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Africa has long been a continent attracting the adventurous traveler, for its vast open spaces & unspoiled wilderness. Africa is full of surprises with its ever-changing landscapes, seasonal transformations, and diverse cultures. We have travelled extensively across this fascinating continent and pride ourselves to call it our home. We constantly discover new destinations and revisit places on the ground, so we know what we suggest to our guests is only the very best. We prefer to offer small and intimate places, off the beaten track, which encourage local employment and benefit local communities in the most positive way.

There is much to take into consideration when planning a successful Safari. We don´t throw thoughtless package deals at our guests but rather discuss each trip in detail and length, taking into consideration seasons, budgets and expectations. We meet every client off the plane on the ground and oversee their journey from beginning to end. Every enquiry is dealt with immediately, individually and personally!

With our main office in Maun , the Safari capital of Botswana, and offices in London and Germany, we are able to offer guests the expertise of a true on the ground Africa specialist and give them the security that they are used to at home, when they book their once in a lifetime Safari with us.

We specialise in comprehensive African Safaris in Botswana , Namibia , Zimbabwe , Zambia , South Africa , Uganda , Tanzania , Kenya , Rwanda, Mozambique, Malawi and Mauritius. For the more active traveler, who does not want to discover Africa just from the back of a vehicle we also offer guided kayaking , horse riding , birding, walking and fishing, as well as specialist photographic safaris led by highly experienced photographic guides.

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ExploreTanzania! Where The Striking Scenery Meets Vibrant Culture And Safaris

Tanzania’s scenery is exceptional. It is home to Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa and once an active volcano. Tanzania is bordered by three of the largest lakes in Africa: Lake Victoria to the north, Lake Tanganyika to the west, and Lake Nyasa to the southwest.

Additionally, Tanzania has a rich and fascinating culture. Its population includes around 120 different African tribal groups.

Tanzania offers a wealth of options for travelers who want to experience authentic African safari tours.

What makes a great Tanzania safari tour outfitter?

Tanzania is generally considered a safe safari destination . Furthermore, the local knowledge is amazing and there is a great choice of accommodation.

Tanzania is a safe and politically stable country. Travelers often feel very welcome in Tanzania because the people are some of the most friendly you will ever meet.

Tanzania has a less “touristy” feel than some of the more popular destinations like, say, South Africa, because it is one of the least crowded places to go on safari. The national parks, such as Serengeti National Park and the Ngorongoro Crater are often quieter and more remote than some of the other common safari destinations.

Having local guides with a wealth of knowledge about the region’s geography, natural history, flora, fauna, and local culture and customs is key. If you are traveling with an established safari company, like Gondwana Ecotours, your guides are local experts with a vast amount of knowledge.

What types of Tanzania safari tours are there?

Safari tours will almost always include game drives. Wildlife viewing is one of the most important and memorable parts of your African safari experience. You may see Africa’s Big Five game animals: lions, leopards, elephants, rhino, and buffalos. It’s important that the vehicle you are traveling in offers unobstructed views of wildlife, so you don’t miss out on any of the action. On a Gondwana Ecotours African safari, you’re guaranteed a window-seat in a private to our group Toyota Land Cruiser. Having local, knowledgeable guides take you on your African safari is important because it will enrich your safari tour experience and make it even more special. Our expert guides have strong community ties.

One of the biggest differences between the choices of Tanzania Safari Tours is the accommodation. Which accommodation you choose will impact the experience you have. For an enriching experience where you can delve deeper into Maasai culture and traditions. Learn more about the fascinating Maasai people through immersive activities and interactions led by knowledgeable guides. Embark on a journey with Gondwana Ecotours to gain a deeper understanding of the Maasai way of life and their sustainable practices.

Staying in Safari Lodges, like on our Tanzania Lodge Safari , will often be more luxurious. On our Lodge Safari we stay at beautiful, comfortable lodges and hotels. Lodges can have comforts such as Wi-Fi, air conditioning, swimming pools, and a bar for you to enjoy a cold beer or a cocktail in the evening.

Camping while on safari, like on our Tanzania Camping Safari (Currently unavailable), is an immersive experience. Once their game drive is done, most travelers will retreat to a lodge on the edge of the park.  You get to stay out in the heart of the national park while most safari guests are back at their lodges. Sleeping under the stars, in the wild, is a truly unforgettable experience.

If adventure is your thing, then activities like trekking up Mount Kilimanjaro will be right up your alley. There are several routes that you can take up Mount Kilimanjaro. Taking a longer route like we do on our Kilimanjaro Trek gives you longer to acclimatize to the altitude and increases your chance of summiting.

When should I book my Tanzania safari tour?

