Great Wildebeest Migration Safari
The greatest wildlife event on earth. Witnessed, not watched.
Every year, over 1.5 million wildebeest move across East Africa’s greatest ecosystem.
Not because they’re told to. Because something ancient in them says it’s time.
This 8-day journey takes you through Tanzania’s full Northern Circuit — from the elephant-filled baobab plains of Tarangire, through the alien red shores of Lake Natron, across the Serengeti’s endless savanna where the migration unfolds, down into the Ngorongoro Crater, and through the tree-climbing lion territory of Lake Manyara.
This is not a highlights reel. This is Tanzania, whole.
Small group. Expert naturalist guide. Lodges and camps positioned where the wildlife is — not near it.
Quick Highlights
- Parks Visited: Tarangire · Lake Natron · Serengeti · Ngorongoro Crater · Lake Manyara
- The Great Wildebeest Migration · Big Five · Cheetah · Flamingo · +500 bird species
- Custom 4×4 Land Cruiser with pop-up roof
- Professional English-speaking naturalist guide
- Full board lodges and tented camps — positioned inside the parks
- Maximum 6 travellers per vehicle
- Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) or Arusha Airport
Best Time to Visit
– Calving Season: January – March (Southern Serengeti & Ndutu)
– River Crossings: July – October (Northern Serengeti & Mara River)
8 days · 7 nights | Once-in-a-lifetime experience
Cancellation flexibility
What you'll do
Day 1: Arrival in Moshi
- Picked up at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred to Springlands Hotel at the foot of the mountain. Your evening includes a pre-safari briefing: your guide walks you through the route, the season, and what to expect.
- Sleep well. Tomorrow the land takes over.
- Overnight: Springlands Hotel
Day 2: Ngorongoro Crater
- After breakfast, you drive toward one of the most extraordinary places on earth.
- The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera — 600 metres deep, filled with an estimated 30,000 large mammals. Black rhino graze on open grassland. Lion prides, including rare black-maned males, move through the crater floor with complete authority. Flamingos crowd the salt lake at its centre.
- You spend the morning here. It is never enough.
- Overnight: Highview Coffee Lodge, Karatu
Day 3: Lake Natron
- Most people skip Lake Natron. That’s exactly why it stays extraordinary.
- After breakfast, you drive to this remote, alkaline lake — its waters a deep red and pink from the microorganisms that thrive in its caustic shallows. The Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano rises behind it, still active. Lesser flamingos breed here in their tens of thousands, choosing this inhospitable place precisely because nothing else can survive it.
- Strange. Stark. Unforgettable.
- Return to Karatu for the night.
- Overnight: Highview Coffee Lodge / Highview Hotel, Karatu (breakfast, lunch & dinner included) or similar
Day 4: Drive to North Serengeti
- This is the day everything opens up.
- After breakfast, your guide drives you into the Serengeti via the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with a stop at Olduvai Gorge — the archaeological site where some of humanity’s oldest fossils were found. Your guide will tell you what that means. It’s worth hearing.
- Then: the plains. The trees thin. The horizon extends further than it should.
- You enter the North Serengeti as the wildebeest herds begin moving — zebras, antelope, the dust rising ahead of them.
- Evening arrival at Ikoma Wild Camp — with a night game drive before sleep.
- Overnight: Ikoma Wild Camp (breakfast, lunch & dinner included) or similar
Day 5: Full Day in the Serengeti
- Your guide reads the land — fresh tracks, bird behaviour, radio contact from across the ecosystem — and takes you exactly where the action is. The Big Five are here: lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard, rhino. So are cheetah, giraffe, hyena, and hundreds of bird species.
- No two days in the Serengeti are the same.
- The migration doesn’t announce itself. It surrounds you.
- Overnight: Serengeti Safari Lodge or Serengeti Wild Cam
Serengeti Wild Camp
Serengeti Safari Lodge
Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater
- You descend into the crater again — but this time from the Serengeti side, with different light and different eyes.
- A full morning game drive across the crater floor: leopard along dry riverbanks, cheetah on open grassland, vast herds of buffalo moving in unhurried columns.
- The Makat Soda Lake turns pink with flamingos. The crater walls hold everything in — a world within a world.
- Afternoon drive to your lodge.
- Overnight: Highview Hotel / Highview Coffee Lodge (breakfast, lunch & dinner included) or similar
Day 7: Lake Manyara National Park
- Your final game drive — and Lake Manyara earns its place at the end.
- Tree-climbing lions drape themselves over acacia branches. Blue monkeys and baboon troops move through dense groundwater forest. The lake turns pink with flamingos. Buffalo, elephant, and giraffe appear in the open floodplains.
- A quiet, rich final day in the field — then the long drive back to Springlands Hotel for your last night in Tanzania.
- Overnight: Springlands Hotel, Moshi (breakfast, lunch & dinner included) or similar
Day 7: Departure
- Transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport. You leave the same way you arrived — except you’re not the same person.
All of our guides are experts and locals
Things to know
- INCLUDED
Full board accommodation throughout (breakfast, lunch & dinner)
Professional English-speaking naturalist driver/guide
All national park and conservation area entrance fees
Ngorongoro Crater descent fee and conservation area levy
Airport transfers — arrival and departure
Drinking water during all game drive
All game drives in a custom 4×4 Land Cruiser with pop-up roof
NOT INCLUDED
- International flights to/from Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO)
- Tanzania entry visa (approx. $50 USD — apply online before travel)
- Travel and medical insurance (required)
- Optional hot air balloon safari over the Serengeti (~$550 per person)
- Night game drive at Ikoma (available, charged separately)
- Gratuities for guides and lodge staff (customary, at your discretion)
- Personal items, laundry, and souvenirs
- Any items not listed above