This 7-day Explorer Migration Group Safari is similar to our 8-day Wildebeest Migration Group Safari. This safari offers an extraordinary journey through the most beautiful landscapes, staying in Serena Lodges in some of the finest locations. The itinerary gives excellent opportunities to explore Tanzania’s iconic national parks and reserves – Tarangire, the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti (3 nights). With this group safari we spent less time driving back on the main road. The price is less, but the experience is the same (just more comfortable).
Search for the “Big Five” in the scenic Tarangire National Park, the wildlife-teeming Ngorongoro Crater and the plains of the Serengeti
(Road & Fly Safari)
Our small group safaris offer the opportunity to explore Tanzania while enjoying the company of an intimate group of like-minded safari enthusiasts on a set itinerary. All Small Guided Group Tours can be booked on a Private Basis.
Game drive in Tarangire National Park
Half day Crater Tour (game drive)
Game Drive in Serengeti National Park
Flight back to Arusha
Flight from Johannesburg to Kilimanjaro Airport. Our friendly safari team will welcome you at Kilimanjaro Airport, and transfer you to Arusha. Arusha is the hub of Tanzania's legendary Northern safari circuit and home to Mt Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire, and Lake Manyara National Parks. Arusha is also one of the major coffee-growing regions in Tanzania.
Stay: Kahawa Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Lunch, dinner & breakfast.
After breakfast, we meet our guide for a short briefing. We head off to Tarangire National Park, known as the land of giants - elephants and baobab trees. The landscape is ironically African with open Acacia woodlands and Baobab trees scattered all over the area. It has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem.
Late afternoon we travel towards the local town of Mto Wa Mbu (Maasai for Mosquito Village – the only place in Tanzania which represents all tribes – 120 ethnic groups). Bananas are the main export in the area, and there are over thirty species of banana in the village, including a red banana which we recommend you give a try! We continue to drive up the Rift Valley escarpment to our lodge, perched on the edge of the Rift Valley with distant views over Lake Manyara.
Stay: Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Picnic lunch, dinner & breakfast
After breakfast, we drive from Lake Manyara with a stop at the African Galleria (for shopping Tanzania art, Masaai blankets, memorabilia, and Tanzanites), before driving to the Crater to enjoy an extended game drive along the Crater floor. A steep entry track leads us 600m down to the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater floor (referred to as the Garden of Eden). A big drawcard to this picturesque park is its dense population of predators, which includes lions, hyenas, jackals, and the ever-elusive leopard. People like to visit the crater at this time of year because of the large likelihood of encountering the Big 5. Late afternoon ascent to the crater rim with a short drive to your camp, enjoying views of the surrounding highlands which form together with the Crater one of Africa's most beautiful regions.
Stay: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Picnic lunch, dinner & breakfast
After breakfast, we continue our journey to the Serengeti National Park with the option to visit a Maasai village near Ngorongoro Crater (own account). After bidding the Maasai farewell, we continue our journey to the Central Serengeti with game viewing as we make our way towards the camp. The Central area encompasses the world-famous Seronera Valley which is known for its prime wildlife-viewing opportunities. You can visualise the meaning of the word ‘Serengeti’ at this point – which means the ‘endless plains’ in Maasai. The Serengeti - is renowned for its incredible concentrations of predators and the Great Migration of more than 1,5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras.
Stay: Serengeti Safari Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Picnic lunch, dinner & breakfast
For a once in a lifetime experience, we highly recommend an early morning hot air balloon safaris (will be for your account) – a unique 'bird's eye' game viewing experience, before landing in the beautiful wilderness and enjoying a full bush-style breakfast, complete with fresh coffee, tea, fruits, and champagne.
Enjoy two full days in the Serengeti - explore more of what the Serengeti offers and enjoy the greatest safari spectacle in the world – the great wildebeest migration as massive herds of wildebeest call the Central Serengeti home during this time of the year. The annual Wildebeest Migration is one of Africa's most breathtaking experiences.
Stay: Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Room: Standard room
Meals: Picnic lunch, dinner & breakfast
Check-out at the camp after a packed safari filled with endless memories and sightings and drive to the Seronera airstrip for our flight by light aircraft to Arusha where we stop at the Cultural Heritage Centre (for shopping of Tanzania art, memorabilia, and Tanzanites), and enjoy our picnic lunch. Our safari adventure comes to an end as we drive to Kilimanjaro Airport for your onward flight home.
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SMALL GROUP DEPARTURE Dates:
This 07-Day Explorer Migration Group Safaris depart during May on a set departure date.
02 – 08 May ‘26
16 – 22 May ‘26
SA Resident:
Price per Person SHARING: R61,379 pp
Price per SINGLE Traveller: R69,294 pp
International Traveller:
Price per Person SHARING: US$3,275 pp
Price per SINGLE Traveller: US$3,766 PP
International Flights From South Africa:
International flights from Johannesburg or Cape Town are available on Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airlines.
A 2,642 km² park in northern Tanzania named after the Tarangire River that flows through it. Tarangire is characterized by classic African savanna dotted with monumental baobab trees and is especially known for its large elephant populations (during the dry season, it has one of the highest concentrations of elephants). The park also shelters plentiful wildlife like wildebeest, zebra, giraffe, buffalo, and predators, all drawn to its life-sustaining river and swamps.
Tanzania’s flagship park, covering ~14,763 km² of rolling plains, kopjes, and riverine forests. The Serengeti hosts Earth’s greatest large-mammal migration: each year nearly 2 million wildebeest, zebras and gazelles follow the rains in a epic circular trek. It’s also famed for its predators – the vast plains sustain around 3,000 lions, plus many leopards, cheetahs, hyenas – offering some of the most spectacular wildlife viewing on the planet.
The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest unbroken volcanic caldera and is regarded as the 8th wonder of the world. It is one of the most diverse and fascinating areas of Tanzania and has been given the status of a World heritage site and International Biosphere Reserve. The fertile slopes and steep forest-covered walls are home to approximately 30,000 animals including the rare black rhino. The various ecosystems found within the 260 square kilometre crater floor sustain Cape buffalo, elephants, wildebeest, zebras, elands, gazelles, hippos, numerous bird species as well as a high concentration of predators. Although birdlife is generally good throughout the year, from November to April, migratory birds from Europe and Northern Africa are present and many resident birds are in breeding plumage.
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