Tanzania Safari Experiences

Adventure Camping Safaris

The authentic way to experience the bush. Your crew sets up camp in designated sites inside the national parks, with full catering, comfortable sleeping tents, and a campfire under the African sky. Available from 3 to 13 days, covering every major park in the northern, southern, and western circuits.

The tours and safaris you find on these pages are only a selection of what we offer. Every itinerary can be customised to your interests and pace.

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Luxury Tented Safaris

The best of both worlds. Exclusive tented camps placed in prime wildlife viewing areas offer lodge-level comfort with the intimacy of a bush setting. Private verandas, en-suite facilities, and full-service dining — all within earshot of the African night.

Available in the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and Tarangire, with durations from 3 to 10 days.

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Northern Circuit

The most popular and accessible circuit, centred on Arusha and easily reached from Kilimanjaro International Airport. The Northern Circuit includes the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, and Arusha National Park. These parks can be combined into itineraries from 3 to 13 days, and between them they offer the full spectrum of East African wildlife — from the Great Migration to tree-climbing lions, vast elephant herds, and the endangered black rhino.

Most of our safaris operate on this circuit, and it is where we have the deepest expertise. Our guides know every waterhole, every crossing point, every lion pride territory. We can tailor an itinerary for first-time visitors or for seasoned safari travellers looking to go deeper.

Southern Circuit

The Southern Circuit offers a wilder, more remote safari experience for travellers who have done the northern parks and want something deeper. The vehicle tracks are quieter, the camps more intimate, and the sense of genuine wilderness is palpable. This is safari as it was thirty years ago — unhurried, uncrowded, and rich with surprise.

Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous Game Reserve)

Nyerere is Africa's largest protected area, covering over 50,000 square kilometres — larger than Switzerland. Established as a game reserve in 1922, it was renamed in 2019 in honour of Tanzania's founding president, Julius Nyerere. The northern sector, which is open to photographic safaris, centres on the Rufiji River and its network of lakes, channels, and floodplains.

The wildlife is outstanding. Nyerere holds one of the largest concentrations of elephant in Africa, along with significant populations of lion, leopard, wild dog, hippo, crocodile, and buffalo. The endangered African wild dog is seen here with a frequency unmatched anywhere on the northern circuit. Boat safaris on the Rufiji are a highlight — drifting silently past pods of hippo, basking crocodiles, and flocks of waterbirds while fish eagles call overhead. Walking safaris with armed rangers are another speciality, offering a level of intimacy with the bush that no vehicle can match.

Ruaha National Park

Ruaha is Tanzania's largest national park, covering over 20,000 square kilometres of rolling hills, baobab-studded plains, and dramatic gorges carved by the Great Ruaha River. It sits at the crossroads of East and Southern African ecosystems, which gives it an unusually diverse wildlife population — species from both regions overlap here, including both greater and lesser kudu, sable antelope, and roan antelope alongside the more familiar lion, leopard, elephant, and giraffe.

Ruaha is famous for its large lion prides and its elephant herds, which are among the most impressive in East Africa. The dry season, from June to November, concentrates animals along the river in extraordinary numbers. The birdlife is equally rich, with over 570 species recorded — more than any other Tanzanian park.

Accommodation ranges from simple bush camps to exclusive luxury lodges, and the park's remoteness means you may share a sighting with only one or two other vehicles — or none at all.

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Western Circuit

The Western Circuit is Tanzania's most remote and least-visited safari region — and for those willing to make the journey, it offers experiences found nowhere else on the continent. This is the land of chimpanzees, vast herds of buffalo, and Lake Tanganyika's crystal-clear waters.

Mahale Mountains National Park

Mahale is one of the finest places in the world to trek wild chimpanzees. The park protects approximately 800 chimpanzees in the forested mountains that rise steeply from the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. The habituated Mimikire community, studied by Japanese primatologists since the 1960s, allows remarkably close encounters — sitting quietly among a family group of chimps as they groom, play, and forage in the forest canopy is an experience of extraordinary intimacy.

Beyond the chimps, Mahale's forests harbour eight other primate species, including red colobus and red-tailed monkeys. The setting is spectacular: pristine white-sand beaches, forested peaks rising to 2,462 metres, and water so clear you can see the cichlid fish in the shallows from the shore. Access is by light aircraft and boat — there are no roads into Mahale, which is part of its magic.

Gombe Stream National Park

Gombe is Tanzania's smallest national park, but its fame is immense. This is where Jane Goodall began her pioneering research into chimpanzee behaviour in 1960 — work that has continued unbroken for over six decades and fundamentally changed our understanding of primates. Today, around 100 chimpanzees live in the park's steep forested valleys along the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

Visitors can trek with habituated chimp groups accompanied by experienced guides and researchers. The forest walks are steep but rewarding, and the combination of world-class primate encounters with the history of Goodall's research gives Gombe a unique atmosphere. It is a pilgrimage for wildlife enthusiasts.

Katavi National Park

Katavi is raw, unfiltered Africa. Tanzania's third-largest national park, it covers 4,471 square kilometres of floodplains, dense woodland, and seasonal lakes in the remote southwest. During the dry season, the Katuma River and its associated pools become one of the greatest wildlife spectacles in Africa: hundreds of hippos packed into shrinking pools, enormous herds of buffalo numbering in the thousands, and the predators that follow them — lion, leopard, and hyena in impressive numbers.

Katavi receives fewer than a thousand visitors per year. For the traveller willing to embrace a longer journey and simpler logistics, it delivers a safari experience of rare authenticity — the feeling of witnessing wild Africa as the early explorers did, without another soul in sight.

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Coastal Circuit

The Coastal Circuit takes in the island of Zanzibar, Mafia Island, and the coastal reserves. While not a traditional safari circuit, it offers outstanding marine wildlife — whale sharks, sea turtles, and vibrant coral reefs — alongside the cultural riches of Stone Town and the spice plantations of Zanzibar's interior.