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Cheetah & Chase Ultimate
It is war as old as time, the battle between carnivores and their prey. But in the African bush, the buffaloes take the fight right up to their nemesis, and the king does not have it easy. Cheetahs rely on speed and agility and there is nothing like the thrill of witnessing these graceful cats at full speed. Then there is the leopard, the smartest cat of them all. Preferring to lie in ambush, killing with ferocity in less than the blink of an eye.
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4 nights
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4 nights
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1 nights
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4 nights
13 Nights, 14 Days
FROM $ 15250 PER PERSON SHARING
- Single supplements and child discounts may apply
- Price varies with seasonality and room options
- Indicative price is for low season
Itinerary
- 4 nights in Phinda at &Beyond Phinda Vlei Lodge
- 4 nights in the Linyanati and Savute at Wilderness Safaris Kings Pool Camp
- 1 night in Arusha at Kili Villa
- 4 nights in the Serengeti at Singita Faru Faru Lodge
Snapshot
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba
From our observers’ seat, there is nothing more beautiful than the peaceful creatures of the African wilderness, roaming their territory. Regal beasts wander among them, leaving little doubt as to whom this land belongs to. Yet, just below the surface, there is an inherent violence to their coexistence. A violence that stirs the very hairs on the back of our necks … for we are not that long removed a species from this struggle of horn and claw.
A tail swishes. Blink and you’ll miss it. Suddenly, the brown grasses explode; dust scatters. The blur of gold solidifies into a singular lithe shape, like a missile of muscle streaking across the landscape. Steering its tail like a rudder, the cheetah darts with nimble turns that defy the laws of physics. The gazelle, however, was born running and it does not intend on getting caught.
Sometimes slighted as the ‘weakest’ of the African cats, the cheetah should rather be seen as the most dedicated to its cause. In their quest for speed, they have indeed evolved to be weaker than the other cats, and are often chased from their kill. But, upon witnessing that glorious moment when a cheetah runs with the wind, the rewards of their sacrifice become clear.
With this extreme specialisation comes a preference for wide open plains – room to run, of course. Thus the best locations for this experience are the subtropical savannaj in the northern sections of Phinda Private Game Reserve, the open plains of Etosha and the rolling grasslands of the Serengeti.
Overview
4 nights in Phinda at &Beyond Phinda Vlei Lodge
Phinda Private Game Reserve encompasses an impressive 23 000 hectares of protected land and has a strong focus on conservation and community involvement. The reserve is particularly well known for close-up sightings of the elegant, yet elusive cheetah, as well as the rare black rhino. Cheetah, lion and leopard are tracked on the reserve on a daily basis and guests have a high likelihood of encountering these magnificent animals. With its seven distinct habitats, Phinda is often described as ‘Seven Worlds of Wonder’, a magnificent tapestry of woodland, grassland, wetland and forest, interspersed with mountain ranges, rivers, marshes and pans. It is much more than just another Big Five reserve.
4 nights in the Linyanati and Savute at Wilderness Safaris Kings Pool Camp
Along the western side of the Greater Chobe National Park lies the Savuti and the Linyanti areas. These are not separate reserves. Both lie within the borders of the Chobe. But both are distinct enough to merit special mention. The Linyanti is dominated by 3 main ecological features – the Linyanti River, the woodlands of the interior, and the Linyanti river chanel. Floodplains, grasslands, exotic palm islands and scrub vegetation occur in abundance, and provide a magnet for the highest density of elephant in the country. The Savute has long been synonymous with some of the best predator viewing in the country, and spine chilling stories of elephant-hunting lions and warring hyena clans have been told far and wide, around camp fires and dinner tables around the world. Bisecting the Linyanti consession is the Savute channel, a mysterious river that seemed to fill and empty without rhyme or reason. It is currenlty flowing again, and has transformed the 10 880 km2 Savuti Marsh into which it empties.
1 night in Arusha at Kili Villa
The city of Arusha is located below Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It is the capital of the Arusha Region, and one of the major centres in East African. Its main attraction from a tourist point of view is its proximity to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Arusha National Park on Mount Meru. This makes it a popular layover point for tourists transferring into the area.
