LABA LABA

Name: LABA LABA
Address: Gerezani Street, Dar es Salaam, 0000, TZ
Telephone: +255222128485

LABA LABA offers an unparalleled safari and beach experience in Tanzania.

A collection of luxury African safari camps, uniquely appointed in the game-rich wilderness of Southern Tanzania.

01/08/2026

In celebration of this week’s World Ranger Day, we would like to introduce you to our guiding team at Laba Jongomero in the Ruaha National Park. First up is our head guide Giovanni Nyenza, a legend of a man with more than 20 years experience guiding. For the last ten years, he has been at Jongomero and brings incredible insights, experience and knowledge to every game drive.

This is a shout out to every one of our guides at all our camps for the knowledge, patience and passion they bring to the Laba Laba experience. We are better together.

Next up is Apollo Ambilikile, who has spent the last 20 years guiding across both Katavi and Ruaha National Parks. Apollo has a sharp eye for fresh tracks and signs in the undergrowth, often the difference between a good drive and one that ends with lion or leopard in view.

Meet Lambert Kikoti, who has called Jongomero home for 15 years as our walking guide. Book a Fly Camping Experience — wild camping out in the bush — and you’ll have Lambert and Giovanni by your side. On foot, Lambert reads the smallest details: a broken branch, a print, a dropping, turning a walk into a story of the bush.

Introducing Huruni Nkuwi, five years into his time at Jongomero and eight years guiding in total. Huruni has an ear for the bush — able to pick out and identify birdsong from Ruaha’s many hundreds of species, adding another layer to every drive.

Slide 5 — Shomari Ibrahim
Last but not least, Shomari Ibrahim, who has spent the past 7 years guiding. Shomari has a knack for anticipating where the action is about to happen, positioning the vehicle just right for that perfect sighting.

Rounding out our guiding team are Vincent Marite and Haruan Mmagane, who weren’t in camp to be photographed this week — but no less part of the family.

29/07/2026

African wild dogs – also known as painted wolves – gather in what is often called a ‘rally’. They greet one another with wagging tails and playful nudges until the entire group agrees it's time to move. It's a kind of democracy – some scientists have found that sneezes act almost like votes, with enough of them tipping the pack toward departure, especially when a higher-ranking wolf sneezes first.

Then a scent on the wind, or a flash of movement in the grass, and everything changes.

To bear witness to a pack of wild dogs in full hunt mode is something you won't easily forget. Their high-pitched whinnying and barks as they gain ground is visceral – best described by one guest who travelled to Laba Jongomero just to see them – as ‘a raw instinct we’ve all long forgotten’.

From quiet consensus to all-out chase. This is why any time spent with wild dogs is so very special.

24/07/2026

Mamba is the Swahili name for the crocodile; one of Africa's oldest and most formidable predators.
Having remained largely unchanged for over 200 million years, crocodiles are true survivors. With remarkable patience, they can lie almost completely motionless beneath the water's surface for hours, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit high on their heads, allowing them to stay almost entirely submerged while keeping watch over their surroundings.
The waters surrounding Siwandu Lodge provide the perfect habitat for these incredible reptiles. As you explore the lakes and channels by boat, keep a careful eye on the riverbanks and the still water, you may just spot a mamba basking in the sun or gliding silently beneath the surface.

22/07/2026

Laba Siwandu, we call it the Secret of the South. A place that sits deep inside Nyerere National Park – one of Africa's largest protected wilderness areas and also its least visited. Out here, the footfall is almost nothing. No convoys. No crowds. Just you, the land, and an extraordinary abundance of wildlife. The camp itself feels like it belongs to the bush – warm, tactile interiors woven from natural materials, open spaces that invite the outside in, and the low hum of the Rufiji River never far from earshot. It's the kind of place where you sit still and the world moves around you.

And what a world it is. One morning you're drifting silently by boat past pods of hippo and crocs sliding off the bank. By afternoon you're out on the plains watching elephant herds move through the golden miombo. The south offers both – land and water – and Siwandu is perfectly placed to give you all of it.

18/07/2026

In Swahili, they call him Simba, and the word needs no translation.

The African lion is the continent's most iconic predator, a species that has shaped culture, mythology, and conservation policy across generations. In the wild, his role is as ecological as it is symbolic: by controlling herbivore populations, lions prevent overgrazing and maintain the delicate equilibrium that sustains thousands of species beneath him in the food chain.

To encounter a lion while staying with us at Laba Laba is to witness nature operating exactly as it should – raw, unhurried, and utterly indifferent to the camera.

13/07/2026

Laba Grumeti Art Lodge began not as a lodge at all, but as a private collection. 'It blossomed from our admiration for South African artist Zizipho Poswa's sculptures,' says Laba Laba owners Xavier Marie and Julie Brisson, who have followed that instinct across the continent – into Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, South Africa – until the collection outgrew their walls, and the walls became a lodge.

Jean Servais Somian's carved furniture, Jomo Tariku's Nyala chairs (born of the same imagination behind Wakanda Forever's Afrofuturist sets), Rich Mnisi's fashion-turned-furniture, Porky Hefer's lion-shaped leather pod – each piece arrived here the way it was made: rooted in a place, a craft, a story.

Zanele Muholi's self-portraits and Thandiwe Muriu's photography hold the same ground as Madoda Fani's coiled ceramics and Chuma Maweni's Zulu- and Xhosa-inspired vessels.

A collection that came home to the landscape that shaped it.

10/07/2026

There’s a reason safari style has stood the test of time. Drawn from nature's palette, earthy tones like khaki, olive, beige and brown aren't just timeless, they're practical too. These natural shades help you blend into the landscape for a more immersive wildlife experience, keep you cooler under the African sun, and are less likely to attract biting insects than darker colours like black and navy.

The result? A wardrobe that’s comfortable, functional and effortlessly stylish, whether you're heading out on an early morning game drive or enjoying sundowners as the sun sets over the bush.

So, when packing for your next safari, leave the black behind and embrace nature’s colour palette. Trust us – your future safari photos will thank you.

📷Sofia Molinaro
📷Maé & Oré | Afrique & Defender
📷 Jeanne-mari Terblanche

04/07/2026

We took Laba Ngorongoro guests to see a very special phenomenon this week – the magnetic shifting sands of Olduvai Gorge. The gorge is known as the Cradle of Mankind because it holds a sedimentary record that spans roughly 5 million years. It’s here that paleoanthropologists’ Louis and Mary Leakey, rewrote the story of human origins.

Just a short way off is a crescent-shaped sand dune some five metres high and a hundred meters along its curve. It’s an unexpected sight in a place defined by plains. It’s black, where the grasslands around it run gold and green. And it’s magnetic, literally – bound together by iron-rich volcanic ash instead of scattering on the wind like sand has every right to. An intriguing and fascinating phenomenon that is creeping roughly 10-17 meters across the plain every single year.

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Gerezani Street
Dar Es Salaam
0000

Telephone

+255222128485

Website

http://labalaba.com/

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