Tanzania Family Safari holidays

On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport you’ll be met by your driver guide for the short transfer to your lodge, nestled between the peaks of Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro at the lodge.

Get ready for the next morning departure for your Tanzania family safari holidays.

This morning you’ll travel to Tarangire National Park, taking approximately 2 hours drive.  Tarangire is a sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lions, leopards, cheetah, and up to six thousand elephants. Enjoy your afternoon game drive till evening, drive back to the lodge/ camp for dinner and overnight stay.

Today you have a long drive through arguably the best game park in the world. The Serengeti is Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park. Its name means ‘endless plain’ in the Masai language. It is from here that massive concentrations of wildebeest, zebras and other animals commence the annual Great Migration in search of pastures new, providing one of the greatest natural spectacles to be found anywhere in the world.  

The Serengeti at sunrise is a beautiful sight and one not to be missed. Early morning is the best time for spotting animals and you head out in search of the Big Five on our first game drive of the day. Afternoons are normally a lazy affair that ends in the late afternoon when the temperatures cool down and the animals start to be active again.  

Today is no different and you’ll head out for a late afternoon drive before returning to camp for dinner.

There is also the opportunity to enjoy an optional early morning hot air balloon ride over the Serengeti, with its beautiful scenery and incredible wildlife.

After the thrills of the Serengeti, you head out on a full day’s game drive through the Serengeti towards the Ngorongoro Conservation, stopping along the way to visit one of the world’s most important prehistoric sites – Olduvai Gorge. Here, you learn how the gorge earned its name ‘Cradle of Mankind’. On arrival to the Ngorongoro Crater you have the opportunity to drive through the Crater Rim and see the Crater in all its glory. You arrive at the lodge in time for a relaxing drink and a delicious dinner in the lush surroundings.

This morning the Ngorongoro Crater awaits us. The Crater is a conservation area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site situated 150km west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. After an early breakfast, you’ll head out towards the Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera, where you experience an amazing game drive on the crater floor filled with wildlife and said to be one of the most thrilling game spotting experiences. The crater won’t leave you disappointed. Back at the lodge it’s time to enjoy our last African sunset and dinner.

This morning you visit Lake Manyara National Park whose shores are a shimmer of pink, due to the large flamingo population and it was once dubbed as the ‘loveliest lake in Africa’ by Ernest Hemingway. You spend your final morning in the park on a game drive and if you are lucky you’ll see the tree climbing lions that the park is famous for.

Then you depart from the park and make your way to Arusha town at your own booked accommodation where this tour ends. Or you’ll be transferred back to Kilimanjaro International Airport for you onward travels.

Note: Please make sure that onward flights from Arusha Airport are booked after 3pm, and flights from Kilimanjaro Airport are booked after 6pm, or 5pm for domestic flights. Or consider travelling onto the beautiful island of Zanzibar for some blissful rest and relaxation.