How much does a safari in Tanzania cost?

A safari in Tanzania is not a cheap trip, and there are reasons for that you deserve to know. What you pay depends mostly on three things: how many people share your vehicle, where you sleep and which season you travel in. Park fees, the vehicle and the guide are the fixed base underneath.

What the price is made of

A safari day with us is built from:

1. Park fees. Tanzania has some of the highest park fees in Africa. The government sets them, per person per day, and they go towards running the parks. Sleep inside a park or a protected area and an extra levy is added.
2. Your own Land Cruiser. A vehicle with a pop-up roof that drives for you alone for the whole trip, including fuel, maintenance and insurance.
3. Your guide. He drives, he knows the animals and he is there for you the whole trip.
4. Your accommodation. In or close to the parks, and there you pay for the location.
5. All meals. Breakfast, lunch and dinner, and water in the vehicle.

Sometimes domestic flights are added, or an activity such as a balloon flight.

The three things that make the difference

How many of you travel. The vehicle and the guide cost the same whether there are two of you or six. Travel as a family or with friends and you share those costs, and the price per person drops sharply. Travel alone and you carry them alone.

Where you sleep. We work from mid-range to luxury, and the difference in price is large. A simpler camp in the right place often gives you a better safari than a luxury lodge in the wrong one. We will tell you straight which is which.

When you go. From June to October the lodges are at their most expensive, because that is the dry season and the time of the river crossings. In the green season the rates are lower, the parks quieter and the animals simply still there. More on that in safari in the rainy season.

What our price includes

1. All accommodation with breakfast, lunch and dinner
2. Your own Land Cruiser with guide, for all transfers and game drives
3. Park fees for every park in your programme
4. Drinking water on safari days
5. Domestic flights where they are part of your programme
6. All transfers, Zanzibar included

What you pay yourself

1. Your international flight
2. Your visa and the mandatory Tanzanian travel insurance, see visa and mandatory travel insurance
3. Your own travel insurance from home, covering medical care abroad and medical evacuation
4. Tips, see money in Tanzania
5. Drinks, laundry and souvenirs
6. Activities on Zanzibar that are not in your programme

Why it is not a cheap trip, and what you get for it

You are not paying for a group tour in a full bus. You are paying for a vehicle that belongs to you alone, a guide who knows what you want to see, and camps in the places where the animals are. From the moment you land until the moment you leave, everything is taken care of, and you never have to keep track of what the next meal costs.

If you want the price to come down, you can, with the three levers above: travel with more people, choose a simpler camp, or go in the green season. Those are real choices. What we will not do is cut nights in the park or pick a camp in the wrong place to make it cheaper. Then you pay less for a worse safari.

Where to find the guide price

Every itinerary shows the guide price per season, for the whole trip from start to finish. If you want a price for your dates and your group, we will work it out for you.

The guide price per season

Every itinerary is worked out day by day, with the guide price per season in the download. That way you see what a trip costs before you ask us anything.

View our itineraries

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