Your Tanzania, Designed Around You

Tailor-Made Tanzania Safaris

Private safaris and Zanzibar holidays built around your dates, pace and budget, not pulled off a shelf.

A tailor-made Tanzania safari is a private trip we plan from scratch for you. You pick the dates, the parks and how long to stay in each, the camps and lodges, and any extras such as a few nights on Zanzibar or a Kilimanjaro climb. Send us your travel window and group size and we will come back with a day-by-day route and a quote.

Plan Your Trip

Tell us what you have in mind

Step 1 of 4: Trip

What would you like this trip to include?

Pick as many as you like.

Takes about a minute. No commitment.

Why go tailor-made

Ask ten travellers what makes a great safari and you will get ten answers. Some want to wake before dawn and follow the wildebeest migration across the plains; others want long, slow afternoons at a bush camp. A honeymoon couple wants privacy; a family with young children wants space, guides who can talk to an eight-year-old, and a schedule with room for an afternoon nap. None of them should be handed the same itinerary.

Fixed departures exist because they are easy to sell. They lock you into someone else's pace and someone else's camp choices. With your own itinerary, six nights in the Serengeti and one on Zanzibar is your call, and so is a day with a Hadzabe community near Lake Eyasi. If the budget is tight and you would rather spend it on one exceptional night in a remote camp than four nights in a mid-range lodge, we will build the numbers around that.

Planned around the wildlife calendar

Timing is where a safari is often won or lost. Calving season in the southern Serengeti runs roughly January to March, the river crossings further north come around June to September, and the greener months bring birdlife and lower prices. A fixed tour cannot move to meet that calendar. We look at your travel window, check where the migration and resident wildlife are likely to be, and route your days to match.

How planning works

  1. Tell us about the trip

    Your travel window, who is coming, how you like to travel and anything that has to happen, from a sunrise balloon flight to hot showers every night.

  2. Get a day-by-day draft

    We match parks, camps and lodges to your interests and budget, and send the route back to you with a quote.

  3. Shape it together

    Swap a lodge for a tented camp, add a day, cut a transfer, add a cultural visit. We go back and forth until the plan feels right.

  4. We run the logistics

    Internal flights, park permits and fees, vehicles and guides sized to your group, and a plan B for weather delays.

For most itineraries a guide stays with you for the ground portion of the trip, someone who knows how to read a morning and change the day's plan on the spot. That flexibility is the real value of building a safari yourself instead of buying one off a shelf.

Start from one of these

Each of these can be reshaped: change the length, the lodges, the order of the parks, or add Zanzibar.

8-Day Calving Season Safari
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7-Day Tanzania Halal Safari
Halal Safaris • 7 Days

7-Day Tanzania Halal Safari

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Common Questions

Tailor-Made Safari FAQs

A private trip planned from scratch around your dates, group, budget and interests, instead of a fixed departure you join with strangers. You choose how long to stay in each park, which camps and lodges to use and what to add, such as Zanzibar or Kilimanjaro.
It depends on the number of days, the season, your group size and the standard of lodges, so we quote each trip once we know those. Our set packages show a per-person "from" price, which is a useful guide to the range before you ask for a quote.
Yes. A few nights on Zanzibar after the parks is the most common addition, and a Kilimanjaro climb can go before or after the safari. We route the flights and transfers between them.
It depends on what you want to see. Calving season in the southern Serengeti runs roughly January to March, river crossings in the north happen around June to September, and the greener months are quieter with good birdlife. We plan the route around where the wildlife is likely to be in your travel window.
The busiest months, July to October and the December holidays, fill up first, so start as early as you can for those dates. For other months there is usually more room, but camps in prime spots can still sell out.
Yes. We plan halal safaris with prayer time and meals arranged in advance, and family trips paced for children. Tell us what you need when you get in touch.

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Let's Design Your Safari

Whether you already know the parks you want or only "somewhere wild, sometime next year", tell us your dates and who's coming and we'll take it from there.