Tanzania’s northern wilderness does not reveal itself in two nights. The Serengeti requires patience — the kind only a committed long-stay Tanzania safari can afford.
For 2026 and 2027, Nomad Tanzania has structured a circuit rate that rewards exactly that: guests who stay five or more nights across its northern camps unlock significant savings and a depth of immersion that shorter stays cannot replicate. This is the complete guide to the Nomad Circuit offer — what it includes, what it costs, and how to plan it.
What Is a Game Package on Safari?
A safari is, at its core, a question of access. Not simply physical access to the wilderness, but the kind of access that only time and expert guidance can provide.
A Game Package is the gold standard of safari travel. It is an all-inclusive arrangement where your accommodation, all meals, all standard house drinks — and critically — a dedicated private guide and vehicle are consolidated into a single, seamless daily rate.
There is no negotiating for extras at the end of a long day in the field. No choosing between a sundowner or a full dinner. You arrive, you settle in, and the rhythm of the wild takes over.
The private guide is the heartbeat of the Game Package. Your driver-naturalist belongs to your group alone for the duration of your stay.
The morning drive begins when you are ready. It pauses when you choose to linger with a hunting cheetah or a family of elephants moving through the fever trees. It ends when the light goes or the campfire calls you back.
A Game Package does not simply provide transport and a bed. It provides an entirely different quality of attention — to the bush, to you, and to the moments between.
Safari Specialist at East Africa Safari Guides
Flying Between Wildernesses: The Fly-In Safari
Tanzania’s finest ecosystems are separated by hours of road — but only minutes by air.
A fly-in safari is the preferred mode of travel for those who understand that time in the field is not something to sacrifice on the tarmac. Light aircraft connect Arusha to remote airstrips scattered across Tanzania’s national parks:
Kuro in Tarangire, Kogatende in the far north of the Serengeti, Manyara on the crater rim above Ngorongoro. Each flight is a geography lesson no guidebook can replicate — the acacia-dotted plains stretching to a hard horizon, the silvered thread of a seasonal river below, a dark mass of wildebeest moving south across open grassland.
You land. Your guide is waiting on the strip. The bush begins.
The fly-in model eliminates road fatigue entirely and positions you deep inside remarkable wilderness within the same morning. For a multi-camp circuit like the Nomad Circuit, it is not a luxury — it is the only sensible way to move.
The Nomad Shared Game Package — What It Actually Means
Before assumptions take hold, let us be precise about what ‘shared’ means here — and what it absolutely does not.
A Nomad Shared Game Package places you inside one of Nomad Tanzania’s celebrated bush camps. The camp will also host guests from other reputable operators. Your accommodation is entirely your own — a private room, tent, or cottage that no one else enters. You will not find a stranger at your breakfast table unless you invite them.
What is shared, in the loosest sense, is the camp’s communal atmosphere: the fire pit at night, the open-sided dining area as the sun rises, the view from the bar as the plains shift color in the last light of the afternoon.
Your game drive vehicle — private. Your guide — dedicated to your group alone.
Your sundowners — arranged for your party, at a location your guide chooses.
Your bush dinner, walking safari, SPA treatments — all oriented around your pace, your interests, your itinerary.
In practice, a shared camp structure allows Nomad’s extraordinary properties — places that would cost significantly more on an exclusive-use basis — to become accessible at a rate that reflects genuine value without compromising the quality of what you actually experience.
The campfire burns no less warm. The guides are no less sharp. The silence of the Serengeti at three in the morning is no less complete.
The Nomad Circuit Rate — 2026 & 2027 Long-Stay Offer
Nomad Tanzania has structured its rates to reward deliberate, intentional travel. The principle is straightforward: guests who commit to five or more nights — across one camp or spread across several — unlock the Nomad Circuit Rate.
This is not a discount in any transactional sense. It is a recognition that the best things the bush has to offer require time to emerge.
A lion pride does not perform on a schedule. The wildebeest crossing does not repeat itself at the same hour. The morning you finally understand the true scale of the Serengeti is not the morning you arrive.
