Tour number: WPS42
10-Day Tanzania Ideal Family Safari & Zanzibar
This safari combines Zanzibar beach and is among the most requested safari programs. It can be customised to a semi-luxury or a luxury safari based on your ideas and budget. During this affordable Tanzania lodge safari, we will select a lovely budget lodges where our esteemed customers can stay while enjoying this great African wildlife safari, especially the great wildebeest migration in Serengeti Tanzania.
Day 1
Arrival – Arusha
On arrival, our representative will meet you at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transfer you to Mount Meru Game Lodge in Arusha. It is a stunning lodge at the base of Mount Meru that offers a great view of Mount Meru. After a while, our safari manager will come for a safari briefing and leave you to enjoy the rest of the day at the lodge. You will be relaxing while looking forward to your great Tanzania safari.
Day 2
Arusha – Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park. The driving is via Arusha city where you can still do any last-minute purchase. Leaving Arusha town, you will drive further along the Masai steppe and across a few Maasai villages and reach the Tarangire gate before noon. After park formalities, start game viewing right away. Tarangire is the fifth largest national park in Tanzania located at the base of the great East African Rift Valley and it runs along the lines of the Tarangire River. The park is made up of low-lying hills dominated by scattered acacia woodland and huge African baobab trees.
Tarangire River and the swamp on the southeast are the only permanent source of water in the entire park, thus it acts as a refugee area for wild animals, especially during the dry season. Tarangire is well known for its large population of elephants found nowhere else in Africa. Some rare species of great kudu, fringed-eared oryx and the ashley starling inhabit the park.
Late afternoon drive to Karatu for dinner and overnight at Marera Valley Lodge
Day 3
Karatu – Serengeti National Park
On this day of your Tanzania budget safari full of adventure, we will take you to “Wild Africa” Serengeti National Park. The driving is along the high-lying farmland of Karatu and across local villages all the way to Ngorongoro gate. After registration and other park formalities, you will drive up to the crater viewpoint 2,300 meters for some great photos of the crater floor from above. Then start driving along the Crater rim and down to the world-rich Serengeti National Park with its endless rolling plains.
On the way, you will visit one of the Maasai villages where some Maasai warriors invite you and take you in and around their houses with some story of their nomadic life around this area. You will meet their kids and other members of the family. You may ask questions and take pictures with them. Later, they will sing a farewell song which involves jumping high. Afterwards, drive to Naabi Hills Gate for check-in to Serengeti.
Dinner and overnight at Kon Tiki Serengeti Tented Camp
Day 4: Full day Game Drive in Serengeti
After breakfast morning and afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park (or full day game drive with picnic lunch) in search of migration. The Serengeti Migration (also referred to as “The Great Migration”) is arguably the greatest wildlife show on earth. It is the largest single movement of wildlife on earth in search of water, pasture and breeding grounds.
Dinner and overnight at Kon Tiki Serengeti Tented Camp
Day 5
Serengeti National Park– Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast drive to Ngorongoro Crater.
Descent over 2000 ft (600m) into the Crater floor for a wonderful game viewing. The road down to the crater is amazing (packed lunch will be served on the crater floor). Ngorongoro Crater, the Eden of Africa is a Natural Wonder of the World formed some millions of years ago due to some tension forces that left a large caldera. Today the Crater is home to a larger number of wildlife which includes herds of wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, elands, warthogs, hippos, African elephants and the rare black rhinos.
Dinner and overnight at Marera Valley Lodge
Day 6
Lake Manyara National Park– Arusha – Zanzibar
Continue enjoying this budget safari (option at an extra cost of $59 per person park fees). After early breakfast, you may drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive before driving back to Arusha Airport to catch your afternoon flight to Zanzibar. The highlight of Lake Manyara is its tree-climbing lion and colourful flamingos.
If you’re visiting Lake Manyara National Park, your flight will be at 16:35hours arriving at Zanzibar Airport at 18:00 hours. If not you can have an early flight at 13:30 hours arriving at Zanzibar Airport at 14:15 hours.
On arrival at Zanzibar Airport, meet our representative and transfer to Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa Zanzibar at Kiwengwa on the Northeast beaches of Zanzibar Island.
Day 7 – 9 Zanzibar Island
Days spent at leisure and relaxing on the white sand beaches of Zanzibar. If you wish, you can organize some water sports with the hotel like snorkelling, scuba diving, swimming with wild dolphins, Safari Blue, Nakupenda Sandbank etc.
Accommodation is at Bluebay Beach Resort & Spa – Deluxe Ocean Room on Half Board basis
Day 10
Departure
Breakfast at the hotel
This is your departure day. Depending on your flight time (option), you can go on a guided stone town tour or walk around Stone Town on your own before your transfer to Zanzibar Airport to catch your flight back home.
From Stone Town to Zanzibar Airport, you will take about 10 minutes driving.
End of our services
Prices are per person in US$
Validity 2025 | 1Pax | 2Pax | 3Pax | 4Pax | 5Pax | 6Pax | 7Pax | SRS |
Seasons 22.12 – 05.01.2025 |
| 4355 | 4006 | 3831 | 3726 | 3657 | 3607 | 738 |
06.01 – 28.02.2025 |
| 3719 | 3370 | 3196 | 3091 | 3021 | 2971 | 470 |
01.03 – 31.03.2025 |
| 3602 | 3253 | 3078 | 2973 | 2904 | 2854 | 450 |
01.04 – 31.05.2025 |
| 3324 | 2975 | 2800 | 2696 | 2626 | 2576 | 99 |
01.06 – 31.06.2025 |
| 3649 | 3300 | 3125 | 3020 | 2951 | 2901 | 438 |
01.07 – 31.08.2025 |
| 3743 | 3394 | 3219 | 3115 | 3045 | 2995 | 478 |
01.09 – 31.10.2025 |
| 3672 | 3323 | 3149 | 3044 | 2974 | 2924 | 450 |
01.11 – 30.11.2025 |
| 3498 | 3149 | 2975 | 2870 | 2800 | 2750 | 431 |
01.12 – 21.12.2025 |
| 3672 | 3323 | 3149 | 3044 | 2974 | 2924 | 450 |
***Seasonal supplement: USD Per person per night






































































