7-Day Great Migration Safari: Explore Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Natron
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40 Ratings
Embark on a thrilling 7-day private lodge safari to Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Natron. Witness the Great Migration, explore the Rift Valley, and marvel at the stunning beauty of Lake Natron.
Duration: 7 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Lake Natron - Pick up from the airport on day 1 of the tour or a day prior to the tour is included

After breakfast, we will pick you up from your lodge/hotel Continue off-the-beaten-track to Lake Natron following the Rift Valley Escarpment northwards. Your drive passes through typical Masai land and soon Ol’doinyo Lengai - the holy mountain of the Masai - will appear in the distance before reaching the small Masai village of Ngare Sero. Enjoy a guided bush walk to Lake Natron, whose shores shimmer in pink as thousands of flamingos come to breed on the alkaline lake. Alternatively, you can choose to wander to the nearby waterfall to take a refreshing bath.
• Meals: Breakfast, Picnic-Lunch, Dinner
• Lodge o: Lake Natron Tented Camp.

What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • use of camping equipment
  • All activities mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional)
  • use of binoculars
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Breakfast
  • All accommodation mentioned (unless clearly labeled as optional upgrade)
  • Roundtrip Airport Transfer
  • Professional driver/guide
  • All fees and/or taxes
What's Not Included
  • On-board restrooms
  • International flights (from/to the client’s home country)
  • Tips & Gratitudes
  • items of Personal nature
Additional Information

