6 Days Serengeti Migration Camping Safari

Explore Africa’s greatest parks on this 6 days Tanzania Safari. Visit the famous Serengeti, home to an abundance of wildlife as well as the impressive wildebeest migration. And the striking Ngoro Ngoro Crater, a natural wonder with the world’s highest concentration wildlife.

Day 0: Arrival – Arusha

When you arrive, you will meet our driver with a sign bearing your name, He will pick you and drive to Hotel in Arusha for dinner and overnight. Your Safari Guide will meet you at the hotel for a safari briefing.

Day 1: Arusha to Tarangire National Park

In the morning you will be picked up from your hotel to start your safari to the Tarangire National Park. The park is roughly the size of Luxemburg and covers an area of about 2,600 km². Bush savannah, seasonal swamps and giant baobab trees make up the landscape of this nature reserve and the park is probably one of the best places in East Africa to see elephants. Not only they are found in thousands but also they seem to be more accustomed to the 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 to Masai 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. After an extensive game drive, you will leave the park in the late afternoon and drive to Sunbright Campsite where you will spend the night.

Day 2: Serengeti National Park

After breakfast we will derive to Serengeti national park via Ngoro Ngoro Conservation Area you might stop for a breath-taking view over the Ngoro Ngoro Crater before you continue to the Serengeti National Park. The vast savannah of Serengeti that stretches to the horizon teeming with the wild animals would enthrall to any of the visitors visiting this park. In Massai language Serengeti means “endless plains” and the park justifies to its name bizarre rock formations dot the grassy landscape where predators roam. Blue wildebeests, Thomson’s gazelles, zebras and buffaloes are on the menu… Through the high and open roof of the safari vehicle you will be able to enjoy the diversified habitats and landscapes of the park. You will pass the night at Nyani Public Campsite (Breakfast, lunch and dinner included)

Day 3: Serengeti – Northern Serengeti (Mara River)

After breakfast we head towards the far northern reaches of the Serengeti National Park. We will do a game drive en-route from central Serengeti area to the Kogatende area (Serengeti Migration Area). The wildebeest migration can normally be found in the Kogatende area from August to October, depending on rainfall patterns. A long stretch of the Mara River runs through the northern Serengeti National Park and the Mara River provides the migration with its most difficult obstacle. Witnessing the frantic herds of wildebeest crossing the Mara River is amazing.

Dinner and overnight at Lobo public campsite (Breakfast, lunch and dinner included)

Day 4: Full Day Game drive in Northern Serengeti (Mara River)

Early breakfast, depart for morning game drive along the Mara river. (picnic lunch by the river where you will be watching crocodiles. You will be waiting for crossing along the river, but you will also do game drive. Dinner and overnight at the Lobo public campsite (Breakfast, lunch and dinner included)

Day 5: Northern Serengeti (Mara River) to Central Serengeti

Early morning breakfast and then depart for game drives in Kogatende /Mara river area with your expert guide. Many visitors only want to see the river crossings, but the true spectacle of the migration is more than 1,245,000 wildebeests, 200,000 Burch ell’s zebras, 18,000 elands and 500,000 Thomson’s Gazelles filling the entire stretch of landscape. The shifting columns of the herds as they traverse the valleys and the hills can only be watched in awe. There is nothing else like this on earth. After lunch we will drive back to central Serengeti. Enjoy your night Nyani Public Campsite (Breakfast, lunch and dinner included

Day 6: Serengeti National Park to Ngoro Ngoro Crater – Arusha

After breakfast you will drive in direction of the Ngoro Ngoro Crater and as soon as you have reached the edge of the crater, the caldera opens up before you. We will descend into the crater. Inside the world’s biggest caldera, you will see a diversity of wildlife ranging from black rhinos, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, lions and leopards, to elephants and mountain reedbucks in the forests on the slopes. You might also see buffaloes, spotted hyenas and some of the more than 500 bird species of the area. After an extensive game drive and a picnic lunch you will leave the crater in the afternoon and drive to Arusha for dinner and overnight at Hotel. (Breakfast, lunch and dinner included) for overnight stay.