4 nights in the Serengeti at Singita Faru Faru Lodge
In the Maasai language, Serengeti means “endless plains”, and is an apt description of Tanzania’s largest and most highly recognised national park. This massive ecosystem actually extends beyond the park to include several conservation areas and reserves, including the Ngorongoro conservation area and the Maasai Mara in Kenya. A recently proclaimed seventh world-wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual great migration, when millions of hooves pound the open plains as zebra and Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest in search of fresh grazing. The herds are stalked by prides of lion, spotted hyena, striped hyena, golden jackal, side-striped jackal and black-backed jackal. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the world’s most complex and least-disturbed ecosystems, and with the climate alternating between dusty summer droughts to green winters and lush springs, with open plains transformed into endless green carpets splashed with wildflowers, there is always something new waiting around the next corner.
Detail
Fringing the reserve’s wildlife-rich wetland system, Phinda Vlei Lodge is situated along the edge of one of Africa’s few remaining dry sand forests.
Gracious and elegant, its six thatched suites are set well apart, and intimately integrated into the surrounding bush. Decoration is a subtle blend of North and West African styles. Each suite features a private plunge pool and a game viewing deck that overlooks a grassy meadow complete with watering hole, where guests can observe herds of grazing antelope, as well as a variety of birdlife.
Phinda Private Game Reserve encompasses an impressive 23 000 hectares of protected wildlife land and has a strong focus on conservation and community involvement. The reserve is particularly well known for close-up sightings of the elegant, yet elusive cheetah, as well as the rare black rhino. Cheetah, lion and leopard are tracked on the reserve on a daily basis and guests have a high likelihood of encountering these magnificent animals.
Phinda
From Big 5 game viewing to scuba diving with whale sharks or manta rays, watching turtles lay their eggs, fishing for tigerfish or horse riding on the beach, the Elephant Coast is rich in diversity and a must-visit for ecologically minded tourists.
Made up of a mix of national and private game farms, as well as some commercial farms, the Elephant Coast is still relatively untouched by modernity. It incorporates vast expanses of wilderness, including the 328 000 hectare Isimangaliso Wetland World Heritage Site. It is also home to Africa’s oldest game reserve, the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, which was founded in 1895.
Ndumo Game Reserve and Tembe Elephant Reserve are both on the border with Mozambique and offer unique experiences for twitchers and pachyderm fans. Tembe now boasts herds of elephants that are noted for their impressive tusks, and it’s one of the better places in South Africa to get good sightings and photographs of these animals. Ndumo is best known for its birding.
Phinda is one of the most impressive reserves on the Elephant coast, and is a great conservations success. What used to be farmland, and untended bush three decades ago, is now 23 000 hectares of prime wildlife land. Phinda’s strong focus on community involvement makes it even more special. The reserve is particularly well known for close-up sightings of the elegant, yet elusive cheetah, as well as the rare black rhino. Cheetah, lion and leopard are tracked on the reserve on a daily basis and guests have a high likelihood of encountering these magnificent animals.
Named for Scandinavian royalty, Kings Pool overlooks the Linyanti River and Kings Pool lagoon and is one of Botswana’s premier camps. It has 9 tented suites that are set under permanent thatch. Each room has individually raised lookout decks and a plunge pool overlooking the river and the marsh below, and the nearby waterhole has a sunken hide, where you can sit for hours secretly watching the animals as they come down to drink and cool off in the shallow water.
For the brave and daring, a raised sleep out deck is set in a secluded spot away from the main camp, and the grunting of hippos, the roaring of lions and the singing of frogs is the sound track to an exciting evening out, with the southern night sky wheeling brightly above.
The 125 000 hectare Linyanti concession is dominated by Mopani woodlands, meandering rivers, marshy plains and open grasslands. During the dry season, massive herds of buffalo, elephant and a variety of antelope emerge from the Mopani forests and move towards the Linyanti River and the surrounding marshlands. The predators inevitably follow in their wake, and this area is known for its interaction between predators and prey.
The Linyanati and Savute regions of the Chobe
Channels and lagoons in the bends of the Linyanti River are fringed with lush reed beds, and provide permanent water to the region, and sanctuary to thousands of elephants that gather here in the winter months. Here colossal leadwood trees stand tall and indestructible amongst the leafy ebony and spectacular sausage trees. Lion, leopard, wild dog, hippo, red lechwe, roan and sable gather here in fantastic numbers, complemented perfectly by an incredible variety of bird life.
Between the Linyanti and the Savuti marsh lies the hot and dry hinterland, an area dominated by grassland and mopane woodland, an excellent place to see enormous herds of eland.
