Why Travel To Tanzania

Tanzania Safaris are unparalleled in the safari business. Deciding upon an African adventure is one of the most important travel decisions you can make. Most people come to Africa once in a lifetime. We have crafted our safari's around the private tented experience. On most safaris tourists are crammed into a minibus with up to 12 persons. These are the mass market packages with sardine-can vehicles, a local driver and a 100% touristy hotel accommodation.

We use 4x4 Extended Body Land Cruisers with no more than 4 persons. The large tour operators do not provide the expertise of a professional guide, rather clients are gathered at their 300 bed hotel by a minibus driver and deposited by 5:00 P.M. not to be seen again until morning. The Hemingway-style safari camp allows our small groups to become totally immersed in Africa; the wildlife, the countryside and the people in all the splendor of the open spaces including sleeping under canvas in large Manyara tents.

The single most important factor when choosing an outfitter is the safari guide. TREKS guides have had thousands of hours in the bush and they are truly professional and great fun to be with.

There is no finer way to feel Africa than in our Private Tented Camps. Hemingway-style camps consist of heavy canvas Manyara Tents which are very comfortable and cozy. Tents are spacious and airy with zippered doors and mosquito-netting all around. The sleeping tents have. two heavy wooden beds with mattresses and proper bed linen. Beds can be arranged side by side to create one large queen-size bed. Each tent has tables, camp chairs, washstands and a 12-volt lighting system. There is a combination shower/toilet tent immediately behind each sleeping tent. Hot showers are available anytime. Same day personal laundry and shoeshine is always available.

The dining tent provides a spacious atmosphere with proper dining tables, comfortable chairs and serving tables. There are three cooked meals every day and some days' meals are alfresco. The food is very good indeed; meals are designed and prepared by one of Africa's finest camp chefs; the service is 5-Star. Liquor, beer and soft drinks are always available and dinner is served with a selection of wines from around the world and always by candlelight. Special dietary requirements are met. The food is prepared from fresh vegetables, fruits, meat and fish. All drinking water is from clean springs and is both boiled and filtered with our own purification system in camp. Water has never given anyone a problem Our camp staff has been with us for a decade.

A certain percentage of the income from every safari goes back into training programs for young, grassroots' conservationists employed by the Tanzania National Parks. These individuals are provided with experiences in the United States, particularly in conservation and education facilities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Washington, DC. Our excursions to Tanzania always feature the graduates of these programs as they join us on safari or in camp.

Our guests have become a family of individuals who can speak highly of their own experiences with us. Their names and phone numbers are available upon request. Our groups are carefully constructed so as to provide the necessary camaraderie to maintain the esprit de corps during the close-knit camping experience.

Treks has created Safari experiences which combine the parks of Northern Tanzania, the Ruaha and Selous Game Reserves and the romantic islands of the Indian Ocean south of Dar es Salaam.

Photographs by Jim Brett.