Tamu Tamu Serengeti Camp

Inside Serengeti National Park, on the road running north west from Seronera towards the Ikoma gate, in the Orangi river country of the central Serengeti. The published position is 2 degrees 13 minutes south, 34 degrees 42 minutes east. It is about forty five minutes by road from the Seronera airstrip.

Most fly. A road transfer takes you from Kilimanjaro International Airport to Arusha Airport in about an hour, then a light aircraft reaches Seronera in about an hour and a half, sometimes longer with a stop, and the camp is about forty five minutes further by road. Driving the whole way takes two days through the Ngorongoro highlands, with a night in Karatu or on the crater rim.

All year. The camp prices two seasons: high season from the first of January to the end of March, the first of June to the end of October and the sixteenth to the thirty first of December, and low season from the first of April to the end of May and the first of November to the fifteenth of December.

Your tent, full board with breakfast, lunch and dinner, and drinking water, tea and coffee. Game drives, the vehicle, the airstrip transfer, park entry and the Serengeti special camping fee are all separate, and each one is itemised in your trip price.

Yes. Children under five stay free of charge. Children from five to fifteen pay half the adult rate when they share a tent with two adults, and a tent takes up to two adults and two children. A child sharing with one adult is charged as the second guest at the double rate, and a child in their own tent pays three quarters of the adult rate.

Canvas on raised platforms with a private veranda looking into the grass. Each has its own bathroom with two basins, a shower inside and a second shower outdoors, a safe, mosquito nets and a seating area. The camp sells single, double and triple occupancy.

Solar power runs day and night, including charging in the tents, and the hot water is solar heated. There is wifi, which reaches the shared areas reliably and the tents less so. Mobile signal in this part of the Serengeti is patchy.

No. The camp has a raised lounge with a fireplace, an open air dining tent and an evening fire, but no pool. Guests who want one usually stay nearer Seronera or in the Ngorongoro highlands on another night of the trip.

Serengeti National Park sets a special camping fee of 71 USD per adult per night and 12 USD per child aged two to fifteen per night, and park entry is charged separately on top. Tanzania also requires inbound travel insurance at 44 USD per adult, bought online before you travel. All of these are itemised in your trip price rather than hidden in the room rate.

April and May are the long rains and the camp's low season, when the country is green, the roads are soft and the camp is quiet. The resident lion, leopard and cheetah of the central Serengeti do not leave, so the game viewing holds up even when the herds are elsewhere.

The camp is remote and the nearest clinic is hours away, so medical evacuation cover is essential and is not included in the rate. Serengeti airstrips are served by the flying doctor services that most travel policies work with.

Three nights suits most trips, giving two full days on the Seronera circuit without a long drive at either end. Two nights works if the Serengeti is one stop among several.