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4.7942 / 5 4.8 /5
4.8761 / 5 4.8133 / 5 4.6657 / 5 4.5010 / 5

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Male avatar icon Arlindo Lopes Portugal flag PT       Visited: August 2026 Reviewed: Aug 31, 2026

Email Arlindo Lopes  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

A great country , but needs to review its infrastructure to support tourism.

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 4 / 5 5 / 5 3 / 5

wildlife viewing, scenery, weather
i visit Tanzania in August , climb kili and made a safari.
KIli, wildlife viewing and scenery was really amazing, wonderfull .
Infraestrucures to support - tourism - are very poors , and needs to be review and rebild .

Myself , such as others tourists , has problems with tour operator, mainly with car problems .
I booked : Abuu's Tanzania Tours and Safaris

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Male avatar icon Jaber Jaber Kuwait flag KW       Visited: July 2026 Reviewed: Aug 19, 2026

Email Jaber Jaber  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Real Feel of Africa

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 0 / 5 5 / 5 0 / 5

Amazing wild life, plenty of animals, beautiful culture of the maasai people, breathtaking scenery and weather.


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Male avatar icon Zhi Australia flag AU       Visited: August 2026 Reviewed: Aug 10, 2026

Email Zhi  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Great safari and wildlife but…

4 / 5 4 /5
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Tanzania is an incredible country for wildlife and safari. The landscapes, animals and experiences were genuinely amazing and something we will always remember.

At the same time, poverty is very visible, and understandably there is a strong reliance on tourism for income. Unfortunately, the tipping culture became one of the biggest negatives of our trip.

Tipping was brought up incessantly throughout the trip, sometimes multiple times a day, and it often felt as though every smile, interaction or small gesture came with an expectation of a tip. It gets tiring very quickly and takes away from otherwise genuine interactions.

We tipped very well throughout our trip and have no issue rewarding great service. What we disliked was the constant expectation and pressure surrounding it. We are not American and do not come from a culture where customers are expected to effectively supplement everyone’s wages through tips.

Tanzania was spectacular,
Read more particularly the wildlife and safari, but the tipping culture was exhausting enough that it would make us think twice about returning. Businesses should pay their staff properly and allow tipping to be what it is supposed to be: an optional reward for excellent service, not an expected part of someone’s wage.
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Male avatar icon Allan United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: July 2026 Reviewed: Jul 22, 2026

Email Allan  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

The towns are scruffy, the traffic is chaotic but the scenery & wildlife more than make up for it

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 4 / 5 5 / 5 0 / 5
The Tanzanians themselves use an accurate Swahili term - "pole, pole" meaning slowly, slowly. The people are friendly and helpful. The hotels/lodges are of a reasonably high standard and you can usually get hot water (unlike Uganda). The proliferation of motorcycles makes the traffic crowded and unpredictable - you just need to remember this when crossing the road. For the same reason journey times can be longer than the distance would suggest. If the travel is on unmade roads (as most of them will be), the travel time increases proportionately. I went early in the dry season and the daytime temperature hovered around 24-28 degrees C. The exception is climbing Kilimanjaro, where temperatures drop substantially the higher you go. Once above cloud level, despite the lower temperature the sunshine will cause burning unless you've taken enough sun cream.
The scenery in Tanzania is magnificent, despite the littering from locals. Wildlife abounds and you'll certainly
Read more see most of what you expect to see. You may see all the "big five" with the exception of rhino. Leopards are less likely to be seen but I was lucky enough to see two. This applies to the National Parks. Outside of these, wildlife is more scarce. Costs vary but you are better off booking safaris with companies from Tanzania on the internet, rather than using companies in your home country who will use the same safari providers but after applying their mark-up.
Costs in Tanzania are relatively low but the more westernised the company you use, the more expensive it will be. In larger towns, you'll regularly be approached by locals who adopt the same approach - Hello, where you from? They may then try to sell you something which becomes trying after you've already rejected this approach by ten other people, but it's just a matter of grinning and bearing it.
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Avatar icon Laurent Terrassin France flag FR       Visited: June 2026 Reviewed: Jul 15, 2026

