5-Day Family Tanzania Safari with Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, your private safari guide will pick you up from your hotel in Arusha and drive to Tarangire National Park. The journey takes you through the beautiful Tanzanian countryside before entering the park, famous for its large elephant herds, ancient baobab trees, seasonal wetlands, and diverse wildlife. Enjoy a relaxed game drive with plenty of opportunities to see elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffaloes, warthogs, and colorful birdlife. Your guide will choose suitable viewing areas and allow time for family-friendly breaks and photography. After lunch and further wildlife viewing, leave the park and continue to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

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

After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, travelling through the scenic Ngorongoro Highlands. Enjoy views of rolling hills, farmland, Maasai villages, and local communities before entering the Serengeti. As you enter the park, the landscape opens into vast golden plains filled with wildlife. Enjoy an afternoon game drive searching for lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, buffaloes, and other animals. Your guide will make the game drive enjoyable and informative for the whole family, explaining animal behavior and the Serengeti ecosystem. Depending on the season, you may also see areas associated with the Great Serengeti Migration before arriving at your camp for dinner.

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

Enjoy a full day exploring Serengeti National Park, giving your family more time to discover its incredible wildlife and landscapes without rushing between destinations. Start with an early morning game drive when many animals are active, searching for lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, and wildebeests. Your guide will select areas based on wildlife sightings and seasonal conditions, including migration activity when appropriate. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the park before continuing with an afternoon game drive. There will also be opportunities to stop for photographs and enjoy the scenery before returning to your camp for dinner and a relaxing evening.

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

After breakfast, enjoy a final morning game drive in Serengeti before departing toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This morning gives your family another opportunity to enjoy wildlife viewing and capture photographs before leaving the Serengeti plains. Continue through the scenic Ngorongoro Highlands, where the landscape changes from open savannah to lush forests and rolling highlands. Along the way, you may see Maasai communities and traditional livestock herding. Arrive at your luxury lodge on the crater rim, where you can relax and enjoy breathtaking views of the Ngorongoro Crater before dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After an early breakfast, drive to the Ngorongoro Crater and descend approximately 600 meters into the crater for a memorable family game drive. Explore the crater floor and search for lions, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeests, hippos, flamingos, and, with luck, the endangered black rhino. The diverse landscapes and high concentration of wildlife make the crater an exciting final destination for your family Tanzania safari. Enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater before ascending in the afternoon and driving back to Arusha. Arrive in Arusha later in the day, marking the end of your unforgettable Tanzania safari experience.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch