Something that has kept us busy is putting in place strict procedures for our camps and operations around Tanzania, ensuring that our staff and guests are safe when travel resumes. The safety of our guests and staff is, and always has been, our utmost priority.
This page outlines the procedures we have in place across our camps in response to the current, and potentially future, environment that Covid-19 has created across the globe.
We are continuing to review and maintain an exceptionally high standard in our approach towards health and cleanliness throughout all the services we provide, always keeping an eye on, and reassessing official health guidance to ensure we are working to the most relevant and high standard practices. We are also in conversations with our safari partners in Tanzania to ensure we are satisfied with the level of controls provided by other third-party camps and providers, alongside our own camps and services.
Before arrival
We encourage all guests to apply and process their visas online before travel. You can process your online visa application HERE. This will limit contact on arrival at the airport.
At least 24-hours before your arrival into Tanzania you will need to complete a health surveillance form online. Once complete you will be supplied with a health number for presentation at the airport. You can find the health surveillance form HERE.
All arrivals into Tanzania will be asked to present a negative Covid-19 PCR test certificate with a QR code taken within 96 hours before your arrival or for travellers who were infected and have since recovered from Covid, they shall be required to submit a proof of recovery obtained from authorised medical personnel. Arrivals into Tanzania from a number of high risk countries will also be required to complete a rapid flow test at the airport.
On arrival into camp
Our staff have all received detailed training on social distancing measures, safe interaction with our guests. We will be welcoming you with open hearts, but there will be no handshakes, social distancing guidelines will be adhered to, and our client-facing camp staff will be wearing masks. On arrival in camp every guest will have their temperature taken by our camp managers, using a digital handheld temperature scanner. Once guest rooms have been cleaned and disinfected, the rooms will be closed, and the guests will be the first people to enter their rooms.
In camp
Camp staff are tested and isolate on arrival in camp. Whilst in isolation, staff have no access to other teams, front of house, or guests. All camp staff have regular temperature checks. Our staff have received thorough training on our Covid procedures, so that we are best able to look after our guests and our crew as safely as possible. This includes wearing masks whilst serving guests, maintaining social distancing and wearing PPE whenever required.
Communal areas
All communal areas, camp wide, will be cleaned and sanitised daily and will have hand washing and cleaning stations located throughout for use by both staff and guests.
The rooms
All rooms will be cleaned, sanitised and disinfected between guests. New guests will be the first people into the room after cleaning. Room ‘Cleaning Hot Spots,’ which are areas requiring additional cleaning, have been identified and will sit alongside individual check lists held and checked by our managers.
Dining
Our safari kitchens have always worked to the strictest international health and hygiene standards and will continue to do so with additional sanitisation practices and checks in place across all camps. All meals in camp will be served privately to each group with tables in the eating areas safely distanced from neighbouring tables. Meals will all be plated or brought to tables in individual serving dishes, and no buffets will be served.
Pool and shops
Our camp swimming pools, and plunge pools, will remain open and will be cleaned and disinfected on a regular basis. Entrance to the pool is at the guest's discretion. Our camp shops will also remain open under strict cleaning processes, and like the pools, entrance to our shops is at the guest's discretion.
Game drives
All safari vehicles will be cleaned and sanitised before each activity and kitted out with disinfectants and hand sanitisers. Private game drives can only be guaranteed if a private guide and vehicle has been pre-booked and paid for. Covid protocols are in place on both our shared and private game drives. Guides will wear masks and will need regular breaks to get fresh air.
On safari
Activities while on safari with us, such as sundowners, walking safaris and bush meals will be set up privately per vehicle. If guests are in a shared vehicle, activities will also be shared. Our teams will ensure that everything is set up and can be enjoyed alongside standard protocols and guidelines.
Our promise to you
Despite the changes our world faces, our guests will still experience wildly exceptional safaris. You’ll be met by our family of Nomad folk hell bent on going the extra mile, committed to keeping you and themselves safe. This pandemic has changed all of us, and everything. But there is still a wilderness waiting to be explored and we genuinely can’t wait to share it with you.
We also promise that we will continue to make sure that your safaris work hard to give back and protect our wilderness, and the people who live alongside it.
If you need any more detail on specific procedures within our camps or operations please don’t hesitate to reach out, we have operations documents detailing every minute detail of a stay with us and how that will be managed. Remember, we’re always here to help. We can’t wait to see you in pursuit of wilderness with us, soon.