Family Safari
Overview
Arusha · Tarangire · Serengeti · Ngorongoro · Karatu · Mto wa Mbu
Every day here is private — your own guide and your own vehicle — so the order holds but the hours are yours to move.
Your guide meets you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and drives you to Mount Meru Game Lodge, which has grounds children can be let loose in after a long flight.
Dinner, and an early night. Nothing else is asked of anyone today.
Your Stay
Mount Meru Game Lodge
After breakfast you drive to Tarangire, which is the right park to start in — the elephants are numerous, close and unmistakable, and the baobabs make the landscape look the way children expect Africa to look.
The Tarangire River pulls animals in all year, so the game drive rarely goes quiet. You spend the night at Lake Burunge Baobab Tented Camp.
Your Stay
Lake Burunge Baobab Tented Camp
Optional today
A long day, and deliberately not a wasted one: the route to the Serengeti runs up through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the whole drive is game viewing rather than transfer.
You reach the plains in the afternoon and drive on into the park towards Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge, looking for the herds and whatever is following them.
Your Stay
Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge
Optional today
A morning game drive across the central Serengeti with your guide — the best hours of the day, and the ones the cats use.
Then back east through the conservation area, with the landscape climbing and changing the whole way, to Lion’s Paw Camp near the crater rim.
Your Stay
Lion's Paw Camp
Optional today
A full day down on the crater floor, which is the day most children remember: everything is in one bowl, and almost all of it is visible.
The Big Five are all here, black rhino included, along with flamingo on the soda lake and hippo in the pools.
Afterwards you climb out and carry on to Kitela Lodge in the Karatu highlands.
Your Stay
Kitela Lodge
Optional today
The last morning is out of the vehicle. You cycle down to the shore of Lake Manyara on ground that is flat the whole way, so it suits most ages and most levels of fitness — and anyone who would rather not ride goes by tuk-tuk instead.
At the lake you walk the shoreline with a guide, where zebra, wildebeest, antelope, waterbuck and giraffe come down, along with a great deal of birdlife and, now and then, hippo.
Then a cultural morning in Mto wa Mbu itself — a plantation, how the farming works, and what daily life in the town looks like — and a tuk-tuk ride back through it before you carry on.
Optional today
Everything below is settled before you travel. What isn’t covered is listed just as plainly, so nothing on this trip arrives as a surprise.
Included
Not included
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