Nomad Tanzania

Nomad Tanzania, is a small owner run safari company, based just outside Arusha, in northern Tanzania. Nomad Tanzania is an eclectic mix of visionary people who have created independent and unique safari camps across the country. Nomad are driven by their love of the bush, our desire for adventure, their imagination and creativity, their strong conservation ethics, and a serious passion to turn safari fantasies into safari reality. Nomad are the first company in Tanzania to have a complete carbon footprint audit done on all their camps and offices. They are also the first company in Tanzania to be awarded Bronze Rating from the Ecotourism Society of Kenya in recognition of our efforts to further sustainable tourism in Sand Rivers Selous, Greystoke Mahale and Chada Katavi.

Nomad operate some of the most unique, stylish, and exciting safari camps in north, south, and western Tanzania, and now in northern Mozambique:

Sand Rivers Selous - their fabulous and renowned lodge on the banks of the Rufiji River, hidden in Africa's largest wildlife sanctuary, the Selous Game Reserve.
SAND RIVERS SELOUS BROCHURE

Kiba Point – Nomad’s brand new private camp just downstream from Sand Rivers Selous. This is the base for your exclusive Selous safari, perfect for families and groups of friends.
KIBA POINT BROCHURE

Greystoke Mahale - this fairy tale fantasy camp takes you trekking high into the rainforest above Lake Tanganyika, in search of man's closest relative, the chimpanzee who inhabits the Mahale Mountains National Park.
GREYSTOKE MAHALE BROCHURE

Chada Katavi - Mahale's 'wild brother camp'. Have the Katavi National Park and its animals all to yourself in this remote, wild, and far-flung landscape - one of the most dramatic places you'll ever see.
CHADA KATAVI BROCHURE

Nduara Loliondo - This amazing camp, a mixure of Maasai boma and Mongolian yurt, moves through magical and distant landscapes, in an area offering a totally unique safari experience.
NDUARA LOLIONDO BROCHURE

Serengeti Safari Camp - Migration, migration, migration. This small and well established tented camp roams around the Serengeti National Park in true nomad fashion, shadowing the wildebeest migration, one of the most spectacular events in the world.
SERENGETI SAFARI CAMP BROCHURE

Nomad Tarangire - this beautiful Bedouin inspired camp is situated in the southern part of Tarangire National Park offering space, freedom to move away from the crowds, and amazing game. It's the best of Tarangire.

Nomad Mobile Safaris – Nomad’s mobile tented safaris are the perfect way to enjoy a real bush experience. It's how safaris used to be, and yet few are nowadays. It offers a rare chance for roving adventure and true mobility, with the freedom to pack up and move whenever you want.

Vamizi Island - northern Mozambique

Nomad have taken over the management and reservations of Vamizi Island in the Quirimbas Archipelago, in northern Mozambique (less than 2 hrs from Dar es Salaam).

Nomad Tanzania – Who?
In the beginning there were four great independent adventurers who set off into the wilds of Tanzania in search of paradise. Whilst Mark & Milly Houldsworth found it in the great plains of the Serengeti, Roland Purcell - soon to be joined by Zoe - sat in a deep aquarium green forest in the Mahale Mountains, and realised that this was the only place for him. Richard Bonham, meanwhile, was leading trips with 20 porters and a few brave souls into the largely unexplored interior of the Selous.

They all established their base camps - Richard picked a wide bend on the Rufiji River, Roland a long white beach on the edge of Lake Tanganyika, and Mark and Milly decided the best way was just to keep on roaming around, camps and kit packed in four by fours. Within a decade, these simple beginnings had turned into very special and unique safari destinations; a grand lodge called Sand Rivers Selous, the fantasy camp of Greystoke Mahale, with its wild brother camp Chada Katavi in Katavi National Park, and a collection of superb mobile camps travelling around northern Tanzania in the greater Serengeti eco-system.

But, no man is an island, and as demand and pressure grew it seemed a natural next step to join together. So one long weekend, over five years ago, over lashings of coffee and chilled wine as the hours grew late, these friends and comrades in Tanzania tourism decided to merge. They called the company Nomad Tanzania, and together embarked on a great new future.

They have since been joined by an eclectic team of passionate and professional travel fanatics - consummate nomads - who make sure that Nomad Tanzania always has the freedom and ability to bring you the best of wildest Tanzania. Nomad has a shared history of safari pioneering, grass roots local knowledge, and great style. Its goals and priorities are shared too; there is a serious yet irreverent love for the bush, strong conservation ethics combined with a sense of courage and leadership. The relentless quest for excitement and extraordinary adventure continues.

Nomad Tanzania and the Community and Conservation
When Nomad Tanzania was created in 2003, it committed to support three Trusts which had already been established by the founders of the companies that made up the new Nomad Tanzania – Greystoke Mahale & Chada Katavi, Nomad Safari Guides, and Sand Rivers Selous. These Trusts related to the areas in which the individual companies were operating and were all born organically as a result of continual contact with the issues in the different areas. The Nomad Trust now provides administrative and fund raising support for the following affiliated trusts, and is a totally non-profit making organization. Any funds given to the individual projects are 100% committed to those projects themselves.

SELOUS RHINO TRUST
The Selous Rhino Trust is dedicated to securing the future of the black rhino in the Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania. This huge wildlife reserve, one of the largest in Africa, is one of the few places left in the world where black rhino still naturally roam free. But, following years of uncontrolled poaching, there are only a handful left of the 3,000 that could be found there in the 1970s. The Selous Rhino Trust’s mission is to protect these remaining rhino and to create a secure and peaceful environment within which they can start to thrive once more. Further details can be found at www.selousrhinotrust.org.

LOLIONDO COMMUNITY PROJECT
Nomad Tanzania works closely with communities in the Loliondo area: Ololosokwan and Piyaya, two villages that we have had close ties with for a number of years. Through donations and company contributions, we have targeted education as one of the prime areas where a difference can be made. In addition, in partnership with Piyaya village, we have contributed 50% of the Women’s Home Industry Fund, which loans out money to women to help them start up a self-sufficient home industry of their choice. In Ololosokwan, we have purchased over $1,000 worth of school books, and kept their school landcruiser rolling with mechanical input and spares. Along with other stakeholders who operate in the area, the camping fees that guests at Nomad’s safari camps pay, go to the fund, which so far has helped to send over 70 children to secondary school.

TONGWE TRUST
Farmers, fishermen, hunters, herbalists... and superb musicians, the Tongwe people of West Tanzania range from the shores of Lake Tanganyika to the chimp-inhabited peaks towering above. The Tongwe Trust, founded officially in 2006, supports community-based projects throughout Tongwe-land - from Village Forest Reserves of extraordinary biodiversity, through boat-building and eco-tourism, to schools, dispensaries and village micro-enterprise. The Trust is also collecting an invaluable archive of Tongwe folklore, herbal medicine and music.

MIMAMPI HONEY PROJECT
The Pimbwe people of south west Tanzania once hunted game and grazed their cattle across the vast floodplains of Katavi and Rukwa. Now much of this area has been gazetted as a National Park and Government Game Reserve. MIMAMPI - Forest Environment of the Pimbwe - is a grass-root conservation movement that aims to keep the land buffering the Park under local village control. The trust supports community-based Forest Reserves, Village Game Scouts, as well as honey-projects, schools and local womens’ development groups. This year MIMAMPI will be opening a eco-tourist Honey-Hut at an old poacher’s den on the outskirts of the Park.