Full day game drive watching the wildlife drama on the Ndutu plains. Overnights at Tented Camp, on full board (bed, breakfast, lunch and dinner).
A calving season Safari offers incredible sightings of wildebeest and their newborns, as well as an abundance of big cats looking for a successful hunt.
From January – March, pregnant wildebeest march to the south of Tanzania’s Serengeti where up to 8,000 baby wildebeest calves are born each day. They spread as far south as the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the lush plains to feast on the fresh grasses that spring up after the rains. These plains, with their abundance of nourishment, are also the perfect place for female wildebeest to give birth. The rich volcanic ashes blown over the ndutu area thousands of years ago fertilized and nourished the soil making the grasses nutritious for the wildebeest and their calves.
While wildebeest calves are champions at getting up and running with the herds within minutes of being born, this doesn’t protect them from predators. As these calves stumble on their wobbly legs learning to tale their first step, the number of predators in the area reaches an all-time high during this time of the year. However, there is no eat meal in the wilderness!
