Tanzania Family Safari

You will visit Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive. Stretching along the base of the Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is home to giant fig trees, acacia woodlands, mahogany trees and grassy flood plains. The contrasts of this area are simply breathtaking with its open plains, huge escarpment, Soda Lake, dense woodlands, and distant volcanic peaks coming together in an area best described by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.

Animals such as large buffalo, wildebeest, giraffes, mongoose, dik-dik and zebra herds congregate on the grassy plains while the narrow belt of acacia woodland is home to the legendary tree-climbing lions and tusked elephants.

Lake Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife with more than 400 species being recorded. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks.

Main Destination: Lake Manyara

Accommodation: Serena Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included

Drinking-Water (Other Drinks not included)

Drive into the famous Ngorongoro crater. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Maasai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater

Accommodation: Serena Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included

Drinking-Water (Other Drinks not included)

We will depart for the Ngorongoro Crater early in the morning as it is a wonderful time to spot game. We will go on a game drive with a picnic lunch inside the crater. The majority of the animals tend to reside within the crater due to its elevated structure.

There is a high possibility of spotting every member of ‘The Big 5’. The group comprises some of the strongest animals in Africa – the ferocious lion, the giant elephant, the swift leopard, the tough rhino and the charging buffalo. The Crater formed millions of years ago when a large volcano erupted. You can expect to encounter zebra, hippo, wildebeest and cackling hyenas. There are graceful flamingos along the Soda Lake and vultures are constantly circling the sky in search of a discarded carcass. Storks and geese are popular waterbirds in the crater. The game drive will conclude shortly after lunch.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater

Accommodation: Serena Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included

Drinking-Water (Other Drinks not included)

Transfer after your morning breakfast for Serengeti National Park. This will take up to 8 hours of driving through rough roads.

Visit Oldu Vai Gorge on your way to Serengeti

Serengeti National Park is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering. Enjoy your en-route game drive at Serengeti National Park. Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Serengeti Safari Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included

Drinking-Water (Other Drinks not included)

If you start first thing in the morning, you will find the Serengeti at its most active. This is when Africa can reveal its cool side, so you should wrap up warm (we aim to be on the road before the sun rises at around 6.00 am). Our open vehicles bring you as close as possible to the wildlife, just when the action is likely to be most exciting. Few predators hunt during the heat of the day, so the early morning is the best time to observe the thrill of the chase. It is also a magical time, with the subtle light dappling the landscape, the birds awakening and the sense of a great adventure beginning to unfurl. And just when your stomach starts to complain, we’ll give you a late breakfast in the bush, before further viewing leads you back at about 11.00 am, in good time for lunch at the camp.

* The best time to see wildlife

* Witness a whole new aspect of the Mara

 * An ideal start to the day heading into the bush for an evening game drive has a level of excitement and character all its own, as predators begin their nightly search for prey. As the day cools and the sky is streaked by red, gold and orange hues, you may be surprised by the roar of a lion, a galloping giraffe, or the high pitched giggling of hyenas’ fighting over a kill. At a suitable vantage point, your guide will pause, allowing you to enjoy a sundowner in blissful comfort.

* Explore the Serengeti between 4.00 pm and 6.30 pm, as day gives way to night * Witness the arrival of the night’s predators

* Enjoy a sundowner as the sun sinks below the horizon

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park

Accommodation: Serengeti Safari Lodge

Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included Drinking Water (Other Drinks not included)

Wake up for a Safari drive and breakfast and afterwards drive to the Airstrip for your flight to Arusha (Included in the rate)

Departure times – 10.30am and 14.00pm

End of Tour