Luxury Migration Safari in November and December in Tanzania (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 transfer to 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. 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 Entamanu Ngorongoro

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

Eastern Serengeti

Staying at Namiri Plains

Today transfer to Manyara airstrip and say your good-byes to your safari guide before the flight to the Central Serengeti. Arrive at Seronera airstrip where you are met by the safari guide from your camp and depart on shared game drives organized by the knowledgeable local guide. You will travel to the Eastern Corridor, far from the crowds of the central area, where there are only a few camps and very little traffic. Before Namiri Plains was built, these grasslands were closed for 20 years to allow the cheetah population to restore. Back at camp, after spotting lions and other big cats or watching huge wildebeest herds, relax around the pool; feed your mind in the library or simply chill out and soak up the views from your private deck. While exploring the grasslands close to Namiri Plains, you might be fortunate enough to come face to face with a beautiful and unique wildcat – Manja, the melanistic serval. He is quite the celebrity in the Serengeti and has been featured globally by the likes of BBC Earth and The Discovery Channel.

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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.