TANZANIA SAFARIS SELF DRIVE DO IT YOURSELF CAMPING SAFARI EXPLAINED

Yes its possible for you to hire a car and drive on your own.

For this we can offer a Land Cruiser or Land Rover 4 Wheel Drive Safari Vehicle with top up roof for game viewing.

Cost is $170 Per Day - Unlimited Mileage with Vehicle Insurance, Excludes Fuel.

Yes its possible to go into the parks without a driver/guide, you only need to be good drivers.

Remember you have to take Smart Cards in Arusha for Park Fees in either Serengeti, Manyara or Tarangire.

Ngorongoro is paid in cash.
Park Fees Valid for 24hrs.
Serengeti - $50pp
Manyara/Tarangire - $35pp
Ngorongoro - $50

On accommodation in the parks its highly unlikely to get rooms without prior reservations.

Please book rooms before so to avoid problems later, we normally advise people to book using tour operator’s.

When clients become stranded you also need our help and at the end of the day we get loss on keeping calling you or the National Park gate keeper’s.

The regulations of the Park are more complicated. When we give you a company vehicle, sometimes clients drive off road or over speed and we get a lot of trouble from Tanapa and Conservation Area.

At time of payments you will also find a lot of difficult when you have no prepaid card for payments. When you arrive in the hotel and you have no reservation it is also a problem for us.

You see like Wildlife Lodges one double room using rack rate is 420$ per night full board while using our contract rate is 315$ per night full board.

Arriving in the lodge when you have no reservation you need to wait until all the people have checked inn something which looks like harassment but that is hotel regulations. Going to the lodge without service voucher is very risk. When the lodge is full booked it means you will sleep in the vehicle. The Park Ranger will take care of you but also you will pay them. Not sure how much but not less than 20$ per each Ranger per night.

What is needed when you go to the Park is only valid permit. This means if you spend three nights in Serengeti you need a permit of three days from Nabi gate in the border between Ngorongoro and
Serengeti the time you check inn.

We advise clients to have itinerary of their holiday.

This will help them to have a permit at the Gate. Of course the time to write the permit the Gate Clark will ask you how many days you want to be in the said Park.

Of course you can drive yourselves in the Park but is not so easy to find the animals as you think!!.

As offered above we normally charge for the vehicle and clients will refuel themselves and pay for the other service direct.

You will loose a lot of time that way.

For all the people who are using lodge on safari we advise them to book everything in advance.

For basic budget adventure camping safari usually no problem, you can also hire camping gear and camp at sites!!!

Hope above info gives you a good picture of self drive do it yourself safaris!!

Thanking you well in advance and await to hear from you.

Cheers,

www.ZanzibarMagic.com