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  • All gratuities to Tauck Director, local guides and drivers 
  • Small group departures limited to 24 Tauck guests for a more intimate safari experience 
  • Private game drives by open-top safari vehicle with a window seat for everyone – wildlife viewing at its best 
  • Multiple-night stays in every destination mean more time for morning, afternoon and evening safaris 
  • Interesting game viewing at a picnic lunch in Ngorongoro Crater 
  • Hands-on lessons in Maasai cultural traditions 
  • A visit to a Maasai village primary school that Tauck helps to support and a visit to the traditional home of a Chagga family 
  • Barbecue dinner; learn Maasai dancing and Swahili
ACTIVITIES ON THIS TRIP
Primary: Safari, Wildlife
Other: Hiking, Off-road Auto & 4x4, Elephants, Hot Air Ballooning, Parks & Nature Reserves, Camping
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Tanzania: A Grand Family Safari

Keep your binoculars handy for an amazing Africa tour that is a safari adventure unlike any other. Wake up to views of Mt. Kilimanjaro from your African lodge.
Then see who lives on the slopes of this mighty mountain. Is that a movie set for a Tarzan movie or is it the real life home of Maasai warriors and Africa's Big Five? Get a true taste of daily life in the African bush when you learn how to make beaded jewelry and throw a spear, and go inside a village school. Do you see those big cats resting under those enormous baobab trees or that odd-looking wildebeest making its way past herds of elephants and gazelles? It's a good thing you're safely aboard our open-top Africa safari vehicles where everyone has a great view of Tanzania's amazing wildlife during morning and afternoon game drives. But what about those safari lodges? From your tented camp in "the place where life began".... to your lodge next to Africa's "Garden of Eden"... to your tented camp in the western Serengeti, you'll feel like you're a part of the unbelievable wilderness pageant that comes alive right outside your door!
Day 1: Arrive Arusha, Tanzania -and your Africa tour begins
Tauck 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! African safari tours are among the world's greatest adventures – and your family's begins in the morning!
Lodging Arumeru River Lodge
Description Your African travel adventure starts at the Arumeru River Lodge, located at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, where views of the mighty mountain are as close as your windows! Built on an old coffee farm right next to a river, with neighboring national parks Arusha and Kilimanjaro, your lodge features chalet-style accommodations with private verandahs that open out to lush tropical gardens.
Day 2: Hiking in Kilimanjaro or a game drive in Arusha
A choice of adventures awaits to kick off Tauck Bridges' family 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. 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 journey) to look for gentle giraffes, boisterous baboons, colorful flamingoes and big buffalo. Later, everybody meets back at the lodge for a welcome dinner tonight to share stories of the fun you'll have on this Africa tour.
Lodging Arumeru River Lodge
Description Your African travel adventure starts at the Arumeru River Lodge, located at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, where views of the mighty mountain are as close as your windows! Built on an old coffee farm right next to a river, with neighboring national parks Arusha and Kilimanjaro, your lodge features chalet-style accommodations with private verandahs that open out to lush tropical gardens.
Day 3: Experience Tarangire... where legends say life began
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 will teach you some Swahili around the campfire - helping you master such words as jambo (hello), kwa heri (goodbye), simba (lion) and ninafurahia (I am having a great time)!
Lodging Kikoti Tented Camp
Description 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" – a place where you will see both the Maasai people and the second largest concentration of big game in the world. You'll be staying in a large cottage-style tent for two nights, relying on solar-generated electricity when the sun goes down.
Day 4: Lessons from the Maasai in the African bush
Tauck Bridges' Africa tour for families features 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 about traditional dances from the local Maasai.
Lodging Kikoti Tented Camp
Description 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" – a place where you will see both the Maasai people and the second largest concentration of big game in the world. You'll be staying in a large cottage-style tent for two nights, relying on solar-generated electricity when the sun goes down.
