Saadani N.P.
Saadani is where the bush meets the beach. The only wildlife sanctuary in East Africa to boast an Indian Ocean beachfront, it possesses all the attributes that make Tanzania’s tropical coastline and islands so popular with European sun-worshippers. Yet it is also the one place where those idle hours of sunbathing might be interrupted by an elephant strolling past, or a lion coming to drink at the nearby waterhole!
(…) Our tent - one of nine right on the beach - was equally sumptuous. The food was delicious with interesting combinations of vegetables, and the freshest seafood caught by those fishermen from a neighbouring village(…)
Barry Wigmore, 2006
Saadani proudly boasts that it offers the rare combination of river, bush and beach.
(…)Its animals are shyer than in the long-established Serengeti, but that makes it more rewarding when you track them down. If you're lucky, they say you might spot elephants frolicking in the surf, although they didn't oblige for us.
It is also home to a breathtaking assortment of birds, best seen on the boat safaris, which leave from the camp beach, then turn up the nearby Wami River.
The camp emphasise that you are camping among wild animals and the law of the jungle rules.
Another night, at Saadani, a pride of lions wandered through - an alarming discovery we made the following morning when we saw their tracks (…)
