Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. From Tarangire, our 4 x 4 Jeep will take us to the Ndutu Area; along the way, we can stop at world-famous Olduvai Gorge. This immense ravine has revealed a vast trove of fossilized human remains and is an outstanding record of our ancient history and cultural development. The Ndutu region is known as an ideal area to view the drama of the Great Wildebeest Migration. From December through March, you’ll witness the emotional calving season when up to 8,000 newborns drop onto these green fields. Later in the spring, as the herds mature you’ll see the great masses of grazers moving north into the Serengeti on their timeless trek for survival.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. We’ll enjoy an entire day of unlimited game drives on the rolling grasslands and wooded acacia forests of Ndutu. Though this is a very active region during six months of the Great Migration (December – May) the Ndutu Area also features year-round resident wildlife that can be spotted at its many watering holes during the dry season. Look for all the big cats – lion, leopard, cheetah, serval, caracal, and the African wildcat. Plus, there are plenty of elephants, giraffes, antelope, and hyenas roaming these fields. The area is also a very special spot for bird watching.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Now it’s time to head north into the heart of the great Serengeti National Park. In contrast to the Ndutu Area, the Serengeti plains are almost treeless, stretching out to the deep horizon. But these vast reaches are home to great numbers of wildlife – over 3,000 lions, 7,000 elephants, and more than 50,0000 buffalo. Overnight

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. As at the Ndutu Area, we are looking forward to an entire day of unlimited game drives. Just talk with your driver/guide as to what areas of the park you’d like to visit and how busy you wish to be. With its rich ecosystem and abundant wildlife, the park is known as one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of Africa” You’ll soon experience this wonder as you discover all the big game – lions, elephants, giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, and a startling canopy of over 500 bird species. We will also make small wildlife discoveries, coming upon smaller species like baboon, monkey, honey badger, and hopefully the rare African wild dog. We may even find hippos and crocodiles in the park’s unexpected rivers.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Let’s enjoy an early morning game drive through the park with the lightly dappled sunlight playing upon the awaking African savannah. We’ll breakfast and head for our final wildlife viewing experience, the Ngorongoro Crater. This vast geological structure is another of Africa’s natural wonders. It’s the largest intact volcanic caldera on the planet. It is an immense ecosystem, virtually cut off from the rest of Africa that is home to over 25,000 animals. We are going to head down into the heart of this immense caldera to make our own discoveries. We’ll descend the crater’s steep walls in our 4 x 4 Jeep, coming to rest in a verdant universe of teeming wildlife. All the big cats are here as well as elephants, zebra, giraffe, antelope, gazelle, black rhinos, and even pink flamingoes. Throughout the day, we’ll explore the crater’s grasslands, marches, and acacia forests, delighting in the numbers and variety of the wildlife thriving in this giant bowl. We’ll enjoy a picnic lunch and continue our game drives through the afternoon, finally ascending the caldera walls in time to catch a blazing sunset up at the crater’s rim.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch. If we’re lucky (and get up early enough) we might catch a spectacular sunrise at the crater’s rim. We’ll enjoy our final safari breakfast and point our 4 x 4 Jeep back to Arusha, making a lunch stop along the way.