Rungwa Game Safaris was established in 2000
with an ethos of ethical hunting, conservation, and tradition.
• There must be at least TWO blank pages in your passport for your visa.
• Ensure your passport is valid for a minimum of 6 months after date of travel.
• We strongly recommend online visa applications prior to travelling.
• Visas can be obtained on arrival, but it can be a lengthy process.
• The local currency in Tanzania is the Tanzanian Shilling (tsh).
• US Dollars are widely accepted, but only bills printed from 2017 onwards.
• ATMs are available and credit cards are accepted at larger shops & restaurants.
• Tanzania is a malaria-zone country, so consult your doctor or travel clinic prior to travel and be advised on what appropriate anti-malarial drugs to take.
• Guests are also strongly advised to check the latest information with regards to vaccinations for travel to Tanzania.
Swahili is the national language of Tanzania, but English is widely spoken; particularly in tourism.
Please enquire for more information on
• Serengeti National Park
• Tarangire National Park
• Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
• Mt. Kilimanjaro National Park
• Pemba Island expeditions
• Zanzibar expeditions
• Hot air balloon expeditions
We have over 1000 Langstroth hives that provide a safe place for the native bees who play a critical role in the resilience of the landscape. This design ensures the safety of the queen bee and provides easy access to the small portion of honey we collect, leaving the rest intact for the colony. Use of a centrifuge to extract the honey from the frames leaves the comb structure undamaged.
Occasionally the issue of livestock predation arises. We work closely with pastoralists and reimburse 100% of any animal losses due to lion or leopard activity in the areas bordering our concessions. This has effectively eliminated poisoning of these big cats and does not impose additional hardship on Tanzania’s pastoralists.
We work closely with local schools to provide relevant and practical conservation education. We know that these students are the future champions of conservation, and the key to the long-term habitat and species preservation.
Whether they want to be a doctor or a game scout or a pilot or a scientist, we work to empower local students by sponsoring them for post-secondary education.
We are committed to making sure that every child in our community has access to adequate nutrition while at school.
Rungwa Game Safaris directly employs people from our communities and creates many more indirect jobs. We make a point of sourcing through locally-owned producers and businesses. These alternatives to illegal grazing and bushmeat poaching provide our communities the opportunity to live and work off of the land as their ancestors have done and preserve their way of life for future generations.
We regularly conduct trainings in non-destructive honey production specifically for Maasai women, and furnish them with their own hives free of charge. These provide a means modest but steady income for families, a powerful platform for conservation discussions, and results in a world with more pollinators.
Our antipoaching teams provide year-round protection against snaring, poisoning, deforestation, and illegal grazing at no small risk to themselves. These teams employ former poachers, capitalizing on their knowledge of the area and offering them a legal means of providing for their families.
By constructing the Loiborserrit secondary school and science laboratory, we are working to provide access to quality education for all children in our area, especially girls.
Rungwa Game Safaris ensures the communities surrounding our area have access to safe and reliable health care by working with the local clinic to procure medicine and supplies.
