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Cultural tours and Wildebeest Migration Safari in Tanzania allows you to Embark on spectacular Tanzania safari and discover the beautiful natural and cultural phenomenon in the northern popular parks of Tanzania, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, and Tarangire national park, giving you the opportunity to see large herds of elephant, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest the big five animals as well as cheetah, incredible bird life local community and much more. Every year in this region, herds of wildebeest and zebra embark on a long-distance migration that coincides with the annual rain fall patterns and grass growth.
Early morning picks up at the Kilimanjaro international airport in Kilimanjaro and we will head off to Tarangire National Park via Arusha city, Tarangire national park is known for its huge baobab trees and large herds of elephants. Its sparse vegetation makes it a beautiful and special location, where up to 300 elephants can be found, looking for underground streams in the dry riverbeds at it best visiting time during the dry season between July to October. Migratory wildebeest, zebra and buffalo can also be seen crowding the shrinking lagoons. Here you will enjoy an afternoon game drive with a picnic lunch. After game drive in the late afternoon or in the evening, we head off to Karatu at Farm of dreams Safari lodge for an overnight stay.
Depart Karatu via Ngorongoro conservation area in the morning after breakfast at the lodge with packed lunch, your driver will drive in the direction heading to central Serengeti passing through different Maasai Bomas in this natural beautiful are where man and wildlife exists together in harmony way. Several options today are in place for you to choose including a visit to Maasai Bomas, a stopover at Olduvai Gorge, a museum withing the Ngorongoro conservation area boasting with a history dating back to the down of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution, you will proceed on safari to Serengeti national park while enjoying the game drive on route “The Central Serengeti offers superb game viewing all year round due to its abundance of resident animals. Specifically, the Seronera River Valley in the Central Serengeti is a ‘must see’ on every safari regardless of the specific month of travel. Game viewing in Central Serengeti is at its best during the dry season (June - November) as resident animals are more concentrated in the immediate area due to the lack of water on the plains. Resident herbivores include impala, buffalo, hippo, warthog, topi, hartebeest, and giraffe. Resident carnivores include lion and leopards”, proceed to the camp for overnight stay and evening leisure enjoying the bush scenarios.
After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch for a full day game drive to the northern Serengeti Kogatende area following the great migration along the Mara River or any possible location in the Serengeti national park. The game drive will be along the Mara River and other interesting places in the north where the big groups of wildebeests together with Zebras and other migratory animals will be at that particular time. After the full day of game drive, your driver will drive in the direction off to the camp for evening leisure and hot dinner.
After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch for a final game drive in Serengeti national park. After lunch, we will drive in the direction of the Ngorongoro Crater via Oldupai gorge (optional with extra cost). As soon as you have reached the edge of the crater rim, the crater appears half a mile below, inviting you to gaze at this jaw dropping natural wonders. “Often called the eighth natural wonder of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact crater in the world. About 2 million years ago the Ngorongoro volcano erupted, and its walls collapsed. The volcano floor sank to create a natural enclosure with its 600m tall walls. Now, at over 19 kilometers wide, Ngorongoro Crater is filled with great areas of acacia forest, hippo filled swamps and open grasslands. These different habitats contain over 30,000 animals – including elephants, warthogs, flamingoes, magnificent birdlife, the rare black rhinoceros and all the predatory cats. The Maasai can also be seen grazing their cattle alongside the buffalo and wildebeest”. Here you will get out of the safari jeep to enjoy the view along the crater rim if time allows. Afterwards, you will proceed to the lodge for evening leisure and hot dinner.
After an early breakfast, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which includes lions, zebras, flocks of flamingos, elephants, giraffes just to mention a few. Ngorongoro is often referred as the eighth natural wonder, it has been listed as a UNESCO site which is considered the most beautiful and unique place in Africa where man and wildlife stays together in one area, we will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here. We will stop at a nice picnic area for our lunch break and there after we continue with game drive until evening when you will be transferred to Mto wa mbu for an overnight stay until next day when you will embark on a half or full day cultural tour to experience the local community in this village.
The bustling farming community of Mto wa Mbu, located between Manyara and Ngorongoro, is home to more than 18,000 people. Spend full day here with a knowledgeable local guide and you’ll discover a side of Tanzania that many visitors miss. After breakfast at the campsite Local guides will pick you ready for a village walking tour, your guide is very likely to be from the village itself so you will have a unique opportunity to see the community through his eyes. Tours last around 3–4 hours, but are very flexible. During your visit you’ll get a good feel for the social side of the village, you’ll likely start your tour at the rice fields where you will get insights of how they grow them and you will be passed through different places and end at Local mama lunch places where you will have hot local lunch prepared there by them then you will be transferred back to airport in Arusha or Kilimanjaro for your late evening flight to other destinations.
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