Tent with a view-luxury lodge.
The tent with a view lodge is found on the Tanzania coast, just outside the newly gazetted Saadani National park. Being near the park, and on the coast, this rustic, natural lodge combines game viewing with a beach holiday.

There are ten tented bandas, attractively perched on stilts and spaced out along the Pristine Indian Ocean beach providing maximum privacy. Each banda is furnished with a personal theme, with ensuite facilities and large balconies with hammocks overlooking the Indian Ocean.

The largely spaced Sea View restaurant and bar is also found on stilts. The restaurant serves a wide range of international cuisine, and the bar is properly stocked with South African wines, beers and liquors.

It is possible to do walking safaris combining the bush and the beach, looking at birds by canoe on the Wami River provides the finest chances to view a small population of elephants. The lodge has begun its own turtle hatchery to help conserve these endangered species.

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Saadani Wildlife Safari

Saadani National Park was only gazetted in the year 2003and is the sole park on Tanzania with ocean frontage. The park itself is different from the rest of East Africa combining several ecosystems involving bush, beach and river. Some of the animals do come to the beach and you can a times view some in the surf.

The park possesses abundant gave, involving giraffe, hante beest, waterbuck, wildebeest, buffalo, hippos and crocodiles. It is also possible though not so easy to view the lion, leopard and sable antelope.

Game drives in the park are benefiting as there are boating safaris along the Wami River, at the river estuary, the salt pans are filled with flamingos and the river is a bird watcher’s paradise.

To the north of the park is a green turtle breeding, which is recently supported by the lodges in the park. All our visitors who tour Saadani find it a unique and special area and is a good alternative to end a safari here rather than on a typical beach holiday.

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Saadani Travel Information

Information on the proposed Saadani National Park.
It has got a size of 1,100 square kilometres or 430 square miles. It is found on the north coast, about 100km or 60 miles northwest of the port of Tanga.

How is a road shuttle three times a week from Dar-es-salaam, taking 4 hours in either direction. There is no road access from Dar-es-salaam along the coast, so use the surfaced Moshi road for 160 kilometres or 100 miles, then 60 kilometres or 36 miles on dirt road.
There is a road access from Tanga and Pangani apart from when it rains heavily. A four wheel drive is needed.

What to do.
There are game drives and guided walks.
Boat trips and swimming.
Visit Saadani fishing village, which is found within the reserve, where a collection of rains pays testament to its 19th century heyday as a main trading port.

When to go.
In most cases, it can be accessed throughout the year, however the access roads are at times not passable during April and May.
The finest game sighting is in January and February and from June to August.

Accommodation.
There is one luxury tented camp.

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Saadani National Park.
Palm trees swing in a cooling oceanic breeze. White sand and blue water sparkle attractively beneath the tropical sun. Traditional dhows move slowly past, moved by billowing white soils, while Swahili fishermen put their nets beneath a brilliant red sunrise.

Travel Information
The beach meets the bush at Saadani. The sole wildlife area in East Africa to boast an Indian beach front, it has all the attributes that make Tanzania’s tropical coastline and islands so famous with European sun-worshipers. Yet it is also the sole area where those idle hours of sun bathing might be interrupted by an elephant strolling past, or a lion coming to drink at the neighboring waterhole.

Preserved as a game reserve since the 1960s, in 2002, it was enlarged to occupy twice its previous size. The reserve was greatly affected by poaching before the late 1990s, but current years have shown a marked turn around, because of the concerted sudden policy of being very strict on poachers, based on integrating nearby villages into the conservation drive.

Wildlife Safaris
Currently, a surprising wide range of grazers and primates is viewed on game drives and walks, among them are; giraffe, warthog, common water buck, reed buck, haite beest, red duiker, greater kudu, eland, sable antelope, yellow baboon and vervet monkey.

Groups amounting to 30 elephants are encountered with increasing frequency, and many lion prides are inhabitants, plus leopard, spotted hyena and black-backed jackal. Boat trips on the mangrove-lined Wami River come with a great opportunity of viewing hippopotamus, crocodiles plus a selection of marine and riverine birds, involving the mangrove king fisher and lesser flamingo, while the beaches form one of the last main green turtle breeding sites on main land Tanzania.

Accommodation
Tent with a view-luxury lodge.

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Rubondo Wildlife Safari

The wide diversity of invertebrates and variety of plant species makes Rubondo an attracting place for naturalists. Wonderful butterflies form a kalei-doscope of colour in the forest and the spectacular seasonal displays of orchids, fineball lilies and red coral trees. Tourists are free to explore the forest plus the land along the edge of the lake by foot or boat allowing each individual to explore his or her own magic of Rubondo and to leave with a special personal experience of the island.

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Rubondo Safari Information
It has got a size of 240 square kilometres equated to 93 square miles. It is situated in Northwest Tanzania, a150 kilometres or 95 miles west of Mwanza.

How to get there.
There are time tabled flights from Arusha, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Mwanza in peak season, the charter flights only in low season.
If you travel by road, travel from Mwanza, then get a transfer by boat. For details about transport, contact the park.
What to do.
There are walking safaris, boat short journeys, fishing sport, chimpanzee trekking, plans for canoe trips. More on Wildlife Safaris Here

When to go.
During June to August, when the season is dry. Wild flowers and butterflies are there during this time.
Also from November to March when the season is wet.
And for bird lovers, it is better to go between December to February because that is the best time for migratory birds.
Rubondo Island National park for walking, short journeys by boat, watching birds, fishing, relaxing and many others.

Rubondo Island, which is in the Southwest of Lake Victoria, is the tenth National park of Tanzania and the sole national island park in Lake Victoria. The 240 square kilometre island offers an experience for guests, that cannot be forgotten, involving the main island and 11 smaller islands, combining the very exciting natural beauty of a forest refuge with the relaxing tranquillity of sand lake-shore beaches.

Along the north-south axis, the Island is some 28 kilometres in length and between three and ten kilometres wide. Lake Victoria occupies 68,000 square kilometres and in Africa, it is second to none in largeness whereas in the whole world, it is the second largest. In comparison, its size doubles that of the Netherlands.

Rubondo Island possesses an unusual variety of flora and fauna. It is only at Rubondo
Island that the guest can be certain of viewing Sitatunga and get the opportunity of seeing small gangs of chimps. Other mammals often viewed involve the hippos, others include bushbucks and vervet monkeys. The ones that are rarely viewed include genet, colobus, marsh mangrove, and suni antelope or the Dikdik.

Island Vacation and Holiday
Rubondo is a paradise fro those who love birds, having a bout 430 species recorded on the island. The variety of homes, from open woodland to papyrus swamps and evergreen forest, together with its geographical location in the centre of Africa, draws closer big numbers of resident and migrant species. The Island possesses plenty of herons, storks, egrets, ibises, cormorants, kingfishers, flycatchers, bee-eaters, hornbills and birds of prey, involving the highest density of fish eagles all over the globe.

Rubondo Island Camp

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Rubondo Island camp.
The camp has ten bandas or luxury tents. Each of the ten units oversees the lake, a sight that may be enjoyed from the exclusion of a private terrace and just a few yards from the sandy lakeshore. The convenient spacious tents have windows on all sides and instead of the common zips, there is an entrance door. A very spaced ensuite bath and dressing room has been built for each banda. Great care has been taken to use local natural building materials.

An outcrop of rocks in the middle of scattered trees offers the perfect setting for the restaurant and bar, providing a magnificent sight of the lake and bay. A swimming pool is situated comfortably near the bar, among the palm trees. The lake is normally calm during the day, however, when the wind picks up in the late afternoon, the waves roll in, varying in the singing sounds of the sea. The climate of Rubondo is conveniently warm all over the year and does not become so hot like on the coast. Enjoy its clean air. There is no traffic on the Island.

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Rubondo Island Vacation
Rubondo Island is tucked in the Southwest corner of the world’s second-largest lake, Lake Victoria, an inland sea spread out into Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. With nine smaller islands under its wing, Rubondo preserves wonderful fish breeding grounds.

The tasty tilapia make the main diet of the yellow-spotted others that play and move a bout in the island’s rocky caves, whereas the greedy Nile perch, some with over 100 kilograms, tempt recreational game fishermen looking for world record catches.

