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2012
masai Mara - Serengeti group joining safari -Kenya Tanzania combined budget camping
wildebeest migration safaris, Kenya
Tanzania camping safaris, Serengeti camping tours, Masai Mara
Small group adventure joining
safari
Note :
For a
family or a group of 4 people traveling together we assign a
private vehicle and the tour can depart at their most convenient
day
9 Days
Masai mar/Serengeti Migration group safari
Saturdays
and
Mondays
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Day 1- Arrival – Masai
Mara
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Pick up from your hotel/airport if
arriving early and drive along the floor of the Rift
Valley to Maasai Mara arriving at the camp in the
afternoon for lunch. Afternoon game drives followed
by dinner and overnight stay at Mara Enchoro camp
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Day 2/ Maasai Mara
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Full day spent exploring the park in
search of the big 5.Morning and afternoon game
drives are offered. Optional hot air balloon safari
can be arranged at an extra cost of US$ 450 per
person. Dinner and overnight stay at Mara Enchoro
camp
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The Mara offers wildlife in such
variety and abundance that it is difficult to
believe: over 450 species of animals have been
recorded here. You will easily see lions, rhinos,
hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras,
buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs,
buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and
elephant. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most
spectacular event of the natural world takes place.
This is the annual migration of millions of
wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania)
in search of water and pasture. Following on their
heels are the predators of the savanna- lion,
cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures
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Day 4 Masai mara - Nairobi -
Arusha
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After breakfast, then drive to
Nairobi to arrive by 1300 hrs board an afternoon
shuttle bus to Arusha departing at 1400 hrs to
arrive Arusha by 1830 hrs drop off at Arusha Crown
hotel for dinner and overnight stay
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Days 5 Arusha - Manyara
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Depart Arusha in the morning for Lake
Manyara. Afternoon game drive , dinner and overnight
at campsite
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Located beneath the cliffs of the
Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley,
Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems,
incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. Lake
Manyara's famous tree-climbing lions are another
reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of
their species in the world, they make the ancient
mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the
rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare
feature of the northern park. In addition to the
lions, the national park is also home to the largest
concentration of baboons anywhere in the world -- a
fact that makes for interesting game viewing of
large families of the primates..
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Day 6 Lake Manyara - Serengeti
National park
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Morning game drives at Lake Manyara
National park then proceed to Serengeti national
park. Game is viewed as we proceed to the campsite
for dinner and overnight stay
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Day 7 Serengeti National park
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Full days spent exploring the park.
Morning and afternoon game drives are offered.
Dinner and overnight stay at a campsite.
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Serengeti is Africa’s most famous
and Tanzania’s largest park covering 14,736 sq km
and is adjoining with the Masai Mara National
reserve in Kenya. With a wildebeest population of
about 2 million and several other hoofed species
(which include zebra, Thomson’s gazelle, impala,
topi, Grants gazelle, Kongoni, Eland, Kirk’s dik dik,
klipspringer, roan, Oryx, oribi, waterbuck, buffalo,
giraffe and warthog), the Serengeti is sure to
attract a string of prey such as lion, leopard,
cheetah, hyena, golden jackals and bat eared foxes.
Elephants are relatively scarce and the few
remaining black rhinoceros are restricted to the
Moru Koppies area.
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Serengeti also offers rewarding bird
viewing with ostrich and kori bustard being common,
a variety of larks, finches, and raptors can be seen
but the most distinctive small bird is the lilac
breasted roller.
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Day 8 Serengeti - Ngorongoro
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We view game as we drive southeast up
into the magnificent Ngorongoro Conservation .Full
afternoon crater tour followed by dinner and
overnight stay at a Simba Campsite by the crater
rim.
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The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s
biggest whole volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km and is
arguably the most stunning arena.
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It is frequently described as one of
the wonders of the world, not only because of its
geological magnificence, but also because it serves
as an extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of
Africa’s largest populations of large mammals.
Ngorongoro and other freestanding mountains are
volcanic in origin, formed during the fracturing
process that created the Rift valley 15 to 20
million years ago. When it peaked in size 3 million
years ago it was a similar height to Mt. Kilimanjaro
today
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Day 9 Ngorongoro – Arusha - Nairobi
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After breakfast depart for Arusha
arriving by 1300 hrs board and afternoon shuttle bus
to Nairobi – drop off at the airport to board your
home bound flight
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price per person joining a group US$
1790
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Tour price includes:-
-transport in a Custom made tour van in Kenya and
4x4 land cruiser in Tanzania
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-- Accommodations in self contained tents in Masai Mara
-complimentary airport hotel transfer in Nairobi
- Services of a professional English speaking guide
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- Game parks or national parks entry fees;
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- Arusha hotel accommodations on bed and breakfast
basis
-Crater service fees/conservation fees.
- Campsite fees;- Camping gear Foam mattresses;
- Use of our two/three person tents;
- Three meals per day whilst on safari, prepared by
our cook
- Arusha /Nairobi Shuttle transfers
- 1 litre Mineral water per person per day
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-- Start Nairobi – end the tour in Nairobi
Price excludes:
- Drinks
- Tipping
- Cultural visits to Masai villages
- Sleeping bags
- Personal effects
- Kenya /Tanzania Visas
- Hotel accommodation in Nairobi before and after
the safari
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Wildebeest migration cycle
The endless plains of east Africa are the setting for the
world's greatest wildlife spectacle - the 1.5 million animal
ungulate (wildebeest) migration. From
the vast Serengeti plains to the champagne colored hills of
Kenya's Masai Mara over 1.4 million
wildebeest and 200,000 zebra and gazelle, relentlessly tracked
by Africa's great predators, migrate in a clockwise fashion over
1,800 miles each year in search of rain ripened grass.
There is no real beginning or end to a wildebeest's journey. Its
life is an endless pilgrimage, a constant search for food and
water. The only beginning is at the moment of birth. An
estimated 400,000 wildebeest calves are born during a six week
period early each year - usually between late January and
mid-March.
DECEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH
The Serengeti National Park / Ngorongoro Conservation Area is
arguably the most impressive wildlife sanctuary in the world.
During the months December through March the seemingly unending
plains of the southern Serengeti and the Conservation Area are
inhabited by enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra. The great
herds graze on rain ripened grass. In the calving season (late
January through mid March) the herds concentrate at the
Ndutu and Salei
plains ( Southern Serengeti / Ngorongoro Conservation Area)
attracting the attention of predators like lion, cheetah and
hyena.
APRIL, MAY
During the months April and May the depleted plains are unable
to sustain the endless herds. The migration, sweeping west and
north, moves from the short grass plains of the southern
Serengeti / Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the long grass
plains and woodland of the Serengeti's western Corridor, almost
to Lake Victoria . This period is during the long rains and is
considered off season for wildlife viewing in east Africa as
roads are often impassable.
JUNE
By the end of May the wildebeest have exhausted the Western
Corridor's best pastures and the herds must move further north.
Entering the Lamai Wedge and the
Mara Triangle breeding occurs May through June. This is a
transitional period between the rains and the dry season.
JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER
By July the countless herds have
amassed along the swollen Mara River - a final barrier from the
short sweet grasses of the Masai
Mara. Sometimes the crossing place they have chosen is shallow
allowing the majority of animals to pass safely. In other areas
the waters boil with drowning wildebeest and slashing
crocodiles. Between July and October the wildebeest reside in
the Mara.
NOVEMBER
The arrival of the short rains call the migration southward.
As November ends the migration is making its way back to the
southern Serengeti and early in the year they once again give
birth. The circle of life is complete.
*Note - the migration is a natural event and the timing varies
month by month; year by year.
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