East Africa is colourful, lively and a wonderful place to travel as a family. Our family cycle tour has been designed for adventurous families with challenging, but achievable riding distances, riding on remote back roads.
Our 16 day biking adventure takes you from Nairobi in Kenya to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Fully immerse yourself into East Africa and experience the people, culture, wildlife and landscapes of this amazing continent. We leave the fancy hotels to the less intrepid, ride on remote back roads and camp with local families and villages along the way. Ride from the chaos of Nairobi city to the sudden sparseness of open savannah with wildlife grazing the plains. We spend time in the classroom and sports field of a Tanzanian school, visit National Parks, the cool rain forested Usambara Mountains and ultimately the tropical Indian Ocean coast. Kenya and Tanzania is where we began in 1999 and it is still our most popular cycle tour!
We have planned daily riding distances to be achievable for kids aged 10-16. Regardless of age, children must be able to fit our hire bikes and have a strong ablility to ride. Some teens/parents may enjoy more riding challenge – and on some days it will be possible to offer more riding for those who wish.
The July 6 – 21 July 2027 departure is offered as a Family Cycle Tour for the July school holidays. A minimum of 8 guests is required to confirm the tour in family format. If minimum numbers are not reached, the departure may operate as a standard mixed-group tour. If you would like to secure this date as a family only option, please speak to our team as soon as possible.
Family Tour Pricing (NZD):
Adults: $7600 | Children <16: $6380
Start: Nairobi, Kenya
Finish: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
This tour was utterly amazing! The places visited and the people we met were so far from the traditional tourist routes…the Kenya to Tanzania route offered by Escape Adventures is the remarkable conclusion of 25 years of adventuring by the founders. As three families travelling together, our friendships and family ties strengthened enormously from the shared experiences of what we saw and who we met. The EA team during the trip kept us safe, informed and entertained. It was a big trip in every sense, and will remain an important family moment.
We were lucky enough to do the Kenya & Tanzania family tour in 2019. Suffice to say, it is a brilliant escape! Perryn, Alice & Joseph, the tour leaders, driver, cooks, mechanics, translator & kid wranglers, were nothing short of fantastic. The meals were fab, details clear & they worked really hard to make it a holiday each one of our diverse group would enjoy & remember. John & Mandy have developed a tour off the beaten track, literally & figuratively, that is breathtaking and very special. The relationships they have with key people meant we got to see & learn about what is happening for locals & to stay in incredible places you wouldn’t normally be able to. We can’t recommend this trip highly enough!
Our family of 5 (including 3 kids 11,11 and 14 years) recently travelled with Escape Adventures on the Kenya Tanzania family tour. We usually travel independently, but chose to do this tour for the safety, security and local knowledge of the company. We had an incredible, amazing adventure. The tour captures the diversity of these countries – from the Savannah to the mountains, from the game parks to the back country roads. We trained for it, made sure we were all fit and healthy for travel, packed light and brought our sense of adventure with us. All important to enjoying the trip even more.The three tour leaders were a fantastic team. We were well fed, well informed and well cared for. Hire bikes and support vehicle were great and regularly maintained. We highly recommend this trip to any family who are keen to get in with the locals and experience these third world countries.
Our Keyna-Tanzania family trip was awesome! We did and experienced things that we could not have achieved in any other way. It gave us experiences and funny stories that our family is going to recall and laugh about for years to come. We were so impressed with all aspects of the tour – right from the friendly welcome at Nairobi airport through until the tearful farewells in Dar es Salaam. So much we could say…but everyone always wants to know about the food – the meals from the truck kitchen were delicious. We were really happy with the abundance of local fruit and veges used in the cooking – and zero junk food. Emma made lots of little extras: sauces, herbs, & side dishes which made every meal special and burst with flavour. And there were always plenty of options to suit all tastes.
Escaping to an amazing African adventure this summer was so much more than we had imagined it would be. A little apprehensive about taking two children camping and on their first big cycling trip plus in Kenya an Tanzania, we should not have worried. Escape Adventures had it all covered for us. Their experience certainly showed as the itinerary was spot on for both kids and adults. A great mix of interesting riding, on and off road, challenging at times but never too much for the assembled group. A real focus on slow travel with real local interactions most trips to the area never get to experience as they fly past in a cloud of dust to the next ‘exciting’ viewing opportunity… Meeting Kenyans and Tanzanians and not those working in tourism gave an insight not often experienced but one very visitor should endeavor to do. We were able to see and get an appreciation of the real countries and that was as fascinating for children and adults alike. We were not disappointed by the game either. Elephants, elephants and more elephants in Amboseli ranks up there as an exceptional and privileged day. Cycling along and watching giraffes watching us with equal fascination is unforgettable and the children’s faces as we watched lions nonchalantly ignoring us was out of this world. So if you are looking for a family cycling experience and Africa is on the list, in our experience this one would be difficult to beat. Thanks to Mandy, John, Mushi and Joseph you all made the trip something special.