Bisecting the Linyanti consession is the Savute channel, a mysterious river that seemed to fill and empty without rhyme or reason. As a result of its erratic flow, hauntingly beautiful dead trees line the banks of the Savute channel. It is currently flowing again, and in January 2010, the waters of the Savuti River reached the Savuti Marsh for the first time since 1982. The Savute is generously covered with pockets of savannah and rolling grasslands, which makes wildlife particularly exciting. It has long been synonymous with some of the best predator viewing in the country, and spine chilling stories of elephant-hunting lions and warring hyena clans have been told far and wide, around camp fires and dinner tables around the world.
A trip to Botswana would not be complete without a visit to the famous Chobe National Park, and the Linyanti and Savuti areas are an absolute must within the park. Here you are able to get far away from the madding crowds, and experience the diversity that the reserve has to offer.
Kili Villas are located just outside Arusha, which is the gateway to some of Tanzania’s best national parks. The villas have spellbinding views of Mounts Meru and Kilimanjaro, as well as of the Maasai Steppe.
The luxurious villas are for exclusive use only. The staff in each villa offer personal service, making for a truly relaxed holiday. Your private chef will cater according to your requests, and dedicated staff will tend to your every need.
The villas effortlessly accommodate groups of up to 8 people in private suites. Built around a central private courtyard, each villa boasts a reception, living and dining room, with the ground floor hosting two suites with bush or pool views and additional guest bathrooms. The second floor holds suites with views of the pool or surrounding bush as well as Mt Meru and Mt Kilimanjaro.
Each villa is distinctively decorated to showcase the best of local African design and craftsmanship, blended effortlessly with colonial style furniture. Kili Villas strike a careful balance between rustic and sophisticated. Textures run the gamut of stone-packed walls to cool white mosquito nets, while the sitting areas are laid out under exposed wooden beams and warmed by open fireplaces.
Arusha
The city of Arusha is located below Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It is the capital of the Arusha Region, and one of the major centres in East African. Its main attraction from a tourist point of view is its proximity to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Arusha National Park on Mount Meru. This makes it a popular layover point for tourists transferring into the area.
Faru Faru Lodge is located in the Western Corridor area of the Grumeti Reserve which is situated in Northern Tanzania, forming part of the Serengeti Mara ecosystem. The lodge is positioned on the renowned migratory route allowing guests to have a close connection with the wilderness during one of the biggest spectacles of the animal kingdom. The reserve was created by the Tanzanian government in 1994 in order to protect the path of the annual wildebeest migration and the indigenous biodiversity of this vast and important ecosystem. In 2006, Singita took over the management of the property, developing three luxury properties within the 350 000 acres.
Faru Faru Lodge is the most southerly and the newest of the three Singita properties in the Serengeti. The views of the rolling, short-grass hills of the Grumeti Reserve are breathtaking. The lodge overlooks a picturesque watering hole which has no shortage of wildlife. The lodge comprises 9 luxury tents that are modern, fresh and full of charm. Each room has its own private wooden deck overlooking the bush and waterhole.
Twice-daily game drives are conducted in state-of-the-art Land Cruisers by professional guides and trackers providing the perfect opportunity to get up close and personal to Africa’s phenomenal animals, while nighttime drives allow you to experience the magic of nocturnal Africa. Singita also offers its renowned "Mini Rangers' Course" for young explorers at Faru Faru. The program includes: tracking animals; frogging; butterfly capture and release; a cosmic safari (astronomy); learning bush survival techniques; flower-pressing; game-spotting competitions; nature quizzes and a Ranger’s test.
Serengeti National Park
During the annual migration, over a million wildebeest, two hundred thousand zebra and four hundred thousand gazelle move throughout the southern and eastern plains of the Serengeti in an indistinct clockwise direction following the fresh green grass germinated by the rains.
It can be difficult to foretell the exactly path and timing of the migration, but if the rains had been on time, the broad pattern is reasonably predictable: From December to April, at the end of the short rains, the great herds gather and commence their journey from the Ngorongoro Plains to southern Serengeti in Tanzania (January to March in the southern Serengeti is calving season). May to June see the restless herds journey north through the central Serengeti and the western corridor, between the Grumeti and Mbalageti Rivers, where they commence their mating season. In June or July, the herds split up. Some continue west, other head north, and hundreds of thousands move steadily north-west towards the long golden grass of the Maasai Mara. September sees the herds spread out across the northern Serengeti, where the Mara River provides the migration with its most momentous obstacle. It is here that the iconic images of the herds crossing the Mara River are taken. With the onset of the short rainy season in October and November, the herds begin their move back to the south in wait of the onset of the next migration cycle.
