10 Days Mara River Crossing | 2024 & 2025
- Best Time To Go : January – March and July - December
- Holiday Length : 10 Days / 9 Nights
- Price guide : $5,420.00
- Holiday type : Discovery, Wildlife
Safari Overview
This 10-days outstanding safari adventure structures the most exceptional and extraordinary wildlife encounter, from the big mammals to small and very little creatures in the bush without forgetting the most likely ‘THE BIG FIVE’. This safari is yet to witness the great migration of the wildebeest crossing Mara river from Kenya to Tanzania,The river with the largest crocodiles almost the whole Africa just in search for water and pasture indeed you will be having long days since the migration uniqueness that can capture your time,Sana Wild Experience will arrange the well affordable and comfortable accommodation for your whole safari.
DAY 1: Arrival Arusha
Arrive Kilimanjaro International Airport We will meet you at the airport and transfer you to Arusha town for overnight at the hotel. Welcome to Tanzania.
Welcome to Arusha the region in Tanzania that’s surrounded by a lot of precious national parks best known as the northern circuit national parks. Arusha city is where you can find best of cultural practice from societies of Maasai people, the Datoga tribe and the Hadzabe people. Accommodation as arranged.
Accommodation: Villa Maua
DAY 2: Visit Tarangire
Early after breakfast drive to Tarangire national park also known as the BIG TWO PARK, Tarangire National Park has some of the highest inhabitants density of elephants as compared to everyplace in Tanzania, and its scarce vegetation, scattered with baobab and acacia trees, makes it a beautiful and unique location to visit.
Tarangire trees climbing pythons relaxing in the branches where the fruit of the sausage tree disguises the twitch of a tail. The area also supports a great diversity of wildlife, including giraffe, Buffalo, Lesser kudu, Eland, Oryx, Impala ,wildebeest and Zebra. Lion, leopard and Cheetah are also present, late evening drive to you lodge for dinner and overnight. Accommodation as arranged.
Accommodation: Tarangire Simba Lodge
DAY 3: Tarangire Park-Lake Natron
The following day depart for Lake Natron on the Great Rift Valley from here you will travel on a spectacular and very bumpy gravel road along the Rift Valley Escarpment with Oldonyo Lengai “the holy mountain” of the Maasai.
In the afternoon you will join a Maasai guide on a walk to a nearby waterfall though its rough but one of the best visited site. After unforgettable game drive in Tarangire drive to the Camp/Lodge for dinner and overnight Accommodation as arranged.
Accommodation: Lake Natron Safari Lodge
DAY 4: Natron-North Serengeti
Early morning depart from your overnight lodge have a short walking along the lake Natron .In the distance you will see the pink glow from flamingos breeding and feeding on the algae of the alkaline Lake Natron (seasonal and depending on water level). Enjoy the glowing sun as it rises making the pink glow shine more as you get closer to the lake . Then go back for breakfast, After that drive to Serengeti national park via wasso village (Loliondo) You’ll have game drive en-route towards Lobo area once you enter the park (the Northern part of Serengeti).
Serengeti is likely the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world. These seemingly unending plains contain, during the months of the migration huge numbers of wildebeest and zebra with estimates of up to 1.8 million. Another interesting feature in Serengeti are the “Kopjes”, massive islands of granite standing in a sea of grass, which provide shelter to a great variety of plants and animals, from the elusive leopard to the tiny dik-dik. In the late Afternoon drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight . Accommodation as arranged.
Accommodation: Kenzan Mara Tented Camp
DAY 5 & 6: Game Drive In Kogatende
The Serengeti National Park it is well-known for its yearly migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebra and for its several Nile crocodile and honey badger flows south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. The Wildebeest travel through a multiplicity of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a diversity of habitat, food and water.
Kogatende is the unsung gateway to the Mara River in the northern Serengeti. The wildebeest herds, straggled by zebra and gazelle, cross over to the Kenyan side of the Mara, tending to move back to the Serengeti around October. The Great Migration,” 1.5 million wildebeest, zebras, and gazelle follow a circular migratory route through the Serengeti and Maasai Mara bionetworks, uptight with a series of river passages whose raging currents and predatory beasts waiting in the shallows make the venture more than just a simple swim. Accommodation as arranged.
Accommodation: Kenzan Mara Tented Camp
DAY 7 & 8: Kogatende(Central Serengeti)
Morning you’ll depart from Kogatende game en route towards Seronera river valley area.You will start your game drive as soon as you come out off your sweet-able accommodation.The Park is undeniably the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unique for its natural magnificence and organized value, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa.
The Seronera River Valley is one of the most popular areas in the entire park. Known as the Big Cat Capital of Africa, the Seronera is rich in lions, leopards and cheetahs. Its classic savannah dotted with acacias and filled with wildlife. Leopard can often be found draped in the trees along the Seronera River. Dinner and Overnight at hotel/camp Accommodation as arranged.
Accommodation: Nyikani Camp Serengeti
DAY 9: Ngorongoro Crater Tour
Early morning after breakfast descent in the crater. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of Africa’s most famous sites and is said to have the highest density of wildlife in Africa. Sometimes described as an ‘eighth wonder of the world. The home of more than 270,000 wild animals. Ngorongoro with game drive en-route. Besides the stunning scenery of the main attraction of this area is the variety of flora and fauna originate an extraordinarily compact area all around the year Ngorongoro is the best place to see the black rhinoceros, wildebeest, zebra, and gazelles.
The crater also has the thickest known populace of lions and it’s the place you can find the black-manned lion. Spectacular scenery in this largest caldera in Africa Later drive to Karatu town for dinner and overnight. The colorful town of Karatu which served as a comforting pause from our wildlife safari. Located alongside the northern safari circuit, Karatu serves as entrance to the Ngorongoro Highlands and is found between Lake Manyara and the Ngorongoro Crater. Due to its location, many safari goers end up overnight or stopping here for a quick break earning it the nickname “Safari Joint” Accommodation as arranged
Accommodation: Endoro Lodge
DAY 10: Karatu/Arusha
Today is your farewell day in Tanzania, its your last day of this 10 days safari after your breakfast depart from your lodge drive to Arusha, Enjoy and explore the ‘secret’ beautiful landscapes of Tanzania. full of plantations which packed within a population of the natives Lunch at the arranged site, enjoy your lunch then you will be transferred either to your overnight accommodation or straight to the Airport (that’s according to your flight schedule). KARIBU SANA
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Includes and excludes
What is included in this tour?
Items that are included in the cost of the tour price.
- Respective accommodation or similar throughout as indicated
- All meals during the Safari
- Passengers arriving in Tanzania may be asked to present a valid Covid 19 test Certificate
- Flying doctor
- Transport with photographic roof hatch land cruiser driven by professional guide
- Unlimited drinking water during the Safari
- All national park entry fees
- Visit Maasai village
- Government Taxes
- All airport transfers
- Programs as stipulated
What is included in this tour?
Items that are not included in the cost of the tour price.
- Tourist visas
- Travel Insurance
- International flights to Kilimanjaro and any other flights(local flights can arranged)
- Personal shopping and memorabilia
- Drinks and refreshments
- Tip to your driver guide
- Tip to porters
- Cost to anything not mentioned at the list of included
