A relaxed 7 days Tanzania family safari through Tarangire, the Serengeti, and Ngorongoro Crater with exciting game drives and comfortable, family-friendly lodges.
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Read our reviews on Google →This 7 days Tanzania family safari takes you through some of Northern Tanzania’s most iconic wildlife destinations. In addition, discover Tarangire’s famous elephants and baobabs. During the day, spend several days exploring the Serengeti. In addition, experience the wildlife of the Ngorongoro Crater. The itinerary offers a relaxed pace. Later, you can customize it to suit your family’s interests, ages, and travel preferences. Request a quote for this 7 days Tanzania family safari and we will adapt it to your dates and group size.
In short, this 7 days family safari shows the main parks of northern Tanzania at a relaxed pace. First, you visit Tarangire National Park for its elephants and baobabs. Then you spend three days in the Serengeti. Next, you stay in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
After that, you go down into the Ngorongoro Crater. Finally, you return to Arusha for your departure. Also, we can adapt the trip to your family’s interests and ages. Because the pace is relaxed, children and adults can enjoy each day.
Locations are approximate and shown for orientation. Your exact route may vary slightly with conditions.
Family-friendly drives paced for younger travelers
Guided short walks to explore up close, safely
Meet local communities and learn Maasai traditions
Relaxed outdoor meals between activities
Day by Day Plan
Day01Your family safari begins with a morning departure from Arusha toward Tarangire National Park. Additionally, the park is famous for its enormous elephant herds, ancient baobab trees, and diverse wildlife. Also, enjoy a game drive through the park. Throughout the day, search for elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, buffaloes, and colorful birdlife. Then head to your comfortable lodge.
Highlight: Encounter elephant herds and ancient baobab trees on your first game drive in Tarangire.
After breakfast, leave Tarangire and travel toward Serengeti National Park through the scenic landscapes of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. As you approach the Serengeti, the scenery changes dramatically into vast golden plains. Enjoy an afternoon game drive while searching for lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, and other interesting wildlife.
Highlight: Watch the landscape shift into golden plains as you enter Serengeti migration country.
Day03Spend a full day exploring the Serengeti with your private family safari vehicle and experienced guide. During the day, search for lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, and wildebeests across the wildlife-rich plains. In addition, enjoy a picnic lunch in the wilderness, with plenty of chances for photos and family moments.
Highlight: Search for lions, leopards and cheetahs on a full day of Serengeti game viewing.
Day04Enjoy another full day of wildlife exploration in the Serengeti. In addition, this gives your family more time to discover different areas of this ecosystem. Follow wildlife activity with your guide. During the day, search for predators and large herbivore herds, and enjoy the changing scenery together.
Highlight: Spend more time following predators and photographing Serengeti's abundant wildlife.
Day05After breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive in Serengeti before beginning your journey toward the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. From there, travel through changing landscapes from the Serengeti plains toward the lush highlands surrounding the crater. Arrive at your lodge near Ngorongoro, relax, and prepare for tomorrow’s crater exploration.
Highlight: Enjoy scenic highland views as you travel toward the Ngorongoro Crater.
Day06Start the day with a descent into the Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive among one of Tanzania’s richest wildlife concentrations. Throughout the day, search for lions, elephants, buffaloes, hippos, zebras, wildebeests, and black rhinos. Then leave the crater and continue to Arusha for a relaxing final evening.
Highlight: Descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for a chance to spot the Big Five and black rhino.
Day07Enjoy breakfast and a relaxed final morning in Arusha after completing your family safari. Depending on your flight schedule, you may have time to shop or explore the city before your private airport transfer. Then continue to Kilimanjaro International Airport or Arusha Airport for your onward journey.
Highlight: Enjoy a relaxed final morning with time for souvenir shopping before your flight home.
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This 7 Days Tanzania Family Safari can be fully customized according to your family’s travel dates, interests, children’s ages, accommodation preferences, and budget. Add extra nights in the Serengeti, upgrade your accommodation, include a cultural experience or hot-air balloon safari, or combine your safari with Mount Kilimanjaro or Zanzibar. Before you travel, read our safari checklist, best time to visit Tanzania, Tanzania visa and passport and planning your first Tanzania safari. See what past travelers say about us on SafariBookings, TripAdvisor and Google reviews, or read our customer reviews page.
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