How to Book your Tanzanian Safaris and the process of arranging a good quality safari to Tanzania should be easy and fun.
In this section, we quickly walk you through what to expect from the process …
- Deciding who to work with
The quality and success of your trip will be very much dependent on the experts you choose to work with.
Virtually all quality safaris are booked through specialist safari agencies like our Galloping Safaris Ltd a locally owned and managed by Tanzanian. But even amongst these companies there is a vast range in quality.
There is such a vast raft of confusing and contradictory information out there on the internet and so many companies offering such a broad range of safari experiences, that it can be really tricky for the uninitiated to pick out the real safari people.
We believe very strongly that someone can only become truly expert in this field if they have considerable first-hand experience of living and working in the world of safari and have travelled extensively throughout many if not all of the key safari areas.
We believe that we are the best at what we do.
All of our safari experts have at least ten years safari experience, both working safari on the ground and building tailor-made trips.
- Research and inquiry
The approach that our guests take towards researching their trip varies enormously.
Some guests spend literally months and years going through every experience, every location and every lodge, slowly narrowing down the options. When they eventually contact us, they may already have a very good idea of what they want to do on their trip and we simply need to double check it for them, draw up some quotations. illustrate a few possible variants and chat through the final details.
The majority of our guests have a rather different approach, one which is usually much less time consuming. After a quick browse of the website, they get in touch, tell us a little bit about who they are and a very rough outline of what they have in mind, then leave it up to our safari experts to come up with some trip ideas.
If you were to ask our safari experts which method, they feel is more effective, they would universally say the latter. They much prefer to get involved early and help guests to find the best and most appropriate options more quickly and efficiently.
But really it comes down to whatever suits you the best. We are happy either way.
- Getting in touch
The best way to get in touch if you have a specific set of requests is usually to send an email with your various notes.
This will normally be received by Walter Tenga who is responsible for allocating your inquiry to a safari expert or work, coordinate himself who is suitable knowledgeable and experienced in the areas to which you want to travel.
If you can also make yourself available for a phone call, then your safari expert will be able to reach out to ask any questions before getting down to work.
If you are making a more vague inquiry, then the best way to get started is almost always to give us a call.
You can either call the team at Galloping Safaris or select a specific safari expert to chat with, or you can simply call and we will make sure that you get through to the person who is in the best position to help out.
You will be amazed how much clarity we can provide in just a few minutes on the phone.
- A few words about your budget
Safari can be a very expensive business, so we have to take special care when it comes to the price of trips.
We help our guests to build trips for a very wide range of budgets.
In an ideal world you will give us a target budget for us to work towards. Along the way we will suggest areas where you can cut back without adversely affecting the trip and other places where it might be worth splashing out.
Whatever your budget we will make sure that you get the best possible experience. You will never experience any pushy up-selling, we consider ourselves to be your representatives and want you to be comfortable with the amount of money that you are spending.
- Getting quotes
Once one of our safari experts has your initial information, they will look to create a range of fully priced and detailed tailor-made sample trips.
These trips will be designed to show you a range of options, varying in style, location and price, to give you an idea of the range of possibilities.
It is once you receive this first batch of samples that you will need to do a little bit of work, going through the various options. But you should find that things start to fall into place pretty fast from here.
On receiving your feedback, your safari expert will be able to start fine tuning, either working one trip up in more detail, or providing another more focused set of sample trip.
Sometimes we get your trip almost perfect first time, other times guests prefer to go through several iterations of sample trips before becoming really focused on one particular option.
We are happy to work either way, over the years we have a developed our own really efficient safari building system, so creating multiple options is easy.
The overriding priority is that we allow you to go at the pace at which you feel most comfortable and, of course, that we ultimately reach the right trip.
- Closing in on a trip
One of the biggest challenges of creating and booking a safari is getting availability at the various lodges and camps.
Throughout the quotation process your safari expert will have the availability situation in hand. As you start to close in on an actual trip, we will look to get the key elements on hold with the suppliers.
We actually have a specific department dedicated to getting trips on hold, which is a specialist job in its own right. There is quite an art to clearing space in apparently full lodges!
