Lemala Migration Safari: Tarangire, Ngorongoro & The Serengeti

On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you will be met and assisted by Goway's local representative and transferred to your hotel in Arusha. The rest of the day is at leisure.

After breakfast, rejoin your safari driver guide and drive to the Eastern edge of Tarangire National Park arriving at Nimali Tarangire in time for lunch. The lodge is situated alongside the riverbed and well hidden amongst the acacia and baobab trees. Tarangire National Park hosts among other species Buffalo, Elephant, Lion, Warthog, Eland, the Fringe-eared Oryx, Lesser and Greater Kudu, Gerenuk, and large numbers of Impala. Enjoy an afternoon game drive before returning to the lodge for dinner

Today will be spent on an extended game drive in Tarangire National Park with a stop for a picnic lunch.

This morning you will commence the drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. On arrival at the Lemala Ngorongoro Camp, you will collect lunch boxes and drive to the floor of the crater for an extended carter tour. Quite possibly the most famous of all Africa's conservation areas, this is one of the places where you stand a good chance of seeing the Big 5. The enduring charm of Ngorongoro stems from its overwhelming physical beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident here. Later you will return to your camp for check in and the rest of the day is at leisure.

After breakfast, drive to the Serengeti National Park, undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and the greatest concentration of plains game anywhere. Arrive for lunch at your lodge and later this afternoon you will have a game drive until sunset. Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest's trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant's gazelle.

The spectacle of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania's greatest park. Golden-maned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River, while a high density of cheetahs prowls the southeastern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat. This evening you will enjoy a sundowner at the Mukoma Hills.

A full day is spent in the Serengeti with a picnic lunch. There is more to Serengeti than large mammals. Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park's isolated granite koppies. A full 100 varieties of dung beetle have been recorded, as have 500- plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills. As enduring as the game-viewing is the liberating sense of space that characterizes the Serengeti Plains, stretching across sunburnt savannah to a shimmering golden horizon at the end of the earth. Yet, after the rains, this golden expanse of grass is transformed into an endless green carpet flecked with wildflowers. And there are also wooded hills and towering termite mounds, rivers lined with fig trees and acacia woodland stained orange by dust. Popular the Serengeti might be, but it remains so vast that you may be the only human audience when a pride of lions masterminds a siege, focused unswervingly on its next meal.

After breakfast, check out and transferred to the local airstrip for your scheduled flight back to Arusha. Upon arrival you will be met and transferred to Kilimanjaro Airport for your departure flight back home. A Goway representative will assist you at check-in and reconfirm your onward flight.