Tanzania

Explore places you would not be able to with a normal car. See hidden gems you would not discover by yourself. This experience is a combination of love of nature, culture and motor sports. The adrenaline of off road driving together with the beauty of the place you will be exploring, make this an unforgettable experience!

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller’s country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go “beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only”, as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”.

Tourism can be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country’s balance of payments. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries, and affects the economy of both the source and host countries, in some cases being of vital importance.

Through our land based trips, world famous live aboard trips, and our freediving and spearfishing school located in Zanzibar, we cater for all levels of fishing; experts, intermediate, and beginners. Explore our amazing destinations and allow us to create a fishing trip of a lifetime for you, your family, and your friends.

Freediving is a form of underwater diving that relies on the individual’s ability to hold their breath while underwater. The term ‘free’ comes from the fact that the individual is ‘free’ of the bulk and restrictions of an underwater breathing apparatus used by scuba divers. The Mammalian Reflex common to Whales and Dolphins is also present in humans. Breath-hold diving, or freediving, therefore comes naturally to humans. In essence, the sport of freediving brings the individual closer to the natural rhythm of nature and the sea than scuba diving does. Under the expert eye of our freediving instructors, our free diving courses help bring out and enhance one’s natural ability to free dive into the big blue.
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At our centres we offer SSI certified freediving courses and training sessions for beginner and experienced freedivers. We also offer adventure trips to freedive with Dolphins and Humpback Whales*, as well as multi day live aboard freediving charters to nearby Pemba Island and Quirimbas archipelago.

In the United States, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, and United Kingdom, hiking means walking outdoors on a trail, or off trail, for recreational purposes. A day hike refers to a hike that can be completed in a single day. However, in the United Kingdom, the word walking is also used, as well as rambling, while walking in mountainous areas is called hillwalking. In Northern England, Including the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, fellwalking describes hill or mountain walks, as fell is the common word for both features there.

Fly with style on this extraordinary adventure. A hot air balloon flight is like no other form of flight. While your experienced pilot can control the ascents and descents, it’s nature and the wind that decides your direction of flight. Quiet and awe inspiring, a hot air balloon offers a bird’s eye view, like no other, of the enchanting scenery below and endless vistas around you.

A ‘Safari’ is an overland journey, usually a trip by tourists to Africa. In the past, the trip was often a big-game hunt, but today, the word ‘safari’ often refers to trips to observe and photograph wildlife—or hiking, ballooning, on horseback and sightseeing, as well.

The Swahili word ‘safari’ means journey, originally from the Arabic meaning a journey; the verb for “to travel” in Swahili is kusafiri. These words are used for any type of journey, e.g. by bus from Nairobi to Mombasa or by ferry from Dar es Salaam to Unguja. Safari entered the English language at the end of the 1850s thanks to Richard Francis Burton, the famous explorer.

The Regimental March of the King’s African Rifles was ‘Funga Safari’, literally ‘tie up the March’, or, in other words, pack up equipment ready to march.

In 1836 William Cornwallis Harris led an expedition purely to observe and record wildlife and landscapes by the expedition’s members. Harris established the safari style of journey, starting with a not too strenuous rising at first light, an energetic day walking, an afternoon rest then concluding with a formal dinner and telling stories in the evening over drinks and tobacco.

Brian Jackman once said “Everything in Africa bites, but the Safari Bug is the worst of all”. Get the bug and allow us to help you put an itinerary together of ways to see this incredible continent, by boat, balloon, jeep, sea, on foot or horseback… the opportunities are endless.

Viewing the world from above is an exhilarating experience. Other than gentle hot air balloon flights, we also offer scenic aircraft flights over awe inspiring lands. Scenic flights in an aircraft allow one to cover large areas in a short time. This allows viewing of areas that one might not have time to cover during a holiday trip, or of areas inaccessible by ground vehicles or hot air balloons. Such scenic flights are a great ad-on to an ongoing trip. Flights last between 30 minutes and 2 hours.

Scuba diving is another of the world’s great pastimes. Diving is special in that it offers a mechanism to take a glimpse into a completely different world than what we as human beings are used to….the underwater world.

