Good Safari for Nature & Wildlife Photographers

(Southern Plains - Ndutu) (December – March) 9-Days-8-Nights

Lake Manyara/Serengeti/Ndutu/Ngororngoro Crater

Day.1 Arrival

The Guide will be waiting for you with sign board with your names, so you’ll be easy to pick him, after short brief, you’ll be transferred to your accommodation in Arusha.

 Day. 2 Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast, will drive to Lake Manyara National park with lunch boxes, all the way to Manyara, you’ll enjoy the beautiful scenery, you’ll break for lunch at the picnic site, you’ll continue with the game drives in Manyara National Park, later afternoon you will drive to your accommodation in Karatu. Despite being so close to habitation and farmland, Manyara has remained a unique sanctuary for wild life and more than 400 species of birds. Is best known for its baboon population. In addition, this park has many herbivores such as hippos, impalas, elephants, wildebeests, buffalos, warthogs and giraffes. Some lucky visitors have even spotted the rare tree climbing lion here.

 Day. 3 Way to Serengeti National Park

Today, you’ll make your way to Serengeti National park, (game drive en route) with lunch boxes,  today you’ll see as if the truly adventure safari has just began! Will pass through Ngorongoro Conservation Area, (a multiple land use, as Wildlife, Livestock and people-maasai, use the same area) after driving up the highland, will stop at the rim of the crater to have a beautiful view of Ngorongoro crater (if the day is clear) then will continue to Serengeti. Along the way you’ll see some maasai settlements in Ngorongoro area. After getting into Serengeti you will continue with game drives towards your accommodation. 

Day. 4 Serengeti National Park

Exciting game drives in Serengeti, Today you’ll do a full day game drives in Serengeti National Park. Serengeti offers the most expansive game viewing in Tanzania. The Serengeti National Park, meaning “endless plains” in the Maasai language, is undoubtedly one of the world’s most celebrated Wilderness areas and is an ongoing source of inspiration to tourists, photographers, filmmakers, writers and researchers. Here you’ll see animals year round, predators, and quite a number of herbivorous and birds.

 Day. 5 Way to Ndutu Area

Today you’ll drive to Ndutu Area, whereby this time of the year the wildebeest migration is around this area.

Today and following two days, you have the chance of seeing spectacle of the famous wildebeest migration on the southern plains, depending on the weather. This nearly three million animals mostly wildebeests, moves in a basic clockwise direction throughout the year in the Serengeti eco-system. It’s one of the safari highlights of Africa. This epic, seasonal journey is a deeply moving experience and a wonderful photographic subject. Sightings cannot be guaranteed as the herds move according to the availability of food, water sources and migration movements can be erratic. The wildebeest herds are accompanied by zebras and Thomson's gazelles and are stealthily hunted by local predators such as lions and hyenas. This is the good area to see predators in close up as well. Anyone can book this safari, for those with passion for Nature and Wildlife photography this is for you!

 Day. 6 Game Drives in Ndutu Area

Today you’ll have a full day game drive in Ndutu area. You’ll discuss with your guide how you’ll spend this day. You can either go early in the morning after breakfast, then come back to the camp for hot lunch and later for another game drive. Or you can go for a full day game drive with lunch boxes.

 Day. 7 Game Drives in Ndutu Area

Today you’ll have a full day game drive in Ndutu area. You’ll discuss with your guide how you’ll spend this day. You can either go early in the morning after breakfast, then come back to the camp for hot lunch and later for another game drive. Or you can go for a full day game drive with lunch boxes.

 Day. 8 Crater Tour

After early breakfast, with lunch boxes you’ll drive to Ngorongoro for game drives in the crater with lunch boxes, later you’ll drive to the lodge in Karatu for dinner and overnight stay.

The Ngorongoro Crater, is home to more than 30,000 protected animals. It is an area of spectacular beauty and excellent game viewing, a truly unique safari destination in Africa. The crater shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth. Fresh springs, rivers quench the thirst of all the inhabitants. Here you have the chance of seeing the few remained Black Rhino.

 Day. 9 Departure

Depending on your flight schedule, you’ll leave the lodge after breakfast with lunch boxes or after hot lunch to catch up with your flight back home.

 

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