The Nomad Circuit Rate applies when you book a combined total of five or more nights across any one or more Nomad Tanzania camps.
Below, you will find the rates for the four Northern Tanzania properties available through this offer — along with a comparison to the standard Short Stay Rate for two to four nights — so the value of staying longer is immediately visible.
Stay five nights or more. The circuit unlocks. The bush reveals itself on its own terms.
1. Lamai Serengeti
Six rooms and two-family rooms perched above the Mara River on the northern boundary of the Serengeti. This is the address for the Great Migration’s River crossings — wildebeest in their hundreds of thousands, the bank churning, the crocodiles waiting in the shallows below.
| Booking Period | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Adult | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Adult | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Child U21 | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Child U21 | Savings |
| Jul – Sept (Peak Season) | $2,005 | $2,195 | $1,345 | $1,530 | 10% |
| 16–30 Jun / Oct / 20 Dec–4 Jan ’27 | $1,450 | $1,760 | $995 | $1,265 | 20% |
| 1–15 Jun / Nov–19 Dec / 5 Jan–15 Mar ’27 | $740 | $895 | $510 | $620 | 19% |
2. Entamanu Ngorongoro
Seven cottages and three two-bedroom cottages positioned on the outer rim of the Ngorongoro Crater — one of the most spectacular geological formations on the continent.
Views from here extend across the caldera floor. Mornings arrive cold and still, the crater below wrapped in mist, buffalo silhouettes just visible against the grey.
| Booking Period | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Adult | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Adult | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Child Child U21 | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Child Child U21 | Savings |
| Jul–Sept / 20 Dec–4 Jan ’26 | $1,460 | $1,980 | $1,005 | $1,370 | 25% |
| Jun / Oct / 5 Jan–15 Mar ’26 | $1,335 | $1,635 | $945 | $1,155 | 20% |
| May / Nov–19 Dec / 16 Mar–30 Apr ’26 | $870 | $1,095 | $620 | $775 | 20% |
3. Serengeti Safari Camp
Five classic tents and one family tent positioned to follow the migration’s seasonal movement. From June through October the camp tracks north toward the Mara.
From November through April, it settles in the Ndutu area, where the calving season draws predators and newborn life to the southern plains in equal measure.
| Booking Period | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Adult | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Adult | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Child U21 | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Child U21 | Savings |
| Jun / 1 Jul–31 Oct / 20 Dec–15 Mar ’26 | $1,000 | $1,275 | $715 | $870 | 20% |
| May / 1 Nov–19 Dec / 16 Mar–30 Apr ’26 | $710 | $860 | $490 | $605 | 20% |
4. Kuro Tarangire
Five tents and one family tent inside Tarangire National Park — a circuit anchor that most visitors to northern Tanzania underestimate.
Dry-season Tarangire concentrates wildlife at a density that rivals any ecosystem on the continent. The baobab trees are centuries old. The elephant herds move in formations that make the ground tremble.
| Booking Period | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Adult | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Adult | Long Stay (5+ Nights) Per Child U21 | Short Stay (2-4 Nights) Per Child | Savings |
| 16–30 Jun – 31 Oct | $1,090 | $1,385 | $770 | $940 | 20% |
| 1 Jun–15 Jun / 1 Nov–15 Mar ’26 | $690 | $860 | $490 | $595 | 20% |
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A Sample Circuit: Nine Days Across Northern Tanzania
The itinerary below is one expression of what the Nomad Circuit can look like in practice. It is not a rigid structure — it is a framework.
The pace, the overnight sequence, and the balance between ecosystems can all be shaped around your interests.