It is common to plan a Tanzania safari tour several months or even a year before you plan to travel. Once your place on a safari tour is booked and confirmed, organizing your flights in advance is usually more cost effective. You also need to leave time to visit a travel doctor to get advice about which vaccinations you may need for your trip to Tanzania. These requirements can change based on where you are flying from and which counties your flights stop in, so professional medical advice is necessary to make sure you are safe and ready to fly.

Which Tanzania Safari Tour is right for me?

Choosing which Tanzania safari tour is right for you depends on your budget and personal preferences.

A good safari should include several game drives with many window seats, visits to multiple national parks, and some cultural components to enhance the experience and truly immerse you in the country you are visiting.

A lodge safari is definitely the more luxurious option that you should treat yourself to if you enjoy creature comforts. Whereas camping is a more budget-friendly and adventurous option.

A trek up Mount Kilimanjaro is no mean feat. This adventure offers stupendous views but requires physical fitness and stamina. Wildlife is scarce at high altitudes, so you won’t encounter the typical species you’d see on a game drive through the savannah.

Choose your safari tour based on these tips, and travel with an experienced safari outfitter to make sure you can relax and have the best time possible!

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Air's Moon Safari is an era-defining French album worth celebrating, 25 years on

There's no telling how many special moments have been soundtracked by Moon Safari, the acclaimed 1998 debut album from French duo Air.

An era-defining record of pristine, space-age lounge music delivered with cinematic atmosphere and a distinctively French je ne se quios , Moon Safari was a universal critical and commercial success upon release.

The lush easy-listening music was perfectly suited to post-club comedowns, hip cafes, and make-out sessions: smooth and dreamy enough to be played in the background, but singular and masterfully crafted enough to reward close listening.

It proved highly influential, too. But the wave of mellow, down tempo imitators and 'chill out' CD compilations it spawned struggled to surpass Air's chic, exquisitely woozy beauty.

'It was not meant to be played live'

Jean-Benoît Dunckel, one half of Air alongside Nicolas Godin, never expected Moon Safari's enduring success.

"We never imagined this album could work that way worldwide," he tells Karen Leng on Double J Lunch. 

"It took time, it took decades, [but] the success is not by us, the audience made [it]."

This year, the duo has been playing Moon Safari in full around the world on their first tour in seven years, including Australia.

"It was not made to be played live," says Dunckel. 

"We had to adapt it for the live [setting]. That is what the people want to get — this special feeling they heard the first time… to live again these feelings."

Having played two nights at the Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Live , Air will live-stream their show at London's Royal Albert Hall this weekend.

"It's a beautiful venue," says Dunckel, who is keen to preserve a pristine performance of the album online for future access.

"It's really important to do that because… people can also discover the band live. Some people appreciate the live versions more than the recorded versions."

Performing as a trio, alongside drummer Louis Delorme, Air play inside an oblong box adorned with dazzling lights and visuals, which morph from swathes of minimalist colour to the perspective of a spaceship enjoying interstellar travel.

"We play in a box of light. It looks a bit like the studio on the cover of 10 000 Hz Legend," says Dunckel, referencing the band's second studio album — a weirder, wilder reaction to Moon Safari.

"It could be a home, it could be our world, our head, our architectural concept. It helps for people to enter into a world… people like [that] intimacy."

Dunckel says people often ask: "Are you not bored to play these songs you play for 20 years now?"

"Sometimes I struggle — because you have to concentrate, and you have to play. But I'm never bored. It's always a pleasure."

Moon Safari is a product of its era, but it's also aged beautifully.

It's an evocative listening experience, from the moment lengthy opener 'La femme d'argent' ushers you in with the sounds of water and slinky bassline, through to the weightless pop and robot-voiced melodies of 'Kelly Watch The Stars' and 'New Star in the Sky'.

In 1998, its retro-futuristic arrangements already sounded timeless. 25 years later, its ability to transport your mind and imagination elsewhere hasn't dated one iota.

"It could be a journey, a love story," remarks Dunckel. "That's why we're really attached to it. I think the audience is searching for that, too.

"It helps human relationships in every way," adds Dunckel. Over the years, Air fans have shared "so many stories" of what the album means to them.

"Most of the time it's for love. It's always, 'I met my girlfriend or wife this time'."

Back in 1998, Dunckel told triple j that while hiking in Iceland, his guide revealed Moon Safari was his love-making soundtrack.

There's "probably" plenty of babies in the world with some of the album's DNA in them since, Dunckel estimates of a new generation discovering Air for the first time.

"As we are getting old now, it's becoming that people say, 'oh yeah, my parents were listening to Moon Safari when we were travelling in a car; this family time'."

Sexy Boy, the surprising queer anthem

For many, debut single 'Sexy Boy' was their first introduction to Air. A seductive slice of synth-pop that brought vocoder back to the pop charts and sung in both French and English.

