10 Days Exclusive Fly in Northern Tanzania Safari (Journey for the Wildebeest Migration River Crossing)
This 10 day exclusive Northern Tanzania safari is a classical adventure to one of the most celebrated wildlife conservancies in Africa particularly in the wildlife extravaganza. Tanzania host the second largest terrestrial mammal migration, The Great Wildebeest Migration which is one of the 7 natural wonders in Africa and one of the 10 natural wonders in the world at large. The wildebeest migration climax is during the River crossing where mammal grazers try to cross the crocodile-infested river, lying underwater in a long wait to catch their prey. The wildebeest migration river crossing in August moves north, passing through the Lobo area (north of Central Serengeti National Park) and the Wagakuria area (remote northern Serengeti National Park along the Mara River) en-route to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve.
Duration of the Safari: 10 days
Number of People: Tailored According to your Interests
Starts/Ends: Arusha.
Availability: All year round
Places to Explore: Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire
Tour Overview – 10 Days Exclusive Northern Tanzania Safari
- Day 01: Arrival and transfer to Arusha.
- Day 02: Fly from Arusha to Tarangire National Park.
- Day 03: Drive to Lake Manyara National Park
- Day 04: Transfer from Lake Manyara National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.
- Day 05: Full day game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater
- Day 06: Transfer to Seronera in Central Serengeti.
- Day 07: Serengeti
- Day 08 & 09: Kogatende (Northern Serengeti)
- Day 10: Serengeti – Arusha
Detailed Itinerary for 10 days exclusive Northern Tanzania Safari.
Day 1: Arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transfer to Arusha.
Upon your arrival to Tanzania, you will be warmly welcomed by our professional English speaking safari guide who will then transfer you to your already booked accommodation in Arusha. You will then check in your hotel where you will have your lunch, dinner, and an overnight stay.
Your safari guide will brief you about your 10 days exclusive Northern Tanzania safari and if time wishes you can make a city tour in Arusha before sunset and then head back to the hotel for dinner and an overnight.
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner.
Accomodation: Elewana Arusha Coffee Lodge/ Arusha Safari Lodge.
Day 2: Fly to Tarangire National Park.
After breakfast at your hotel, you will head for a walking tour at the coffee plantation. From there you will return for a light lunch where you will be chauffeured to the Arusha Airport and invited aboard the Executive Sky Safari Cessna Grand Caravan for the short 20-minute flight to Tarangire National Park.
Upon arrival you will start your first fascinating game – drive through the famed Tarangire National Park, home to the largest concentration of elephants in Tanzania. Bush savannah, seasonal swamps, and giant baobab trees make up the landscape of this nature reserve and the park is absolutely the best place in East Africa to see elephants. Not only they are found in thousands but also they seem to be more accustomed to vehicles, and for this you can be closer to these gigantic animals. It is not only the elephants rather a varied numbers of animals such as the Maasai giraffes, various gazelles, antelopes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, baboons, and more than 500 types of birds make this the one-stop solution for both the bird and the animal lovers.
Dinner this evening will be enjoyed in a traditional Maasai Boma, where the Executive Chef will introduce you to some traditional African cuisine, along with traditional songs and dances of the local Maasai people from the community.
Overnight: Mbali Mbali Tarangire River Camp/ Elewana Tarangire Treetops
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner
Day 3: Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park.
After the morning breakfast you will check out at the lodge and enjoy a morning game drive through the park while on your way to Lake Manyara National Park. On arrival in Lake Manyara national park you will have a simple evening game drive and then transfer to your lodge for dinner. After dinner, you will have a night spotlighting game drive in the park and then back to the lodge for the overnight.
Lake Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s bird life. More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants are expected to be seen.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner
Accommodation: AndBeyond Lake Manyara Tree Lodge/ Lake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge.
Day 4: Transfer from Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro Crater
Depart after breakfast for an extended morning game drive in Lake Manyara National Park and in the afternoon, drive to Ngorongoro for the evening Ngorongoro Crater rim walk. At dawn, check-in to the lodge for dinner and overnight
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and dinner
Accommodation: Melia Ngorongoro Lodge/ Gibb’s Farm.
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast, we will venture into what is undoubtedly one of the ‘Natural Wonders of the World’ The Ngorongoro Crater. Large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze while sleeping lions laze in the sun. The endangered black rhino spends the early hours grazing on dew-laden grass, before returning to the thick cover of the crater forests. Lunch will be served in the Crater flow followed by an afternoon game drive which will be full mersmirizing creatures like the remaining Large tusker elephants in Africa, you will also enjoy nocturnal animals waking up to start their hunting, before returning in the late afternoon to the Manor
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.
Accommodation: Melia Ngorongoro Lodge/ Gibb’s Farm.
Day 6: Game drive En route to Central Serengeti National Park.
Today you will enjoy a leisure breakfast at the Lodge on the crater rim and then depart for a game drive en route to Central Serengeti. A hot lunch will be saved in the afternoon.
A million wildebeest with other mammal grazers each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Accommodations: Serengeti Safari Lodge/ Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.
Day 7: Full day Game drive in Serengeti while following the Great Migration.
Early morning you will enjoy a hot air balloon safari where you will enjoy Serengeti from a different perspective while watching a million of wildebeests herds graze the endless plains of the Serengeti.
After breakfast, depart for a full-day game drive in Serengeti National Park Central part the Seronera, You will have lunch in the middle of nowhere as your watching thousands of wildlife surrounding you. In the evening drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Accommodations: Serengeti Safari Lodge/ Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.
Day 8-9: Explore Northern Serengeti.
After breakfast, you will head to north of the Serengeti for a full-day game drive in the wilderness tracking the Great migration trails. Witnessing a million wildebeests, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25 mile) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north. You will enjoy your dinner and overnight stays at Serengeti Migration Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 10: Fly from Serengeti back to Arusha.
Following breakfast, you are invited to join one of our guides on a Walking Safari along the banks of the Grumeti River. After a leisurely lunch, you will once again take to the road for a game drive en-route to the airstrip for the return flight to Arusha and then transfer to the airport for a return flight. During the flight, you will see, from the air, the ever-changing landscape of the bush and mountainous topography that reminds us of Tanzania’s violent geological past.
Meal Plan: Breakfast and lunch