Tanzania travel advice

Last checked: 6 October 2026

Every country writes its own travel advice for Tanzania, and they do not all say the same thing. The advice of your own government is the one that counts, for you and often for your travel insurance too. Read it before you book and again in the week before you fly. This page tells you where to find it, what it usually covers and what it means for a safari.

Where to find the advice for your country

Most of these sites let you sign up for an alert when the advice for Tanzania changes. Do that as soon as you have booked.

What it means for a safari

Travel advice often grades a country region by region, and some of it singles out a border area. So look at where your route goes, not only at the headline for the country.

A safari in the north runs through the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire and Lake Manyara. In the south we drive Nyerere and Ruaha. If the advice of your country names an area, we tell you whether your route comes near it.

The risks that matter to most travellers play out in cities and wherever you arrange your own transport. How that works in practice is on our page is Tanzania safe.

What else to know before you go

Travel advice covers far more than one corner of the map. These are the points that matter most to a traveller, in short. Check how the advice of your own country covers each of them.

1. Mandatory travel insurance. Since 1 October 2026 you need Tanzanian travel insurance to enter the country. It does not replace your own travel insurance from home, which should cover medical care abroad and medical evacuation. Everything about it is on Tanzania travel insurance.
2. Crime. Pickpockets, bag snatchers on motorbikes, and travellers lured into a taxi at airports, bus stations and ferry piers.
3. Terrorism. Read what the advice of your country says about it, for the mainland and for Zanzibar.
4. Health. If you travel via Congo or Uganda, you fill in a health form because of Ebola. Drink only boiled or bottled water.
5. Power and water. Extra rain in the last months of 2026 may disrupt power and water supplies.
6. Photography. Do not photograph military buildings, airports, bridges or government buildings. Ask before you photograph people.
7. Clothing on Zanzibar. Cover your shoulders and knees. The authorities can impose heavy fines.
8. Drugs. Illegal, soft drugs included, and the penalties are far heavier than most travellers expect.
9. LGBTQ+. Sexual acts between people of the same sex are a criminal offence, punishable by up to life imprisonment, and the law applies to foreigners too.
10. Plastic bags. Leave them out of your luggage. Tanzania has banned plastic carrier bags.

Emergency numbers

If you travel with us, you also have the number of your guide and of our office in Moshi.

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Travel advice gives you an overview of a whole country. We can tell you what it means for the route you want to drive. Plan a call, and we will go through it together.

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