TANZANIA CAMPING SAFARI
Safari Overview
In basic camping safaris, along with usual driver cum guide, you are provided with a cook and camping gear. Everyday while on safari, after you finish your game drives, you will be taken to campsite, which can inside or even outside the park, where your tent will be set up in front of you. Along with the tent, your camping gear also includes foam mattress, sleeping bags, pillows, chairs and a small table. Your cook will prepare dinner for the evening. Toilet/washroom facilities will be common/shared. In the mornings, after cook prepares meals, we packup our stuff and load them into the landcruiser and drive to next destination.
If you stay at a campsite inside the park, you will find yourself right in the midst of wilderness. There is no fence around these campsites so you will have to be prepared to have animals come and explore the area at night, and maybe even sniff around your own tent! The same cannot be said for campsites outside the park however, as they are located in the villages.
WHAT TO EXPECT ON LUXURY SAFARI
ACCOMODATION
The campsite will be equipped with basic washroom facilities, and many of them have a separate kitchen area as well where your cook can prepare meals. Although, since it will be a shared washroom, you might not find it as clean as a bathroom you would get in your own private room at a lodge. Often clients who have gone on budget camping have also experienced lack of hot water in these shared washrooms. Furthermore, it is not advisable to use these washrooms at night. Animals are bound to be nearby and they might pose a threat to you in the dark. Most guides keep a bottle around at night in case there is a washroom emergency, and they advise the travelers to do the same. For these reasons, a budget safari is not really suitable for groups with little kids.
MEALS
Meals will be prepared by a private chef who will also be responsible for pitching your tents so this is a stress free safari where you don’t need to think about what to eat, where to sleep and so on, everything will be taken care of. All camping gears will be provided except sleeping bags which we mostly advice to bring it otherwise, you can rent in Arusha upon arrive at reasonable cost paid once for the whole trip.
Camping safaris Tanzania are more popular in Northern Tanzania than in the Southern. The Northern Tanzania safari circuit includes Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara and Tarangire National Parks as well as Arusha and Kilimanjaro National Parks. On the Southern circuit we have Nyerere National Park, Mikumi National Park, Ruaha National Park and Udzungwa Mountain National park.
