Calving Season Special (Dec–Mar) — 7 Days / 6 Nights
Overview
Route: Zanzibar ✈️ Ndutu (Southern Serengeti) → drive Ngorongoro → ✈️ Zanzibar
Accommodation Style: Seasonal tented camp in Ndutu + Ngorongoro rim lodge
Meal Plan: Full-board (B/L/D)
Price Guidance: From $4,600–$6,300 pp sharing
Included/Exclude
- All domestic light-aircraft flights per the route (soft luggage 15–20 kg including hand luggage)
- Airstrip and lodge transfers
- Shared camp 4x4 game drives (typically 2x daily or full-day)
- Activities where listed (boat safari and/or guided walking where allowed)
- Park & conservation fees; government taxes
- Full-board meals at lodges/camps (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- Bottled drinking water during game drives; tea/coffee at camp
- Emergency medical evacuation to nearest regional hospital (not full insurance)
- International flights to/from Zanzibar; visas
- Comprehensive travel insurance (medical & cancellation)
- Premium/alcoholic drinks (unless stated by camp)
- Laundry (unless included by the camp)
- Optional activities such as hot-air ballooning, spa treatments
- Personal purchases and tips/gratuities
Tour Plan
Fly to the Southern Serengeti/Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Ndutu). Afternoon drive over short-grass plains famous for the Great Migration herds.
Full-day among wildebeest mothers and newborn calves; cheetah sightings are often excellent in this season. Picnic lunch in the field.
Focus on cheetah and hyena interactions with the herds. Sunset photography on the open pans.
Either another full-day or split AM/PM drives based on herd positions (your guide will advise).
Scenic drive to the crater highlands; check in at rim lodge with expansive views.
Descend into the caldera for a full-day game drive. Black rhino are occasionally seen. Gourmet picnic at a hippo pool.
Transfer to airstrip and fly to Zanzibar for onward beach time.
