Daytona 500 Travel Packages - East African Safari

Your Lodge safari in Tanzania can truly offer a taste of what the early explorers experienced. Some National Parks boast just one lodge in a million hectares. So many parks that have few visitors and high concentrations of game animals, tanzania has so much to offer. The lodge safari in Tanzania is the best way to see this lovely country. ' these tired and overused terms are used over and over again for almost every destination in Africa! . . S of - 'unique' - 'off the beaten track' and 'renown for; lodge Safaris in Tanzania - I will try to avoid the travel cliché.

Your choice of lodge or camp is an important part of the whole safari experience. So when you look to plan your trip do not go for the 'lodge safari' but the private camp safari. These private camps are ideal for the intimate African experience; what is called for is a camp experience. They do not contribute to that 'out of Africa' experience; some lodges are in fact hotels and although very nice. Many visitors want to see the great migration and the Serengeti. Choose a lodge with care, when choosing your lodge safari.

The food is of the highest quality and you dine from bone china and drink champagne [or beer] from crystal glasses. Bathroom en suite and butler service, these private camps have tents that have large comfortable beds, no. Not the cooking over a stove and eating grass and sand with your tinned food. Sleeping on the hard and sometimes damp ground; not your two man tent with no standing room, these camps are usually made up of a small number of tents.

If you want to stand in to open plains of the Serengeti and not be joined by a caravan of twenty other safari vehicles then the private camp is the option above the mere mass tourist lodge; if you want to be in a remote part of the park but close to the animals. Then choose one of these camps; if you want to open your tent in a morning to be greeted by Impala and Zebra grazing so close to your tent you could touch them; 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.

The rest of the year this camp is a bit isolated and animals may be harder to spot, however. As the great migration is in this area at this time, and in an ideal spot from the end of December until March, small luxurious, a good camp is Kusini Camp in the Southern Serengeti. Your choice of camp will depend on what time of year you visit Tanzania. There are several such camps scattered throughout the Serengeti.

Many safari expeditions finding themselves in the wrong country! This year the migration was in the Northern Serengeti at a time of year when normally the animals have crossed into Kenya. Your camp may end up being in the wrong area of the Serengeti. A problem with planning a safari round the migration is that the migration follows the rains and the rains are notoriously unpredictable.

This can be solved with a 'mobile camp' this is by far the best option but also by far the most expensive option. This is a head ache for safari operators as a disappointed client is not good for business.

This is great for tour operators and also for people wanting to plan a safari. They have a web site and have an office in Arusha and will give out details of the migration and the position of their camp. Embrace fair trade tourism and best of all the camp is very good value for money, knowledgeable, they are friendly. One such camp I have heard good reports about is EMC [Exclusive Mobile Camp - Serengeti]. 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. This is a tented camp that moves maybe three or four times per year. The semi-permanent camp, there are a new breed of camps emerging.

If you travel agent or tour operator is not cooperative or flexible change them to someone who is willing to earn their commission. Check out your destination and accommodation; take some of the responsibility your self and plan your safari. There is no need to hope your travel agent will do a good job in planning your vacation. To help you plan a safari that will truly be a holiday of a life time; this is where the internet can help in a positive way.