Tanzania Family Safari Adventure
The 7-Day Tanzania Family Safari Adventure is a specially designed safari for families who want to discover Tanzania's incredible wildlife, spectacular landscapes, and rich culture together.
This family-friendly journey combines Tarangire National Park, Serengeti National Park, and the Ngorongoro Crater, offering a wonderful balance of wildlife viewing, comfortable accommodation, scenic drives, and relaxing family time.
Throughout the safari, your experienced private guide will adjust the pace according to your family's needs, allowing plenty of time for rest, photography, and wildlife observation. Children will have the opportunity to see elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, hippos, and many other animals in their natural environment.
Highlights
Itinerary
Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport, your family will be warmly welcomed by our safari representative.
You will be transferred to your hotel in Arusha.
- Meet your private safari guide
- Receive a briefing about the safari
- Check into your family-friendly accommodation
- Relax after your journey
- Children can enjoy the hotel facilities and surrounding environment
- Enjoy dinner and prepare for the safari adventure
Meals: Dinner
Accommodation: Kutoka Lodge
After breakfast, depart Arusha and drive to Tarangire National Park.
Tarangire is an excellent destination for families because of its beautiful landscapes and large elephant populations.
- Enter the park and begin your first game drive
- Search for large elephant herds
- Look for lions, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, buffaloes, monkeys, and antelopes
- Learn from your guide about animal behavior and the Tarangire ecosystem
- Enjoy a picnic lunch in a designated area
- Continue with an afternoon game drive
- Take breaks when needed for the children
- Leave the park in the late afternoon
- Drive to your family-friendly lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Family-Friendly Lodge/Tented Camp near Tarangire or Karatu
After breakfast, depart for the world-famous Serengeti National Park.
- Travel through the scenic landscapes of the Ngorongoro Highlands
- Enjoy beautiful views along the journey
- Enter Serengeti and begin your first game drive
- Search for lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, cheetahs, and hyenas
- Your guide will make regular stops for wildlife viewing and photography
- Enjoy a picnic lunch during the journey
- Continue the afternoon game drive
- Arrive at your family-friendly lodge or tented camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Family-Friendly Lodge/Tented Camp in Serengeti
Today is dedicated to exploring the incredible Serengeti National Park.
After breakfast:
Set out on a private game drive at a comfortable family-friendly pace
Search for lions and other predators
Look for elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, and wildebeest
Depending on the season, search for Great Migration herds
Stop at safe and scenic locations for photographs
Enjoy a picnic lunch in the Serengeti
Learn interesting facts about wildlife from your guide
Continue exploring the park in the afternoon
Return to your lodge before sunset
Enjoy dinner and relax with your family
Optional Family Activity: Depending on age requirements and location, arrange a supervised nature walk or cultural experience.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Family-Friendly Lodge/Tented Camp in Serengeti
After breakfast, enjoy a final morning game drive in Serengeti before heading toward Ngorongoro.
- Enjoy an early morning wildlife drive
- Search for animals along the route
- Leave Serengeti and travel toward the Ngorongoro Highlands
- Enjoy beautiful scenery along the way
- Have a picnic lunch
- Arrive at your lodge near the crater rim
- Relax and enjoy spectacular views of Ngorongoro Crater
- Enjoy dinner and a peaceful evening
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Family-Friendly Lodge near Ngorongoro
After an early breakfast, descend approximately 600 meters into the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater.
The crater is one of the best places in Tanzania for families to see a wide variety of wildlife within a relatively compact area.
- Begin your game drive on the crater floor
- Search for elephants, lions, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, hippos, and hyenas
- Look for the endangered black rhinoceros
- Visit the crater's beautiful lakes and wetlands
- Observe flamingos and other bird species
- Enjoy a picnic lunch in a designated area
- Continue the afternoon game drive
- Ascend the crater walls
- Return to your family-friendly lodge for dinner
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Family-Friendly Lodge near Ngorongoro
After breakfast, begin your journey back to Arusha.
Depending on your family's flight schedule:
- Enjoy a relaxed morning at the lodge
- Depart Ngorongoro and drive toward Arusha
- Enjoy a scenic journey through northern Tanzania
- Stop for lunch along the way
- Optional stop at a local cultural or souvenir market
- Arrive in Arusha
- Transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport for your onward flight
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
End of Safari
included
- Private 4×4 safari vehicle with pop-up roof
- Professional English-speaking private safari guide
- Family-friendly safari planning and flexible schedule
- All national park entrance fees
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area fees
- Family-friendly accommodation
- All meals as indicated in the itinerary
- Bottled drinking water during safari
- Private game drives
- Airport transfers
- Government taxes and applicable tourism fees
excluded
- International flights
- Domestic flights unless specified
- Tanzania visa fees
- Travel and medical insurance
- Alcoholic and premium beverages
- Laundry services
- Personal expenses
- Souvenirs and shopping
- Optional activities not mentioned in the itinerary
- Tips for safari guide, lodge staff, and other crew