6 Day Serengeti Mgration Safari | Mara River Crossing
6-day Serengeti Migration Safari Overview:
This 6-day Serengeti migration safari features witnessing the great wildebeest migration crossing the Mara River in the NorthernSerengeti, a once in a lifetime experience. Explore the endless plains of the world famous Serengeti National Park.
Search for the Big Five in the Ngorongoro Crater. Visit the Maasai and learn about this nomadic tribe’s culture. Enjoy the comfort of a tented lodges in the heart of the Serengeti.
6-days migration safari at a glance:
Day 1: Tarangire
Day 2-5: Serengeti
Day 6: Ngorongoro
This 6-days river cross migration safari allows you to experience the “wildebeest migration” and Mara river crossing, a once in a lifetime experience.
Best 6-day Serengeti great Migration itinerary
DAY 01: TARANGIRE
Embark on your 6-day wildebeest migration safari adventure at approximately 8:00am, setting off on a scenic 2-hour journey to Tarangire National Park. Renowned for its majestic ancient baobab trees and abundant elephant population, the park promises awe-inspiring sights.
Following lunch, proceed your exploration with a game drive until late evening 5:30pm, check out the park and make your way to our accommodation, Farms Of Dreams, for a restful dinner and overnight stay.
For those seeking luxury, the opulent Kitela Lodge awaits.
–Budget lodge or Camping option available.
DAY 02: NORTHERN SERENGETI.
Following breakfast, start your drive to north Serengeti, renowned as one of Africa’s top wildlife reserves. Passing through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area en route, you’ll be awestruck by the expanse of this area and the diverse array of animals and birds dotting the acacia-dotted savannah.
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania’s oldest and most celebrated reserve, is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It boasts year-round appeal, with each season offering unique highlights, including the renowned annual wildebeest migration—a spectacle not to be missed.
En route, enjoy a wildebeest migration game drive on the way before reaching the Northern Serengeti. Your accommodation for the night is the Heritage Migration Camp.
-Budget or Camping option available.
DAY 03: NORTHERN SERENGETI RIVER CROSSING.
Today we will explore the northern Serengeti on a full-day game drive in search of the great wildebeest migration.
The focus will be on the the Mara River area where hungry nile crocodiles prey and the wildebeest migration gather and wait to cross the river. It might take days or hours for wildebeest migration to choose a crossing point which varies from season to season and cannot be predicted.
Serengeti great wildebeest migration and river crossing is amazing to witness and it is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Overnight at Heritage Mara Camp, Northern Serengeti National Park.
DAY 04: SERENGETI
Enjoy another full day with our 6-day wildebeest migration river crossing game drive as you travel between the North and Central Serengeti.
Today you have the flexibility to decide how to do the game drive. Spend extra full day in the Northern Serengeti for river crossing and drive to the Central Serengeti in the evening, or enjoy a half-day game drive at Mara river in the North and a half-day game drive in the Central, the choice is all yours.
Overnight at Central Serengeti Luxury Camp.
DAY 05: SERENGETI
After morning breakfast, we will go on a game drive for the last time in the central Serengeti till afternoon. Go back to lodge for lunch and packing. Will then start a transfer game drive to Ngorongoro conservation, overnight at Ang’ata Lodge. The drive to the Ngorongoro Crater can take about 2 hours.
DAY 06: NGORONGORO
After breakfast descend into the Ngorongoro Crater floor for a game drive. Experience a Big Five and other unique wildlife. Will have lunch inside Ngorongoro crater and ascend later afternoon for your drive back to Arusha. marking the end of your 6-day Serengeti migration river crossing safari.
Please note this tour can starts and ends in Arusha or fly in from Zanzibar. Alternatively, this tour can also start and end from Dar es Salaam or from Nairobi and it is all inclusive safari.
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6-day great Migration river crossing Safari Inclusions:
- All Park fees & entrances
- All lodge accommodations
- All activities, unless indicated as optional
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Professional guide
- All taxes/VAT
- Unlimited bottled drinking water
- Private 4×4 Safari Jeep
- Roundtrip airport transfers in Zanzibar
- Pair of Binoculars
- Beers/wines
For budget camping option all equipments will be provided + private safari chef.
Excludes
- International flights (From/to home)
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$15.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
Packing list for 6-day Migration safari in Tanzania:
Find our most recommended list of things to bring on safari.
- A backpack;
- Comfortable
- clothing for daily
- wear;
- A warm sweater
- A windbreaker
- waterproof jacket
- Walking shoes &
- boots;
- Sunglasses;
- Hat;
- Sunscreen
- Insect repellent;
- Cameras
- Flashlight/headlamp
Medication:
- Anti-malarial,
- Painkillers,
- Cold and flu
- medicines,
- Anti-Diarrheal,
- Eye drops.
6-day Migration River Crossing safari Price & cost
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-4 Persons – Ask for discount
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