Apart from the migrations, some area of the Serengeti provide exceptional year-round game viewing: some of the largest buffalo herds and elephants are to be found in the unspoiled woodlands to the north, the Seronera valley in the centre of the park has plentiful grazing and abundant animals, Lake Ndutu attracts huge flocks of flamingos, and in the west the Grumeti River contains some of the largest Nile crocodiles you will ever see.
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4 nights
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4 nights
-
1 nights
-
4 nights
13 Nights, 14 Days
FROM $ 9190 PER PERSON SHARING
- Single supplements and child discounts may apply
- Price varies with seasonality and room options
- Indicative price is for low season
Itinerary
- 4 nights in Phinda at &Beyond Phinda Forest Lodge
- 4 nights in Etosha at Andersson's Camp
- 1 night in Arusha at Kili Villa
- 4 nights in the Serengeti at Asilia Olakira Mobile Camp
SNAPSHOT
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. – Morihei Ueshiba
From our observers’ seat, there is nothing more beautiful than the peaceful creatures of the African wilderness, roaming their territory. Regal beasts wander among them, leaving little doubt as to whom this land belongs to. Yet, just below the surface, there is an inherent violence to their coexistence. A violence that stirs the very hairs on the back of our necks … for we are not that long removed a species from this struggle of horn and claw.
A tail swishes. Blink and you’ll miss it. Suddenly, the brown grasses explode; dust scatters. The blur of gold solidifies into a singular lithe shape, like a missile of muscle streaking across the landscape. Steering its tail like a rudder, the cheetah darts with nimble turns that defy the laws of physics. The gazelle, however, was born running and it does not intend on getting caught.
Sometimes slighted as the ‘weakest’ of the African cats, the cheetah should rather be seen as the most dedicated to its cause. In their quest for speed, they have indeed evolved to be weaker than the other cats, and are often chased from their kill. But, upon witnessing that glorious moment when a cheetah runs with the wind, the rewards of their sacrifice become clear.
With this extreme specialisation comes a preference for wide open plains – room to run, of course. Thus the best locations for this experience are the subtropical savannaj in the northern sections of Phinda Private Game Reserve, the open plains of Etosha and the rolling grasslands of the Serengeti.
Overview
4 nights in Phinda at &Beyond Phinda Forest Lodge
Phinda Private Game Reserve encompasses an impressive 23 000 hectares of protected land and has a strong focus on conservation and community involvement. The reserve is particularly well known for close-up sightings of the elegant, yet elusive cheetah, as well as the rare black rhino. Cheetah, lion and leopard are tracked on the reserve on a daily basis and guests have a high likelihood of encountering these magnificent animals. With its seven distinct habitats, Phinda is often described as ‘Seven Worlds of Wonder’, a magnificent tapestry of woodland, grassland, wetland and forest, interspersed with mountain ranges, rivers, marshes and pans. It is much more than just another Big Five reserve.
4 nights in Etosha at Andersson's Camp
It seems miraculous that life should manage to cling to survival in this arid landscape. But, don’t be misled. In the dry north, the 22 000 square kilometre Etosha National Park rises out of the cracked white clay after the first rains to provide a feast of plenty after the harsh winter. Key to its survival is the scattering of water holes that it leaves in its wake. Just enough to survive the next winter when land turns to ashen dry clay and the vegetation withers into the dustbowl. Etosha will astound you with the tenacity with which nature refuses to let go. Seeing desert-adapted rhino and elephant, and lion if you are very lucky, grace this landscape with comfort and resolve, makes for a very special big game experience.
1 night in Arusha at Kili Villa
The city of Arusha is located below Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It is the capital of the Arusha Region, and one of the major centres in East African. Its main attraction from a tourist point of view is its proximity to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Arusha National Park on Mount Meru. This makes it a popular layover point for tourists transferring into the area.
