Wildebeest migration safari in Tanzania
| country: | Tanzania |
| location: | Serengeti National Park |
| departures: | This trip can be tailormade at a time to suit you as we follow the migration and can be adapted to suit your interests, budget and requirements as necessary |
| price: | From £2850 (8 days) excluding flights |
the amazing things you'll be doing
A fantastic wildlife safari to track the wildebeest migration through the dusty plains of the Serengeti; staying at luxury mobile camps throughout including Nomads Serengeti Safari Camp and Ngorongoro Crater Lodge. Tanzania is home to some of the most breathtaking wildlife viewing and tracking in Africa if not the world. A Serengeti wildlife safari or exploration of the Ngorongoro Crater offer the wildlife enthusiast an up close and personal wildlife experience with the chance of seeing the Big Five in their natural environment.
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Upon your arrival in the Serengeti you will be met by your driver/guide and transferred to your base camp for the next few days, the Serengeti Safari Camp. This semi-nomadic camp shadows the migration in the Serengeti National Park, following the herds and allowing you to get close and witness some the highest animal densities in the natural world along with the Serengeti’s famed large predators. Overnight: Nomads Serengeti Safari Camp - this small and delightful classic tented safari camp offers a true bush experience, with a good dollop of luxury and comfort. The tents are comfortable, light and simple, but equipped with everything you might need. The bathrooms are en-suite, with traditional safari style bucket showers, short drop toilets, and hot and cold water on demand. There is also a brand new library and lounge tent, as well as a new dining tent. (B/L/D) |
| Day 2-3: | The beauty of a staying at the Serengeti Safari camp is that each couple, or group of guests has total flexibility to plan their daily activities according to their own interests. So you can head out from dawn till dusk on your own adventures to witness and savour the sights, sounds and grand spectacle of daily life in the Serengeti. The Serengeti Safari camp does change location regularly to position itself in the likely path of the migration but don’t worry it won’t move whilst you are there! Overnight: Serengeti Safari Camp (B/L/D) |
| Day 4: | Today with pack lunch in hand you will drive through the Serengeti, leaving the National Park behind and heading for the Lioniondo area, part of the much larger Serengeti eco-system. This region is part of Maasai community owned land, which offers a great mix of resident game, and is excellent walking country with dramatic scenery of open plains, rock kopjes and woodlands. Your base for the next couple of nights is the creatively styled Nduara Loliondo camp which moves between north and south Loliondo giving you a taste of the best of what this area has to offer. Overnight: Nduarar Loliondo - this small “yurt” camp was designed to celebrate the great nomadic cultures; inspired by the Mongolian gers or yerts and the Maasai bomas. The camp consists of six large yurts, with a dining yurt and separate lounge/library yurt. Each accommodation yurt has it’s own en-suite bathroom - attached to the back of the main sleeping area - with traditional safari bucket showers and new compost style toilet system. The yurts have been designed to be as cool as possible during the day, and have wrap-around shade net windows with flaps that can be rolled up or down. (B/L/D) |
| Day 5: | Again, given the flexibility to plan your activities for the day, Nduara Loliondo is the perfect place to explore this area run in partnership with the local Maasai village communities. Apart from private game drives the emphasis is very much on walking safaris with Maasai guides and exclusive night game drives, neither of which are possible in the Serengeti itself. In addition you can enjoy cultural visits with the Maasai. Overnight: Nduarar Loliondo (B/L/D) |
| Day 6: | Leaving the Serengeti plains behind today you climb in to the Ngorongoro Highlands, which includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact volcanic caldera in the world. Enjoying a game drive on the way you will be transported from the heat of the plains to the cooler climes of the crater rim, where you can marvel at this natural wonder enjoying spectacular views across the crater and gazing at the ant-like wildlife that teems on the crater floor. For the next couple of nights your home will be the sumptuous Ngorongoro Cater Lodge, perched high on the Ngorongoro Cater rim. Overnight: Ngorongoro Cater Lodge - from the outside, this unobtrusive lodge resembles a magical Maasai village, set in classic crescents, each stone and thatch suite has spectacular views of the crater from large glass windows in the bathroom, lounge and bedroom, yet is almost invisible from the crater floor. The luxurious colonial-style interiors combines antiques, plump cushions, voluptuous raw silk curtains and tall, leather-backed chairs s all under banana-leaf ceilings and grass roofs. This opulent design blends with African art elements in unexpected harmony, to create truly memorable stay which is only surpassed by the grandeur of the view. (B/L/D) |
| Day 7: | We suggest an early morning start is definitely the order of the day, to head down on to the Ngorongoro Crater floor to experience this wildlife spectacular, with the world’s densest population if lions and spotted hyena. The crater is one of the few places in Tanzania where you can reliable see black rhino and many old tuskers, who come to spend their retirement peacefully feeding in the Gorigor swamp. Enjoy a picnic lunch at Ngoitokitok Springs, where hippos wallow and Balck Kites might nab your lunch (beware!), before heading back to the Ngorongoro Crater Lodge to enjoy a relaxing flower petal-strewn bath! Overnight: Ngorongoro Cater Lodge (B/L/D) |
| Day 8: | You have another opportunity to explore the crater this morning before being transferred to the Manyara airstrip to catch your afternoon flight to Arusha. Alternatively why not combine this migration safari with tracking the mountain gorillas of Rwanda or the pristine beaches of Zanzibar... (B/L) |
tailor made holiday
This trip can be tailormade to create a unique holiday for your individual requirements by travel experts with intimate knowledge of the destination. It is a more luxurious trip that will suit those who enjoy immersing themselves in new cultures and environments before relaxing in comfort in some of the best and most characterful local accommodation! Quality and value are the hallmark of these trips.how this holiday makes a difference
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All of our trips are conducted by local guides and drivers who specialise in this region of Africa. Through the employment of local staff, money is fed directly back into individual families and villages that would otherwise not benefit from tourism. Throughout this safari clients stay at low impact luxury camps throughout the Serengeti. These are often mobile tented camps which follow the wildlife thus also maximising your wildlife viewing. Otherwise you are staying in the Ngrongoro Crater Lodge which belongs to Conservation Corporation Africa a conservation orientated organisation. Short drop loos and bush showers are employed throughout in order to minimise our impact on the environment. As these are camps only it does also result in better game viewing opportunities.
As this is a private safari the result is better wildlife viewing and less impact on the surrounding environment. We also donate a percentage of each safari sold to the conservation of primates throughout the world at the end of each year. If travellers would also like to contribute to the protection of primates throughout the world please request further details regarding our “Protect the Primates” wristbands from which all proceeds go to the conservation of endangered primates. We aim to minimise our impact on the environment as much in the UK as we would do in any of our destination countries. We do this through recycling of any office waste including, paper, plastic, cans, glass, refuse, in partnership with the Borough of Hammersmith. The purpose of our safaris is to contribute to local populations, communities and projects. We give our travellers advice on how to interact with the local population, flora and fauna in order to minimise any negative impact. We advise people not to bargain just for the sake of it and because it is the “thing to do”; you should pay what you feel the object is worth to yourself and the vendor, bearing in mind local cultures, society and standard of living. |
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