With Turisanda1924, travellers set off to explore Tanzania's nature reserves, spending their nights in tented camps for a total immersion in the savanna.
The Danish author Karen Blixen wrote in her book Out of Africa: "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive." That something is perhaps an ancestral awareness that begins to vibrate in the bones once more: suddenly we recognise ourselves as nothing more than a small part of the universe, we perceive the interconnection of all living beings in the great circle of life, we understand that, however hard we try to dominate it, the law of nature — raw and beautiful at once — reigns supreme.
Patient waits, battles for survival, the vital force present in every creature: from the smallest beetle to the oldest elephant, every being in the savanna contributes to a perfect natural balance that we observe as spectators, yet from which we feel we originate. Africa gets under your skin and stays there. One trip is enough to keep dreaming of it and longing to return, again and again.
To experience the savanna authentically, just as the great explorers of literature did, Turisanda1924 offers the Santuario della natura tour — 8 days and 6 nights through Tanzania's classic parks, accompanied by an Italian-speaking guide, with photo safaris in search of wildlife and overnight stays in bush camps: tented camps and small lodges within the reserves, equipped with all the key comforts such as soft beds, hot water and private bathrooms, where security is guaranteed by rangers and Masai.
A fully immersive experience that offers unforgettable dawns and sunsets, a morning coffee with a giraffe in the background, starlit nights around a fire wrapped in chequered blankets, and a deep silence in which the distant roar of a lion or the "laugh" of a hyena echoes through the dark.
The first stop on the journey is Manyara Park, teeming with wildlife. A biosphere reserve since 1981, the park is a strip of land dotted with baobabs and acacias, roughly 50 kilometres long and between 6 and 8 kilometres wide, encompassing the lake of the same name as well as several watercourses and a forest, stretching all the way to the steep western escarpment of the Rift Valley.
Here you may encounter large herds of elephants, as well as colonies of baboons, wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, hippos, lions and lionesses resting in the trees. This is also the habitat of primates, birds and flamingos.
A Masai village along the road, and soon the journey reaches the area of the Ngorongoro crater. The walls of the volcanic caldera create an almost insurmountable natural boundary, making it a natural Noah's Ark. Within a vast embrace of rock, animals and humans (only the Masai have the right to live there) move to an ancient rhythm. This conservation area is considered one of the "cradles of humankind": it was here, in 1960, that the British palaeoanthropologist family the Leakeys discovered the first remains of Homo Habilis. With a good deal of luck, by this point in your adventure you may already have spotted the "big five": lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo.
An entire day of travel is dedicated to photo safaris in the great Serengeti Park, an immense nature reserve of over 15,000 sq km, a natural sanctuary for numerous species of wild animals that cyclically move in search of new pastures following the rainy season, giving rise to the great migration, one of the most majestic natural spectacles: millions of wildebeest and zebras running together – now towards the water, now fleeing from a cheetah – form a river of animals capable of overwhelming the soul and stirring the deepest emotions. To witness the migration, Turisanda1924 offers a dedicated tour: in the southern area of the Serengeti, in Ndutu, during the months from December to March, and in the far north, in Kogatende, during the period from July to October.
The final stop on this Tanzania safari is Tarangire National Park, a nature reserve equally rich in predators and herbivores, greener than the Serengeti, with marshes, floodplains and woodlands that are home to zebras, wildebeest, gazelles, buffaloes, giraffes, elephants, cheetahs and lions. It is the Tanzanian park with the highest concentration of baobabs, and is also characterised by the presence of th