What to wear on a Tanzania safari
Neutral layers, fleece for dawn, nothing that announces you to tsetse.
Journal · Notes from Tanzania
Useful before you get here.
Honest answers from the road: what to pack, where the herds go, and how to choose your route.
How to plan your first safari
Eight days is the floor. The crater is a day; the Serengeti is not.
The Big Five, and where you actually see them
Buffalo are easy. A crater morning is your best chance at rhino. Seronera has leopards in the trees.
Safari, then the island: how to split the days
Five safari nights, five beach nights is a useful starting point. Steal a night either way.
Kilimanjaro routes, compared without the brochure language
Machame works. Lemosho is quieter. Marangu has beds. The Northern Circuit buys you acclimatisation.
Karibu: a few words of Swahili
Jambo is for postcards; Habari, asante and pole pole get used.
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