Wildebeest Migration, Big Five

Arusha | Lake Manyara

Day 1: Arusha to Lake Manyara After breakfast, your driver and guide will pick you up from Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara National Park. You will arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and head into the Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.

Ngorongoro Crater | Serengeti

Day 3: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater After breakfast at the campsite, you will depart to head to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You have a stopover at Olduvai Gorge which boasts with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here that the anthropologists Doctors Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of nutcracker man and handy man, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. You will arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and 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 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 been seen here.