7-Day Family Tanzania Safari through Serengeti and Ngorongoro

Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport, where your family will be warmly welcomed by your representative and transferred to your hotel in Arusha. After check-in, enjoy a relaxed afternoon at the hotel and take time to recover from your journey. Depending on your arrival time, you may explore some of Arusha or simply enjoy the hotel facilities. In the evening, your safari guide will meet you for a safari briefing, explaining the route, wildlife, accommodations, and what to expect during your Tanzania safari tour. Enjoy dinner and a comfortable overnight stay.

Accommodation: Arusha Tourist Inn / Kibo Palace / Arusha Planet Lodge
Meals: Dinner

After breakfast, meet your safari guide and begin your family Tanzania safari with a drive from Arusha to Tarangire National Park. The park is famous for its impressive elephant herds, ancient baobab trees, seasonal wetlands, and the Tarangire River. Enjoy a game drive through the park, searching for elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffaloes, warthogs, antelopes, and colorful birdlife. Your guide will make the experience enjoyable and educational for the whole family, with time for photographs and comfortable breaks. After lunch, continue exploring the park before driving to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge / Similar
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, depart Tarangire and travel toward the legendary Serengeti National Park. Drive through the scenic Ngorongoro Highlands, enjoying views of rolling hills, farmland, villages, and Maasai communities along the way. After entering Serengeti, begin an afternoon game drive across the vast savannah plains. Look for lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffaloes, and other wildlife. Depending on the season, you may also encounter herds involved in the Great Serengeti Migration. Continue to your camp in the evening for dinner and a relaxing overnight stay.

Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camp / Similar
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy a full day exploring Serengeti National Park with morning and afternoon game drives. Start early when wildlife is most active and temperatures are cooler. Your experienced guide will select the best areas based on current wildlife sightings and seasonal conditions. Search for lions, elephants, buffaloes, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, hippos, and abundant birdlife. During the Great Serengeti Migration season, your guide will follow the movement of the herds whenever possible. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the park before continuing your afternoon game drive. Return to camp in the evening for dinner and a relaxing family evening.

Accommodation: Tanzania Bush Camp / Similar
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After an early breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive in Serengeti as you begin your journey toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Continue through the changing landscapes toward the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Descend approximately 600 meters into the crater for an exciting game drive across its wildlife-rich floor. Search for lions, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeests, hippos, flamingos, and, with luck, the endangered black rhino. Enjoy a picnic lunch inside the crater before ascending in the afternoon. Continue to Karatu for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge / Similar
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, depart from Karatu for Lake Manyara National Park, a beautiful and diverse park located at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment. Enjoy a game drive through the park's forests, grasslands, wetlands, and lakeshore habitats. Look for elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffaloes, hippos, monkeys, and a variety of colorful birdlife. Lake Manyara is also known for its tree-climbing lions, although sightings are not guaranteed. After the game drive, enjoy lunch before beginning your journey back to Arusha. Arrive in Arusha in the afternoon or early evening and relax at your hotel.

Accommodation: Arusha Tourist Inn / Kibo Palace / Arusha Planet Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Enjoy breakfast at your hotel and a relaxed final morning in Arusha. Depending on your flight schedule, you may have free time to relax, explore the city, shop for souvenirs, or enjoy a final family meal. At the appropriate time, your private driver will transfer you to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flight. Your 7-Day Family Tanzania Safari Tour comes to an end after an unforgettable journey through Tarangire, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, and Lake Manyara.

Meals: Breakfast