Your safari begins in the morning with a drive from Arusha to Tarangire National Park. The park is famous for its enormous elephant herds, ancient baobab trees and the wildlife-rich Tarangire River.

Enjoy a full-day game drive while you search for elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo and antelopes. You may also spot numerous bird species. In fact, the park's dramatic baobab-studded landscape is an excellent introduction to northern Tanzania.

Later, in the late afternoon, drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Highlights: Tarangire River • Elephant herds • Baobab trees • Lions • Giraffes • Zebras • Wildlife photography

Accommodation: High View Lodge.
Meals: Lunch & Dinner

After an early breakfast, descend into the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater for a morning game drive. The crater floor is home to an extraordinary concentration of wildlife. For example, you may see lion, elephant, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, hippo, hyena and, with luck, the endangered black rhino.

After lunch, you then drive up out of the crater. Then you continue toward Ndutu, in the heart of the Southern Serengeti ecosystem. As you approach Ndutu, the landscape changes to vast green short-grass plains.

During calving season, enormous wildebeest and zebra herds gather here because the nutrient-rich grass is ideal for raising newborn calves (tanzaniatourism.com). Later, enjoy an afternoon game drive around Lake Ndutu and the surrounding plains before you reach camp.

Accommodation: Olmorijo Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

This is one of the most important days of your safari. First, wake before sunrise for an early morning game drive across the Ndutu calving plains.

During the peak season, thousands of wildebeest calves can be born each day. Together, they create one of Africa's most remarkable wildlife spectacles (ug.tzembassy.go.tz).

Spend the entire day exploring the plains around Lake Ndutu, Lake Masek and Hidden Valley. Depending on current wildlife movements, you also explore the surrounding woodland and grasslands.

Meanwhile, your experienced safari guide looks for newborn wildebeest calves and huge zebra and wildebeest herds. You also search for lions following the migrating herds and cheetahs hunting vulnerable calves. In addition, look out for spotted hyenas, leopards in woodland areas, Thomson's gazelles, other antelopes, and migratory and resident birdlife.

Ndutu is especially valuable during calving because much of the area lies within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Here, appropriate off-road wildlife viewing can give more flexibility to follow wildlife action (Saleh Safaris).

At midday, enjoy a picnic lunch in the bush. Then continue your game drive until late afternoon. Finally, return to camp for dinner and an unforgettable night surrounded by the sounds of the African wilderness.

Accommodation: Olmorijo Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Today, you spend another full day entirely in Ndutu with the Great Migration. Two complete days here give you a much better chance to experience the unpredictable nature of calving season. So rather than rushing between destinations, you follow current wildlife movements and spend more time at exceptional sightings.

The main focus today is the dramatic predator-prey interaction, since newborn animals are so abundant. Look for lion prides stalking the herds and cheetahs using the open plains for high-speed hunts. Meanwhile, hyenas patrol the edges of the migration, and jackals search for vulnerable young animals.

You may also encounter elephants, giraffes, ostriches, wildebeest, zebras, gazelles and numerous other species. For photographers, this is also an exceptional day. The green plains, newborn calves, predators and soft seasonal light create outstanding wildlife photography opportunities.

Finally, return to camp in the evening.

Accommodation: Olmorijo Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

After breakfast, enjoy a final morning game drive through Ndutu while you gradually head toward the central Serengeti. Then continue across the vast Serengeti plains, stopping whenever wildlife activity offers an opportunity.

The Serengeti is famous for its enormous landscapes. It also has abundant wildlife, such as lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, buffalo, giraffe, zebra and wildebeest. Today also combines a scenic game-drive transfer with wildlife viewing. As a result, you see how the landscape changes as you move northward.

Next, in the late afternoon, you arrive at your central Serengeti accommodation. Finally, enjoy dinner and relax beneath the African night sky.

Accommodation: Nakupenda Lodge.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Wake early for your final Serengeti game drive. This is your last chance to enjoy the Serengeti's incredible wildlife before you head back toward Arusha.

After the game drive, enjoy lunch and then start your return journey. Depending on your flight schedule, we drop you in Arusha, at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) or at another agreed location.

Finally, your safari ends with unforgettable memories of the Ndutu calving season and the Great Migration.

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch