The 8-Day Tanzania Camping Safari is a well-designed safari itinerary that allows you to experience the best of Northern Tanzania’s safari circuit at a low cost. Visit the Bushmen in Tarangire Park, Lake Manyara, as well as Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater, on this Tanzania camping safari.
Highlights from a 7-day Tanzania camping safari
What is a camping safari and how does it compare to other safaris? Every type of safari allows you to see the local wildlife; however, they differ when it comes to where you stay. Most tours start by taking groups of people out on game drives, in which a safari car or an off-road vehicle drives across the wildlife preserves searching for the Big Five—lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo, and elephant. Once the game drive is done, travelers will then either retreat to a lodge on the edge of the park or set up camp right in the heart of the preserve. Staying in the wild, at night, under the stars is what our camping safari is all about!
Tanzania Camping Safari is a unique way of enjoying the African safari in Tanzania. It is not only affordable but it is a great adventure to take in Africa. Imagine yourself under canvass under the African clear sky with Stars shining above you, or sitting around a camp fire in the middle of nowhere in a public campsite at the center of Serengeti National Park’s endless Savannah plains.
We make it happen regardless of what leads you into choosing a camping Safari in Tanzania. One may choose an African camping safari because of traveling on budget, while some may choose a camping safari just for the sake of seeking an adventure travel in Africa. We make it happen no matter what drives you into taking a camping safari in Tanzania.
Camping Safari Accommodations
If you’re concerned about what it would be like to camp on safari, don’t worry about a thing! When you camp with us, we provide all of the equipment, including large tents that can easily accommodate two people, thick camping mattresses, bedding, and camping chairs. Sturdy canvas tents will be set up by our team so all you have to worry about is enjoying the safari, coming home, eating dinner, sitting around a bonfire, and then settling in for bed. Each site we visit has basic flush toilets and showers available to use and each meal is prepared by our camp chef. You don’t need to be an expert camper or in top physical condition in order to go on this trip. As long as you can stand on your feet for several hours at a time, walk on uneven terrain, are comfortable getting up from the ground, and can get in and out of a Toyota Land Cruiser, you’ll have no problems going on a journey with us!
You will also be accompanied by a skilled safari cook who will take care of your well-being. He will prepare all meals, often even including a packed meal for a picnic lunch. Early morning eggs and sausages, coffee and bread, snacks and evenings with stews and salads, Tanzania-Experience’s cooks can create delicious 3-course meals with only a gas cooker and a sharp knife…
The camp and food will be set up and prepared for you, so that you can just relax and enjoy your holiday.
Safety While Camping on Safari
Nearly a million visitors travel to Tanzania every year and most of them go on safari to at least one of the national parks. The Serengeti National Park alone can have up to 200 thousand visitors! Yet despite these numbers, on average, maybe one death a year could be attributed to wildlife encounters. Statistically, this means that you are more likely to be hurt in a car accident then you are to be injured while on safari. So, while there is always a small risk involved in travel, the risk of going on a safari is no greater than that of traveling to any other popular vacation spot
That said, you will be in the capable hands of a professional guide at all times. He will also accompany you to the campsite and advise you on all the safety precautions so you can enjoy a safe and authentic safari experience.
Camping Equipment
On our Adventure Camping Safaris, you will stay in public campsites, located inside the park or on private campsites on the outskirts. The campsites in the parks are not fenced and it is not unlikely that you may find elephants wandering between the tents or bump into antelopes on your way to the shower.
Accommodation will be in 2-person-tents (2.5m x 2.5m and 1.8m high) which are all waterproof and come with built-in mosquito nets at their entrances and windows. Comfortable 5 cm thick sleeping mattresses will be provided by us, as well as robust camping furniture such as tables, safari chairs, functional cutlery and crockery.
8 Days Tanzania Safari itinerary
Day 1 – Arrival Day Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha Airport
Welcome to Tanzania! Your Lazarino Safari guide will meet you upon arrival at Kilimanjaro airport and take you straight to your first hotel in Tanzania. This trip is an exclusive private safari so that you can enjoy your trip to the fullest! Tomorrow morning will be an early start for your first Tanzania safari experience, so use your first day to recuperate from a day of travel and soak up the sights and sounds of Africa.
Day 2 Arusha – Tarangire National Park
Following a brief briefing in the morning, you will depart for Tarangire National Park. Huge elephant herds roam the park’s grassland, baobab trees, seasonal wetlands, and lagoons. The life-giving Tarangire River attracts a wide variety of species, including giraffes, bushbucks, and hartebeests, as well as the strange-looking gerenuk and fringe-eared oryx. Buffaloes, zebras, and wildebeests also live in the park, and they are constantly pursued by predators such as lions. Leopards are occasionally sighted, while cheetahs are rarely seen. You will be able to take in the scenery and observe the wildlife from the safari vehicle’s open top. In the late afternoon, you will arrive at a campsite inside the park, where you will spend the night in a tent.Lunch; Dinner
Day 3 – Tarangire National Park – Lake Natron
After breakfast, depart from Tarangire National Park and travel to Mto wa Mbu, a multicultural village. From here, you’ll journey down the Rift Valley Escarpment on a spectacular and very bumpy gravel road, with Ol Doinyo Lengai, the Maasai’s “holy mountain” in the distance. The picturesque Masai town of Ngare Sero, an oasis in the hot and dusty Rift Valley, is our destination today. Thousands of flamingos breed and feed on the algae of the alkaline Lake Natron, creating a pink glow in the distance. In the afternoon, you’ll go on a walk with a Maasai guide to a nearby waterfall before returning to the campground for the night. Lunch; Dinner
Day 4 – Lake Natron – Serengeti National Park
After an early start, your vehicle will rise out of the Rift Valley and onto the Serengeti’s grassy plains by lunchtime, following challenging dirt routes with breathtaking views. The Maasai language refers to the Serengeti as “endless plains,” as the grassland savannah stretches to the horizon. The Serengeti is Tanzania’s most well-known park, and it is home to the world’s largest wildlife migration, with hundreds of thousands of animals migrating to find fresh grass and water. You’ll spend the night at a campground in the park’s northern or central areas
Day 5 – Serengeti National Park
In the Serengeti National Park, the entire day is dedicated to game viewing. Depending on your last night’s stop, you will either go on a full-day game drive or join early morning and afternoon drives in the Seronera area. Huge herds of wildebeests and zebras can be seen between December and May, with calves and foals born between January and March. In addition, the Seronera area is the ideal site to see the secretive and nocturnal leopard. You’ll spend the night in the Seronera area at a campsite. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all options.
Day 6 – Serengeti National Park – Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Another game drive in the Serengeti is planned for the morning, and you might see some animals you haven’t seen before. Before the temperatures peak around midday, animals are more active in the morning. After lunch, you’ll depart the Serengeti plains and journey to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area’s highlands. You’ll stay at a campground right on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, with a view of the crater’s collapsed volcano. It’s the ideal location for a sunset sundowner. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 7- Ngorongoro Crater – Mto wa Mbu
Get up and shine! It’s up early in the morning to tackle the steep slope that leads down into the 600-meter-deep crater. The hills are forested, but the landscape quickly transitions to savannah, with the occasional acacia tree thrown in for good measure. The wildlife in the crater is incredible, and you might even spot the Big Five — lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard – if you’re lucky. Warthogs, wildebeests, zebras, hippos, and some of the area’s more than 500 bird species should all be seen. You will go to Mto wa Mbu, where you will spend the night after an entire morning of game viewing and a picnic lunch in the crater. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 8 – Mto wa Mbu – Arusha
Mto wa Mbu – Arusha, Day 7
Following a leisurely breakfast, you will begin your return journey to Arusha, arriving at about lunchtime. You will be dropped off in the city center or at the airport
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TOTAL COST 1700 USD per person
Note: Minimum 4 pax
INCLUDES:
- Transpoart
- Accommodation(tents)
- Meals (full board)
- Park fees
- Guide (italia/english/france/spamish) speaker
EXCLUDE:
- Flight
- All that not mentioned in safari program