4 nights in the Serengeti at Asilia Olakira Mobile Camp
In the Maasai language, Serengeti means “endless plains”, and is an apt description of Tanzania’s largest and most highly recognised national park. This massive ecosystem actually extends beyond the park to include several conservation areas and reserves, including the Ngorongoro conservation area and the Maasai Mara in Kenya. A recently proclaimed seventh world-wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual great migration, when millions of hooves pound the open plains as zebra and Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest in search of fresh grazing. The herds are stalked by prides of lion, spotted hyena, striped hyena, golden jackal, side-striped jackal and black-backed jackal. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the world’s most complex and least-disturbed ecosystems, and with the climate alternating between dusty summer droughts to green winters and lush springs, with open plains transformed into endless green carpets splashed with wildflowers, there is always something new waiting around the next corner.
Detail
Set deep in the heart of a rare and beautiful dry sand forest, Phinda Forest Lodge is a tranquil glass-walled retreat cradled beneath the leafy canopy of a stand of towering torchwood trees.
Inventively designed in a style affectionately known as Zulu Zen, each handcrafted, glass-walled suite boasts a minimalist flair that incorporates high-gloss wooden floors, richly tactile fabrics and brightly accented Zulu artefacts. Oversized bathtubs with huge glass windows invite the tranquillity of the forest inside, while spacious private viewing decks offer sightings of graceful nyala and duiker in the dappled shade of the forest.
Phinda Private Game Reserve encompasses an impressive 23 000 hectares of protected wildlife land and has a strong focus on conservation and community involvement. The reserve is particularly well known for close-up sightings of the elegant, yet elusive cheetah, as well as the rare black rhino. Cheetah, lion and leopard are tracked on the reserve on a daily basis and guests have a high likelihood of encountering these magnificent animals.
Phinda
From Big 5 game viewing to scuba diving with whale sharks or manta rays, watching turtles lay their eggs, fishing for tigerfish or horse riding on the beach, the Elephant Coast is rich in diversity and a must-visit for ecologically minded tourists.
Made up of a mix of national and private game farms, as well as some commercial farms, the Elephant Coast is still relatively untouched by modernity. It incorporates vast expanses of wilderness, including the 328 000 hectare Isimangaliso Wetland World Heritage Site. It is also home to Africa’s oldest game reserve, the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve, which was founded in 1895.
Ndumo Game Reserve and Tembe Elephant Reserve are both on the border with Mozambique and offer unique experiences for twitchers and pachyderm fans. Tembe now boasts herds of elephants that are noted for their impressive tusks, and it’s one of the better places in South Africa to get good sightings and photographs of these animals. Ndumo is best known for its birding.
Phinda is one of the most impressive reserves on the Elephant coast, and is a great conservations success. What used to be farmland, and untended bush three decades ago, is now 23 000 hectares of prime wildlife land. Phinda’s strong focus on community involvement makes it even more special. The reserve is particularly well known for close-up sightings of the elegant, yet elusive cheetah, as well as the rare black rhino. Cheetah, lion and leopard are tracked on the reserve on a daily basis and guests have a high likelihood of encountering these magnificent animals.
Andersson’s Camp is situated in the private Ongava Game Reserve that has an open border with the Etosha National Park, Namibia's premier wildlife destination. The camp offers exclusive game drives in the Ongava Game Reserve and daily excursions into Etosha. The camp is eco-friendly in every way, and has an old world charm, reminiscent of a bygone era.
Andersson’s Camp has 25 tented suites that fan out from the main farm house along a series of walkways. All around there are terraces, shady trees and a swimming pool for lazy afternoons in camp, observing the constant parade of wildlife looking for sustenance at the camp’s waterhole. During the dry months from June to November, the waterhole exerts a magnetic pull on the big herds of game, and forms the centrepiece for visitors looking to spot the nearly 150 species that are found in the park. These include several rare and endangered species such as black rhino, cheetah, black-faced impala, tsessebe, brown hyena, black maned lions and gemsbok.
Morning and night drives explore sections of the Ongava Game Reserve and the Etosha National Park. Although there are no fences between the Ongava and Etosha, guests have to enter Etosha from one of the main entrances, which is a 30-minute drive away. Guided walks are offered to guests wishing to stretch their legs and see the reserve from a different perspective.
Etosha
Etosha is not just another Big 5 reserve. The ebb end flow of the park is propelled by the vast mud cracked expanse of the Etosha Pan, and nowhere else in Africa will you see wildlife in such remarkable surroundings.
Etosha it is probably best known for its vast herds of plains game such as zebra, blue wildebeest, gemsbok and springbok, but offers pretty decent sightings of the big cats and the ubiquitous pachyderms. It is also home to several rare and endangered species, including endemic black-faced impala, tsessebe and cheetah, as well as the largest population of black rhino in Africa. The latter are often sighted at the series of waterholes along the southern edge of the pan.