Day 5: Meet village students and watch the birds at Lake Manyara
On the way to Lake Manyara National Park, stop at a new primary school that Tauck helps support, and visit with the students and teacher. Arrive at the birder's paradise of Lake Manyara, and set out on a game drive to look for baboons and great birds of prey from your safari vehicle! Continue on to your colonial lodge, where your cottage-style accommodations for the next two nights overlook a coffee plantation and the eastern wall of the Ngorongoro Crater.
Lodging Tloma Lodge
Description Turn back time for two nights as you stay at this small cottage-style lodge right next to Africa's "Garden of Eden." In addition to enjoying great views of a coffee plantation and a beautiful waterfall, you'll be treated to home-made meals from organic food raised right here all year round.
Day 6: Ngorongoro, Africa's "Garden of Eden"
One of the best places on this Africa tour 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, which 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 lodge for the evening.
Lodging Tloma Lodge
Description Turn back time for two nights as you stay at this small cottage-style lodge right next to Africa's "Garden of Eden." In addition to enjoying great views of a coffee plantation and a beautiful waterfall, you'll be treated to home-made meals from organic food raised right here all year round.
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. Then travel 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 of this Africa tour.
Lodging Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp
Description The Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp is located in the heart of the Serengeti on one of the main annual migration corridors for huge herds of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles... and the predators that stalk them. Keep an eye out for King Mufasa and baby Simba among the predators of the Serengeti landscapes!
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 Tauck Bridges' fascinating family safari! 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.
Lodging : Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp
Description The Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp is located in the heart of the Serengeti on one of the main annual migration corridors for huge herds of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles... and the predators that stalk them. Keep an eye out for King Mufasa and baby Simba among the predators of the Serengeti landscapes!
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, 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.
Lodging Mbalageti Serengeti
Description You might think we've saved the best for last when you arrive at Mbalageti, in the western Serengeti. You'll spend your final two nights on safari in luxurious canvas chalet-type tents, each with its own private thatched-roof veranda – one of the best places we've found to watch the exciting migration of the region's wildebeests, zebras, topis and more.
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 fun-filled 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 – an unforgettable spectacle of Africa's circle of life, right before your eyes! Equally impressive are Tanzania's magical sunsets, which out here are celebrated with traditional "sundowners"... like those you'll enjoy at your lodge on your final night on safari, followed by a festive farewell dinner.
Lodging Mbalageti Serengeti
Description You might think we've saved the best for last when you arrive at Mbalageti, in the western Serengeti. You'll spend your final two nights on safari in luxurious canvas chalet-type tents, each with its own private thatched-roof veranda – one of the best places we've found to watch the exciting migration of the region's wildebeests, zebras, topis and more.
Day 11: Fly back to Arusha for your journey home
Tauck Bridges' family 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. Tauck Bridges' Africa tour ends: Kilimanjaro International Airport.
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TRIP INCLUDES
  • Tour prices are per person in U.S. dollars. All safari expenses and adventures, local guides, entertainment, land transportation, porterage, admission fees, the services of the Tauck Director, as well as the hot air balloon ride (for guests over 7 years of age) and one on-tour flight are included. Transportation from Kilimanjaro International Airport to the Arumeru River Lodge in Arusha is included, regardless of the date and time of your arrival, provided you have furnished us with accurate flight or train arrival information at least two weeks prior to the start of your tour. Transportation from Arumeru River Lodge to Kilimanjaro International Airport is also included whenever you decide to depart. Transportation to and from airports and train stations may be shared with other Tauck guests. If you do not provide your flight arrival information in time, or choose to transfer on your own, you are responsible for arranging and paying for your own transportation, which currently costs approximately $50 USD per vehicle. If you choose to arrive on Day 3 or later, after the group has already departed for Tarangire, you are responsible for your own transportation, which costs approximately $500 USD per vehicle from Arusha to the Kikoti tented camp.
  • Child Pricing - Children less than 18 years of age must be booked in a room with at least one adult; exceptions may be granted under certain circumstances with parental consent.To qualify for a child discount, the child's birth date must be provided at time of booking. Tauck Travel Protection is not discounted for children.
