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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you only going to Tanzania? If so, and if you are doing a typical route (basing out of Arusha and maybe visiting Ngorongoro, Tarangire Park, etc), you need never set foot on a small plane. Safaris require a lot of driving so you will be traveling a lot, but by car.

If you want to be more adventurous and try to go to Lake Victoria or something, you may need to do a small plane. If you want to see Zanzibar, it will be a smaller plane but by no means a tiny/prop plane. [/quote]

OP here, thanks for this. We are planning on Arusha, Tarangire, Central Serengeti, and then Zanzibar, so good to hear it isn't a prop plane.

Did you use a company to plan the safari? I've looked at Oddessey Safari, and they came recommended and seem reasonable, but want to do some comparison too.[/quote]

PP here. We used Easy Travel and Tours Ltd, a local company. It has been 6 years so I do encourage reading more recent reviews (I’m sure Covid changed things a lot too). They were very professional, reliable, and very responsive to our requests/needs. They planned a trip, which we signed off on, by car over the course of maybe 10-14 days. Typically you start in Arusha and then make a big circle out to Masai Mara and/or the Serengeti, hitting spots along the way. So our guide drove several hours, then we’d stop for 1-3 days and stay in a lodge or camp (lodging can also be very customized- do you want to camp? or “glamp”? Or stay in a hotel?) then go on. We then went back to Arusha to go to Kilimanjaro. Base camp can be hiked in a day and is a lot of fun. If you want to do all of Kilimanjaro, you must plan for several days.

The roads did not bother anyone though of course they’re not always smooth or easy. Sometimes they can be pretty rough. They can be different based on the season and other factors, of course, but I quite like seeing so much of the country by driving/bouncing along through it. [/quote]

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