AUTHENTIC SAFARIS & PERSONALIZED TOURS IN SERENGETI WITH AFRICANMECCA

The most traditionally popular activity on a photographic safari to Tanzania is the game viewing drive. With skilled, knowledgeable and enthusiastic AfricanMecca guides, some in radio communication with trackers and other like-minded guides, you will be sure to see the most riveting events in your immediate environment. Your guides are proud of their ability to seek out the tracks and find the animals you most want to see. Your delight is their reward.

In custom-designed open roof or side 4x4 vehicles, you will enjoy unimpeded panoramic views of the Great Migration of the wildebeests, zebras, gazelles and elands, or the Big Five, seeking out royal lion prides and pachyderms elephant herds on the plains, buffalo by the rivers, leopard in the woodlands and rhino around kopjes, shrublands and dense forests.



Other sights include giraffe, cheetah, hippopotamus and scores of smaller mammals, hyrax, small cats and scaly pangolin that curl into armored balls at any threat, together with hundreds of colorful and unusual birds, including beautiful crowned cranes, bizarre ostrich and colorful rollers, sunbirds and bee-eaters.

Game-viewing trips can be taken for around or over three hours in the early morning and later in the afternoon, or even extended full days to include meals in the bush as picnic lunches and others times as proper bush meals where food is cooked on a designated site and refrigerated drinks are served in style on tables laid out conveniently close to your vehicle. If you park by a kopje, you may even be joined by curious monkeys or distant zebras sharing your shade.



Available activities vary with location, whether inside or outside the actual boundaries of the Serengeti National Park and its private reserves and concessions. Not all accommodation offers guided walks or night drives, but some do, dependent on their location and license to operate, and it may even be possible to pre-book an early morning hot air balloon trip to appreciate the vastness of the landscape and the unbelievable extent of the migrating and resident herds along with its stalking predators.

Sundowners on game drives and bush boma cooking around a campfire at your accommodation are offered on select East African tours of Tanzania while many accommodations have a mini-library, ethnic performances and the enlightening opportunity to inquire more about the Maasai people who are so intimately linked with the national park.



Evening entertainments from nature talks to Maasai dances, day cultural visits may be available and sometimes special activities aimed at children, with bush skills workshops and even ceremonial visits to Maasai villages for blessings for honeymoon couples or to see the rites of passage for a young, handsome native warrior.