Etosha’s birdlife is incredible and some 340 species, about a third of which are migrants, can be found in the mopane woodlands, grasslands, savannah and saline desert. During the rainy season greater and lesser flamingos, and even pelicans are often sighted at Fischer’s Pan in the eastern section of the reserve.
Kili Villas are located just outside Arusha, which is the gateway to some of Tanzania’s best national parks. The villas have spellbinding views of Mounts Meru and Kilimanjaro, as well as of the Maasai Steppe.
The luxurious villas are for exclusive use only. The staff in each villa offer personal service, making for a truly relaxed holiday. Your private chef will cater according to your requests, and dedicated staff will tend to your every need.
The villas effortlessly accommodate groups of up to 8 people in private suites. Built around a central private courtyard, each villa boasts a reception, living and dining room, with the ground floor hosting two suites with bush or pool views and additional guest bathrooms. The second floor holds suites with views of the pool or surrounding bush as well as Mt Meru and Mt Kilimanjaro.
Each villa is distinctively decorated to showcase the best of local African design and craftsmanship, blended effortlessly with colonial style furniture. Kili Villas strike a careful balance between rustic and sophisticated. Textures run the gamut of stone-packed walls to cool white mosquito nets, while the sitting areas are laid out under exposed wooden beams and warmed by open fireplaces.
Arusha
The city of Arusha is located below Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It is the capital of the Arusha Region, and one of the major centres in East African. Its main attraction from a tourist point of view is its proximity to the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara National Park, Olduvai Gorge, Tarangire National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Arusha National Park on Mount Meru. This makes it a popular layover point for tourists transferring into the area.
Olakira Camp is a classic mobile Serengeti safari camp that is semi-permanent. This means that the camp changes its location twice a year in order to follow the movements of the migration. From December to March the camp is located in the southern Serengeti at Ndutu, amongst the calving wildebeest and zebra on their migratory journey south. From June to November the camp shifts north to the Bologonja, close to the Mara River and the Lobo area - famous not only for its magnificent landscapes but also for its big cats, as lion and leopard are frequently spotted in the area. Olakira Camp is closed in November when the camp is dismantled in order to move to the South.
Olakira Camp is comprised of 9 luxury tents including 1 family tent, each with spacious en-suite bathrooms. Each tent is made of heavy-duty canvas and mozzie-netted drop-down window flaps. A canvas chaise longue and simple director's chairs embellish your private veranda, while glimmering Arabian lanterns offer a touch of romance in the tranquillity of the African bush. In the main mess tent guests will find the dining area with another open-plan tent serving as a comfortable lounge area with a large corner sofa and comfortable beanbag chairs.
Olakira Camp provides a comfortable way to access some of the most spectacular sights of the animal kingdom in one of Africa's most unspoilt wildernesses.
Serengeti National Park
During the annual migration, over a million wildebeest, two hundred thousand zebra and four hundred thousand gazelle move throughout the southern and eastern plains of the Serengeti in an indistinct clockwise direction following the fresh green grass germinated by the rains.
It can be difficult to foretell the exactly path and timing of the migration, but if the rains had been on time, the broad pattern is reasonably predictable: From December to April, at the end of the short rains, the great herds gather and commence their journey from the Ngorongoro Plains to southern Serengeti in Tanzania (January to March in the southern Serengeti is calving season). May to June see the restless herds journey north through the central Serengeti and the western corridor, between the Grumeti and Mbalageti Rivers, where they commence their mating season. In June or July, the herds split up. Some continue west, other head north, and hundreds of thousands move steadily north-west towards the long golden grass of the Maasai Mara. September sees the herds spread out across the northern Serengeti, where the Mara River provides the migration with its most momentous obstacle. It is here that the iconic images of the herds crossing the Mara River are taken. With the onset of the short rainy season in October and November, the herds begin their move back to the south in wait of the onset of the next migration cycle.
Apart from the migrations, some area of the Serengeti provide exceptional year-round game viewing: some of the largest buffalo herds and elephants are to be found in the unspoiled woodlands to the north, the Seronera valley in the centre of the park has plentiful grazing and abundant animals, Lake Ndutu attracts huge flocks of flamingos, and in the west the Grumeti River contains some of the largest Nile crocodiles you will ever see.
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