Walking Safari
Plan Your safariThe Most Intimate Encounter with Africa
A Tanzania walking safari is the most intimate, most physically immediate, and most genuinely transformative way to experience the African wilderness — a form of engagement with the natural world so fundamentally different from the vehicle-based game drive that it feels less like a variation on the safari theme and more like an entirely different activity, one that draws on a different set of human instincts, produces a different quality of awareness, and leaves a different and arguably deeper kind of impression on the people who experience it. On foot in the African bush, accompanied by an experienced senior guide and an armed ranger whose combined knowledge of the landscape, the wildlife, and the subtle, constant language of the bush is encyclopaedic and deeply reassuring, the scale of the natural world recalibrates itself entirely — trees that seemed modest from a vehicle reveal themselves as enormous and ancient, the distance between your vehicle and a grazing elephant suddenly feels very different from the equivalent distance measured in footsteps, and the quality of attention required to move safely and quietly through a landscape inhabited by lions, elephants, and buffalos produces a state of full-body, full-mind alertness that is simultaneously the most demanding and the most thrillingly alive that most people ever feel. The finest walking safari destinations in Tanzania — the remote wilderness of Ruaha National Park, the vast riverine forests of the Nyerere National Park, and the private concessions of the Ngorongoro highlands — offer multi-day walking experiences of extraordinary depth and richness, moving between fly camps in the bush, sleeping under the stars, and spending every waking hour in the most immediate and most honest possible relationship with the African wilderness that any form of safari travel makes available.
Other Experiences
Other Experiences
Popular Trips in Tanzania
Take a look at some of our itineraries and unique experiences — every one of our holidays is designed around you.
- Elephant Held | Crater View
- 3-Day Big Five Safari: Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater
- Beach tour
- Big five safari | Great migrations
- 5 Days / 4 Nights in Zanzibar
Tarangire & Ngorongoro Quick Safari
2 Days
Price from
$ $550 – $900
Ultimate 3-Day Safari: Explore Serengeti & Ngorongoro
3 Days
Price from
$ $1,200 – $1,800
Exclusive zanzibar heritage & island escape
3 Days
Price from
$ $350 – $450
Exclusive zanzibar coastal & nature retreat
4 Days
Price from
$ $750 – $1,300
Masai mara & lake nakuru budget safari
4 Days
Price from
$ USD 450
5 Day Zanzibar Matemwe Tour
5 Days
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