Calving Season Safari with HerdTracker

Day 1

Arusha

Staying at Legendary Lodge

Arrive at JRO Kilimanjaro airport, collect your luggage and go through customs. You will be met by our driver for the transfer to the hotel in Arusha. Depending on your flight time, we can organize an additional excursion (city tour, coffee plantation tour, bike ride, Lake Duluti visit or a half day game viewing in Arusha national Park). Dinner is included at the lodge today. Enjoy the large gardens, and swimming pool, you can relax among lush vegetation, visit the neighboring coffee estate to prepare for your early wake up call tomorrow.

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Day 2-3

Chem Chem Concession

Staying at Chem Chem Lodge

Breakfast at the hotel and meet with your driver. You will have a private vehicle for the next few days while you visit Tarangire within the wonderful Chem Chem Concession. Surrender to a lifestyle with a slowed-down pace., inviting for a true connection with the wildlife and nature surrounding you, inviting a type of tranquility that goes beyond the confines of a vehicle.

The transfer takes about 2.5 hours and you can settle at the lodge before the afternoon game activity. Chat to your guide and plan your days. At Chem Chem Lodge you’ll find yourself set between watering holes, savannah grasslands and a vast salt pan, where the immense sense of space is rivalled only by sublime privacy and sophisticated comforts.

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Day 4

Ngorongoro Crater

Staying at Entamanu Ngorongoro

After breakfast, you will be met by our safari guide who will look after you for the next few days. Drive through to Lake Manyara National park. Spend a few hours game viewing in the park and stop for a light picnic lunch. The park offers a wilderness experience in diverse habitats, from its Rift Valley soda lake to dense woodlands and steep mountainsides.

The shores of the lake, encrusted with pink flamingo, attract more than 400 species of birds, depending on the season. Besides the large predators, you can see various herds of buffalo, while the Masai giraffes and impalas roam the lake shores and the forested valley slopes. Exit the park and continue to the Ngorongoro Crater Rim to your camp. Dinner is included at the camp and overnight. Meaning ‘circle’ in Maa, the language of the Maasai, Entamanu is the perfect name for this luxury camp on the Ngorongoro Crater edge.

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Day 5

Ngorongoro Crater

Staying at Mwiba Lodge

Today is a very early wake up in order to travel down the Ngorongoro Crater and enjoy a couple of hours of game viewing before the crowds arrive. The Ngorongoro Crater has many nicknames — Africa's "eighth wonder of the world" and "Africa's Eden," to name a few. But even without these lofty nicknames, the crater is a stunning a sight.

Formed 2.5 million years ago after an extinct volcano collapsed on itself, the caldera is largest of its kind in the world. You will have the best chance to view the Big Five, and enjoy a packed picnic style lunch before going back to camp.

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Day 6-8

Southern Serengeti

Staying at Mwiba Lodge

Today drive back to Manyara and say your good-byes to your safari guide before the flight to the Mwiba Airstrip. Arrive at the airstrip and transfer to the lodge. Located in Mwiba Wildlife Reserve, a conservation concession dedicated to the balance between wildlife and communities, this area is only available to a handful of guests, facilitating an excellent, uncrowded safari experience within the greater Serengeti eco-system. Your days will be spent game viewing in the area with your private vehicle, chat to your guide to set up your days as you prefer. The area is an excellent location all year long, but becomes especially rewarding during the months of January to March when the Migrating Herds are typically in the area (calving is usually in February).

Back at the lodge, relax in the secluded, sophisticated haven set among massive stone boulders, ancient coral trees and acacias, overlooking a rocky gorge; spend time at the lounge and lower deck with an infinity-edge pool that overlooks three springs where you can enjoy the sights and sounds of a constant parade of wildlife.

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Day 9

End Of Itinerary

Last morning in the bush, enjoy breakfast in camp and enjoy a meandering drive to the airstrip. Say your good byes to your safari guide and take the schedule flight to JRO airport. Depending on your onward flight back home we can add a day room nearby, or spend time at leisure to check in. Alternatively we can extend your safari with a stay in Kenya's Mara Mara to continue with the game viewing, or combine with a South Tanzania park, or an extension to Rwanda for gorilla trekking.