Overview
Guided by Jim Heck
August 25 – 31, 2024
$4,595
This Tanzania tour is an extension to the 2024 Kenya Dry Season Safari. While Tanzania and the Serengeti in particular is Jim’s favorite place in the world and where he spends most of his career guiding, it’s a more challenging environment for game viewing during the dry season than in Kenya. This is because Tanzania is further south, and the rains have receded out of the area into Kenya’s Maasai Mara.
Nevertheless visitors will be blown away by what they see in Tanzania at this time of the year!
The Serengeti is massive, more than 5000 sq. miles large. Most of it will be very dry and dusty but Jim has chosen a two-night experience in the Moru Kopjes, which is less dry than the rest of the park. The herbivore population of Ngorongoro Crater might be quite slim in August, but of course the awesome spectacular of this mighty site never changes, and the many lion populations rarely leave! So while the crater may be hot and dusty it’s also quite possible to witness some dramatic lion take-downs!
Tarangire National Park bucks the whole trend. This is the best time of the year for what is probably Africa’s best elephant park. Defined by its great sand rivers, Tarangire is in many ways more like a southern than East African park. Its dry season is its best season, attracting literally thousands of elephant from all over the northern circuit!
So while Kenya is absolutely the preferred game viewing destination in general at this time of the year, a short experience in Tanzania will reward you with scenery and experiences quite different from those you’ll have enjoyed in Kenya.
2024 | Sharing | Single | Local Air | ||
Kenya | Aug 13 – 25 | Per Adult | $ 13,940 | $ 15,910 | $ 1,113 |
Kenya | Aug 13 – 25 | Per Child | $ 11,140 | $ 15,620 | $ 1,004 |
Tanzania | Aug 25 – 31 | Per Adult | $ 4,595 | $ 5,085 | $ 528 |
Tanzania | Aug 25 – 31 | Per Child | $ 3,970 | $ 5,085 | $500 |
About your guide . . . . JIM HECK
Few people know East Africa as well as Jim Heck. For nearly a half century he has worked, lived and guided in sub-Saharan Africa. His popular blog, AfricaAnswerman, includes investigative journalism of some of Africa’s most critical news stories as well as anecdotes and features of daily African life. His award-winning novel, Chasm Gorge, will soon be followed by a second one, The World by Ole Sarut.
His companies have organized safaris into Africa for more than 20,000 visitors including most of the country’s major zoos and conservation organizations. In 2016 he became the first American guide to be named an honorary senior elder by Kenya’s Maasai tribe.
Jim was the first westerner allowed to leave Addis after the Red Terror; had canoes overturned among crocs and hippos on the Zambezi; been charged by an elephant that he hit with a plate of waldorf salad; lost in the jungles of Cameroun; marooned in the Ituri Forest and rescued by Rhodesian sanction busters; and was among the few outsiders to travel through Uganda during the rule of Idi Amin. Jim has never lost a client or fired a gun.
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