Safari journal

Everything here is written by the people who run the trips. Guides, drivers and planners who were in the park last week. We publish when there is something worth saying, which means fewer articles than a content calendar would produce and none of them written to fill a slot.

Most of it answers what guests actually ask us. When gorilla permits go on sale. What the Mara looks like in April. Whether a six year old will cope with a long day in a vehicle.

18 August 20267 minute read

Uganda or Tanzania for the Big Five?

Tanzania, if the Big Five is the point: Ngorongoro and the Serengeti hold all five between them. Uganda gives you four in the wild — lion, leopard, elephant and buffalo — with rhino at a fenced sanctuary. Uganda's real case is gorillas.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

16 August 20267 minute read

Kenya or Tanzania for the Great Migration?

Tanzania for most of the year — the Serengeti holds the herds through calving, the westward move and the push north. Kenya's Masai Mara comes into its own from roughly August to October, when the Mara River is the herds' primary water source.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

13 August 20267 minute read

Amboseli: elephants under Kilimanjaro

Amboseli's elephants and Kilimanjaro are a package deal: water from the mountain is understood to surface in the basin as permanent swamps, holding big herds in open country all year. The mountain itself is usually only clear at dawn and in the last hour of light.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

The floor of the Ngorongoro Crater from the rim

9 August 20267 minute read

The Ngorongoro Crater: fees, timing and what it is really like

A Ngorongoro Crater safari means paying the NCAA USD 70.80 per non-East African adult to enter the conservation area, plus a USD 295 crater service fee charged per vehicle, not per person. Here is how the day actually works.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

Zebra in the acacia country of Lake Mburo

18 July 20267 minute read

Lake Mburo on foot: how a walking safari works

A walking safari at Lake Mburo is arranged with the park before you travel and goes out on foot with a ranger rather than from a vehicle. You pay Uganda Wildlife Authority's park entrance fee — USD 40 per adult per 24 hours — and the walk is charged on top of it.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

4 June 20267 minute read

Nyungwe Forest: the canopy walk, the chimpanzees and the fees

The Nyungwe canopy walk costs USD 40 per international visitor, guide included, in groups of two to eight. Park entry is charged separately on top — and it is a cumulative total for your stay, not a nightly rate. Chimpanzee tracking is a separate USD 150 permit.

By The Mnyansio safari desk

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Articles tagged Park fees

Uganda or Tanzania for the Big Five?

Kenya or Tanzania for the Great Migration?

Amboseli: elephants under Kilimanjaro

The Ngorongoro Crater: fees, timing and what it is really like

Lake Mburo on foot: how a walking safari works

Nyungwe Forest: the canopy walk, the chimpanzees and the fees

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