10 Days Tanzania Family Safari & Zanzibar Beach Vacation with Kilipeak Adventure offers quality family time, we are also committed to ensuring that you can relax, secure in the knowledge that your family is having as great a holiday as you are. With this in mind, we choose hotels and lodges to offers a wide range of family-friendly accommodation options.
Our safari vehicles with the hatched roof for shade against sunny African wilderness; are the extended body with roomy seats for comfortable sitting and stretching out legs. Every guest is accessible to the window seat. Cars are also fitted with fridges, power charge sockets and VHF radio calls for easy and fast communication with the base office.
DAY 01: ARRIVE IN TANZANIA.
Arrive anytime at Kilimanjaro International airport and transfer to Arusha.
The rest of the day is free to relax and recover from your flight, laze by the pool or explore the town of Arusha
Dinner and overnight at Ilboru Safari Lodge: Bed, dinner, and breakfast.
DAY 02: GAME DRIVE IN TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK.
Morning breakfast at the Lodge in Arusha and afterward we depart for Tarangire National Park. Your first experience of safari will be the thrilling game drive through the vastness of Tarangire National Park, arrive in good time for lunch.
Afternoon game driving through the park followed by dinner at the Lodge.
Dinner and overnight at Eileen’s Tree Inn Lodge: Bed, dinner, and breakfast.
DAY 03: GAME DRIVE IN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK.
We head towards the Serengeti National Park. En route, there is an opportunity to visit Olduvai Gorge. It is within this steep-sided ravine that Louis and Mary Leakey made some of the world’s most important archaeological discoveries in the 1950s. Here is a small museum, we are able to see evidence of our ancestors that have been dated back 2.5 million years. After lunch, we drive into the Serengeti itself and the rest of the afternoon is spent game viewing in the vast plains that are broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje. In December, January and February we will normally meet the migration with large herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. There are always plenty of resident animals, such as giraffe, buffalo, and elephant, and many large predators such as lion, cheetah, and leopard. We return to our special tented camp for the night.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Safari Lodge: Bed, dinner, breakfast, and lunch.
DAY 04: GAME DRIVE IN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK.
We have another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide-open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top, we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of the interesting birdlife, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich. We return to our special tented camp for the night.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Safari Lodge: Bed, dinner, breakfast, and lunch.
DAY 05: A FULL DAY GAME DRIVE IN NGORONGORO CRATER.
Today we will descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater for your crater tour. Here we will explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where we may see flamingos. We will also visit the open Savannah where the lions hunt. Picnic lunch will be served in the crater. In the late afternoon, we make a short journey to Arusha.
Dinner and overnight at Eileen’s Tree Inn Lodge: Bed, dinner, and breakfast.
DAY 06: GAME DRIVE IN LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK.
We depart from your lodge in Karatu and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park. Although small in size, this park is one of the most diverse reserves in the country. Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of the park. At the backdrop is the wall of the Great Rift Valley, before which lies the groundwater forest, areas of open grassland near the lake foreshore, and the Soda Lake. We enjoy a picnic lunch in this area, which consists of open grassy areas, hot springs, dense woodlands, and steep mountainsides. Lake Manyara National Park is a birding paradise that has more than 350 species of bird. The park is also famed for its unique and elusive tree-climbing lions. Late drive back to Arusha
Dinner and overnight at Karama Lodge and Spa: Bed, dinner, and breakfast.
DAY 07: ARUSHA TO ZANZIBAR.
This morning, you will be transferred to the nearby airstrip (with picnic lunch) for your flight to Zanzibar. Once in Zanzibar, you will be transferred to your beach hotel.
Zanzibar is a beautiful island with pristine, untouched beaches that stretch as far as the eye can see. Enjoy your days doing as much or as little as you please on this idyllic island. You might choose to take an optional trip to explore the old Stone Town, a spice farm, or Jozani Forest to see the Red colobus monkey which is endemic to Zanzibar (tours not included). Alternatively, you may prefer to just relax or enjoy snorkeling, windsurfing or diving (some with additional costs).
Dinner and overnight at Fumba Beach Lodge: Bed, dinner, and breakfast.
DAY 08: FULL DAY TOUR IN PRISON ISLAND IN ZANZIBAR.
The morning after breakfast at 9:30 picked up to a guided prison island tour whereby you will be taken to the stone town where you will find your special boat to Prison Island. in prison island, you will find the gent tortoises and old historical prison where the slave was been kept after remaining from the market then you will have lunch at the prison island restaurant and later after lunch, you will have a chance of doing snorkeling at the island .after prison tour the boat will drive you back to stone town for your guided historical tour and slave root chambers tour and later shopping.
Dinner and overnight at Fumba Beach Lodge: Bed, dinner, and breakfast.
DAY 09: LEISURE DAY AT THE BEACH.
Relax and unwind and enjoy the beaches of Zanzibar.
Dinner and overnight at Fumba Beach Lodge: Bed, dinner, and breakfast.
DAY 10: DEPARTING DAY.
You will be transferred back to Zanzibar Airport to catch your flight to Arusha / Dar es Salaam, and then connect with your international flight home.
Meals Included: Breakfast.
10 Days Tanzania Family Safari & Zanzibar Beach Vacation Includes:
• Full board accommodation whilst on safari in the above mentioned en suite tented camps and lodges
• Private safari guide
• Private 4 x 4 safari jeep with pop up roof for game viewing
• Transfers in both directions between the International Airport
• Park fees
• Crater fees
• All meals while on safari
• Hotels/Lodges in Zanzibar
• Flight from Serengeti to Zanzibar
• Airport Arrival/Departure Meet and Greets at the airport
• On safari – Vehicles equipped with ice chest with mineral water, wildlife guidebooks
• Government taxes, VAT and service charges relating to accommodation and included meals
10 Days Tanzania Family Safari & Zanzibar Beach Vacation Excludes:
• Tanzania Visa
• Personal Expenses (e.g. laundry, telephone, beverages, etc.)
• Meals not listed above
• Optional Tours (balloon rides)
• Tips and any items of personal nature.