Getting a trip on hold typically gives us 2 to 7 days breathing space, during which time we can all relax and spend time fine tuning the trip, safe in the knowledge that it will actually be bookable if and when the time comes.
Please do bear in mind that during the early part of the quoting process, we do not hold all the various versions of a trip, so please do not assume that everything is available. That only usually becomes clear during the later stages of the process.
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]]>Visiting the historical and cultural sites of Dar es Salaam, learning a bit more about the founder of the country – Julius Nyerere, exploring the landscape of Tanzania Safari, Zanzibar especially with its mesmerizing beauty and an utterly fascinating history, visiting the village of Mali, meeting the incredible people there, making a trip to the fair-trade coffee plantations near Mt. Kilimanjaro, and a lot more would be store for you, when you visit Tanzania.
But, it’s not just travelling – it is sustainable travelling that one should aim for. Especially, when you go to a place as culturally, historically, and geographically rich as Tanzania, you must support, or at least not mess with their environment and society, as much as you can.
Say a Big ‘No’ to Plastic!
Instead of getting irritated about high pollution, or how badly kept a street is, or the garbage disposal system is total garbage in a place, you should rather try to be a part of the solution. Especially, if you’re not in your home territory, always opt for purified water in glass recyclable bottles made from glass. When you’re in one of the Tanzania National Parks, or out in the streets, maybe perusing the street shops, use a tote bag that you should have carried in your luggage. This will reduce your plastic usage to a great extent. Not just that, but your carbon footprint will be reduced to a huge extent, due to the reason that manufacturing of plastic bags and bottles primarily uses petroleum-based ingredients.
Support Their Local Economy as Much as You Can
We all love taking souvenirs for our loved ones; but, we usually take products that are imported and cheap, instead locally made ones as they are comparatively expensive. To support the real economy of a place, it is always better if you purchase the crafts and other things that are made there locally. By doing this you ensure your money contributes to their economy, having a positive and more direct impact.
Ask Your Tour Operators Some Important Questions
When you decide to travel, just you explore your options for a destination, the same way you should research a lot before you zero in on a Tanzania Safari tours operator. Before seeking out the services of any tour outfitter, ask them how eco-friendly their practices are, if they employ local guides on their trips, as well as ask if they could cite one of their previous trips where they tried to protect and support wildlife heritage. If they give you satisfactory answers, good; if not, then they are clearly far behind the current times, and you know you’d have to keep searching for the right tour operator.
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]]>Visiting the historical and cultural sites of Dar es Salaam, learning a bit more about the founder of the country – Julius Nyerere, exploring the landscape of Tanzania Safari, Zanzibar especially with its mesmerizing beauty and an utterly fascinating history, visiting the village of Mali, meeting the incredible people there, making a trip to the fair-trade coffee plantations near Mt. Kilimanjaro, and a lot more would be store for you, when you visit Tanzania.
But, it’s not just travelling – it is sustainable travelling that one should aim for. Especially, when you go to a place as culturally, historically, and geographically rich as Tanzania, you must support, or at least not mess with their environment and society, as much as you can.
Say a Big ‘No’ to Plastic!
Instead of getting irritated about high pollution, or how badly kept a street is, or the garbage disposal system is total garbage in a place, you should rather try to be a part of the solution. Especially, if you’re not in your home territory, always opt for purified water in glass recyclable bottles made from glass. When you’re in one of the Tanzania National Parks, or out in the streets, maybe perusing the street shops, use a tote bag that you should have carried in your luggage. This will reduce your plastic usage to a great extent. Not just that, but your carbon footprint will be reduced to a huge extent, due to the reason that manufacturing of plastic bags and bottles primarily uses petroleum-based ingredients.
Support Their Local Economy as Much as You Can
We all love taking souvenirs for our loved ones; but, we usually take products that are imported and cheap, instead locally made ones as they are comparatively expensive. To support the real economy of a place, it is always better if you purchase the crafts and other things that are made there locally. By doing this you ensure your money contributes to their economy, having a positive and more direct impact.
