Family Travel Safaris

Destination

Tanzania: Arusha National Park, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro, Serengeti

Duration

11 Days

Overview

A family safari is carefully crafted taking into account the needs of all family members. This includes the diverse needs of 3 generational families. Our objective is to keep the entire family engaged in the safari experience.

Activities

Some activities are designed for the whole family and other activities are custom designed based on the age and interests of each individual. Family adventure travel provides opportunities for interactive participatory age-appropriate activities that allow each family member to create their own safari experience. Activities the entire family participates in are opportunities for the family to bond.

Activities for the Whole Family to Do Together

A family African safari includes game viewing, visits to places such as Olduvai Gorge to see the oldest human footprints going back 3 million years ago, swimming in waterfalls, climbing into ancient crater sites such as Olmoti Crater and Empakaai Crater, visit a local school or orphanage, drift through colorful African markets together, and join campfires under the bright stars in the African bush at night. Children will have the opportunity to hang out with other children their own age, allowing their parents to spend time alone together or with other couples.

Activities for Children

While on safari, we may find children from a local tribe playing soccer or other games and we can join them. At campfires at night the children can reflect on their day’s events, share and exchange experiences with other children on safari, tell stories, and sing.

Cultural Visits

One of the most memorable and enjoyable experiences for everyone in the family is visiting peoples living in remote areas of the African bush. There are a wide range of traditional tribal-based communities to visit such as communities that support themselves through grazing animals and Stone Age hunters and gatherers who go out daily to hunt animals in the bush to catch game using bows and arrows and share their catch with their entire community.

Families on safari can participate with these tribal communities as they collect twigs and firewood to cook the meals, fetch and carry water in gourds for the community, herd animals with the herdsmen, prepare foods for the meals, weave and prepare clothing that originated in the bushmen’s natural habitat, gather honey from craggy rocks or Baobab trees, sit under rock over-hangings that provide shade and shelter during the heat of the day, visit rock paintings and drawings, help prepare and straighten the bows and arrows the hunters use to shoot game, join the bushmen during their hunt for game in the bush, and join tribal chants and dances.

The family can join the circle of tribal host elders and their families to discuss the tribe’s unique way of life, beliefs, rituals, how they use their naturalistic environment as a kind of medicine cabinet for relief for various ailments, and how they adapt in general to their natural environment. Being foreign guests, the tribesmen would be interested to understand the visitor’s way of life, beliefs, customs, and how they survive economically. In this way, both guest and host get to know one another on more of an individual basis. This mutual sharing gives everyone an opportunity to grow.

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival

On arrival in Arusha/Kilimanjaro Airport, you will be met by your guide and taken to your hotel. Today you will relax and familiarize yourself with the new home, or simply relax by the pool or be taken for city tour.

Day 2: Arusha – Tarangire National Park

Have your breakfast at the hotel and our driver will provide a briefing session about the tour program. Depart from Arusha and drive to Tarangire National Park for lunch. After lunch, enjoy afternoon game drive. Your dinner and overnight will be provided at todays accomodation.

Day 3: Tarangire National Park – Serengeti National Park

After having breakfast, depart for a game drive en route towards Lake Manyara National Park and enjoy picnic lunch. Enjoy afternoon game drive in Ngorongoro Conservation Area to reach Serengeti National Park. You will have your dinner and overnight at todays accommodation.

Day 4: Full day in Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, have full day game drive in the park, lunch at lodge /campsite. The Park have endless plain which is a home for lion, leopard, elephants, cheetah, buffalo, wildebeest migration, eland, wild dog, gazelle, crocodiles and many more. Also, you will enjoy variety of birds that decorate the park with different sounds. Dinner and overnight at todays accommodation.

Day 5: Serengeti – Ngorongoro

Enjoy early breakfast, have morning game drive, then game drive enroute to Ngorongoro Conservation area with game drive enroute. Dinner and overnight at todays accommodation.

Day 6: Ngorongoro Crater tour

After breakfast, you descend into the crater, enjoy full day game drive in the crater. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the crater 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 its huge population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard. We will enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor.

Day 7: Manyara National Park – Arusha

Early morning breakfast, then depart to Lake Manyara for game drive. The park have varied habitat that attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, zebra, buffalo, giraffe, baboons, warthog, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Late afternoon drive back to Arusha.

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