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Hello,

We got back from Tanzania a month ago, on March 5th. I’ve started this trip report at the link the moderator asked me to use:

https://voyageforum.com/forum/decouverte-ruaha-nyerere-ex-selous-en-fevrier-mars-2026-d11466010/

You’ll find a video of our trip on my YouTube channel there.

Now I’ll tell you about our 10-night trip in Tanzania, with 8 nights spent in two parks we didn’t know. Tanzania isn’t new to us—it was even our first African safari destination back in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/@lolodetoul54 Since then, we’ve visited several East and Southern African countries: Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, some of them multiple times. We usually travel in September during the dry season. We tried March 2024 for nine nights in the Okavango and loved it, except everything was dry, which wasn’t normal for the rainy season.

So for this second March trip during the wet season, we really got what we asked for… rain. But before that, we had to fight just to get to Tanzania.

Saturday, February 21, 2026:

It’s D-Day—the departure. What a hassle to organize flights to and within Tanzania! I’ll tell you all about it in another post: https://voyageforum.com/forum/toutes-compagnies-aeriennes-tanzaniennes-interdites-d10758360/ On top of that, Rwandair canceled our outbound flight a month before departure. They offered to reschedule us 3-4 days later—ridiculous for a 10-night trip we’d already booked. We had to cancel our tickets and buy new ones with Kenya Airways. We’re still waiting for our refund from Rwandair!!!!!!! So on Saturday, February 1st, our bags were packed. We headed to the Lorraine TGV station, about 30 km from home.

Direct train to Roissy—just 1h15. Quick and efficient. All that was left was to wait for our overnight flight. We took off on time, just before 11 PM. Smooth flight, nothing unusual. Arrived in Nairobi around 9 AM. A few hours’ wait, then a flight to Dar es Salaam, landing at our first destination around 12:45 PM. Our local contact, Anne from Asanterra agency, picked us up at the airport. It was hot and humid—it was raining.

Our first night was at the Alexander Hotel. That evening, we treated ourselves to fish and shellfish at the hotel restaurant:

Sunday, February 22, 2026:

A driver picked us up at dawn to take us to the domestic airport so we could finally head to our first destination: Ruaha National Park. We flew with Auric.air for a 2-hour flight with two stops (Nyerere and Zkima airstrips).

I’m always amazed at how easily these Cessnas take off and land on dirt runways—especially when they’re wet:

Aerial view of Zkima airstrip, where we’d landed just minutes earlier:

Flyover of Iringa, a "big" city in the country near Ruaha National Park:

We’re getting close. The plane descends and flies over the Ruaha River, which gave the park its name:

We land for the third and final time that day, reaching our destination: Msembe airstrip, the gateway to Ruaha.

2016, l'année des lions (mais pas que...)

by Muriel18 · 2016-02-21 · 121 replies

Je me suis souvent plainte d'avoir vu peu de lions lors de mes précédents voyages (pas de lion à sabi sand, pas de lion à Hluhluwe, pas de lion au South Luangwa et au KTP, une malheureuse lionne agonisante et un mâle, très loin, encerclé par une vingtaine de 4x4!). Alors cette année, j'ai décidé de mettre toutes les chances de mon côté et d'aller dans le pays d'Afrique où la population de lions est la plus importante, la Tanzanie.

Bon, en fait, j'avais hésité longuement entre l'Ouganda, le sud de l'Afrique du Sud, Oman ... et la Tanzanie.

Que les inconditionnels du self drive me pardonnent (j'espère qu'ils ne sont pas trop sectaires 😉) mais j'ai utilisé cette fois les services d' un chauffeur guide et suis passée par une agence (Corto safari). Certes, l'émotion ressentie quand on découvre soi même un animal reste incomparable. Et puis, conduire soi même sa voiture, c'est la liberté d'aller où on veut, de s'arrêter où et quand on veut ... Enfin, aller où on veut, c'est vite dit car mes limites en conduite de 4x4 auraient été très vite atteintes pour ce voyage ci. Et comme louer une voiture à l'étranger se révèle pour moi assez anxiogène (ai-je bien compris les clauses d'assurance en anglais? Vais-je avoir assez d'essence pour atteindre la prochaine pompe? Ai-je emmené suffisamment de chaussettes pour filtrer le gazoil? Que va dire le loueur quand il verra toutes ces griffes sur la carrosserie? etc....), j'ai tout compte fait profité d'une certaine tranquillité d'esprit.

C'est donc parti pour un court séjour au pays des lions (mais pas que...)

Muriel

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