It's a seemingly simple song but Dunckel notes there's "a lot of tolerance and freedom" embedded in it.

"Sexy Boy, first of all, is a strange title because it breaks a certain taboo. The taboo is that heterosexual boys can check out other boys," he explains.

"Also, it became a gay slogan in a way. A gay anthem."

The song took on a new meaning in late 90s Paris when the electronic music scene's wider acceptance of the LGTBQI+ community led to more club and techno nights dedicated to queer punters and DJs emerging.

"There was a lot of gay parties," says Dunckel. "Homosexuality is everywhere in the world, and it's always existed, always there. So, it was important to liberate this movement."

Originally, the song's titular phrase was inspired by Parisian fashion culture.

"People are checking each other out all the time… In Paris, when a couple is meeting another couple, the girl is not going to check out the boy. She's going to check out the other girl: analyse what she wears, how she behaves, what is the fashion or type of the boyfriend.

"Sexy Boy is speaking about that. The fact a man wants to be a pretty man and he is checking [out] other boys."

A popular soundtrack choice, featured in teen rom-com 10 Things I Hate About You and noughties TV drama Queer As Folk, 'Sexy Boy' is also a testament to youth.

The French verses are "celebrating that golden age of being young," Dunckel explains.

"When you're young you don't realise you're at the top of your life. You have a lot of power, actually… because you're beautiful. Your skin, hair, you feel great, you have a lot of energy."

The makings of a classic

Despite its iconic status, Moon Safari was actually the last roll of the dice for Dunckel and Godin.

Raised in the conservative suburb of Versailles, the pair began making music together after meeting at school. But after having their demo tapes rejected by every record label they approached, they quit music and instead focused on their studies.

Each had established careers — Godin in architecture, Dunckel in mathematics — when an opportunity presented itself in a close friend landing a role with Virgin Records imprint Source.

They landed a deal with the label but ditching their jobs for a full-time career in music to support their burgeoning families was a gamble.

"We were 26 years old. We were not sure we come be musicians for the rest of our life," remembers Dunckel. "I was already working [as] a physics teacher… I had a baby."

Thankfully, their risk was rewarded when their debut album became a breakout international hit. Air was swiftly lumped alongside a fresh wave of Parisian artists reinventing the electronic music scene in the late 90s.

Dubbed French touch, the movement included Cassius, St. Germain, Étienne de Crécy, and Daft Punk, who recorded their breakout 1997 album Homework down the street from where Air made Moon Safari.

"There was a kind of energy circulating all over Paris," recalls Dunckel. "Paris is kind of small; all the media, artists and business part of it [were] working all together."

The worlds of music, fashion, contemporary art, cinema — "everything was mixed," Dunckel says.

"At this time, new generations of young people coming from the suburbs are even inside Paris and mixing all these rich, futuristic concepts together with new machines, samplers, computer programs to make music."

A fond farewell to youth

Despite being poster boys for the future of French music, Moon Safari was an evocative, nostalgia-drenched ode to Dunckel and Godin's past.

"In a way it was the end of my youth… That's why the songs [on Moon Safari], there are a lot of regrets and it's a goodbye to our youth and the innocence of it.

"It's full of vibrations from teenage times."

Although labelled an electronic act, Air's music wasn't rooted in beats and house music. Instead, they armed themselves with analogue Moog and Korg synthesizers, vintage drum machines, vocoders and the trusty Rhodes piano.

The resulting compositions bore the esprit of Serge Gainsbourg, electronic pioneers like Jean-Michel Jarre, and the 1970s film and TV soundtracks of Dunckel's childhood.

There's a fondness for the psychedelic grandeur of Pink Floyd and ELO. But also, Burt Bacharach arrangements, particularly in the wistful French horn topline of ''Ce matin là' (This morning) and the easy-going 'You Make It Easy' and 'All I Need', both featuring the lyrics and vocals of Godin's then-neighbour, Beth Hirsch.

From its lush, otherworldly sounds right down to its title, Moon Safari gives rise to cosmic ideas and conducive to escapism. That spirit is central to Air's entire ethos.

"I think music exists in paradise and you can feel this [album] is in a strange interface between our world and something else."

Such ephemeral expressions might be surprising coming from a former physics teacher, but Dunckel says "both sides of your brain help" when it comes to making emotive art.

"There is a mathematic aspect of music, that analyses and helps you perform and conceive music. But there is something else happening, your heart is talking.

"As a musician you're organising the vibrations of your heart and the feelings into music… vibrations travelling into space and air."

"When I do a song, it's all about 'what do I feel?'" Dunckel concludes.

"For me, good means it affects me. No good means I don't feel anything… if it affects me, it's going to affect others, too. They're going to feel the feelings I do, too."

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