keah05

Day 1-arrive JRO overnight Kia Lodge
Day 2-Tengeru cultural program - Mount Meru Game Lodge
Day 3-Ngi'iresi Village - Mount Meru Game Lodge
Day 4-Arusha Park - Mountain Village Lodge
Day 5-Lake Eyasi - Tracking with Hadzabe tribe - Kisima Ngeda
Day 6- Lake Eyasi - Dagota tribe visit - Kisima Ngeda
Day 7-Oldupai gorge Central Serengeti - Mbuzi Mawe
Day 8- Central Serengeti - Balloon flight - Mbuzi Mawe
Day 9- To Northern Serengeti - Migration camp
Day 10-Most of day northern Serengeti back to Mbuzi Mawe
Day 11-Western Serengeti- Mbalageti Camp
Day 12- Western Serengeti- Mbalageti Camp
Day 13- To Ngorongoro - Ngo Serena
Day 14- AM Crater tour PM Olmoti Crater trek
- Ngo Serena
Day 15- AM Crater tour PM drive to Tarangire - Swala Camp
Day 16- Full day Tarangire - Swala Camp
Day 17- Full day Taragire back to Arusha - Mountain Village Lodge
Day 18- Evening flight home.

I think now it seems a bit busy like most first timers I guess we just like to try a bit of everything perhaps next time I can taylor it better. ( I'm already hoping there will be a next time.)
Plus I guess I will have learn't a bit more this one was put together in a bit of a rush ( or panic ) when I realised the lodges were filling up and June is the only month we can make it this year.
Please any advice/comments welcome so I can start on my next one a lot earlier.I confess to being rather green at mo.
I know I will be calling on you all for help and advice lots yet.

Calo

Keah05, a <i>busy</i> but a good looking itinerary, including some cultural activities. Kisima Ngeda to Mbuzi Mawe will be a long day and so will Mbalageti to Ngorongoro. These drives would bother some people, but I love them. I think Mbuzi and Migration are only about an hour apart, but Migration will set you up to head north to a beautiful, less traveled part of the park. We were in the thick of the migration last year (about the beginning of July) while in the western corridor. Although the migration is completely unpredictable from year to year, you've got the western, central and northern sections of the park covered, so hopefully you'll see it somewhere. But even if you don't, there will still be lots of opportunity for fantastic game viewing. My personal choice would have been to include Tarangire in the itinerary, but it's impossible to do/see everything in 1 trip, so you will just have to go back again

keah05

Calo,
I did include Tarangire although I am not sure that I will see much wildlife I read on here somewhere that June was too early for this park

Calo

Oh sorry, I <i>do</i> see it there Keah05!
I think the end of June will be fine for Tarangire. It's a beautiful park (my favorite) and Swala is a fabulous camp.

keah05

Just read your trip report Calo you sound like you had a briiliant time, I take it you didn't have to drive back from the serengeti like a maniac.
Reading your report I just can't wait to go I am finding it hard to do anything else this trip is all time consuming I even don't want to think of anything else I think I'm boring everyone at work. Like you and a lot of others this has been my dream for a long time

Calo

Keah05, if you're anything like the rest of us, you'll be planning your next safari the minute you get home from this one.

I know what you mean about not being able to think about anything else...the countdown is on!