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“Sand Rivers is simply the most beautiful place we have ever stayed.”A lovely note from a recent guest, and one that say...
28/05/2026

“Sand Rivers is simply the most beautiful place we have ever stayed.”

A lovely note from a recent guest, and one that says so much about this quiet corner of southern Tanzania.

Set on the banks of the Rufiji River in Nyerere National Park, Sand Rivers is a place of space, stillness and proper wilderness, away from the crowds and somewhere you will never want to leave. Days here can unfold in many ways: watching quietly from the hides, drifting along the river by boat, heading out on foot, or sleep out overnight in a fly tent just you and the stars.

For this guest, it was the view from their room, sundowners as the light faded over the Nyerere, the extraordinary team, and all the small details that made it feel “truly unlike anywhere else”.

Their final verdict?
“An easy 1000 out of 10.”

26/05/2026

The plant that stumped the elders…Butati explains.
 
This is the Kalubwa Bhakulu, a plant so distinctive and so particular, that the Tongwe elders couldn’t agree on what to call it. The name itself translates as “the plant that the elders failed to name.” Eventually they settled on Arrow Root, but the original name stuck, and we think it’s better anyway.
 
Butati knows every plant, every track, every story in this forest. You see, that’s what 12 years at Greystoke, as well as a childhood growing up in Mahale does to you.
 

Meet Kanaeli, manager of our Serengeti Safari Camp. An Arusha boy, he joined Nomad in 2011 as a housekeeper and waiter. ...
20/05/2026

Meet Kanaeli, manager of our Serengeti Safari Camp.
 
An Arusha boy, he joined Nomad in 2011 as a housekeeper and waiter. He was part of the original team that helped establish Lamai up in the north of the Serengeti and, after six years there, he moved to our mobile camp and worked his way up to manager.
 
A camp that moves several times a year, following the wildebeest across the plains, needs a steady pair of hands to “keep the show on the road”, someone who can hold everything together no matter what the bush throws at you. That’s Kanaeli. Calm under pressure, in every situation, the kind of person you want at the helm when the camp needs to pack up and move at short notice, or there is a sudden change of plan.
 
Fifteen years with Nomad, Kanaeli, thank you so much.  Serengeti Safari Camp couldn’t move without you.
 

15/05/2026

Our guides make the best safari moments. But you already know that if you have been on a Nomad safari.

The knowledge they share, even about the smallest critters, brings the wild to life. By the end of the safari they are your friends for life and etched in your memories for years to come.

❤️




11/05/2026

Here we’re in the wildest places. Away from the crowds and away from the noise. We love open space, brilliant skies, and the feeling of being at the very edge of the map.

Our Tanzania. We’re way out there, but we’d be lost if we weren’t.

Meet Bernadette, also known as Bernie, our co-manager at Greystoke Mahale. Bernie grew up in Songea, in southwestern Tan...
06/05/2026

Meet Bernadette, also known as Bernie, our co-manager at Greystoke Mahale. Bernie grew up in Songea, in southwestern Tanzania, and joined Nomad originally as a chef at Sand Rivers, working her way into management from there.

In Bernie's own words:

"I've been with the Nomad family for 10 years now. I started my career as a chef, which I loved, but later transitioned into management. I wanted to experience hospitality from the other side and be more involved with the guests and the amazing team we have here. I'm so happy for this opportunity, especially to be the first Tanzanian female camp manager for Nomad.

When I'm not at work, I'm still a chef at heart. I love cooking and experimenting with new recipes, and I enjoy the peace of reading a good cookbook to unwind.

What makes me smile every day is seeing a guest arrive as a stranger and leave feeling like they are part of Nomad. That change is what makes my heart feel really full."

Hey Bernie, can we come and visit, chat about cookbooks and eat some of your famous cooking!

01/05/2026

October mornings at Serengeti Safari Camp.

Just birdsong and the wild stretching out in every direction. Just the way we love it.



"A full-time student at the best primate university in the world."That's Mwiga Mambo, head guide and manager at Greystok...
29/04/2026

"A full-time student at the best primate university in the world."

That's Mwiga Mambo, head guide and manager at Greystoke Mahale, where he has spent the last twenty years and where his grandmother, Wakasanka, was born.

It goes much further back than that. In 1965, his father introduced the first Japanese researchers to the M-group of chimpanzees in the Mahale mountains, and his uncle was one of the trackers who helped to first habituate them. Mwiga grew up with all of this, the stories, the forest, the generations of chimps around him. By the time he was 16 he knew more about them than most people ever will. That was the year Jane Goodall came to his school and gave him a prize for his knowledge and a pencil drawing he had made of a chimp.

He joined Greystoke as a waiter and housekeeper, back when the camp was still small tents on an almost-deserted beach. Then as a tracker he followed one group after another through the forest watching as families grew, alpha males came and went, bonds of friendship created, broken, then created again.

His favourite chimp is Darwin. "I like him a lot," he says. "I feel that we have the same behaviours. I don't like people to be in trouble, and I always step in and try to help, so does Darwin." We should add that Darwin is also known for grabbing the leg of an unsuspecting passer-by in the forest and playing the clown. Mwiga doesn't do that exactly, but those who know him will recognise the easy laugh and the great sense of humour.

Twenty years on, he manages the camp that sits on his grandmother's birthplace. He couldn’t really be anywhere else.

A reminder to vote for Lamai, Serengeti, nominated for Tanzania's Leading Safari Lodge 2026 by the World Travel Awards. ...
27/04/2026

A reminder to vote for Lamai, Serengeti, nominated for Tanzania's Leading Safari Lodge 2026 by the World Travel Awards. Seven years in a row. We'd love your vote.

Why Lamai?

It sits up on the Kogakuria Kopje, the highest point for miles, and is now so embedded in the rocks around it, that it feels like it’s been here forever. The animals carry on their lives around the lodge, as well used to us as we are them. From up here you can see forever. On a clear morning in July, you can watch a million wildebeest moving across the plains below and feel like the luckiest people in the world.

The camp itself is open, wonderfully stylish and friendly, without being luxurious for the sake of it. It is simply a great place to come back to at the end of every safari day. A cold sundowner, a big view, the best people. That's Lamai.

If you've been, you'll know. If you haven't, we hope you will.

Link in comments to vote. Thank you very much.

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