As a point of reference, Africa is the only continent in the world where one can combine an wildlife safari to view Elephants, Zebra, Rhino, Hippo, and so much more, with a scuba diving holiday. So feel free to plan a scuba diving live aboard trip with us and add on one of our epic wildlife safaris to complete your trip to East and Southern Africa. Having a selection of budget, mid range, and luxury accommodation options to choose from, experienced dive instructors and guides, and a fleet of top quality dive boats and live aboard yachts, we have great scuba diving options for you. Our many years of planning and operating scuba diving live aboard trips to East Africa will ensure you have an epic scuba diving trip to some of the remotest off the beaten track locations in our part of the world.

Scientific studies have proven that spearfishing is the most selective method of fishing known to humans. This is because it is the only form of fishing where one can see their catch before it is caught. Spearfishing is also limited by depth that a person can freedive to, and has no by-catch. Hence we use the words ‘Selective Fishing’ when we address spearfishing. Anyone who eats fish and is concerned for the health of our fisheries, the ocean, and the environment, then spearing their own fish or eating fish that was selected by a spearfisher is the way to address these concerning issues. Furthermore, our self-imposed species harvest list will ensure you are selecting your fish ethically and having minimal or no impact on the fishery you are spearfishing in. We actively promote selective fishing by offering the world’s most selective spearfishing trips.

From our spearfishing bases located in Zanzibar in Tanzania to the Quirimbas Archipelago of northern Mozambique, the Nosy Be Archipelago of northern Madagascar, the Western Cape Region of South Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean waters surrounding Ascension Island, we offer tailor made luxury and mid range trips that target pelagic migratory fish species such as Tunas, Wahoo, Billfish, Trevally, and Mackerel, as well as specific demersal game fish species such as Snappers, Jobfish, and Emperors. None of the fish we catch goes to waste; it’s all either eaten by you who caught it, local communities and fishermen to whom it is donated to, or selectively chosen as bait for other fish. Fish is at times sold and 100% of the proceeds donated to the local communities we spearfish in.

Through our land based trips, world famous live aboard trips, and our freediving and spearfishing school located in Zanzibar, we cater for all levels of spearfishers; experts, intermediate, and beginners. Explore our amazing destinations and allow us to create a spearfishing trip of a lifetime for you, your family, and your friends.

Historically, fishing has been an important method of collecting food. Fishing skills have been passed down from generation to generation. In recent times, fishing has become one of the world’s great pastimes, and sport fishing – or fishing for sport – is the culmination of this type of pastime. Avid sport fishermen travel the world to catch the most sought after fish, considered ‘prize’ fish for their size, difficulty in catching, and fighting strength. As sport fishing targets fish as a pastime, the vast majority of fish are released back into the sea and allowed to swim another day.

East and Southern Africa offer some world class sport fishing destinations for those seeking prize fish. Wahoo, Yellowfin Tuna, Marlin, Giant Trevally and the mighty Dogtooth Tuna teem in these waters. We offer sport fishing adventures to prime destinations. Whether you prefer trolling, popping, jigging, or fly fishing, or a combination of all of those, our experienced guides will put you on the great fish this part of the world has to offer.

“Everything in Africa bites, but the Safari Bug is the worst of all”
Brian Jackman

Nothing quite embodies Africa like its iconic wildlife. From the Serengeti Plains, Ngoro Ngoro Crater, Livingstone Mountains, Maasai Mara National Park, Etosha Pans, Kruger National Park, and countless other national and private game reserves, East and Southern Africa arguably offer the world’s top locations to view African Wildlife.

On the one hand, the boom in wildlife viewing tourism in the area over the past 30 years has resulted in remarkable advances in the quality of accommodation and services provided. From luxury tented camps and lodges to mid range and budget resorts and campsites, East and Southern Africa has accommodation to suit one and all. On the other hand, despite the boom and continuing growth in wildlife tourism in the area, the wildlife areas encompass such large expanses of savannah grasslands and plains, bush, forests, deserts, and mountain ranges that it’s still remarkably easy to get lost.

Come with us and visit this unique and indescribably beautiful part of Africa, where rugged wild beauty meets luxury.