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Family Africa tour departs: Kilimanjaro International Airport. A transfer is included from Kilimanjaro International Airport to Arumeru River Lodge – get a good night’s rest!

Safari

An African safari is truly one of the world’s greatest adventures – and it begins with the departure of your family's Africa tour in the morning.

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Lodging: Arumeru River Lodge, Arusha, Tanzania.

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The perfect introduction to Tanzania, your African lodge is located at the foot of Kilimanjaro, offering great views of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru. Close to a river bordered by stately old trees, the lodge was built on the site of an old coffee farm and is convenient to Arusha and Kilimanjaro National Parks. Your chalet-style accommodations are spacious and comfortable and feature private verandahs opening out to tropical gardens. International and African cuisine is available in two on-site restaurants, including an outdoor terrace restaurant and snack service at the swimming pool.

Hiking

A choice of adventures awaits on your Africa tour today! Join an experienced local guide on a game drive in Arusha National Park to look for gentle giraffes, boisterous baboons, colorful flamingoes and big buffalo. Or, hike with us up the Merengu trail in Kilimanjaro National Park, home to inquisitive monkeys, doe-eyed antelopes and abundant birdlife. After your hike, meet a member of the Chagga tribe, whose terraced farming techniques have helped conserve this amazing natural habitat. Take a closer look at their 300-year-old customs when you go inside a multi-generational private home and learn about daily life on the slopes of Kilimanjaro.

Everybody meets back at the lodge for a welcome dinner tonight.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Arumeru River Lodge, Arusha, Tanzania.

Safari

Your family's Africa tour continues as you head to Tarangire National Park today, immortalized by many movies about Africa. Take a look at the classic African savannah studded with baobob trees and the wildlife-rich plains of the Serengeti. Hop aboard our open-topped safari vehicles for a game drive. Look for big cats lounging under baobab trees or elephants cooling off at a watering hole. Join the Maasai in a tribal dance this evening and have dinner in a traditional boma.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Kikoti Safari Camp, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.

Camping

Tented camps are a way of life during African safaris, and Kikoti is one of the most luxurious. In Maasai, “kikoti” means “the place where life began.” Paying homage to both its natural setting in the game-rich wilderness and the Maasai community that has roamed this region for generations, Kikoti Tented Camp embodies a wonderful camp-fire-style hospitality enhanced with impeccable personal service. Each of the ten large tents has sewn-in floors and en-suite bathroom facilities and is perched on raised platforms of wooden timbers; private wooden decks usher in views of the wetlands in the valley below. Your two-day stay here introduces you to local Maasai people and the wildlife of the park, offering you the opportunity to try your hand at local cultural traditions while learning more about life in the African savanna.

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Your safari and Africa tour ensures an up-close look at daily life in the African bush when you learn how to make beaded handicrafts with the Maasai and see how paper is made from elephant dung. Add afternoon and nighttime game drives where you see wildlife during the day and in the dark, and today's adventures will create shared memories that last lifetimes!

Camping

Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Kikoti Safari Camp, Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.

Sightseeing

Discover what life is like for the Maasai when your Africa tour takes you to visit an authentic Maasai boma and spend some time at a local school.

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Enjoy a game drive into Lake Manyara National Park en route to Kiratu; look for baboons, pink flamingos and great birds of prey from your safari vehicle! Your accommodations for the next two nights are at an authentic farmhouse on a 500-acre coffee plantation, facing the Oldeani Volcano.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Ngorongoro Farm House, Ngorongoro Highlands, Kiratu, Tanzania.

