Getting Around: Vehicles & Flights

Road safaris are driven in 4x4 Toyota Land Cruisers, built for Tanzania's park roads and driven by our certified professional guides.

• A maximum of 4–5 guests per Land Cruiser, not six as with many other tour operators, so everyone has space and a clear view.
• An open roof for standing up to watch and photograph wildlife.
• Refrigerated water, wine, beer and sodas on board.
• Electrical outlets inside the vehicle to charge cameras and phones.
• Picnic breakfasts and lunches in the bush, so game drives are never cut short.

Land Cruisers and fuel are included in the price of your tour, and private vehicles can be arranged so that your group has its own guide and sets its own pace.

To save long drives, or for a fly-in safari, we book scheduled light-aircraft flights with Auric Air and Flightlink, two Tanzanian airlines that fly from Arusha to airstrips inside and beside the national parks. We use them for in-country flights to the northern, central and southern Serengeti, to Zanzibar and Mafia Island, and towards Gombe National Park for chimpanzee trekking.

• The aircraft are small propeller planes, such as the Cessna Caravan, and the views over the plains are part of the experience.
• Scheduled park flights often stop at one or two other airstrips on the way.
• Your guide meets you at the airstrip with the Land Cruiser and the safari begins straight away.
• For Gombe, flights land at Kigoma, followed by a boat trip along the shore of Lake Tanganyika to the park.

Between cities, such as Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar, Mwanza and Kigoma, we book Air Tanzania, the national airline. It is the simplest way to connect a safari in the north with the coast, Zanzibar or the west of the country.

• A maximum of 15 kg (33 lbs) per person, including hand luggage and camera bags.
• Soft-sided bags only: hard suitcases do not fit in the small aircraft holds.
• Soft bags are also the best choice on road safaris, for easy storage in the Land Cruisers.

For safaris in the north and for Kilimanjaro, the nearest international airport is Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO), between Arusha and Moshi. Other gateways are Julius Nyerere International Airport (DAR) in Dar es Salaam and Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ) on Zanzibar. Our team meets you on arrival, and all airport transfers are included in your tour.