Private mobile safari camp with a light touch, located in the best areas of Northern Tanzania. With stylish tents, great food and crew to look after you, this is far from basic camping.
Guide Price: From: $350 To: $450
Our approach with the Light Mobile Camp has been to emphasize the ingredients that give a safari its unique flavour - an excellent guide, access to the best areas, great food and a comfortable camp – while minimizing the cost on things that most people can do with out in the context of a safari…namely the bling. This camp is aimed squarely at folks who are after an outstanding wilderness experience that is both real and affordable. It was specifically to offer an alternative to staying in public campsites in busy areas on a budget camping safari, or standing in buffet lines on a lodge-based safari. Light mobile camping makes it possible to have a remote, private, comfortable and stylish bush experience. Take a look at a short video to find out more about this camp.
At the heart of the camp is its lightness of touch – it can move to be in the right place at the right time, and it’s able to come and go with minimal impact on the exceptional areas we access with it. Lighting is solar powered, the camp uses its own water filtration plant for drinking water, and cooking is done over coconut husk bio-bricks instead of charcoal. Food, as we all know, matters. At this camp you can expect excellent meals, prepared on site by your chef, using local ingredients sourced at local markets. Wherever possile, dining is en plein air and at night the canopy of stars is vastly superior to even the most elaborate of dining rooms.
While light enough to be easily mobile, your tent is spacious with a floor area of 2.5 x 2.5 metres and 2 metres high. It comes with real beds, 100% cotton bedding; duvets, sheets and pillow covers. Good quality duvet inners, with an additional fleece blanket provided. You'll also find bed side tables, solar reading lights and a solar over-head light. Outside the tent you'll find a hand basin and mirror, two chairs and even a ground sheet to make a comfortable veranda. Best of all, the camp crew will make up the tent every day.
What the Light Mobile Camp is not. This isn’t a camp that you share with other people. We believe that for a few nights on a safari guests should have the opportunity to be themselves in the bush. A place where one doesn’t need to sit in a dining room or ‘mingle’ with other people. It is a rare pleasure to be on your own for a while, to decide when to get up, when to eat and to be as quiet or loud as you like in your own private camp. But…it is NOT a basic bush camp. Four course meals, sit down dinners, pre dinner snacks, 100% cotton bedding and hot showers all ensure that you wont feel like you’re roughing it.
Take a closer look at the Light Mobile experience in the Serengeti or Tarangire
This camp is all about experiencing great wildlife with a dedicated private guide, with access to the best areas for the time of year. Being with a private guide and vehicle allows you to take the game viewing at a pace that suits you, so activites are shaped to your objectives. As you go along your guide will quickly pickup your interests and reflect those in the game viewing...something that's virtually impossible to do to everyone's satisfaction in a group safari. However, giving you a chance to get out of the vehicle is one of the main objectives of this camp. In some areas this means picnics and chances to stretch your legs, but a lot of the itineraries we design actually include quite a bit of walking. We also offer full-on walking safaris throughout Northern Tanzania - Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tarangire, Manyara and the Rift Valley - for people who are looking for something a little more adventurous.
Private dome tents with camp beds, proper sheets and duvets. Room enough to swing all but the larger cats.
From: 350 To: 450
Private mobile safari camp with a light touch, located in the best areas of Northern Tanzania. With stylish tents, great food and crew to look after you, this is far from basic camping.
Includes private vehicle and guide throughout (for your group), all safari activities, all park fees, all food, soft drinks and local beer and wine.
The Western Corridor is the hotspot in late June and July as the wildebeest migration rolls into town, but it also retains a sizeable resident population of wildebeest - and good general game viewing - year round. This is a funnel shaped piece of land running from the Central Serengeti west to the park boundary near the shore of Lake Victoria. It's an interesting and beautiful area, particularly when you leave the main road - and the Peugot 504 taxis - behind. Read more?
Tanzania safaris rival a safari any other country in Africa in terms of sheer wilderness, formidable landscapes and volume of wildlife. At Natural High, we have travelled all over the country, worked in some of its best Tanzania safari camps and lodges and flown all over as bush pilots so we feel qualified to venture such opinions. Read more?
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Vanessa's 16 years in travel has seen her knowledge develop from sub-Saharan Africa into North Africa, Central and Southern America and the Galapagos. Consequently, she’s a veritable encyclopaedia of travel information and exceptionally cool, calm and collected in the face of the greatest planning demands.
At Natural High, we've had long experience putting together trips in Africa that really work. Whether it's intimate bushcamps in out of the way places, or a private lodge in one of Africa's top-billing wildlife areas, light mobile camping or remote island escapes, we know there is a lot to choose from. We're absolutely confident that we can recommend the right places for you.