AFRICA PHOTO TRAVEL

MARA RIVER THE GREAT MIGRATION SAFARI 6DAYS

OVERVIEW

  • DURATION; 6 Days
  • STARTING/ENDING: KILIMANJARO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
  • DESTINATIONS: ARUSHA, MANYARA NATIONAL PARK, NGORONGORO CRATER, SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK.

ITINERARY

Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, you will be met by your driver Guide and transferred to Arusha for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast drive to Lake Manyara National Park for Game drive with the picnic lunch. Located in the northern part of Tanzania, Lake Manyara National Park is 126 kilometers west of Arusha Town. The park is sized 330 square kilometers of which 220 sq kilometers form a lake when the water levels become high in the rainy season. Set under the magnificent of the Great Rift Valley’s steep western escarpment is a long narrow park that keeps the area between the escarpment and Lake Manyara safe. The shallow lake Manyara is an alkaline lake which expands and contracts according to the seasons within a long silvery bowl of salt deposits. Within the vicinity of the lake are wide grassy flood plains and further as you move away, are bands of mixed acacia woodlands. Leaving that aside, patches of captivating evergreen forests, that are kept going by perennial ground water springs from the base of the escarpment are next to the escarpment. Lake National Manyara Park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, which tend to sprawl out along the branches of Acacia trees most of the day. It is also sanctuary to buffalo and hippo, giraffe, impala, zebra, elephants, blue monkeys and vervets, aardvark, civet, bushbuck, waterbuck, baboons, leopard and the shy pangolin. It is also teeming with birdlife, including huge flocks of flamingoes. Lunch break, Afternoon game drive, and in the late afternoon proceed to the Lodge for dinner and overnight

After breakfast drive to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive with picnic lunch. It shelters close to 30.000 animals including the Big Five. The crater teems with zebras, buffaloes, lions, wildebeest, warthogs, baboons, elephants, flamingos, ostriches, hippos, cheetahs and a small population of the rare black rhino. The beautiful colours and dancing clouds make the crater almost surreal. Because of its natural beauty the Ngorongoro Crater is chosen as one of Africa’s Seven Natural Wonders. Picnic lunch and drive to Serengeti National Park with en route game drive. Dinner and  overnight at Lodge.

After breakfast, depart for game drive in Serengeti central (seronera) with the picnic lunch. The Serengeti name derives from the Maasai phrase “siringet” which translates to “endless plains”. The park Located in the northern Tanzania and is truly vast, covering an area of about 5,700 square miles (14,763 sq km). The annual movement of wildebeest and other grazing herbivores across the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is one of the greatest spectacles in the natural world. Originating on Serengeti short grass plains of the southeastern Serengeti, the dwindling of the available grass is the impetus for this primal trek. The horizon fills with more than 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra and 500,000 Thompson’s gazelle, relentlessly tracked by Africa’s great predators. In essence, the wildebeest are taking advantage of the strongly seasonal conditions, spending the wet season on the southeastern plains of the Serengeti, and the dry season in the woodlands of northern Serengeti. The Wildebeest give birth between January and March on the short grass plains. The migration is rarely ever the same in terms of precise timing and direction, as local conditions influence grass growth. The Wildebeest may therefore move off the open plains earlier in some years and remain in the northern woodlands for longer in others. The Park is known for its great abundance of larger World Predators population such as Lions (More than 3,000) and Hyena (more than 7,500). After lunch drive to Serengeti North for Dinner and overnight at Lodge.

After breakfast, drive around the Kogatende area, July – October: This is when the wildebeest are in the northern Serengeti plains, and you have a chance of seeing up to thousands crossing the great Mara River. As the sight of the wildebeest crossing the so dramatic, it is considered by many the most desirable time to see the migration. Dinner and overnight at lodge.

After breakfast drive, to Kogatende Airstrip where you will have your flight to Arusha. Arrive for lunch afterward you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight back home or for your next destination.

ENQUIRY FORM

24 hrs Support