Experience the safari of a lifetime in Tanzania
Enjoy Tanzania’s spectacular diversity of wildlife, amazing vistas and landscape.
Home to some of the renowned and coveted tourist destinations in the world, Tanzania’s landscape is infinitely diverse and often otherworldly. Crowned by stunning mountains and volcanoes in the northeast, Mount Kilimanjaro stands as Africa's highest peak. The great lakes of the northwest include Lake Victoria, the biggest in Africa, and Africa’s deepest water mass, Lake Tanganyika.
The flat savanna plains of Tanzania encompass famed wildlife parks like Serengeti National Park - immortalized for its wildebeest migration – and the vast Selous Game Reserve, the largest in Africa. In the west, the tropical jungle of Gombe Stream National Park is home to Dr. Jane Goodall’s legendary chimpanzees. Meanwhile, the east coast is humid, tropical and sprayed with idyllic beaches, as is the legendary island of Zanzibar.
This varied and diverse landscape is a stage for nature’s most spectacular wonders and amazing amalgamation of wildlife. Tanzania is known for its diverse and large wildlife population; there are more than four million wild animals, representing 430 different species and subspecies. 20% of Africa’s large mammal population call Tanzania home. Common animals include zebras, giraffes, elephants, wildebeest, buffaloes, hippos, antelopes, and gazelles. Among Tanzania’s endlessly diverse fauna, the ‘big five’ - rhino, elephant, buffalo, lion and leopard – remain the most iconic. Once prized as hunting trophies, tourists on photographic safaris (‘journey’ in Swahili) now cherish these wild beasts with their eyes, and cameras, from a safe and friendly distance.
The roll call of wildlife in Tanzania is infinite: birdwatchers can marvel at the 500 bird species in the Serengeti alone that live alongside cheetah, giraffe, zebra, rhino and lion; one can swim with the whale sharks on Mafia Island; or contemplate the largest populations of elephants and buffalo in Africa in Selous Game Reserve.
A trained wildlife guide will accompany you during all our safaris. Duma's safari guides have from ten to twenty-five years of guiding experience in Northern Tanzania and all have taken numerous wildlife courses. The vehicle is equipped with binoculars, guidebooks and photography bean bags to make your wildlife viewing experience more enjoyable. We have also developed a safari reading list to help you prepare for your safari.
Lose yourself in the endless parade of wildlife, in the quiet and solitude of endless horizons and windswept wilderness. You’ll realize how small your place is, in the interconnectedness of all things and living beings; the privilege of seeing animals in their natural habitat and the wonder of it all. You’ll be just a few feet away from majestic creatures and the endless circle of life when you are on a Tanzanian safari!
