Serengeti & The Great Migration

Fly overnight from London to Kilimanjaro, via Addis Ababa.

Transfer to Arusha, a well-placed gateway to Tanzania’s highlights, for overnight at Moivaro Coffee Plantation Lodge.

Drive to Tarangire National Park, its swamps, savannah, and acacia forestry playing host to wetland and woodland birds, and, particularly in the dry season, impressive numbers of oryx, impala, and zebra, wildebeest and warthogs, and the lions that track their migratory path. Afternoon game drive and overnight at Kirurumu Tarangire tented camp, overlooking a flood plain often visited by elephant herds. 
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Travel to Lake Manyara, the shallow soda lake tucked beneath the Great Rift Valley escarpment, a birdwatching haven, visited by elephants and giraffes, home to hyraxes, civets and porcupines, and the best place for seeing the tree-climbing lions, draped, loose-limbed, along shady branches. Enjoy a game drive. Stay two nights at Endoro Lodge.
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Descend into Ngorongoro Crater, the UNESCO listed Conservation Area covering huge expanses of highland plains, woodland and savannah; the 16km wide crater floor encircling Lake Magadi and its flocks of flamingos, and boasting an astonishing density of wildlife, ensuring spectacular game viewing. We make the most of it with an extended game drive, including lunch.
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Visit Oldupai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey found stone tools and fossilised bones, including a skull 1.75 million years old, recording the evolution of early Man. The on-site museum has finds from the gorge and a hall dedicated to the Leakey’s work. Continue to Serengeti National Park, renowned for rewarding safaris. Overnight at the Heritage Camp.
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The Serengeti is synonymous with the Great Migration, the herds’ circular movement within the reserve up to the Mara, which is where the Bush Rovers come in. Tented accommodation on working Land Rovers, that allow for easy re-positioning of the ‘mobile camp’, to prime locations, the Kusini area, the Grumeti and Mara River, for the season’s viewing. Enjoy game viewing and two nights in the Bush Rovers.
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Antelopes large and small share the park with the A to Z of African wildlife, from aardvark to herds of zebra, from Big Five to Little Five, from shy bushbaby to sly crocodile, and numerous prides of lions. Experience a fabulous day of game viewing in the migration area.
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Leave the Serengeti through its western corridor, emerging at the southern shore of Lake Victoria, with papyrus swamps and prolific birdlife. Immerse yourself in these unspoilt surroundings with a canoe ride through the ‘Little Okavango’ channels and along the lake. Two nights at the Little Okavango Camp.
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Take a look at life on Africa’s largest lake and the settlements on its shores, including a visit to a local fish market; and enjoy an afternoon birding walk. Species recorded here span the spectrum from White-faced Whistling Ducks to Red-necked Francolin, Emerald-spotted Wood Doves, swifts and lapwings, crakes and cranes.
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Transfer to Mwanza and fly to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s largest city, with the use of a day room before your flight home via Addis Ababa; or fly via Dar es Salaam to the ‘spice island’ of Zanzibar, for a four-night extension to your holiday.
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Morning arrival in London.