Plate I01
A lion, head up at six in the morning.
Serengeti, 6:30 AM
Serengeti, the plains
Preface, on the country with one of every Africa
Tanzania is the country that has every East-Africa moment in one passport. The Serengeti for the migration, Ngorongoro for the crater morning, Kilimanjaro for the climb, Zanzibar for the salt-and-spice end. Three days in the Serengeti, one in Ngorongoro, three in Zanzibar. And Kilimanjaro on its own week. Best between June and October for the dry-season game-viewing, and January to February for the calving.
Every journey in Tanzania, currently
3 journeys in Tanzania.
Interlude, Plates from the field
Things we
have seen.
Eight plates from the studio's last three years. A Serengeti dawn drive, Ngorongoro Crater from the rim, Stone Town doors in the afternoon.
Eight plates, drag, swipe, or use the arrows
Colophon
A small note
on how we work.
Tibro has been routing Tanzania since 2017. Eight years of Serengeti private-concession game-drives, Ngorongoro crater mornings, and the safari-into-Zanzibar arcs that travellers come back wanting to do every year.
We work with an Arusha-based partner desk run by Hamisi (originally a Ngorongoro Conservation Authority ranger) and a Zanzibar Stone Town coordinator who has walked our travellers through the doors-and-spice routes since 2018.
Lodges on the northern circuit are a private-concession problem. Public-park camps are crowded, private concessions cost more but you do not share the kill. We work with three concession operators year-round and pick by traveller week.
Three routes is what we currently maintain. The safari-and-Zanzibar nine-night is the most-requested; we route the beach AFTER the bush because arriving on the island with a Serengeti tan is the right end to the trip.
8Years of routing Tanzania
3Routes, none repeated
11 / 24Hours we tend to reply within
Warmly,
The Tibro studio , Mumbai, Arusha (partner), Zanzibar (coast liaison)
Letters received
From the studio's folder
What they wrote
when they got home.
Three letters from the last twelve months.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Serengeti & Zanzibar, nine nights, September 2024
Four Serengeti nights at a private concession lodge, two Ngorongoro, three Zanzibar. Hamisi's ranger team had us in the right place every morning. The first kill of the season on day two, a leopard with a kill in the tree on day four. The Zanzibar three days were the right way to land back into the world: salt water, Stone Town doors, a sunset dhow.
P. & K. IyerBengaluru, first Africa safari
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Northern circuit, seven nights, February 2024
Calving season in the southern Serengeti. The private concession lodge the studio booked had us alone at a kill site for forty minutes on day three; nobody else on the radio. Hamisi's brief on the migration, given on the cars on the first morning, framed the rest of the week.
A. & R. KrishnanChennai, returning safari
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Kilimanjaro Lemosho, eight nights, October 2024
Seven days up, one rest day, summit at five forty AM. The studio used a private guide team with a 2:1 client-to-guide ratio that we did not realise was rare until other groups walked by us. Hamisi's pre-trip altitude brief and the slow-day-three philosophy is what got us to Uhuru.
M. & N. BhattacharyaKolkata, climb of a lifetime
4.93 / 5Average from 78 returned travellers
30%Travel with us a second time
11 hrsMean reply time to a first letter
An open letter
Tell us when you
can go, and which two.
Two questions decide a Tanzania trip: which season. Calving in February, migration in September. And which two of safari, beach, climb. Hamisi in Arusha writes back inside the working day with concession beds held on a tentative.
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