Email Laurent Terrassin  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Beautiful wild land

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5 0 / 5

Nice place to visit, nature and wildlife scenes are amazing

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Female avatar icon Radhika Isola United States flag US       Visited: January 2026 Reviewed: Mar 30, 2026

Email Radhika Isola  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

Very beautiful

4 / 5 4 /5
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No doubt Tanzania is a beautiful country. We visited 8 national parks. Tanzania has most animal, bird viewing compared to other countries in Africa. Go to any national park here we can see all animals easily. Ngorogoro crater is absolutely a blissful place. Serengeti had all the animals including big 5 easily seen. But accommodations around parks like mikumi , Ruaha are terrible. The roads are absolutely a nightmare. The road from Ruaha to Mikumi parks took 10 hours long drive. These conditions of the roads discourage tourists. The tour operators are not customer friendly. While the country has abundant animal life in the parks, tourists have very limited decent accommodation around small national parks. Also tourists are not treated the way they are treated in Kenya. Animal viewing is much much better than South Africa, Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Rwanda. Given opportunity, will definitely choose Ngorogoro and Serengeti over any place in the whole continent.

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Male avatar icon Pierre Andre Plotkins Canada flag CA       Visited: March 2026 Reviewed: Mar 23, 2026

Email Pierre Andre Plotkins  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Beautiful!

4 / 5 4 /5
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The people of Tanzania were welcoming, and the country is very scenic !
The safari was beyond expectations. Animal encounters, were breathtaking.

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Female avatar icon Ilva Latvia flag LV       Visited: February 2026 Reviewed: Mar 10, 2026

Email Ilva  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Better than I expected.

4 / 5 4 /5
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Safari in Tanzania was unforgettable. We visited Serengeti Park and Nogorongoro Crater. Three days in the car, but it was not boring. A lot of animals - especially zebras, wildebeest, giraffes, lions. In Ngoringoro Crater the same only more birds. Our tour operator was at a high level, as in Europe.

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Female avatar icon Daisy Mexico flag MX       Visited: January 2026 Reviewed: Feb 17, 2026

Email Daisy  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: first safari

Great sightseeing!

4 / 5 4 /5
4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5 3 / 5

The guide Samuel was extremely helpful and kind.
Food was good
Weather too hot on Serengeti and just a little rain
Ngorongoro was super cold, make sure to pack a blanket.

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Female avatar icon Laura Selva Italy flag IT       Visited: January 2026 Reviewed: Feb 8, 2026

Email Laura Selva  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Where nature can flourish

4 / 5 4 /5
5 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5 4 / 5
We did our Safari in Tanzania for four days in January 2026 and in those four days we learnt a lot of things about animals, about the ecosystem and also about people. We had a good guide who explained us how to recognize male or famale giraffes, how to find a iena just looking at the footprints and the rules to watch animals caring about their safety, just to not disturb them too much. We drove into the Nyerere National Park and it was very surprising how animals live and prosperate without humans. There were all kind of mammals, reptiles and birds and not all expected. There weren't just the typical big five, there were also insects and lizards. We saw so many giraffes, as many hippos, two crocodiles, two pied kingfishers, a lioness with her babies, funny baboons, a group of rare wild dogs who played such as common dogs and a beautiful group of ienas. We were so lucky because they are night predators and we saw them during the day when they were eating a dead hippo. In Tanzania nature
Read more prosperates well because humans are trying to protect it and it's important, all the world have to follow this example. When you start a Safari you don't know which animals are you going to see but this is the game! As our guide said: "nature is unpredictable"; you have to stay silent, you have to be patient and look around you because something amazing, in Tanzania, will appears!
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