What follows is designed to show how the long-stay offer applies across multiple camps and why committing to the full circuit changes the nature of what you encounter.
| Day | Location | Overnight | The Experience |
| Day 1 | Arusha | Arusha Coffee Lodge | Arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport. A private transfer delivers you to Arusha Coffee Lodge — a working plantation estate on the lower slopes of Mount Meru. The scent of fresh coffee follows you from the gardens into the rooms. This is your last night of ordinary sound before the wilderness absorbs everything else. |
| Day 2 | Tarangire National Park | Kuro Tarangire | A private road transfer takes you south through the rift escarpment. The landscape changes visibly as you descend — acacia scrub gives way to open savannah studded with ancient baobabs. The first elephant herds appear before you reach camp. You settle in at Kuro and take your first afternoon drive as the heat of the day softens into gold. |
| Day 3 | Tarangire National Park | Kuro Tarangire | Your morning begins before first light. Coffee arrives at the tent. The game drive departs in the dark, and Tarangire wakes around you — thousands of elephants threading between the baobab groves, lion watching the early herds from a termite mound, everything caught in the low amber light of a Tanzanian sunrise. There is no schedule beyond the wilderness. |
| Day 4 | Tarangire National Park | Kuro Tarangire | A third day in Tarangire is where the circuit begins to justify itself. You start to recognize individual animals. You understand where the herds move and why. Your guide takes you to a site he has been watching — a leopard with a kill in a sausage tree, the cubs still feeding. This is what more time in one place allows. |
| Day 5 | Fly → Northern Serengeti | Lamai Serengeti | From Kuro Airstrip — a 15-minute transfer from camp — you fly north over the Serengeti plains to Kogatende in the far north. The scale of the ecosystem from the air is a thing you carry with you long after landing. Your guide is waiting at the strip. By midday you are settled at Lamai. By afternoon you are at the river. |
| Day 6 | Northern Serengeti | Lamai Serengeti | The Mara River below camp moves with a life entirely its own. Your morning is spent at the bank — watching, waiting, reading the behaviour of animals at the water’s edge. Nothing is forced. Some days the crossing happens at nine in the morning. Some days it does not happen at all. Either way, the watching is extraordinary. |
| Day 7 | Northern Serengeti | Lamai Serengeti | A day spent entirely within ten kilometres of camp. Walking in the morning with your guide through the riverine forest — wild fig and damp grass, vervet monkeys watching you pass, impala rigid in the shade. In the evening, sundowners are set up on a kopje above the plains. The Serengeti empties of sound as the light fails. |
| Day 8 | Northern Serengeti | Lamai Serengeti | Your guide knows, by now, where to take you. You have spoken enough, driven enough routes together, that the morning game drive requires almost no conversation. He reads the landscape; you read his attention. A pride of twelve lions moves through the long grass at seven in the morning. Nothing about this day is hurried. |
| Day 9 | Departure | Kogatende → Arusha / JRO | A final, unhurried breakfast as the plains turn copper in the early light. Your transfer departs for Kogatende Airstrip and onward to Arusha or Kilimanjaro International Airport. The journey home will feel different to the one that brought you here. |
Itinerary sequence and overnights can be adjusted around your travel dates, group size, and interests. This is a framework, not a fixed route.
What Is Included in the Nomad Shared Game Package?
Included as standard
- Private game drive vehicle and dedicated Nomad guide for your group
- All accommodation (private rooms, tents or cottages)
- All meals — breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- All standard house drinks — soft drinks, local beers, wines, spirits (excluding Champagne and premium wines)
- Laundry service
- Sundowners (arranged privately for your group)
- Bush meals (where offered by the specific camp)
- Walking safaris — on a shared, guided basis where available
- Medical evacuation cover
- Private transfer to and from the nearest airstrip on arrival and departure days
- Core Park activity fees (covering standard daytime game activities)
Excluded — not included in the base rate
- International and domestic flights
- Tanzania National Park entry and overnight park fees (TANAPA / NCAA fees)
- Ngorongoro Crater service fees
- Tourism Development Levy (TDL)
- Champagne and premium wines
- Gratuities and camp shop purchases
- Wi-Fi
Available at additional cost — subject to pre-booking
- Night game drives — available where permitted; additional park activity fee applies
- Fly-camping — at applicable camps; additional activity park fee applies
- Massages — all proceeds directed to the Nomad Conservation Fund
- Private Maasai Boma visits and Orpul ceremonies (group of 6 minimum)
- Private sundowners with Maasai dancers (group of 6 minimum)
- Blessing ceremony with Kuria Dancers (Lamai) or Maasai (Entamanu)
- Named specific Nomad guide — USD 125 supplement per day (paid directly to the guide)
Important Booking Notes
Minimum stay requirements apply: two nights at North and South circuit camps. The Circuit Rate activates at five or more combined nights across one or more Nomad properties.
