Know Before Traveling to Tanzania, Tanzania and planning before you travel to many destinations around the globe will make your dream holiday tours perfect without regret, We give you the highlight of organizing a tour, accommodations, and crossing one border to another country within East Africa.

Know Before Traveling to Tanzania

Safari in Tanzania

Tanzania is well known as the best tourism destination, while planning to visit Tanzania you need to divide your time between the northern safari movement and the island of Zanzibar, your need to plan your trip between ten days or more days before making any decision you need to make in advance in whether you want to be based on a hotel in the old Stone Town or out of beaches, after the northern safari movement and Zanzibar, the main touristic attraction is Kilimanjaro which is normally climbed over five to seven days.

Major tourist attractions in Tanzania

In Tanzania, the main activity you can do is to climb the mountain this is the activity the majority of the travellers do because it is very interesting planning to do Kilimanjaro climbing you need to organize in advance through any number of tour operators, that organize the safari, to Know Before Traveling to Tanzania will combine the Kilimanjaro climb with few days on safari and visit Zanzibar you would need an absolute minimum of two weeks in the country.  

While planning an increasingly popular alternative to northern and western safari movements, the national parks and reserves in these parts of the country cater mainly to the upper end of the price and generally feel more hampered than the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro through game viewing and this is the most popular destination in the south of game reserve and Ruaha National Park.

Organizing Safari

For your safari in Tanzania, you will have to depend on how much time and money you have and also the time in the year, and the most safari companies will put all packages together because you do not know the background well but particularly where northern Tanzania is concerned you will have to assume you will want to cover as many reserves as possible.

Safaris in Tanzania are seasonal so while looking forward to having the trip in Tanzania you consider the months of the year where you will cover and enjoy the trip very well within five-six days to Ngorongoro, Manyara and Tarangire except for Serengeti where it is visited during the dry season of July to October because there is little game inaccessible southern Serengeti, this is what forces many companies will suggest you spend much time in Tarangire.

Short tours in Tanzania

In the short, term to visit all three reserves, will require you have more than seven days this is because the roads are very poor and will make you have very many relaxed trips while visiting those national parks and reserves it’s because the distance is considerable, with the itinerary will give you few chances to get away from the busier areas.

While organizing the safari in Tanzania you need to consider or look at the price range for instance you might want to travel with a company that specializes in walking safaris which will help you spend your time in an exclusive private concession bordering the parks and this as you the safari planner it will help you get some extra offer such as guided game walks, and night drives or also visiting the more far-flung areas such as Lake Eyasi which is the home of Hadza hunter-gathered or lake Natron.

Many people concentrate on the quarter of superb reserves that comprises northern movement such as the Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire and Lake Manyara and also the western movement which will give you the best game reserves and Ruaha, Kavati and Mahela Mountains national park with the best alternative for visitors with a novel feeling for the relatively unusual destination.

As the safari organizer while heading to the national park in Tanzania you need to organize the accommodation in terms of budget camping safaris this will generally help you design and cost the minimum amount this helps you make the cheapest camping option often outside the parks and this will as well help your clients to set up normally their own tent.

In most national parks or Ngorongoro conservation areas, there are game drives undoubtedly the best way to see the wildlife with this you can do guided game walks and night drives.

These game reserves in southern Tanzania have far fewer restrictions on the activities than any national park and most camps there offer guided walking safaris as well as a boat trip on the Rufiji River, and also a few wildlife destinations where a lot of activities take place on foot, in Mahela Mountains and Gombe Stream, which offers the finest chimpanzee tracking in Africa.

Plan for the way you are going to get to different reserves in terms of movement flying is the best way compared to the movement on the road because roads have a lot of dust but flying around will be particularly attractive to those who get tired easily.

Always budget for the accommodation before setting off to go for a safari in any national park in Tanzania.

Accommodations

Budget camping safaris

Group safaris staying at larger lodges

Safaris to small lodges or tented camps

The best place to organize accommodation is to set up a private campsite right next to the entrance gate to the Serengeti’s western Corridor and also alongside the main road, this is because the road to Serengeti, Selous and Ruaha are very rough as are many of the international roads in the all parks this is why most people organize flying between the reserves due to the combination of dust and dirty look may create the problems with the travellers with the sensitive eyes hence cause the clients to end up wearing contact lenses the reason is due to dusty conditions.

Border crossing

Tanzania borders eight countries and of these the main three countries which make the trip to Tanzania are;

To/from Kenya the best way for crossing the border is between Nairobi and Arusha via Namanga and any number of companies such as riverside and impala run twice daily minibus transfers between Arusha, Moshi and Nairobi, you can also travel between Nairobi and Arusha it is cheaply provided your papers are well organized in order and this can include an increasingly popular route between Kenya and Tanzania is from Mombasa to Tanga or Dal es Salaam and another route is between Kisumu and Mwanza on lake Vitoria.

To/from Uganda while crossing from Uganda to Tanzania it depends on which part of Tanzania you want to visit, if your main interest is in the coast and the eastern parts of Tanzania, then the easiest option would be to catch an overnight bus from Kampala to Nairobi from where it is relatively easy to travel on to Arusha.

To/from Rwanda the only route between Kigali and Mwanza is by road crossing at the Rusumu border post, plenty of minibuses zoom along the road between Kigali the capital of Rwanda.

Know Before Traveling to Tanzania – Security in Tanzania

Many tour operators do feel at home while organizing their trips to Tanzania because Tanzania is a very secure country with a proud record of international stability since independence, Safari drivers are generally a lot safer behind the wheel than the bus and minibus drivers and self-drivers should take the defensive attitude to drive than they would at home and be alert to the road driver (hog) mentality of many local drivers, this area we advise you to Know Before Traveling to Tanzania and any other countries in Africa.

Learning more about Arusha and around

Arusha is an attractive green town with a northern sky style, weather permitting dominated by the imposing hulk of the African community, and the first impressions are that practically everything in Arusha revolves around the safari industry, while many safaris itineraries treat Arusha as a little more than an overnight staging post en route to the great reserves to its west the surrounding area is well worth exploring in its own right.

Accommodations

Luxury facility

Emerson Spice

Maru Maru

Jafferji House and Spa

Mid-range

Tembo Hotel

Dhow Palace Hotel

Rumaisa Hotel

Budget

Kiponda hotel

Jambo Guesthouse