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Tanzania Safari
$6,690 adults and teens 16-18; $6,354 children 12-15; $5,054 children 8-11. Prices are per person, based on double occupancy. Single supplement: $990.
Trip Details
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Trip Overview
Our special family Tanzania safari provides a wonderful opportunity for you and your children or grandchildren to discover together the best of northern Tanzania’s conservation areas, including Tarangire, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti. The safari offers something for travelers of all ages, whether you are searching the trees for lounging leopards, listening to the sounds of the savannah at night, learning words in Swahili or playing soccer with local schoolchildren.
Trip Itinerary
Sunday, June 27: Depart U.S.
Depart the United States en route to Amsterdam. (Meals aloft)
Monday, June 28: Amsterdam / Arusha, Tanzania
In Amsterdam, connect with your flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport, arriving in the late evening. Your guide will meet you and transfer you to your lodge on the grounds of a 33-acre animal sanctuary that rehabilitates orphaned and injured animals. Mount Meru Lodge & Sanctuary (Meals aloft, snack)
Tuesday, June 29 & Wednesday, June 30: Tarangire National Park
After a hearty breakfast and a safari briefing, depart Arusha en route to Tarangire National Park, where you’ll spend two nights. Renowned for its huge elephant population, the park is the fourth largest in Tanzania. It’s an ideal setting for looking for lions, hyenas and other predators. Who will be the first to spy a leopard in the gnarled boughs of an acacia tree, tired from last night’s hunt and sporting a suspiciously round belly? Our permanent tented lodge has the most central locale in the park, and it’s not uncommon to spot wildlife right on the grounds. In fact, the pool has often attracted elephants looking for a quick, cool drink. Tarangire Safari Lodge (B,L,D daily)
Thursday, July 1: Ngorongoro Highlands
Early this morning, climb the great rift escarpment into the Ngorongoro Highlands, arriving at Gibb’s Farm. Go on a tour of the scenic organic farm, take nature walks, play games and go biking. Later, take a tour of the town of Karatu, which sits besides an extinct volcano. Enjoy the evening songs of more than 200 species of birds. Gibb’s Farm (B,L,D)
Friday, July 2 & Saturday, July 2 3: Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast on Friday, visit Ayalabe School, where young travelers will have a chance to meet their pen pals, take photos together and play soccer. Have lunch at Gibb’s Farm before departing for the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, where you’ll spend two nights. From your nyumba, perched high on the crater rim, you hear the distant jangling of Maasai cow bells and savor the sweetly scented breezes. Down below, some 30,000 animals live on the crater floor – a tiny universe perfectly enclosed by the 2,000-foot high crater walls. Look for hippos wallowing in their shallow pools, ostriches running across the savanna and all of the Big Five: elephants, rhinos, leopards, lions and African buffalos. As always, your guide has Frisbees and soccer balls on hand for those with the energy for a quick game before dinner. Thomson Ngorongoro Nyumba (B,L,D daily)
Sunday, July 4 & Monday, July 5: Serengeti National Park
From the green hills of Ngorongoro, head west to the open plains of the Serengeti, stopping en route at Olduvai Gorge. Its small museum displays the incredible archeological finds of Louis and Mary Leakey. Spend two days exploring this part of the Serengeti, searching for such wildlife as giraffes, lions, ostriches, zebras and warthogs. When not on the prowl for animals, children can explore the nyumba grounds with the guide, work on games and puzzles, do traditional beadwork, identify animal tracks and search for unusual insects. Thomson Serengeti Nyumba at Robanda (B,L,D daily)
Tuesday, July 6 & Wednesday, July 7: Serengeti National Park
You have two full days to journey far and wide in the northern stretch of the park. Even with the Serengeti’s growing popularity, its northern corridor – with its varied landscape of acacia forests, rolling hills, grasslands, rivers and kopjes – remains relatively secluded. Two of the Serengeti’s main rivers, the Grumeti and the Mara, run through the corridor, attracting animals in search of water. Elephants are often found near the area’s wooded and riverine stretches, and wildebeest, zebras, antelopes and dozens of other species are common, too. Thomson Serengeti Nyumba at Kogakuria (B,L,D daily)
Thursday, July 8: Serengeti / Arusha / Depart
After breakfast, say goodbye to your guides and head back to Arusha on a short, mid-morning flight. Have lunch in Arusha and relax in your day room before the farewell dinner. Fly home this evening. Day room at KIA Lodge (B,L,D)
Friday, July 9: Amsterdam / U.S.
Connect in Amsterdam for your return flight to the United States. (Meals aloft)
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