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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