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Two answers settle most of the rest of a Tanzania trip: the month you travel and the number of nights you have on the ground.
The month decides more here than in most countries, because Tanzania does not have one rainfall pattern. The north, the northern coast, the islands and the Lake Victoria basin run two wet seasons; the west, the centre, the southern highlands and the south run a single one. A month that is difficult in the Serengeti is not necessarily difficult in Ruaha, and the herds move regardless of either. The number of nights decides how much of the country you can reach before the trip becomes a drive. Tanzania is large and the good places are far apart, so a week spent trying to do the north and the coast and the south is a week mostly spent in transit.
Once those two are fixed, the budget stops being a guess and the itinerary more or less writes itself. The guides above take those decisions one at a time, and each one narrows the next.
How an enquiry works
This site is a marketplace. It lists safaris sold by independent tour operators and it does not run, book or sell any of them. There is no fee to you, nothing is booked here, and no payment passes through this site.
Sending one
Open the safari you are interested in and use the Enquire button on that page. Your message reaches that operator with the trip and your details attached, so they can come back with real dates and a real quote rather than a brochure. If you would rather start from the place or the experience, the destination guides and things to do both lead into the listings, and the safaris can be narrowed by destination, activity and length directly.
What to tell them
Operators answer far more precisely when an enquiry includes your rough travel dates or the month you are aiming for, how many nights you have on the ground, how many people are travelling and their ages, what you most want to see or do, and the kind of accommodation you prefer with a rough budget if you have one. Say whether the dates can move. A week either way is often the difference between a camp being full and being open.
What comes back
An outline itinerary, a note on anything that has to be secured early, and a breakdown of what is and is not included. Ask for park and conservation fees to be itemised in that breakdown: entry to the national parks is set by Tanzania National Parks, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area sets its own charges, and a Kilimanjaro or Meru climb carries a separate park permit. Everything after that, including the quote, the booking and any payment, is between you and the operator.
Comparing two quotes
Two itineraries that look identical on paper usually differ somewhere specific: the number of nights actually inside a park rather than outside its gate, whether a long transfer is driven or flown, how many people share the vehicle, whether the guide is the driver, and which meals and fees are in the price. Ask each operator the same short list of questions and the difference between the two quotes stops being mysterious.
Contacting the site
For anything about the site itself — a listing that looks wrong, a guide that has gone out of date, or an enquiry that went unanswered — use the contact page. For questions about a particular safari, contact the operator who sells it, through that safari’s page. What this site does and does not take responsibility for is set out in the terms and conditions.