Luwai Tanzania Safaris

Simply the best!

Magical Safari!
February 2025

We had the pleasure of traveling with Silas and Luwai Tanzania Safaris for the better part of three weeks in February 2025. From start to finish, Silas was fantastic, so knowledgeable and very personable! Silas and his company did a beautiful job of planning and delivering our experience, from the moment we stepped off the plane. His work prior to our arrival was obvious and his instructions and packing lists were perfect. Silas himself is an amazing guide, his experience and skill with and around the animals really showed his respect and love for his work and his country’s beauty. We always felt safe and could feel how important our safety and that of the animals was to him. His skill in the jeep and his ability to spot the animals and “sense” the animals allowed us to see so much more than I could have dreamed.

We began with a rest day near Arusha, then a wonderful day of mountain bike riding through the Rau forest and surrounding region with spectacular views of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Our safari time started the following day on the road to Enduimet Wildlife Management Area, a beautiful and wild parkland where we experienced the first of many breathtakingly beautiful sunsets, a campfire dinner in Maasai land and a predawn walking safari with three Maasai guides. What a start…spectacular sunrise, giraffes, jackals, gazelles and elephants!

The following day we were welcomed to Sinai, Silas’s home village, to see the work of The Luwai Foundation in rebuilding and expanding the primary school and supporting the work of the community in earning money to improve the infrastructure and the lives of the villagers. After a warm send off from the people of Sinai we were off to Tarangire National Park for three days, then on to the Serengeti National Park for 5 days, staying 1 or 2 nights in different lodges, both permanent and migratory.

At this point, I will say that the lodging for the entire trip was fantastic levels of “tent” camping, each lodge had a different landscape, view and experience, but each was beautiful, the accommodations were excellent and the staff were very professional and welcoming! I tried to stay awake each night and wake up early to hear the wanderings and voices of the surrounding animals.

It’s very difficult to describe the jeep experience, hours of traveling on rough roads and scanning the landscape and horizons for animals and birds as anything but “magical”, it was an experience of a lifetime! To see a family of dozens of elephants brush past your jeep, newly born babies stumbling as they learn to handle the terrain and figuring out what to do with their trunks, is nothing you can imagine. To see a pride of lions walk out of the long grasses, the cubs wrestling and tumbling together, or two maturing male brothers hunting together on the plains, or even just resting in the shade of the Acacia trees after a big meal. To see the parade of animals approaching a watering hole, bathing, and drinking and constantly on alert. The beauty and variety of birds, and their behaviors and their functions in the environment. To see tens of thousands (probably hundreds of thousands) of Wildebeests and zebras migrating across the landscape, as far as you can see, just unimaginable!

I could go on, but you probably get the idea…truly an experience of a lifetime.