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You probably didn’t expect to spend a few nights on an African farm, but the Ngorongoro Farm House is sure to be one of the highlights of your Africa travel experience. Located on a 500-acre coffee farm near the Ngorongoro Conservation area, this lodge recreates the style of an old colonial farm and is rustically decorated with local materials. Your accommodations are spread out in three separate camps with 9 comfortable bungalows. A large thatched roof lodge houses the reception area, bar, dining facilities, library and lounge; outdoors you will enjoy a swimming pool with great views of nearby Oldeani Volcano and vegetable and flower gardens. A special treat during your stay are the home made meals featuring the dairy and fresh vegetables grown right on the farm all year round

Sightseeing

See how coffee is picked and processed at a local coffee plantation. Spend the remainder of the day at the lodge where you'll be staying, with ample time to explore, enjoy the pool and savor great views from your verandah.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Ngorongoro Farm House, Ngorongoro Highlands, Kiratu, Tanzania.

Safari

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. A game drive and picnic lunch on the crater floor offer ample opportunities to spot lions, cheetahs, hippos and lots of birds. While the crater has been cradling Africa's wildlife for thousands of years, nearby Olduvai Gorge in the Great Rift Valley is thought to be the home of mankind's earliest "people." See the place where Louis and Mary Leakey found the fossilized remains of one of the first humans to walk upright and continue on to the exclusive tented camp – reserved just for you and your fellow travelers! Learn some Swahili tonight around the campfire, mastering such words as "jambo" (hello), "kwa heri" (goodbye), "simba" (lion) and "ninafurahia" (I am having a great time!).

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Private Luxury Mobile Tented Camp, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Camping

The nights you’ll spend at an exclusive Luxury Mobile Tented Camp will take you as close to the heart of Africa as one can get and back in time to the days when the elite, privileged class enjoyed tented safaris in just this way. However – you’ll be far more comfortable than they ever were! Your accommodations are in spacious canvas tents featuring two twin beds with luxury linens and en suite facilities including a shower; they are lit by softly glowing lanterns rather than by electric lights. Nature will surround you as you dine under a sparkling canopy of stars on cuisine prepared by chefs who travel with the camp. You’ll sleep with the sounds of the African night that you’ll always remember all around you. Because the camp can – and does – move to follow the animals, your game-viewing opportunities at a private, mobile camp are unsurpassed. Sharing this special exclusive experience with your family will be a treasured memory for a lifetime!

Ballooning

Rise early for a hot air balloon ride at dawn over the vast Serengeti as animals, large and small, start a new day in the African bush. This afternoon's game drive with a local guide offers up-close encounters with zebras, hyenas, elephants, jackals and more. Share stories around the campfire tonight on this fascinating family Africa tour.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Private Luxury Mobile Tented Camp, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Safari

Make tracks for the western Serengeti, a great place to see the wildlife of the region. Morning and afternoon game drives showcase Africa untamed, as you view lions, giraffes and zebras, along with the creatures said to have been put together with spare parts, the African wildebeest. Spend two nights in a tented chalet off the beaten path for a unique safari experience.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Mbalageti Serengeti, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

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Reigning over the western Serengeti, the Mbalageti, Serengeti promises a unique safari living experience. Canvas tented chalets, constructed of local wood and rock, offer welcome privacy and astonishing views of the migration of Africa's wildebeests, zebras, topis and more from private thatched-roof verandas. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in the dining room with great views of the Serengeti; meals are inspired by the Serengeti environment as well as continental favorites. The swimming pool is made out of local rock and is situated atop a hill overlooking the plains; the bar is also a favorite watering hole for safari guests. Game drives and a sundowner cocktail party enhance your two-night stay at this magnificent lodge.

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Your riverfront lodge in the western Serengeti enables you to savor the African landscape as you wish. Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in the western corridor of Serengeti National Park. Here 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. Equally impressive are Africa's magical sunsets, which out here are celebrated at traditional "sundowners."

Enjoy your final night on safari at a sundowner at your lodge, followed by a farewell dinner.

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Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner. Lodging: Mbalageti Serengeti, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania.

Airport Transfers

Your amazing Africa tour concludes after a flight back to the city of 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. Your family Africa tour ends: Kilimanjaro International Airport.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner