9D 8N Wounders Of Calving Season Serengeti Migrations Tour

After a leisurely breakfast, you will continue on a transfer to Tarangire National Park. One of the great parks with variety of wildlife and is considered one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in northern Tanzania. Tarangire Park hosts one of the largest elephant populations in Tanzania and is dotted with baobab and acacia thorn trees add more quality on game drive. Besides the above details the park is also home to various big cats including lions, leopards and cheetahs, as well as tree climbing pythons. Other wildlife inhabiting the game park includes many giraffes, buffalos, zebras and various antelope species such as gazelles. Lunch will be taken at the picnic site overlooking the Tarangire River. In the afternoon drive to your Lodge/Camp for dinner and overnight.

Today you start a morning by a transfer to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara National Park has a lovely environment with a thin green band of forest, flanked on one side by the cliffs of the Rift Valley Wall, and the other by the shores of the ancient soda lake. Wildlife here is very diverse. You will see many baboons as well as the famous tree-climbing lion if you are lucky. In addition to that Lake Manyara also hosts a great number of bird species hence being an attractive park for bird lovers. Lunch will be taken at a picnic site. In the afternoon, you drive to Mto wa Mbu and experience local community.

After breakfast collect your lunch boxes start descending down, set out on a full-day game drive in Ngorongoro Crater to explore the panoramic, short-grass prairies along the crater floor, home to rare black rhinos as well as lions, hyenas and gazelles. See colorfully garbed Maasai herdsmen, who call the stunning landscape home. Nearly eight miles across, this was once an active volcano that sunk in on itself, and is now a rich ecosystem with immense biodiversity and wildlife, Mid-afternoon enjoy your picnic lunch box along hipo pool and Late afternoon drive to ndutu area for shower, dinner and overnights.

Ndutu Area (Ngorongoro) Highlights

The famous Great Migration settles on the plains from about December end to March/April
Calving season on the plains (January through to March)
In the dry season (June To November) resident animals gather at waterholes – Elephant, giraffe, big cats
All six cat species reside here year-round (leopard, lion, cheetah, caracal, serval, African wildcat)
Prolific birdlife

Calving usually takes place between January, February and march of each year. In January the herds begin making their way to the south of the Serengeti after the rains start falling. The question of how the herds know when it is raining or not is something many people have questioned and the answer is that we actually do not know! Many people say that they can smell the rain, others believe they can sense when the pressure in the air changes. The only thing we know for sure is that where it rains, the herds follow. Within a two to three-week time period, over half a million wildebeest are born with as many as 8 000 wildebeest being born on the same day! The herds spend the majority of these three months in the Ndutu and Ngorongoro Conservation areas, although not within the crater itself. Many years ago, volcanoes in the area would erupt and the volcanic ashes that are left behind have led to the soil being rich in nutrients meaning that the grass that grows here is perfect for young wildebeest to munch on and build up their strength in the first few weeks of their lives. The zebra and gazelle that join the thousands of wildebeest on their journey eat the grass shoots that are less appetizing to the baby wildebeest, leaving behind only the most nutrient-rich grass shoots that are freshly sprouted and soft enough for young wildebeest mouths to pull from the earth. These grasses are also said to help aid the wildebeest mothers in lactating and making sure their milk is full of the goodness needed to raise strong and healthy babies

After a leisurely breakfast you depart for Serengeti National Park. In the Maasai language, "serengeti" means "endless plain". The park stretches for over 15,000 square kilometers. It is renowned for the famous annual wildebeest migration, with over one and a half million wildebeest and 250,000 zebras. Also, it is one of a UNESCO World Heritage sites covering around 5,700 square miles of grassland plains, savannah as well as forest and woodlands. The park also contains a variety of wildlife, including the “Big Five.” There are also many cheetahs to be seen, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelle, hyena, impala and even the elusive African wild dog. In the late afternoon you will proceed to your lodge/Camp for dinner and overnight.

The exciting sounds of Africa will rouse you from your sleep. We make the most of the day with a 08:00 start, heading off on our morning game-drive. Later, the adventure will continue when we travel Via Ngorongoro, another African icon. It’s almost impossible to spend too much time in Serengeti and with more than 1.6 million herbivores – plus thousands of predators – there’s always something new and interesting to see. The changing seasons and natural light simply add to the diversity. This morning your driver- guide will help you spot some more of the many species at Serengeti, teaching you about their fascinating habits and habitats. Game en route via Ngorongoro conservation area toward to Lake eyasi

HUNTING WITH HUDZABE BUSHMEN AND IRON SMIRTH DATOGA TRIBE OF LAKE EYASI -KARATU
Today enjoy your early morning breakfast 7:30am as you get ready for hunting which normal take place in the morning in order for them to find active animal
greetings and interact with local people, learning lifestyle, sharing stories with the bushmen people join men for hunting small animals around the camp going foraging for honey, fruits, berries etc
learning traditional medicines
making bows and arrows
going gathering with ladies
practice and target by bow and arrow
traditional dance

DATOGA VILLAGE
greeting and interact with people of the family learning lifestyle sharing story with the ladies, (they are polygamy) involving in their activities like milling corn, cooking, milking, beading cloth etc
singing and dance visit men at local factory (blacksmith) experience how to recycle the metals by melting method making arrows, knives, spear, sword, bracelet etc

After tour drive back to Arusha for shower dinner and overnight

Today after leisure break, leave lodge and transfer to Arusha airport fly back home or Zanzibar,