Crystal Tanzania
Crystal Tanzania
Luxury Lodge Safaris In Tanzania
Lodge Safaris in Tanzania - I will try to avoid the travel clichés of 'unique', 'off the beaten track' and 'renowned for...' These tired expressions are used over and over again for almost every destination in Africa! The lodge safari in Tanzania is by far the best way to see this lovely country. Tanzania has so much to offer, including many parks that have few visitors and high concentrations of game animals. Some National Parks boast just one lodge in a million hectares. Your Lodge safari in Tanzania can truly offer a taste of what the early explorers experienced.
When choosing your lodge safari, do so with care. Many visitors want to see the great migration and the Serengeti. Some lodges are in fact hotels and although very nice; they do not contribute to that 'out of Africa' experience. What is called for is a camp experience and the private camp is ideal for a special experience. When you look to plan your trip try not to go for the 'lodge safari' but the private camp safari. Your choice of lodge or camp is a very important part of the whole safari picture.
These camps are usually made up of a small number of tents. Not the two man tent with no standing room and sleeping on the hard and sometimes damp ground, nor is there the cooking over a stove and eating grass and sand with your tinned food. No, these private camps have tents that have large comfortable beds, a bathroom en suite and some even boast a butler service. The cuisine is of the highest quality and you dine from bone china and drink champagne [or beer] from crystal glasses.
If you want to listen at night to the song of the African bush with the occasional distant [or sometimes close] roar of a lion; if you want to open your tent in a morning to be greeted by Impala and Zebra grazing so close to your tent that you could almost touch them, then choose one of the tented camps. If you want to be in a remote part of the park but close to the animals; if you want to stand in the open plains of the Serengeti and not be joined by a caravan of twenty other safari vehicles, then the private camp is your option above the mere mass-market tourist lodge.
There are several such camps scattered throughout the Serengeti. Your choice of camp will depend on what time of year you visit Tanzania. A good camp is Kusini Camp in the Southern Serengeti. It is small, luxurious, and in the ideal spot from the end of December until March, as the great migration is in this area at this time. However, the rest of the year this camp is a little isolated and animals may be harder to see.
A problem with planning a safari round the migration is that the migration follows the rains and the rains are notoriously unpredictable. Your camp may end up being in the wrong area of the Serengeti. At times of little rain the migration can remain in the Northern Serengeti at a time of year when normally the animals have crossed into Kenya. Many safari expeditions in a season of little rain may find themselves in the wrong country!
This is a headache for safari operators, as a disappointed client is not good for business. However, this can be solved with a 'mobile camp' and this is not only the best option but also by far, the most expensive option.
To get around the high costs of the mobile camp there is a new breed of camp emerging, a semi-permanent camp. This is a tented camp that moves perhaps three or four times per year. It will follow the migration, ensuring that whilst the migration is in the Serengeti, the camp will also be in the mist of the animals. One such camp I have heard good reports about is EMC [Exclusive Mobile Camp - Serengeti]. It is friendly, knowledgeable, embraces fair trade tourism and best of all, the camp is very good value for money. They have a web site and an office in Arusha which will give out details of the migration and the position of their camp. This is great, both for tour operators and for people wanting to plan a safari.
This is where the internet can help in a positive way, to help you plan a safari that will truly be a holiday of a life time. There is no need to hope your travel agent will do a good job in planning your vacation. Take some of the responsibility your self and plan your safari; check out your destination and accommodation. If your travel agent or tour operator is not cooperative or flexible, ask around and go to someone who is willing to earn their commission.
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In May 2008 Place of Tanzania
The last time I was in Tanzania and Zanzibar for some fourteen years and is the place I became Africa under the powerful spell - could not overcome the vast Serengeti plains of acacia in the strange landscape and mountains in the distance sporadically dotted with red shukkas Masai and their cattle. Literally classic and impressive in Africa "." I really wanted to revisit and see what had changed in that time and also see some new areas such as the Selous Game Reserve, the island of Pemba, Zanzibar and the Tarangire National Park and Loliondo in the north. As I have already covered much ground on this trip, I will mention some highlights.
Selous Game Reserve is my new favorite destination for Safari! It is one of the largest game reserves in Africa, with relatively few fields so there is that wonderful feeling of remoteness. To get and go directly to Kiba Point, was a start to spoil the trip. It is part of the rivers sand set-up, but it is a private course that is taken only for groups up to 8 persons - four bedrooms with roof thatched spacious and open sides (such as houses!) Looking down on the Rufiji River, the largest river in East Africa.
Luxury and brilliant performances, this camp has a great feel home away from home and offers a variety of activities ..... My favorite is a boat trip up, in Stiegler Gorge, where we stopped after one hour of game viewing (we saw buffalo, hippos, elephants, giraffes and many Bird water) to go on a white sandy beach surrounded by cliffs and steep slopes of the gorge of life bursting and trees. Here tried our fly fishing and between us we caught three catfish! What a great place to stop and be surrounded by nature. Units will be guided through beautiful landscapes, brilliant with the recent rain and very necessary, and some of us went for a pleasant walk through the woods, we are only at the top of a hill with a fantastic view of 360 degrees and a full bar at our life wandering. Fly camp for a night on the river is a must. Being a big lover of the sea, is delighted to be served some great snapper and squid while remaining at Kiba Point - Are a short distance from the coast here, so it was a novelty to be amazing catching fish and crustaceans in the woods!
On the island of Pemba Fundu Lagoon - the only refuge in the island you know you are going somewhere special! A short twenty-minute flight to Zanzibar is then Fundu Lagoon met beside the car, thanks to 30 minutes across the island to take his boat to Fundu itself. It was manufactured by twin brothers Alex and Marcus, and it's a great place with a great sense of space - may be that social or private as you want and they seem to combine the two effortlessly. There is so much to do here, so if you're not there on a beach! You can snorkel and scuba misalignment of the island where the water is the most I think I saw beautiful, very clear and visibility on coral reefs has been simply perfect. You can also take a walk in the village where the lodge owners to invest in community projects, or you can go fishing for your breakfast, a picnic .... which is certainly not bored, friendly and professional staff always seem to be there for advice on what to do or continue to help you decide which cocktail to try to sunset! There are so many places different to eat here or on the beach in the spring bar, pool bar or the hill - or simply in the living room with a thatched roof cool and windy.
So overall, Tanzania is now offering a great mix of sectors and areas to visit and there are many parks to explore relatively intact. The Selous is certainly one of my favorite spots again and Pemba is also a big time winner on the beach. There is something for everyone here and even see more ....... would not be disappointed safari or the beach here, but you must remember that Tanzania is a big country to cover and there are a lot of travel involved! Its sheer size and beauty is what brings out in my mind as something very special.
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