5-Day Great Migration Fly-in from Zanzibar

Overview

1. Day01 Zanzibar – fly to the Serengeti

   

   We collect you from your hotel in Zanzibar in the morning and transfer you to the airport for your scheduled light-aircraft flight to the Serengeti airstrip, a scenic hop over the coast and the Maasai Steppe.

   Your guide meets you at the airstrip with your safari vehicle, and the game drive starts straight away across the Serengeti plains. Even in the first few hours you have a good chance of lions, cheetahs, giraffes and big herds of wildebeest and zebras.

   In the late afternoon you check in to your lodge in the Serengeti, near the migration for dinner and the night.

   • Meals Lunch & Dinner
   • Overnight Mid-range lodge in the Serengeti, near the migration (or similar)
2. Day02 Serengeti National Park – Great Migration

   

   A full day of game drives in the Serengeti, with a picnic lunch out on the plains so you don't have to cut the day short. Your guide shares news with other guides over the radio to find the best sightings of lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes and hyenas.

   This trip is timed for the Great Migration. Your guide follows the herds to wherever they are grazing: in the southern plains from about December to March, moving through the centre and west around May to July, and in the far north near the Mara River from about July to October, where the dramatic river crossings take place.

   An optional sunrise hot-air balloon flight over the plains can be arranged at extra cost; ask us when you book.

   • Meals Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
   • Overnight Mid-range lodge in the Serengeti, near the migration (or similar)
3. Day03 Serengeti National Park – Great Migration

   

   A full day of game drives in the Serengeti, with a picnic lunch out on the plains so you don't have to cut the day short. Your guide shares news with other guides over the radio to find the best sightings of lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes and hyenas.

   This trip is timed for the Great Migration. Your guide follows the herds to wherever they are grazing: in the southern plains from about December to March, moving through the centre and west around May to July, and in the far north near the Mara River from about July to October, where the dramatic river crossings take place.

   An optional sunrise hot-air balloon flight over the plains can be arranged at extra cost; ask us when you book.

   • Meals Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
   • Overnight Mid-range lodge in the Serengeti, near the migration (or similar)
4. Day04 Serengeti – Ngorongoro Conservation Area

   

   Enjoy an early-morning game drive in the Serengeti, when the cats are most active, before heading back across the plains towards the Ngorongoro highlands.

   On the way you may pass Maasai herders with their cattle and, if time allows, stop at Olduvai Gorge, one of the world's most important sites for the study of early humans (entry at extra cost). You reach your lodge in Karatu in the late afternoon.

   • Meals Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
   • Overnight Mid-range lodge in Karatu (or similar)
5. Day05 Ngorongoro Crater – fly to Zanzibar

   

   After an early breakfast you drive up to the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater and stop at the viewpoint. The view is unforgettable: a 600-metre-deep, 20-kilometre-wide volcanic caldera with lakes, swamps, forest and grassland laid out below you.

   Then you descend to the crater floor for your game drive. The steep walls keep most animals inside all year, so wildlife is dense and easy to see: lions, elephants, buffalo, hyenas, zebras, wildebeest, hippos and flamingos are all regulars. The crater is also one of the best places in Tanzania to look for the endangered black rhino, which takes patience to find.

   After a picnic lunch by the hippo pool you drive back up the crater wall to the Lake Manyara airstrip for your scheduled flight back to Zanzibar, where you are met and transferred to your hotel.

   • Meals Breakfast & Lunch

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