Ask Your Tour Operators Some Important Questions
When you decide to travel, just you explore your options for a destination, the same way you should research a lot before you zero in on a Tanzania Safari tours operator. Before seeking out the services of any tour outfitter, ask them how eco-friendly their practices are, if they employ local guides on their trips, as well as ask if they could cite one of their previous trips where they tried to protect and support wildlife heritage. If they give you satisfactory answers, good; if not, then they are clearly far behind the current times, and you know you’d have to keep searching for the right tour operator.
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We live in a world that is interconnected at just about every level. We have smartphones, ipads, desktops, and whatnot, which we carry just about everywhere, all the time. Our devices are the first things we see in the morning, almost like a ritual, and sleep to it at night.
While we seldom forget to recharge the batteries of these devices, do we ever think about recharging our own batteries? Cramped up in our apartments and then off to our workplaces, hooked on to our phones – it’s a routine that we need to break at regular intervals. There’s a need to break the monotony of life, and not let it become too boring, so that our mental, physical, and emotional health don’t take a toll.
Africa and Digital Detox
Just a decade or so back, children knew how to play with other children in an actual physical ground; people didn’t feel awkward to just roam about the nearby park without any headphones. But today, something as simple as that might take a good amount of planning. Good thing then, that there are places like Wolwedans Private Camp in Namibia, or remote and wild camps of Singita Serengeti, and so many similar others offered by the African landscape.
While it’s a struggle for people today to live without wifi and a 24×7 Internet connectivity, there are places to go on an adventurous safari, or just to wander about, taking a simple walk in Africa, that will make you forget your mundane life for a while, and focus on nature, reflect on life, and just feel the natural rhythm of the universe around.
It only takes one to soak in the scent and sights of Zambia’s South Luangwa region (accompanied with an armed ranger at all times); or visit Namibia’s NamibRand Reserve to firsthand experience the tranquility found in its barren mountains and vast deserts; or take their photography lessons (using an actual camera, not phone camera) for a real spin across Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp.
Take Yourself Out on a Wilderness Spin!
There is no dearth of places across this beautiful continent where one can finally do more than just check their emails, rely on text messages, or break away from the onslaught of social media. And talking of social media, there have been umpteen times, when tourists have found themselves so mesmerized by the amazing spirit and unparalleled beauty of the place, that they’ve almost forgotten to take pictures, let alone post them online!
You know how one goes on a juice detox, so that they can eat their normal food in the future without falling sick – the same way, one needs digital detox to disconnect, so they can reconnect with their regular lives. Join in on the wilderness offered by the majestic continent of Africa; it’s an opportunity matched by nothing else in this world!
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Tanzania is a place where you can really feel the rhythm and energy of the wild. With Kilimanjaro gracing its landscape with its presence, Tanzania is truly the beautiful culmination of fauna and flora. It explains why Tanzania is a prime tourist destination. However, finding a reliable tourist service to help you understand Tanzania in all its glory is harder said than done! But, the whole experience becomes mesmerizing if you find yourself a safari that knows the pulse of the place.
This is where Galloping Safaris Ltd shines as a luxury tour provider. Being accustomed to the tradition and places of Kilimanjaro, Galloping Safaris Ltd will provide you with the experience of a lifetime! But that doesn’t justify the “luxury” experience that we promise to our clients.
We provide our vehicles with a no mileage restriction. That means that you will be chauffeured around the majestical plains of Tanzania as long as you want! Also, these aren’t any ordinary vehicles that we use for the sake of traveling. The vehicles that we chose to use with Tanzanian tours are the 4×4 stretched Land Cruisers.
They are equipped with modern trekking amenities like binoculars, food and snacks, bean bags, beds etc. They are rugged on the outside and spacious on the inside so that we could add more features into them like Wi-Fi and charging ports. You aren’t just “traveling”, but traveling in pure luxury!
Our Tanzanian tours are coordinated to make sure that you can enjoy Tanzania in all its glory. Our game drives will introduce you to the realm of the wild, where the animals and birds roam with no care for the world. We are well aware of the danger involved and have taken precautions and have structured our plan in such a way that the risk factor is considerably reduced. Also, our on-call medical team is available 24/7 via air, ensuring medication is available within mere minutes if they are required.
Cross off Tanzania from your travel bucket list and make memories like no other! With Galloping Safari Ltd, you can be sure of having the best travel experience across Africa. Why wait? The wild is calling!
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