed Lunch)3rd night& 4th night
Mbugani Tented Lodge Full Board (Dinner, Breakfast, Packed Lunch)5th -6th -7th – 8th & 9th nights
10th night
Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp on Full Board (Dinner, Breakfast, Packed Lunch)
Park Entrance Fees:
Mount Kilimanjaro – Tarangire National Park –Lake Manyara National Park – Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Crater.
Tipping:
Tipping is of course discretionary, but is an expected part of the way in which business is done in Tanzania. It counts as an expression of gratitude to those who – hopefully – have made your experience an unforgettable one and enables you to directly reward those people.
Our passengers come from all around the world, with different cultural attitudes to tipping, but a tip is of great significance here in Tanzania and will be hugely appreciated by the recipient. We know that the act of giving of a tip can be a bit awkward and we would suggest that the best way to remove this ‘awkwardness’ is for each couple to put their tip anonymously into an envelope and for the envelopes to be presented by the couple to the staff member.
Balloon Safari:
Experience 60 – 90 minute (depending on wind condition) aerial adventure, followed by bush breakfast and champagne.($545)
Any Changes done by you:
The trip excludes changes done by you during safari or before safari which deviates from the original program
Post Night Accommodation in Arusha:
This Tour ends at Kilimanjaro International Airport at 17:30hrs, you can only depart on this day if you have booked a Domestic flight which departs from Kilimanjaro International Airport at 19:40hrs and onwards or an International Flight which departs at 21:00hrs and onwards. Otherwise, you will need to book a post night Accommodation if you are departing with any earlier flight.Find below cost of post night Accommodation at African Tulip Hotel on Bed and Breakfast in Arusha
International & Domestic flights:
The trip costs Excludes flights from your home town to Tanzania and from Tanzania back to your hometown
and within Tanzania region.
Visa:
The trip costs Excludes all visa costs including arrival visas and transit visas
Laundry Service:
If you require to launder your clothes while on your safari, then you will need to pay an amount that the accommodation charges as per their rate sheet.
Drinks at the lodges/camps:
All kinds of soft drinks and hard drinks at the lodges/camps are not included
Drones:
The government of Tanzania does not allow anyone to bring Drone in the Country.
Group Tour:
14 pax: USD $3600 / Person.
Duration: 11days
Accommodation: Tented Lodge