• 4 Days from
    $2250 p/p in USD
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    Departures
    Jan, Feb, Mar
TRAVEL PARTNER

Lioness Tours and Safaris

  • Tanzania
Destinations

Destinations

Tanzania,

Tour Type

Tour Type

Guided, Large Group, Small Group

Safari Standard

Safari Standard

Luxury, Mid Range

Tour Overview

This 4 Days Ndutu Migration Safari Calving Season tour has been designed specifically to focus on and to increase your chance of seeing the great Serengeti wildebeest migration. The Southern Serengeti and Ndutu areas in Tanzania are the best locations for January, February, and March to witness thousands of wildebeest spread across the plains grazing on the rich short grass plains. Predator action is at its peak with great sightings of cheetah, lion, hyena, and leopard and a very good chance to see adrenalin-packed kills.

Witness The Great Migration

General Information

  • Safari types:
    Big Five Safari, Guided Safari, Migration Safari, Wildlife Safari
  • You will visit:
    Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater
  • Wildlife:
    Big Five, Birds, Antelope, Zebra, Giraffe, Cheetah, Wild Dog, Hyena, Wildebeest, Baboon, Warthog, Mongoose, Jackal
  • Activities:
    Game Drive
  • Getting around:
    4x4 Safari Vehicle, Transfer Vehicle
  • Start/end:
    Start in Arusha, end in Arusha
  • Minimum age:
    2

Price Per Person

From USD 2,250 per person

What's Included

  • Accommodation & all meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner)
  • Soft drinks & water (bottled water 3 litres or more a day)
  • Transfer to & from the airport
  • Transportation in a custom safari 4×4 with a viewing roof & guaranteed window seating (safari vehicles have an inverter for charging batteries, communications radio, electric cooler, and filtered water)
  • All park entrances & taxes

What's Excluded

  • Flights & visas
  • Tips for guides
  • Balloon Safari in Serengeti ($600 per person )

Disclaimer

  • This itinerary is owned and delivered by ‘Lioness Tours and Safaris
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  • Display price is usually based on two people sharing
  • Lioness Tours and Safaris‘ reserves the right to change the content and price of the itinerary
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Day by Day Overview

In the morning pick up from your hotel at Arusha and head towards the Ndutu region. The drive to Ndutu is about 5.5 hours covering a distance of 260 km. About 2 hours after commencing the drive, you will enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Ngorongoro) where you will notice the landscape changing from hilly forests to plain and green grasslands. Once you reach Ndutu you will begin a half-day game drive with a convenient stop for your picnic lunch. Sweeping grasslands cover the region which gradually fades into the Serengeti. Ndutu forms a part of the route for the annual migration of more than 2 million wildebeests and thousands of zebra, antelope, and gazelle.

During game drives at the right season between December and April, you will be able to see the fertile plains turn into calving grounds and nurseries for the great migration. This season attracts hordes of predators prying on vulnerable young wildebeest. Crested with Ndutu Lake and Lake Masek, these waterholes offer plenty of wildlife game during the dry season. The Ndutu is also the home ground for 6 species of big cats – leopard, lion, cheetah, caracal, serval, and wildcat. The action-packed game drive will end late in the evening by around 5 pm. You will now head towards your choice of accommodation, where a freshly prepared dinner awaits you. Ensure you get some good rest and recharge yourself for another eventful day.

The excitement for today will be quite high as you make your way into the most celebrated wildlife park in the world – the Serengeti. After finishing up a good breakfast, you will head out towards the Serengeti National Park and travel in the midst of the never-ending plain grasslands. Serengeti means endless plains in the local African language and watching the grassland stretch out as far as the eye can see and eventually merge with the sky at the horizon is an absolutely breathtaking view. With an overall land area of 14,763 sq km, it puts our notion about the distance to shame.

The Serengeti is home to the glorious “Big 5” (elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard) as well as one of Africa’s most beautiful animals – the Impala. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa. You must also look out for the Serengeti “kopjes” which are massive boulders of granite standing in a sea of grass. They provide ample shelter to a large variety of flora and fauna. A picnic lunch will be done during the day-long game drive itself. The eventful day comes to an end with a heavy dinner and a good night’s rest in your accommodation.

After breakfast, you will enjoy a morning game drive in Serengeti National Park. Later depart for Ngorongoro Conservation Area with a picnic lunch. Ngorongoro Crater is the largest collapsed volcanic crater in the world and has fourteen kilometers of isolated natural beauty. Ngorongoro Crater is surrounded by a ring of extinct volcanoes and the floor, dotted with watering holes, shelters some 30,000 animals. The eventful day comes to an end with a heavy dinner and a good night’s rest in your accommodation.

On the last day of your safari, you will have an early start. Finishing up with a quick breakfast you will make an early descent at around 6:30 am into the crater floor. The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact, and unfilled volcanic caldera. It has a massive floor of about 260 sq km with a depth of over 2000 feet. The 5-hour game drive on the crater floor will show you a lot of animal action. Keeping the camera ready is definitely recommended. The African elephant, buffalo, black rhino, hippos, hyenas, cheetahs, and lions are found in plenty. Post the picnic lunch at the beautiful hippo pool, you will begin a steep ascend to the top exit of the crater. This is the last leg of your safari, with a 4-hour drive left to Arusha. You will be dropped off at your preferred location in Arusha by 6:00 pm in the evening. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you bid goodbye to your team.

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