Rubondo gives a new meaning to a water wonderland. In other wards, it is more than a water wonderland. Deserted sandy beaches lie against a cloak of virgin forest, where dappled bush back move fleet yet silent, through a mace of tamarinds, wild palms, and sycamore figs strung with a cage of trailing tap roots.

The shaggy-coated aquatic Sitatunga, which is the most elusive of antelopes elsewhere, is remarkably seen easily, not only in the papyrus swamps where it usually resides, but also in the interior of the forest. Birds are all over the place.

Groups of African grey parrots, which were released into the island after they were confiscated from unauthorized exporters, give a harsh high-pitched sound in a funny way without harmony, as they fly with large and often noisy movements between the forests.

The azure brilliance of a malachite kingfisher perched low in the reeds competes with the attractive, flowing tail of a paradise flycatcher as it flies through the lakeshore forest. Herons, storks and spoonbills proliferate in the swampy lake fringes, supplemented by thousands of Eurasian migrants during the northern winter.

Wild jourmine 40 various orchids and a smorgasbord of sweet, indefinable smells emerge from the forest.

Ninety percent of the entire park is humid forest, the remaining part ranges from open grassland to lakeside papyrus beds.

Various local mammal species including hippo, vervet monkey, genet and mongoose, share their preserved home with introduced species, for example chimpanzee, black-and-white colobus, elephant and giraffe, all of which gain from the inaccessibility of Ruhondo.

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Ruaha Climate, When to Visit

Best time to visit
Though the park remain stunning through out the year, it is best to visit it between July and November when the animals gather around the water holes. Their cover is blown a during May to December which is a dry season and animals become easier to spot when when leaves and branches dies down. Eurasian migrating birds normally come and increase the already ;big numbers of exotic and colorful species in the park, and this usually happens twice a year that is in March/April and October/November.

In South-central Tanzania is where Ruaha is situated with the nation park as the boundary and with multiple ecosystems; It is important to note that Ruaha Nation park has Rungwa, Kizigo and Muhesi Game reserves in its north, while its east contains Iringa Highlands plus Rubeho mountains. ‘Ruaha’ is more of a genetic terminology traditionally use dby the natives of the region, and it comes from “Luvaha” which means water stream- this referring to the river that runs through the park. However, the real indigenous name for the Great Ruaha River is “ Lyambangari”. It was in 1964, that Ruaha National park formally came into existence and it was given a National park status. An official boundary survey was forced in 1973 that it now stands 12,950sq km. the reason for this boundary survey was due to the ecosystem relationship it shared with the northern game reserves.

Ruaha National park, the second largest National park after Serengeti, in its pristine ecological condition. It is not so much frequented and this makes any visitors experience a unique ore. Ruaha is a park that deals so much in under taking nature is fact guest to this park you can also spot th speeding fish eagle in motion, a spray of water made by a hippopotamus and so many other experiences

When visiting Ruaha National park, guests can normally use two ways. Guests can either use the road through safari from Dar-es-Salaam taking the A7 high, passing Mikumi National park and Udzungwa mountains National kpark or they can merge off to the west going through the beautiful and gorgeous Iringa Highlands. If you do not use driving methods, then Travel to Tanzania can arrange for flight departures from Arusha and Dar-es-Salaam where accommodation guides meets you as soon as you arrive. The green season usually force visitors to fly dow instead of driving. Between the months of mid May to the end of December are the best months avisable for visiting the Ruaha National park.

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Tandala Tented camp.
Situated at 12km from the Ruaha National park boundary, Tandala a pleasant new camp has got ten spacious, elevated, luxury tents providing a variety of twin or double bed arrangements. There are extra beds to accommodate a third person or for children. Lighting is offered by 24hr solar and there is absolute seclusion and privacy because every tent stands at least eight metres away fro the next one. Gas or solar provides hot showers, while thatch encloses the en-suite bathroom at the back of every tent.

In front of every; there is a sizable verandah which has comfortable seats where people can relax from or view game along the Mdweka sand river.

The camp has got a good diversity of animals for example; Bushbuck, greater Kuddu, Warthog, Dikdik, giraffe, African Dog, baboons, Mangoose, and reedbuck.

Most guests are attracted to Tandala by the many elephants that come and leave regularly as the water holes keep on attracting them (elephants).

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