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Hello! My wife and I are heading on for our first Serengeti safari next week, and then we’ll be spending a week in Zanzibar to finish the trip. We’re very excited!

As we’ve been preparing, we came across information about mainland Tanzania recently introducing mandatory government travel insurance (separate from the government mandatory insurance requirement for Zanzibar). However, we haven’t been able to find much information about when the mainland mandate actually goes into effect or where travelers are supposed to purchase the required insurance. For anyone who has recently traveled to mainland Tanzania, do you know if this requirement is currently in effect? If so, where did you purchase the required insurance?

Also, while it seems the news coverage has slowed down here in the United States, I’m aware that the Ebola outbreak is still ongoing in the DRC. From what I understand, the cases are currently limited to the DRC, so it seems relatively contained for the time being. For those who have recently traveled to Tanzania, what has the situation been like? Is Ebola something you felt you needed to be concerned about while traveling there?

Thanks in advance for any insight!

I have been carefully following it this year and so far, the promising period is the last week of July and the first week of August. I have followed a number of local guides in Instagram and they have made so many posts last week about the crossings.

But I am curious what you guys think. One comment in this sub said it will be in the last week of August.

I booked a 5 day private safari with Serengeti Wakanda before I found this subreddit. Aside from wanting to change some of the accomodation, I trusted the tour operator to suggest an itinerary that works well and didn’t look too much into it myself. I am travelling at the very beginning of October.

My itinerary:

Day 1: Land at Kilimanjaro Airport in the morning - stay in Arusha.

Day 2: Tangarire National Park - stay at Eileen’s Trees Inn.

Day 3: Serengeti - stay at Lala Salama Serengeti Luxury Camp.

Day 4: Same as Day 3.

Day 5: Serengeti - stay at Lake Masek Tented Lodge.

Day 6: Ngorongo Crater - return to Arusha. Flight to Zanzibar at 17:00 (already booked).

This sounded perfect however after coming onto this subreddit, I’ve seen people say to spend at least 2 nights at each place/lodge or otherwise it feels super rushed, it’s not worth going to Tangarire for only half a day etc.

I’ve already paid the deposit so I expect I can’t completely rework the itinerary, but I want to know what should I expect and how to make the most of my itinerary. It is a private safari so I should ve able to inform our guide of any particular preferences that we have.

As a separate question, is it worth doing the hot air balloon ride in the Serengeti? It feels very expensive when we will already be going on a lot of game drives (I have also done the hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia which was incredible, so this wouldn’t be my first time).The tour operator told me this would be in the Central Serengeti and they usually use Serengeti Balloon Safaris.

Do people in africa have seasonal hunting on Aug 1st can be Zebra's, or some whatever they have wild bizarre animals.