SERENGETI / NGORONGORO – NORTHERN CIRCUIT – 4 DAYS SAFARI

Upon your arrival at Kilimanjaro airport, your Migration Venture Africa guide will pick you up and
transfer you to your hotel in Arusha. The rest of the day is at leisure, you can relax and enjoy the
African atmosphere – Tomorrow morning your safari will begin!.

Today you’re off to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration. Your drive
today is spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of
the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as
far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti.
Serengeti mean “endless plains” in Kiswahili and this 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited
by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands
of plains zebras, and Thomson’s gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are
drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals
like rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African
hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds.

Today you will wake up very early to do an early morning safari before breakfast, to spot the animals
when they are more active and also to have a fantastic sun rise in front of you. The sunrise in the
African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, return
to the camp for brunch. In the afternoon, transfer to Ngorongoro, the 8th natural wonder of the world.
With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah’s
Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black
rhino.
In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several
swamps, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains.
The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of
the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you’ll ever see in your life.

Very early in the morning, descend down to the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the
most incredible places on Earth. After a stop for a picnic lunch near the hippo lake, and more wildlife
viewing in the afternoon, drive up the steep road out of the crater and return to Arusha or Airport drop
off for departure.