This seven-day private lodge expedition takes you to the illustrious Serengeti and the legendary Ngorongoro Crater. A standout feature of this bold safari is an untrodden route to Lake Natron, tracing the Rift Valley Escarpment Wall. Beneath the eruptive “Ol Doinyo Lengai” volcano lies the soda lake, Lake Natron. In the Maasai language, this translates as the “Mountain of God”. The lake’s high-alkaline waters make it one of East Africa’s main birthing places for over 2.5 million lesser flamingos.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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1990sjv
May 12, 2024
LEGENDARY 3 day fly in/drive out safari! - The trip was an absolute dream!! From start to finish - Happiness (travel coordinator) communicated effectively & thoroughly. On arrival, our transport driver, Chief, was incredibly personable, enthusiastic and informative. Our tour guide, Innocent, was extremely knowledgeable about the roads, animals, culture, weather, our safari vehicle - you name it! Innocent found the best vantage point to view the countless animals we encountered on our 3 day fly in-drive out safari (lion, elephant, cheetah, zebra, giraffe, rhino, gazelle, wildebeest, etc). He went above & beyond to help us feel comfortable & that every expectation was exceeded! Staffing throughout our luxury accommodations were all so kind & the rooms were so clean & charming; all meals were exceptional! Cannot recommend this trip enough!!! Will be telling all friends/family to go through Safari Soles with Innocent on their next safari trip! Thank you so much!
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Mish0321
May 12, 2024
The BEST 3 day fly in Safari Adventure with innocent! - Just finished the three day safari adventure. From start to finish had an amazing time. Our coordinator Happiness was communicative and responsive. Our transporter, Chief was funny, energetic, and informative. Our driver, Innocent provided history, excitement and enthusiasm throughout our entire journey. Even after long days, he had a smile on his face and brought a lot of enthusiasm throughout the entire drive. Cannot wait to show all my family friends, the amazing animals and other species we saw along our adventure. 10 out of 10; will come back! Thank you again, Innocent!!! ❤️
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761yichenz
Apr 14, 2024
Great safari provider with helpful agent and jeep driver - We travelled with whole family including a 3-year old kid. Get to know the agent Renata online via whatsapp and she is super helpful and reply to our messages even at midnight. Our safari driver is Isaac who is very experienced and helpful. He managed to show us all the animals we want to see. It's really amazing! Overall it's great experience with Safari Soles and will recommend to friends.
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Mariamhf1084ly
Feb 28, 2024
Amazing experience! Wonderful Guide! - There are truly not enough wonderful things we could say about this company and our wonderful guide ‘Innocent’, to properly convey how great they have been. Safari Soles went above and beyond to make our honeymoon and trip a memorable one, they were professional, kind and extremely generous with their time and resources (going as far as upgrading our final accommodation free of charge because the hotel we had picked had gotten some poor feedback lately). If you do end up going with Safari Soles then I encourage you to ask for Innocent as your guide. Innocent was with us for 5 days and was beyond attentive, knowledgeable, professional and caring towards us. Innocent made sure we saw all our favourite animals and even got us to see all 5 of the big five! His attention to detail & our surroundings was unmatched and led to us feeling extra safe for the duration of our Safari, we can not thank him enough for the opportunities he provided us with. Our transfer driver from the airport to the hotel, Chief was also amazing. He was friendly & knowledgeable- he made our introduction to Tanzania a beautiful one! A big Thank you to Innocent, Chief & the whole Safari Soles team- you should be very proud of the service you provide your clients with!
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Y7575jvtroyg
Feb 25, 2024
Safari Soles Tours Provides Trip of a Lifetime - I highly recommend using Safari Soles as your Tanzanian safari tour operator. With so many local operators to choose from, we were hesitant on which one to pick. Happiness George put all our worries to rest. After making contact she was able to provide an itinerary that met all our wishes from diverse lodging to any food requirement to selection of our guide and driver. All airport transfers went seamlessly. Communication with her and others of the team at Safari Soles was consistent, timely and informative. Our check baggage did not make the flight to Kilimanjaro with us. The Safari Soles team made sure that when it arrived in Kilimanjaro airport the following night that it was driven over two hours to our location the following morning to meet us at our lodge before our scheduled departure time. What a life saver. I would like to give a big thank you to Innocent our guide and driver. Without him, our experience would not have been as extraordinary as it turned out to be. He was able to locate and anticipate all the animal movements to position us in a way as to get close with the best angles for viewing and pictures. He worked tirelessly making sure we got everything we wanted out of every day’s safari drives and reviewed our next day’s itinerary with us the night before so we knew what to expect and make adjustments to our itinerary to view as much wildlife as possible. I cannot say enough good things about him. He always had our best interests at heart and was very informative in a wide range of topics related to Tanzania and its animals, culture and people. The Safari Soles team took our family trip from just a one to remember to a trip of a lifetime. Priceless!
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Freedom62660286208
Feb 24, 2024
Trip of a lifetime with Safari Soles! - I highly recommend Safari Soles for the best Tanzanian Safari Tour Operator experience. The entire staff worked diligently to meet all our expectations from Happiness George that organized our trip including booking wonderful lodges and luxury tent accommodations to Chief, who picked us up at Kilimanjaro airport and kept us entertained for the entire 90 minute ride to Innocent, our Safari Guide that drove long hours every day thru Tarangire, the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater to make sure we saw every animal on our bucket list and more, to Baltazar that drove us to the Kilimanjaro foothills and patiently accompanied us on our hike to the Materuni Waterfalls & Coffee tour, on to the Mineral Springs and back to Kilimanjaro airport keeping us on a tight schedule. It was a trip we will never forget. I’d like to express additional praise for Innocent whose positive attitude and patience never faltered and always checked to make sure we were “all good”, our new favorite phrase. It is obvious that he is well liked within the community, keeping connected to find the best siting and even stopping to help a stranded driver or two. He was instrumental in making this a trip of a lifetime for which we will be forever grateful. Thank you, Innocent!
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Excursion10828560995
Feb 24, 2024
10/10 would book again!! - I have traveled to a lot of places with many tour guides but none as good as Innocente with Safari Soles! Innocente had eyes like a hawk when finding the wildlife and a spectacular scenes of their movements before they happened getting us in position for some amazing experiences! It wouldn’t have been the same with anyone else!
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Markbertness
Feb 20, 2024
Great private Tanzanian safari experience - Our Safari Soles experience in Tanzania and Zanzibar was simply amazing, extraordinarily well organized with superb local guides. We designed a two-week trip combining the great migration with 5 days on Zanzibar. Magreth helped us design our own private tour and was extremely helpful and generous getting our trip organized before arriving and very responsive to our needs and questions once we were on safari. Our trip was a total immersion into Tanzania from seeing all the major birds and mammals you want to see in Tanzania, getting a personal perspective on life in Tanzania in conversations with the super Safari Soles guides, staying at some fabulous hotels and getting to see and interact with traditional tribal people from Masai villagers to hunter gatherer bushmen. Our local guides were truly special. Izaak, who was our main safari guide was just fabulous. Warm, kind, and a skilled and knowledgeable naturalist, he was a highlight of our trip. We also had an outstanding guide, Alex while visiting the tribal villages who was not only extremely well versed in the cultures we visited, but fluent in English, Swahili, and the unique tribal languages of the people we visited. We were generally disappointed with Zanzibar. We stayed two nights at the Cumbie Island Nature Preserve. It was a well-run carbon neutral island retreat, but the coral reefs were in bad shape and on their way out, so I wouldn't recommend it for snorkeling or diving. We had hoped to see a healthy Zanzibar reef, so were very disappointed. If we redesigned our trip, we would have stayed a single night on Cumbie and skipped the depressing reefs. We had a very enjoyable trip to a spice farm on Zanzibar that we would highly recommend. We also found Stonetown rather disappointing. It was rundown and overrun by tourist shops with little history or culture to compensate for the tourist shop exposure. Overall, I would enthusiastically recommend Safari Soles for a Tanzanian private safari. It is a very well-run small company that emphasizes quality over quantity with attention to detail. The staff and guides are exceptional and will help you design a perfect trip for your needs, rather than just a generic Tanzanian Safari. My wife and I are experienced travelers and potentially hard to please professionals, I am a retired marine ecologist with decades of tropical experience and my wife is a lawyer with a keen eye for organization and detail. So, we are potentially tough customers, but can't say enough about the quality and people running Safari Soles tours. If we return to Tanzania we will rely again on their experience, knowledge, attention to detail and kindness. They a simply a great group.
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206nehag
Feb 19, 2024
Loved it! - Loved the tour!! Estomil was our guide and he was super knowledgeable about the areas and the animals. This was a honeymoon trip for my husband and I and we loved it!!
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Ksierra1
Feb 2, 2024
Innocent our guide was amazing; Accommodations were impressive; Book with Safari Soles! - We did a 3-day luxury safari tour from Zanzibar. Innocent was our tour guide and he was amazing! He was very welcoming, patient, and friendly. Innocent was personable, very knowledgeable, and a great driver. He made our Safari experience magical! We had a fun time learning about the animals and culture. We got to see the big 5 and we loved our lodging accommodations and the food! 🤗 This is your sign to book with Safari Soles!
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