Embark on a 10-day Pamoja Family Adventure in Tanzania, combining wildlife exploration with authentic cultural experiences. Starting with your arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, the journey kicks off in Arusha, where you’ll visit an organic coffee farm to learn about sustainable farming and experience local artistry at a workshop for people with disabilities.
You will then enter Tarangire National Park for two days of elephant sightings among ancient baobabs and a walking safari along the river. You will get to learn all about traditional Maasai culture with a visit to a local community and we’ll get a taste of daily life in Mto wa Mbu Village.
Then, it’s time to relax at Gibb’s Farm, enjoying a farm-to-table lunch before heading to the Ngorongoro Crater for a wildlife-packed game drive in one of the most densely populated and biodiverse regions in the natural world.
Conclude your adventure in the Serengeti National Park, spending three days amidst vast plains and spectacular wildlife, potentially witnessing the great migration. The tour wraps up with a choice to return to Kilimanjaro Airport or fly to the spice islands of Zanzibar.
Each moment is crafted to offer a blend of excitement, education, and exploration in Tanzania’s most stunning national parks, making it an unforgettable journey that caters to the interests and wonders of both young travelers and the young at heart.
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The price of our Pamoja Family Adventure ranges with the type of accommodations chosen. We offer accommodations in four pricing tiers: Standard, Mid-Range, Luxury, and Exclusive. You can check sample accommodations at each location under ‘Accommodations’.
Please note: children 15 years of age and younger receive discounted prices.
Welcome to Tanzania! Upon your arrival at the Kilimanjaro Airport, you will be met by a Pristine Trails driver and transferred to your hotel in Arusha town. Enjoy the evening at your leisure.
Transfer Time: 1 hour
Visit a local organic and Fair Trade coffee farm in a village outside of Arusha. Learn and see the difference between organic and traditional coffee farming. You will be invited to a Tanzanian lunch in the garden, followed by the final stop: the coffee roasting factory. Taste freshly roasted coffee while observing the process of roasting and grinding the beans.
In the afternoon, visit a local workshop, the mission of which is to empower people with disabilities through art. You will see glass blowing, weaving, sewing, beading and more, with a chance to shop the beautiful wares.
Transfer Time: 30 minutes each way
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Following breakfast, you will meet your safari guide and pile into your very own 4×4 safari vehicle for the start of your adventure in Tarangire National Park. Tarangire is known for its bulbous baobab trees and savannah woodland habitat heavily populated with herds of elephants and a variety of migratory zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, impala, buffalo and more. The park’s annual perennial river serves as a water source for these migrating herds during the dry season, making the game viewing spectacular. Game drive on arrival until sunset.
Transfer Time: 2 hours
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Head out in the early morning on a walking safari along the river, followed by a day of game driving. Today you have the options of enjoying your lunch out in the bush, or lunch back at your lodge with game drives in the morning and afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Begin the day with an early morning visit to a local Maasai community, where you will have a grassroots cultural experience and a true look behind the scenes into Maasai culture. Take a walk to a nearby boma, the traditional home of the Maasai tribe. Following the boma visit, take a 1-hour medicine walk during which you will learn about the different root and plant extracts still being used by the Maasai on a daily basis.
In the afternoon you will visit a local village, on foot or in a tuktuk, visiting a school, farm, market and more. See how Tanzanians live their daily lives. You will overnight in the Mto wa Mbu area.
Transfer Time: 30 mins – 1 hour
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After a leisurely breakfast you will drive to Gibb’s Farm, an historic organic farm and coffee plantation. Experience the rhythm of the farm, visiting the animals, touring the gardens, and eating a scrumptious farm-to-table lunch. In the afternoon, make your way to the Ngorongoro Crater for registration and a panoramic view before settling in at your lodge for the evening.
Transfer Time: 30 mins | 30 mins
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Wake before sunrise, descending 900 meters onto the crater floor for a day’s game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater, a small haven of 300 km², is bestowed with wildlife, an estimated 35,000 in number, comprising zebra, buffalo, lions, old bull elephants and so much more. It is also one of the best places to spot the rare black rhino. In the later afternoon you’ll ascend back up to the cool crater rim for the night.
Transfer Time: 1 hour
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
After breakfast you will head to Serengeti National Park, the largest park in Tanzania. The Serengeti, a world heritage site, is known for its famous migration during which six million hooves pound the plains as zebra and Thomson’s gazelle travel alongside millions of wildebeest looking for fresh grazing. Even when the migration is quiet, Serengeti offers unmatched game and predator versus prey viewing of the over 4 million animals that reside there. Overnight inside the park.
Transfer Time: 2-3 hours
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Experience full days in the Serengeti, driving across vast plains, observing daily wildlife patterns or in search of the great migration. For all full days in the Serengeti, you have the options of taking a full-day game drive with a packed lunch, or heading back to your camp/lodge for lunch and a rest, with game drives in the early morning and late afternoon when the animals are most active.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Enjoy an early morning game drive, after which you will depart for the nearby airstrip for your charter flight back to Kilimanjaro Airport or onto the spice islands of Zanzibar.
Transfer Time: Varies
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Below are sample accommodations in each location of your safari. It is also recommended that you spend some or all of your Serengeti days where the Great Migration is likely to be found at the time of year you are traveling. See below for the approximate location of the migration throughout the year.
Standard: The African Tulip
Mid-Range: Katambuga House
Luxury: Gran Melia
Exclusive: Legendary Lodge
Standard: Tarangire Safari Lodge
Mid-Range: Ndovu Tented Lodge
Luxury: Lemala Mpingo Ridge
Exclusive: Little Chem Chem
Standard: Kirurumu Manyara Lodge
Mid-Range: Escarpment Luxury Lodge
Luxury: Gibb’s Farm
Exclusive: Lake Manyara Tree Lodge
Standard: Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp
Mid-Range: Lion’s Paw Ngorongoro Camp
Luxury: Meliá Ngorongoro Lodge
Exclusive: Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
Standard: Acacia Collection Camps
Mid-Range: Siringit Migration Camp
Luxury: Nimali Mara
Exclusive: Singita Sasakwa Lodge
Approximate migration locations:
December – March: South
April – May: Central
June – July: West
July – October: North
October – December: North to East