  • Safari Lodge and Hotel Accommodations - The tour price includes all hotels, safari lodges and tented safari camps with en suite facilities including showers, flush toilets and hot and cold running water. Our standard is to provide the best available accommodations without sacrificing value. Although the quality may differ from place to place, our commitment to your comfort is unwavering.Two-bedded rooms with private bath are reserved in most lodges and hotels. Triples are usually a two-bedded room plus one rollaway cot, where available, and are not recommended for comfort. Quadruple accommodations are not available on this tour. On some itineraries, rollaway cots may not be available and triple accommodations must make use of existing bedding. At some properties in Africa where rooms and beds are small, a triple may be accommodated in a single and double-bedded room. Please note that we cannot guarantee adjacent, adjoining or connecting rooms. We will do all that we can to secure rooms next to one another or connecting when possible. A hotel may consider "adjacent" to be across the hall. For safety and security purposes, at time of booking, room accommodations for children under 18 year of age must be made in the same room as a an accompanying adult; exceptions may be granted under certain circumstances with parental consent.
  • Meals - Most meals are included as specified in the itinerary.
  • Tauck Director - Each tour is conducted by a Tauck Director who remains with the group throughout the duration of the tour. Your Tauck Director is a professional, fully-trained employee of Tauck.
  • Gratuities Included - All appropriate gratuities for luggage handling, bellmen, doormen, dining room servers, housekeepers, local guides, drivers and Tauck Directors are included.
  • No Options Sold - Tauck Directors sometimes assist with information on free-time activities based on honest opinion and guidance, but they will not sell you anything. This means better value and a more relaxed, pleasant experience for you.
TRIP DOES NOT INCLUDE
  • Transportation to the tour departure point and from the tour ending point is not included. Airfare may be purchased from us for travel originating in the United States (subject to availability).
  • Safari Lodge or Hotel Accommodations Before and After Tours – To avoid jet lag and possible flight delays, many guests prefer to secure lodge or hotel accommodations for the nights preceding or following their tour. As a service, we will book additional nights for you on a space-available basis using special rates only available through us. Safari lodge and hotel accommodations will be added to the tour cost. Airport transfers are included for these bookings as described above in Inclusive Prices. If you wish to spend additional nights, please consult Extend Your Trip in the Accommodations section above on this webpage and discuss it with your reservations sales consultant or travel agent when you book your tour. When traveling with children, ensuring that everyone is well rested at the start of any journey adds immeasurably to the joy of the trip. We recommend that you arrive in Arusha the day before the Africa tour itself begins. We will be happy to arrange lodging for your family.
  • Luggage Responsibility – Although every effort is made to handle guests’ luggage carefully, we cannot be responsible, assume liability or accept claims for loss or damage to luggage and personal effects due to breakage, theft, or fair wear and tear through hotel, airline and group carrier handling. It is important for your own self-interest and protection that you make certain you have adequate insurance to cover these eventualities. Please refer to the Tauck Travel Protection Product section below on this webpage for more information. Lost luggage is an unfortunate possibility in today's world of airline travel. We suggest that you: Pack at least one change of clothing in your carry-on bag Split your items between your suitcase and a traveling companion's suitcase Do not pack any vital medications or valuables in your checked luggage Confirm that your luggage is checked and tagged to your final destination at airport check-in Place your luggage claim tags in a secure place for your flight File a claim for any missing luggage immediately before leaving the baggage claim area Secure a case number and contact information for follow-up communications Make certain that the airline has your onward itinerary Your Tauck Director will assist you with airline and other carrier communications, but has no inside contacts to guarantee or expedite recovery of lost luggage. All recovery costs, including the communication costs, are your responsibility. Check your travel protection details for covered expenses.
  • Personal Expenses such as phone calls, room service, alcoholic and other beverages not specifically included, laundry, dry cleaning, airline excess luggage charges, vaccinations, visa fees and services, airport arrival and departure taxes, individual train and airport transfers (when applicable), and other optional or incidental extras are not included and may be significant.
CANCELLATIONS: 20% cancellation fee applied if cancelled 60 days prior to departure. Cancellations within 60 days are 100% non-cancelable

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