7-Day Serengeti Migration Safari (June)

Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport

Distance: 45km /50Mnts
Kilimanjaro in Africas team will meet you at the Airport and drive to the Hotel in the heart of Arusha City ready for the next day experience in Tanzania. On this day, you will be packed with safari briefs on the general safari plan, accommodations and confirmation of the exactly time you will be picked up to start in the next day.

Day 2: Arusha-Tarangire National Park

Distance: 130km

Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs.

After breakfast at the hotel in Arusha the tour departs at 7:30am. First stop is Arusha Shoppers for any last minute purchases before we head off on safari. Afterwards we 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. Dinner and overnight at Bougainvillea Safari Lodge

• MEALS:Breakfast | Lunch |Dinner
• ACCOMMODATION: Bougainvillea Safari Lodge  

 Day 3: Tarangire-Ngorongoro Crater-Serengeti

Distance: 51km 

Non – game viewing time: 50 – 1 hr.

After an early breakfast, you will drive to Ngorongoro and descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area 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, it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater.

A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here. Then heard to the Nothern part of the park area, known as the Kogatende area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park in the month of July and August, featuring the Mara River. Arrive on time for dinner and overnight.

• MEALS: Breakfast | Lunch |Dinner
• ACCOMMODATION: Serengeti Heritage Central  

Day 4: Serengeti National Park central to North

Distance: 380km

Time 6-7 Hrs  

After breakfast, depart for a deep game drive to North Serengeti across the Mara River chasing the migration and the river crossing – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. Then heard to the Northern part known as the Kogatende area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Mara River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an evening game drive in the Serengeti national park. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Lodge Kogatende

• MEALS: Breakfast |Lunch |Dinner
• ACCOMMODATION:Serengeti Heritage Lodge Kogatende

Day 5: Serengeti National Park Full Day-North

Distance: 00km 

Non – game viewing time: 10 – 30Mnts.

Early morning game drive to North Serengeti. This will be a second full day game drive in the northern Serengeti with dinner and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Lodge in the northern Serengeti.

• MEALS: Breakfast | Lunch |Dinner
• ACCOMMODATION: Serengeti Heritage Lodge

Day 6: Balloon flight and Drive to Central Serengeti

Wake for breakfast, picked up for a hot air balloon safari in the Kogatende area to experience Serengeti from the sky in the area. This will be a half day game drive in the northern Serengeti following the wildebeest migration heading to central Serengeti for dinner and overnight at Serengeti Heritage Lodge in the central Serengeti.

• MEALS: Breakfast | Lunch |Dinner
• ACCOMMODATION: Serengeti Heritage Lodge

Day 7: Serengeti to Arusha via Olduvai Gorge

On this day, you will drive from Serengeti National Park with a game on the way to Karatu for dinner and overnight. You will visit the world famous archaeological site of Olduvai Gorge known as the Cradle of Mankind. The earliest remains of homo sapiens were discovered here by Mary Leaky and anyone with an interest in mankind’s ancestors will be fascinated by this extraordinary place. Explore the quaint little museum and marvel at the rugged landscape. This paleoanthropological site in the eastern Serengeti Plain is a steep-sided ravine composed of two branches that have a combined length of about 48 km and are 90 meters deep. Deposits exposed in the sides of the gorge cover have yielded a treasure trove of fossil remains.

• Personal spending money
• Additional toiletries if allergic
• Sunscreen
• Insect repellent.
• Enough film for your cameras and chargers for type G Sockets as they are widely used in Tanzania.
• Light clothes for day wear
• Warm jacket/pullover/sweat-shirt/fleece for the chilly evenings and mornings
• Sneakers, walking boots or sandals.