Oloitiko Tanzania Safaris
Guests photographing elephants from an open-roof safari vehicle.

Game drives

Best: All year · Half or full day

The core of every safari — a private 4×4, a roof that opens, and a guide who knows where to be at six in the morning.

Everything else on this list is an addition to game drives, not a replacement for them. In a private vehicle you set the pace: if a leopard is in a tree you stay, and if the road is quiet you keep moving. Most days run early morning and late afternoon, with the middle of the day back at camp out of the heat — which is also when the animals rest.

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Tell us this matters and we will route the itinerary so it actually happens — in the right park, in the right month, booked far enough ahead.

Plan my safari

Build game drives into your route.

Some of these need booking months ahead, others need only a word to the camp the night before. Tell us which ones matter and we will plan the days around them.

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