7-Day Tanzania Family Safari with Serengeti Migration and Eyasi

Destination: Arusha Town

Distance and Driving Time: 45 km/1 hour driving

• Arrive at any time at Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO), where you will meet your professional driver-guide, who will transfer you to Arusha Out Post Lodge for an overnight stay on BB. The lodge is beautifully located in a cool and peaceful setting, perfect for preparing for your adventure.

• Gather in the evening at 5:30 pm, or right after arrival before check-in, for a pre-safari briefing and equipment check. The guide will also confirm that you have the appropriate mandatory medical coverage and travel insurance.

• Stay overnight at Out Post Lodge, ready for safari the next day.

Accommodation: Out Post Lodge

Meals: Bed, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included

Drinks: Drinking Water, Coffee, Tea and snacks on the way

Destination: Lake Manyara National Park

Distance and Driving Time: 120 km/2.5 hours

• After a delicious breakfast at the hotel, your professional Tanzanian safari driver-guide and chef will be waiting for you in the lobby, ready to begin your safari.

• Drive from the hotel via Arusha City and make a short stop, if needed, at a supermarket for final safari shopping or at a bank for money exchange or withdrawal.

• Thereafter, leave Arusha Town for Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive. This is one of Tanzania's smaller national parks, yet it is set in one of the country's most dramatic wildlife areas. The park includes a huge shallow salt lake that covers about two-thirds of the park and lies at the base of the Great Rift Valley's western escarpment. Thanks to its rich and varied habitats, the park attracts many different animal species, including herds of zebra, giraffe, warthog, wildebeest, buffalo, African elephant, and the famous Lake Manyara tree-climbing lions. Countless flamingos, drawn by the green algae around the lake, can also be seen here.

• After lunch at the picnic site, leave the park and drive across the Great East African Rift Valley toward Lake Eyasi to visit the blacksmiths of the well-known Datoga tribe.

• During your visit to the Datoga, a local guide will accompany you around their homes so you can experience their livelihood and meet their family members and children.

• In the evening, enjoy a sunset walk along the lakeshore before heading to Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge

Meals: Bed, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included

Drinks: Drinking Water, Coffee, Tea and snacks on the way

Destination: Central Serengeti National Park

Distance and Driving Time: 174 km/4-5 hours driving

• Start your Tanzania Family Safari Serengeti Great Wildebeest Migration adventure with an early morning hunting excursion with the Bushmen, including a short introduction to survival skills. The Bushmen tribes at Lake Eyasi are divided into small groups such as the Tindiga, Datoga, and Hadzabe. These tribes hunt with bows and arrows and feed on roots, wild fruits, and honey. Their way of life does not differ greatly from how humankind lived in the early Stone Age.

• After this cultural tour, return to your campsite for breakfast, then pack your lunch boxes and luggage and drive along the beautiful high-lying farmland of Karatu villages via the Ngorongoro gate, crossing the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

• Make a short stop at the Ngorongoro Crater View Point for great pictures of the crater from the rim.

• Thereafter, continue to Serengeti National Park with its endless rolling plains. Serengeti National Park is also known as the heart of wild Africa.

• Enjoy lunch served at Naabi Hill Gate or at the kopje rocky outcropping before starting an afternoon game drive en route to central Serengeti, well known as Seronera.

• Proceed with a game drive in this beautiful park until sunset, searching either for the wildebeest migration, depending on the safari period of the year, or for resident animals that are always found here, such as lions, elephants, leopard, cheetah, zebra, and giraffe.

• Unwind with dinner and an overnight stay at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp.

Accommodation: Kati Kati Tented Camp

Meals: Bed, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included

Drinks: Drinking Water, Coffee, Tea and snacks on the way

Destination: Northern Serengeti National Park

Distance and Driving Time: 1 km/4-5 hours driving

• Enjoy another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of your time. The guides will choose the best wildlife-viewing locations for the season. You may spend time at the Hippo Pool, watching these majestic animals relax in the cool water alongside crocodiles, observe a big pride of lions, or find yourself in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest and sometimes by zebras, which travel with them.

• Journey from the wide-open plains to the kopjes, volcanic rocky outcrops that provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals. From the top, you can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and fascinating landscape offers outstanding game viewing. You will hopefully see many of the plains animals, including elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, and lions, and if you are lucky, the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as a variety of birdlife, from elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich.

• Return to Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Mara Kati Kati Tented Camp

Meals: Bed, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included

Drinks: Drinking Water, Coffee, Tea and snacks on the way

Destination: Northern Serengeti National Park

Distance and Driving Time: Full day game drive

• After breakfast, take your packed lunch and proceed with a game drive in Serengeti National Park. The migration can be seen in a long chain stretching approximately 40 km toward the southwestern direction.

• Around 12:30 to 13:00, stop for lunch.

• After lunch, continue your game viewing as you follow the movement of the migrants in the southwest of the park. Approximately 1.3 million wildebeest, 250,000 gazelles, and 200,000 zebras have been recorded sharing the short grass.

• Relax with dinner and an overnight stay at Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp.

Accommodation: Mara Kati Kati Tented Camp

Meals: Bed, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included

Drinks: Drinking Water, Coffee, Tea and snacks on the way

Destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Distance and Driving Time: 1 km/4-5 hours driving

• Have an early break and start the day with an early morning game drive for about 1-2 hours.

• Thereafter, drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a conservation area rather than a national park, which means it is managed for both wild animals and the local Masai people, who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife. During the drive to Ngorongoro, you will have a chance to glimpse something of the Masai way of life.

• After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is an opportunity to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, you will drive around the rim of the crater itself. From here, you can look down and see herds of wildebeest or buffalo.

• Thereafter, drive to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge or a similar lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge

Meals: Bed, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Included

Drinks: Drinking Water, Coffee, Tea and snacks on the way

Destination: Ngorongoro Crater

Distance and Driving Time: 3 km/45 minutes

• After breakfast, descend into the crater. The crater walls provide a natural sanctuary for the animals, which means there is plenty to see, including lions, elephants, buffalo, rhino, and, if you are lucky, leopard. The only animal you will not see here is the giraffe, whose long legs are unable to cope with the steep sides of the crater.

• In the late afternoon, drive to Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Accommodation: Not Included

Meals: Bed, Breakfast and Lunch Included

Drinks: Drinking Water, Coffee, Tea and snacks on the way