A 30% discount from the published adult rate applies to children under 21 years, based on two people sharing. A child occupying a single room alone is charged at the full adult rate plus the single supplement.
Minimum age: 8 years across all camps featured in this circuit. Kuro Tarangire and Lamai Serengeti welcome children from 8 years of age. Entamanu Private admits children from 5 years.
Festive season dates (20 December 2025 – 04 January 2027) carry peak-season pricing as indicated in the rate tables above.
Last-minute bookings within 60 days of travel may qualify for additional specials. Contact your East Africa Safari Guides consultant directly.
Rates shown are in USD per person per night, valid for travel 1 May 2026 – 30 April 2027. Rates are subject to change.
Comprehensive travel and medical insurance is required for all guests.
Why Plan This Circuit Through East Africa Safari Guides?
There is no shortage of safari operators who will send you a quote for a Nomad camp. Most of them are doing so from a desk on a different continent, working from a rate sheet, having never met the guides or walked the airstrips.
We are different in a specific, verifiable way.
East Africa Safari Guides is locally owned and operated — founded in Arusha, Tanzania in 2021 by two people who chose this work not as a business opportunity but as a vocation. We know these parks from inside them. We know the Nomad guides by name, by reputation, by the stories they tell around a fire. We have stood on the Kogatende airstrip at six in the morning and understood exactly what the day ahead holds.
When you book through us, you are not working with a call center or a booking engine. You are speaking directly to the people who will design, oversee, and take personal responsibility for every detail of your circuit. If something changes on the ground — and in the bush, things change — you have a direct line to someone who knows how to respond.
We do not sell safaris. We design journeys — and we stand behind them from the first email to the last flight home.
| Local by birth | Founder-led always | Precision over volume |
| Our knowledge of Tanzania’s wilderness comes from living inside it — not from guidebooks or rate sheets. Arusha is our home. These parks are our backyard. | Every itinerary is designed and managed by our founders personally. No account managers, no handoffs. You speak to the same people from first conversation to departure day. | We take very few clients. Deliberately. The work we do requires full attention — to the person, to the journey, to the details that make the difference between a good safari and one that resets something in you. |
When to Come — Reading the Seasons?
The Nomad Circuit’s four northern camps each behave differently across the calendar year. The rates reflect this. So does the quality of what you encounter. Here is an honest read of the three distinct windows.
| July – September Peak Season | January – February Calving Season | November – May Green Season |
| Best for: Great Migration River crossings at Lamai. The Mara River is at its most active. Wildebeest crossing in their thousands, predators concentrated along the banks. Wildlife density: Maximum. Highest animal concentrations of the year across all four camps. Rates: Peak pricing. Book 6–9 months ahead. Lamai and Entamanu availability are limited. | Best for: Calving season at Ndutu — Serengeti Safari Camp’s southern position makes this one of the most extraordinary wildlife windows on the continent. Predator-prey encounters are relentless. Wildlife density: High, concentrated. Newborn wildebeest within days of birth. Cheetah, lion, and hyena in close attendance. Rates: Mid-season. 20% long-stay saving applies. | Best for: Value, photography, and solitude. The plains turn vivid green. Migratory birds arrive. Fewer vehicles in the field means the bush belongs almost entirely to you. Wildlife density: Lower, but the quality of individual encounters improves substantially. Animals are less habituated to traffic — they behave naturally. Rates: Best value of the year. 20% long-stay saving on already reduced green-season pricing. |
Not sure which window suits your group? Tell us the experience you want to come home with — we’ll match the timing to the feeling.
Five nights is the threshold. Beyond it, Tanzania opens up entirely.
The Nomad Circuit Rate is available through EAS Guides for travel in 2026 and 2027. Availability at Lamai and Entamanu between July and October fills quickly. If these dates are on your horizon, the conversation should begin now.
