11 Days Tanzania: A Grand Family Safari Tour Package
Duration: 11 Days / 10 Nights
Price From: $5734 pp Dbl. Occ.
Dates: Jun - Aug, Dec

There is no more enriching, exciting family vacation than a real African safari - our Bridges style! Explore the natural world at its very best, with morning and afternoon game drives. Our experienced tracking guides will help you spot Tanzania's fabled Big Five - the lion, the leopard, the buffalo, the rhino and the elephant - as you roam through the Kilimanjaro, Arusha, Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Serengeti national parks, as well as spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, on our Bridges' family Africa tour. Board a hot air balloon and soar over the savanna at dawn, when the animals are beginning to stir... meet the Maasai people, learn about their culture and way of life in the bush, and visit a village school... have a picnic lunch in a 2-million-year-old crater, and visit a gorge where some of the oldest human fossils were found... stay in luxurious tented camps in Tarangire and Serengeti national parks. Our Bridges' family Africa tour is truly the journey of a lifetime - and one that your family will always remember!

Day 1 - Arrive Arusha, Tanzania - and your Africa tour begins
Our Bridges' family Africa tour departs: Kilimanjaro International Airport.   A transfer is included from Kilimanjaro International Airport to Arumeru River Lodge in Arusha - get a good night's rest! An African safari is one of the world's greatest adventures - and it begins with the departure of your family's Africa tour in the morning.
Meals:
LodgingArumeru River Lodge, Arusha, Tanzania

Day 2 - Hiking in Kilimanjaro or a game drive in Arusha
A choice of adventures awaits to kick off your Bridges Africa tour and safari* today! You can choose to hike with us in Kilimanjaro National Park - home to Mount Kilimanjaro, one of the world's highest mountains. While you won't be going all the way to the top, you'll take an exciting walk up (and down) Kilimanjaro's Merengu Trail, keeping an eye out for inquisitive monkeys, doe-eyed antelopes and abundant birdlife; you'll also visit the traditional home of a woman of the Chagga tribe, who will reveal the art of making beverages from bananas. Or, your family can join an experienced local guide on a full-day game drive* in Arusha National Park (the first of many on your family's Africa tour) to look for gentle giraffes, boisterous baboons, colorful flamingoes and big buffalo. Later, everybody meets back at the lodge for a welcome dinner tonight.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingArumeru River Lodge, Arusha, Tanzania

Day 3 - Experience Tarangire... where legends say life began
Your family's Africa tour continues as you head to Tarangire National Park today - the place where life began, according to Maasai legend, and immortalized in many movies about Africa. Marvel at the classic African savannah stretching out all around you, the wildlife-rich plains studded with baobob trees. Hop aboard our open-topped safari vehicles for an afternoon game drive; look for big cats lounging under baobab trees or elephants cooling off at a watering hole. Following dinner at your tented camp tonight, join members of a local Maasai tribe, who'll share some of their tribal customs - including how to perform their traditional dances - with you and your family.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingKikoti Tented Camp, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

Day 4 - Lessons from the Maasai in the African bush
This safari and Africa tour ensures an up-close look at daily life in Tarangire today, starting with a morning game drive. Then local Maasai teach you how to make colorful beaded handicrafts, throw a spear and shoot a bow and arrow! Later, indulge in even more experiences guaranteed to create shared memories that will last lifetimes... taking in incredible vistas from "The Viewpoint"... noshing on a barbecue dinner in the bush... and learning Swahili around the campfire - mastering such words as jambo (hello), kwa heri (goodbye), simba (lion) and ninafurahia (I am having a great time)!
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingKikoti Tented Camp, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

Day 5 - Meet village students and watch the birdies at Lake Manyara
On the way to Lake Manyara National Park, stop at a new primary school that helps support, and visit with the students and faculty. Arrive at the birder's paradise of Lake Manyara, and set out on a game drive to look for baboons, pink flamingos and great birds of prey from your safari vehicle! Continue on to your farmhouse hotel, where your accommodations for the next two nights sit on a 500-acre coffee plantation, facing the Oldeani Volcano.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingNgorongoro Farm House, Ngorongoro Highlands, Karatu, Tanzania

Day 6 - Ngorongoro, Africa's "Garden of Eden"
One of the best places in Africa to spot the Big Five - elephants, leopards, lions, buffalo and the rare black rhinoceros - ancient Ngorongoro Crater is home to almost every species in Africa... except the giraffe, who can't negotiate the steep incline down. Game drives and a unique picnic lunch on the crater floor offer ample opportunities to spot lions, cheetahs, hippos and lots of birds. Then it's back to your farmhouse lodge for the evening.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingNgorongoro Farm House, Ngorongoro Highlands, Karatu, Tanzania

Day 7 - The "Cradle of Humankind," Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge, in the Great Rift Valley, is thought to be the home of some of earth's earliest "people." Pack your own box lunch before heading out to see the place where anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey found the fossilized remains of one of the first humans to walk upright. Your Africa tour then takes you across the seemingly endless plains of the Serengeti to Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp, in the heart of world-famous Serengeti National Park, where you'll spend the next two unforgettable nights.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingMbuzi Mawe Tented Camp, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Day 8 - Soar Over the Serengeti in a Hot Air Balloon
Rise early for a hot air balloon ride* at dawn over the vast Serengeti plains as animals, large and small, start a new day in the African bush - a true highlight of our Bridges' fascinating family Africa tour! This afternoon's game drive with a local guide offers up-close encounters with zebras, hyenas, elephants and jackals... and more stories to share around the campfire back at your tented camp tonight.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingMbuzi Mawe Tented Camp, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Day 9 - Wonders of the western Serengeti
Make tracks for the western Serengeti, a great place to see the wildlife of the region. A morning game drive showcases Africa untamed, as you view lions, giraffes and zebras and more. Arrive at your hilltop lodge off the beaten path, where you'll spend the next two nights in a tented chalet overlooking the Mbalageti River. Enjoy lunch and some time to relax before embarking on a late afternoon game drive for yet another unique safari experience, spotting prides of lions, fleet-footed cheetahs, and the creature said to have been "put together with spare parts" - the African wildebeest.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingMbalageti Serengeti, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Day 10 - Safari traditions and Serengeti sundowner fun
Your riverfront lodge in the western Serengeti enables you to savor the African landscape as you wish on the last full day of your family's Africa tour. Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in the western corridor of Serengeti National Park, where you can often see wildebeest and large numbers of lions and cheetahs, as well as herds of giraffe and zebra - a most unforgettable spectacle of Africa's circle of life, right before your eyes! Equally impressive are Tanzania's magical sunsets, which out here are celebrated at traditional "sundowners"... like those you'll enjoy at your lodge on your final night on safari, followed by a festive farewell dinner.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner
LodgingMbalageti Serengeti, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Day 11 - Fly back to Arusha for your journey home
Your family's amazing Africa tour concludes after a flight back to the city of Arusha, a guided tour of a local coffee plantation, and lunch at the Cultural Heritage Center in Arusha. Flights departing Africa leave late tonight; we have reserved a day room for you at the Arumeru River Lodge so that you can repack and relax as you wish. A transfer is included from Arumeru River Lodge to Kilimanjaro International Airport this evening. Our Bridges' family Africa tour ends: Kilimanjaro International Airport.
Meals:Breakfast, lunch, dinner

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