8 Days Calving Season Safari
Trip information
This tour will take you to Tanzania’s most popular attractions, the Ndutu area, Central Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater. The tour begins and ends in Arusha. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime excursion with our knowledgeable driving guides!
According to previous years’ patterns, migration can be seen in the Ndutu region from the last week of December to the first week of March. As a result, this journey is only suggested for the latter week of December to the first week of March.
- Duration 8 Days 7 Nights
- Type Mid-Range Safari
- Cost: $ 2640
Day 1 : ARRIVE KILIMANJARO THEN TRANSFER TO ARUSHA (1HR DRIVE)
Arrive Airport, Outside the airport you will find your safari guide with a sign board with one of your names. Soon after checking in the vehicle, you will proceed to Arusha for dinner and overnight at Haradali’s home.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Haradali Home
Day 2 : ARUSHA TO TARANGIRE PARK (2 DRIVING )
After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park with a packed lunch. The park is beautiful, with a lot of baobab trees and big groups of elephants. Have a full-day game drive in the park, enjoy your lunch at the picnic site, and in the evening, drive to Tarangire Osupuko Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Osupuko Lodge
Day 3 : LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, depart to Lake Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. Manyara is beautiful, with its vegetation, landscape and the lake make it even more beautiful. Enjoy your packed lunch then proceed with the game drive. In the evening drive to Pamoja Olea Farm for dinner and overnight
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Pamoja Olea Farm
Day 4 : SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Depart just after breakfast, your safari guide will make sure that your packed lunches are in the vehicle. Start your safari to Serengeti National Park via Ngorongoro Conservation area. You can stop at the view point for few minutes just to view the crater from above. Arrive in Serengeti late afternoon then stop for picnic lunch then proceed with game drive in this beautiful endless plain. Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation, and migration are as old as the hills themselves. Your nights will be at Serengeti Into Wild Tented Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Into Wild Tented Camp
Day 5 : FULL DAY GAME DRIVE IN NDUTU
After breakfast, depart Serengeti for the Ndutu area for a game drive. Remember, Ndutu is also the best place to visit from December to March, as it is a carving period for wildebeest. Arrive at Ndutu Heritage Camp for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Ndutu Heritage Camp
Day 6 : NDUTU
Another day in Ndutu, what a beautiful moment to see the beginning of life, all meals and overnight at Pakulala.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight: Pakulala Camp
Day 7 : FULL DAY CRATER
After breakfast depart and descend into the crater some 600 meters to experience the true spirit of Africa, the Africa of bygone days when you explore the crater as permanent home of wildlife population, long regarded as Africa’s “Garden of Eden”. From the comfort of your 4 x 4 vehicle crafted exclusively for game viewing will give an opportunity to spot Big five – Elephant, buffalo, leopard, black mane lion and the rare black rhinoceros- as well hyenas, jackals, flamingos and the yawning hippos. Enjoy a delightful picnic lunch in the heart of this ancient volcanic crater close to the hippo pool. Early evening drive back to Haradali home in Arusha for dinner and overnight.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Overnight at Haradali Home
Day 8 : DEPARTURE
Your guide will transfer you to the airport according to your flight hours.
- Specialized Safari guide
- Private Transport
- Entrance Park Fees
- Meals as per itinerary
- All airport Transfers
- Coffee and Tea in the car
- International and domestic flights
- Any item for personal use such us telephone bills
- Tips to safari guides and porters
- Health / travel insurance
- Masai boma visit and Olduvai Visit
- Laundry services.
- Any local or international flight and departure taxes.
