Tanzania Safari: During the Great Migration

Travel with University of Denver alumni, family and friends on this custom-designed journey of a lifetime into the majestic natural wonder that is Tanzania. Behold the timeless phenomenon of the extraordinary Great Migration by land and air – the best and most comprehensive way to experience one of Earth’s most incredible natural spectacles. Here, cycles of rain and renewal dictate the foraging patters of over one million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra and vast herds of Thomson’s gazelle and Cape buffalo that instinctively gather and migrate in pursuit of food and water while preyed upon by lion, cheetah and leopard.

Visit four of Tanzania’s finest game parks—Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Tarangire—including three nights in the heart of the Serengeti. Begin your days at first light with an early morning game drive, when nocturnal animals conclude their foraging and the grazers of the plains begin theirs. Depart on a second game drive as the daylight gives way to dusk, the remarkable glow of the setting sun illuminating the African wilderness. By way of a four‑wheel‑drive land cruiser, descend into the impressive 12‑mile wide Ngorongoro Crater, a unique conservation area enclosed within a prehistoric caldera; a remarkable sanctuary for wildlife, it is home to the black rhinoceros, eland, gazelle, lion and over 500 species of bird.