tanzania
migration and great rift hike
Walking safaris through Tanzania's Rift Valley and Serengeti, then five nights in a private villa on Zanzibar's coast.
- Private Safari
- From $16,900 pp
- 4 guests
- 19 nights
trip highlights
- Olakira relocates twice a year to sit inside the densest concentrations of the wildebeest migration, at the Ndutu calving plains or the Mara River crossings.
- Every tent at Olakira has a mesh-walled section with roughly 270-degree views into which the king-sized bed can be rolled for a night under open sky.
- The Rising Sun Dive Centre at Breezes, a PADI five-star Gold Palm operation, works fourteen dive sites with groups capped at six divers to a guide.
- Breezes offers four dining venues on Bwejuu Beach, from the open-sided Salama dining room to a single table for two laid on the sand.
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Arusha, the Serengeti and Zanzibar
Ten nights link three parts of Tanzania in turn. It opens beneath Mount Meru at Arusha, the staging town at 1,400 metres where the northern circuit begins, on a wildlife estate with no large predators. It moves to Serengeti National Park for the wildebeest migration, then closes on Zanzibar’s southeast coast, where a barrier reef breaks about a kilometre off Bwejuu Beach.
You travel by road and by light aircraft between the regions. Days run from walking and horseback near Arusha to game drives in the Serengeti and reef diving, sailing and rock-pool walks on the coast. The three properties are chosen to suit each place: a nine-room lodge on the estate, a tented camp that shifts through the year, and a hand-built beach resort on the sand.
Daily Itinerary Breakdown
Arusha Beneath Mount Meru
You land at Kilimanjaro International and wake to Mount Meru before the parks begin. This first night is spent on the North Dolly wildlife estate, thirty-five minutes from the airport, where zebra and antelope graze up to the lawns and there are no large predators. Maasai trackers lead walks straight from the door, and horseback rides go out for two hours at a time, drawing close to grazing wildebeest. Mama Simba is a nine-room lodge, its Garden Cottages set apart across the estate with wood-burning fireplaces, copper bathtubs and terraces turned towards the mountain.
- Accommodation at Mama Simba
The Serengeti and the Migration
Four nights in Serengeti National Park follow the wildebeest. Olakira moves twice a year to keep pace with the migration, standing on the Ndutu calving plains from December to March, when newborns draw lions, cheetahs and spotted hyenas onto open ground, and moving north to the Mara River from June to October for the crossings. Game often starts within minutes of leaving camp. Tents stand on raised decking, and each has a mesh-walled section with wide views into which the bed can be rolled for a night under open sky.
- Accommodation at Olakira Migration Camp
Bwejuu Beach and the Reef
Five nights close the trip on Zanzibar's southeast coast, where Bwejuu Beach runs long and quiet behind coconut palms. The barrier reef breaks about a kilometre offshore, and when the tide drops the lagoon empties into rock pools of starfish, sea urchins and crabs that local guides walk you out to see. Swimming, kitesurfing, sailing and diving fill the high water. Breezes was built in Swahili-Omani plantation style, with makuti thatch over open-sided rooms, carved teak and four dining venues from the Salama dining room to a single table for two on the sand.
- Accommodation at Breezes Beach Club & Spa
Ed Charles, BBC Producer
Fitzroy are true specialists in accessing the wilderness. They know where to go and importantly, when to go there. Highly recommended.
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- Private Safari
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- 2 guests
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