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8 Days Tanzania Family Safari

8 Days Tanzania Family Safari

DAY 01: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport to Arusha

Distance: 43 Km 
Time: 45 Minutes

Welcome to Tanzania. On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you’ll meet your company arranged driver who will transfer you to Arusha city to  Green Mountain Hotel  for dinner and overnight. Our driver will display your group name on an signboard. These procedures ensure that you are picked up by the correct driver, rather than by some of the airport taxi drivers who are looking for business. You’ll get a chance for Safari briefing/introduction before your dinner.

  • Hours:45 Minutes
  • Meals: Dinner and Overnight.
  • Accommodation: Green Mountain Hotel
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide.

DAY 02: Arusha to Arusha National Park

Distance: 51 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hrs

Activities in the park.

  • Walking Tour
  • Game Drive

After breakfast with picnic lunch the tour depart for Arusha National Park. The topography of this small park is amazingly varied including grassy plains, montane forest, volcanic craters, swamps, and saline lakes. On clear days you have excellent views of Mount Meru and of Mount Kilimanjaro. From this park hope to see giraffe, buffalo and black and white colobus monkeys, as well as some of the shy forest antelope – bushbuck, red duiker and maybe suni. You will have three activities to do in this park as follow.

Walking Tour: At the Momella Gate, an armed ranger will be waiting for you to accompany you on the walking safari that will give you the chance to experience the wildlife up-close. Only a few other national parks in Tanzania give you such an opportunity and it is something that should not be missed.

Game Drive: Get back to your safari vehicle so that you may continue with game drive before you head back to Arusha see giraffe, buffalo and black and white colobus monkeys, as well as some of the shy forest antelope – bushbuck, red duiker and other animals. The national park is inhabited by over 400 different migrant and resident bird species. The most famous bird species in the Arusha National Park are water fowls such as little grebes, eagles, poachers, geese, hamerkop, red shark, spurwinged goose, woodpecker, herons, secretary bird and grey parrot. Later evening you will drive back to Green Mountain Hotel for Dinner and Overnight.

  • Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
  • Accommodation: Green Mountain Hotel
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide

DAY 03: Arusha to Tarangire National Park.

Distance: 130 Km
Non – game viewing time: 2 – 3 hrs

After breakfast the tour departs. First stop is Arusha Town for any last minute purchases before you head off on safari. Afterwards you head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the center of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebras. In Tarangire National Park northern Tanzania’s you will enjoy finest birding. The low baobab-clad plains and fever-tree groves here support many cool species including three Tanzanian endemics and near-endemics: Over 550 bird’s species found in the park including Ashy Starling, Yellow-collared Lovebird, and Rufus-tailed Weaver. The lush grasses are full of ground birds like Northern White-bellied Bustard and both Red-necked and Yellow-necked Francolins and many others. After extensive game drive you will drive back to Karatu to Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.

  • Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
  • Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide.

DAY 04: Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park.

Distance: 50 Km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hr

After tasty breakfast from your hotel the tour will departs to Lake Manyara National Park. Lake Manyara National Park offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats. Acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps and the lake itself. And thanks to this the small Park is able to support a large number of animal species and incredible bird life. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world, also include Buffalo, Elephant Wildebeest, Zebra, Waterbuck, Warthog, Impala and also Manyara health population lion are famous for their tree-climbing antics.

Lake Manyara National Park has over 300 bird species including Eurasian migrant birds, acacia associated birds, raptors, and 3 endangered Tanzanian species: Rufous-tailed weaver, Ashy starlings and Black-collared Lovebird. The bush clups on the edge of the floodplain is occupied by groups of Long-tailed fiscal, the rare Pangani Long claw. The birds in the Lake Manyara forest are: Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, Narina Trogon, Crowned Hornbill, Schawlow’s Turaco, Emerald Cuckoo, Crowned Eagle and ground dwelling Crested Guinea fowl and many more can also be found in the Lake Manyara National Park. Late afternoon drive back to Karatu at Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.

  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
  • Accommodation::Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide

DAY 05: Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park.

Distance: 145km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs

After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, you descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. Heard direct to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park. Early evening you’ll drive to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and overnight.

  • Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
  • Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide.

DAY 06: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park.

Morning Balloon Safari at Western Corridor of Serengeti (Central Serengeti) after breakfast you’ll transferred by you safari driver/guide to balloon starting where you’ll be able to capture aerial pictures. (OPTIONAL)

After breakfast, you will have a full day game drive in Central Serengeti for the full day game drive. Apart from the large mammals, Serengeti is also home to gaudy agama lizards; Rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite kopjes. Wide varieties of dung beetle were found, and around 500 bird species have been recorded ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills. During early evening after extensive game drive you’ll drive back to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight

  • Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
  • Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide.

DAY 07: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater.

Distance: 145 Km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4
hrs

Culture: Maasai Boma Visiting

Say good bye to Serengeti National Park. After breakfast you’ll have early morning game drives in Serengeti Park and after the tour departs to Ngorongoro Conservation area. You’ll stop at one of the Maasai Boma where you’ll learn Maasai culture; you’ll be welcomed by beautiful Maasai song. The time to exchange culture “Interact with other culture”. Later afternoon proceed to Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge where you’ll have your Dinner and Overnight.

  • Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
  • Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide.

DAY 08: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha.

Distance: 145 Km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs

After an early breakfast with your picnic lunch box from your lodge, you’ll descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. You’ll visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Late afternoon after extensive game drive you’ll drive back to Arusha to your hotel for dinner and Overnight.

  • Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
  • Accommodation: Green Mounatin Hotel
  • Guide: Professional English speaking guide.

DAY 00: Departure from Arusha to JRO Airport.

OPTIONAL (GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY)

You can also arrange to visit girls center Inuka Tusonge Foundation (ITF) and spent at least one hour with underprivileged girls and share some ideas with them while having a cup of African coffee, which arranged by the company before you leave to the airport.

Or go direct to the JRO Airport.

After tasty breakfast from the hotel in Arusha you will be picked up for the transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport (JRO) where you’ll board your flight back to your lovely country with good memorable of Africa

Tour Includes:

  • Arusha accommodation before & after safari.
  • Transportation in 4×4 pop-up safari vehicle
  • Professional, English speaking guide
  • Meals: Breakfast-Lunch & Dinner
  • Accommodation during safari
  • Airport Transfer to and from
  • All national park fees
  • Arusha park ranger
  • Mineral water
  • Free Wi-Fi

Tour Excludes:

  • Flight
  • Visa fees
  • Tips to Driver/Guide 
  • Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.
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