MARA RIVER CROSSING

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 TRAVEL TIME: 19 hours 

Our driver will pick you from the airport on arrival and drop you in Arusha for dinner and overnight. 

Accommodation: Tulia Hotel and Spa 

Check in at: Tulia Hotel and Spa 

Board Basis: Bed & Breakfast

After Breakfast drive to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania’s fourth largest & most diverse diverse. Stop at the picturesque park gate for registration, then evening to sunset game drive in the park enjoying elephants, buffalos, pythons crossing your path. Explore bush tracks and explore the Tarangire River’s twists and turns.

Accommodation: Bougainvillea Safari Lodge 

Check in at: Bougainvillea Safari Lodge

Board Basis: Full board night

After breakfast drive to Lake Eyasi, which is a famous soda lake near Ngorongoro Conservation Area . Expect to spend an hour and a half or more with the Hadzabe after which we will drive less than 30 minutes to the Datogas. We should be back in our lodge at 1pm for lunch and for a restful afternoon. It will be pretty hot in the tribal areas so dress appropriately. 

The Area offers a very different experience from national park safaris in the northern circuit. The location is famous for being home to the Hadzabe - the last hunter-gatherers of East Africa whose practices have remained the same for over 10,000 years. Besides the Hadzabe there is another tribe that lives nearby - the Datogas. The Datogas however are more like the Maasai. They engage in agriculture and are excellent at working with metals. 

Accommodation: Bougainvillea Safari Lodge 

Check in at: Bougainvillea Safari Lodge 

Board Basis: Full board night

Early breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara airstrip, then fly to Kogatende Northern Serengeti where the Great Migration’s most popular phenomenon, the Mara River Crossing, takes pace. Wildebeests and Zebras arrive in the North and prepare to cross the river. The animals realize they must cross the river in order to reach the greener regions even though it is infested with crocodiles. 

Accommodation: Mara Migration camp 

Check in at: Mara Migration camp 

Board Basis: Full board night

Full day game viewing into Northern Serengeti National Park, with either three game viewing or two, early in the morning game drive and back for breakfast, then go for the after breakfast and then get back for hot lunch, or Early morning game viewing after early breakfast and back for hot lunch and then evening game drive and back for dinner at the Camp. 

Accommodation: Mara Migration camp 

Check in at: Mara Migration camp 

Board Basis: Full board night

On this day after early breakfast will check out and have game enroute while driving to Kogatende Airstrip for our flight to Arusha . On arrival will have lunch and later drive to Tulia Hotel. 

Accommodation: Tulia Hotel and Spa 

Check in at: Tulia Hotel and Spa 

Board Basis: Bed & Breakfast

On the last day will drive from Arusha to Kilimanjaro for your international Flight. Departure time will depend on the departure of your international flight.

Karibu My Friends!