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ADVENTURE CAMPS of Tanzania
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Those of you who voted against any resumption in ivory sales will be pleased to hear that at the meeting of all CITES members in Doha in March 2010,
the application by two African countries to suspend the 21 year old moratorium was turned down for fears that any sales would fuel the illegal sale of ivory.
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Mbweni Ruins Hotel
Zanzibar
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Selous Impala Camp
Selous Game Reserve
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Lake Manze Tented Camp
Selous Game Reserve
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Mdonya Old River
Ruaha National Park
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2010 Specials
Click here to see all Specials
NB All Specials subject to avaialbility of rooms - and of flights, for free flights offers.
Package code must be quoted
MRHArushaFF_2010
3 nights HB at Mbweni Ruins Hotel - get flight Arusha-Znz or Znz-Arusha free (one way) - valid from 1st June 2010 - 31st May 2011
MRHDarFF2010-2011
3 nights HB at Mbweni Ruins Hotel -
get flights Znz-Dar-Znz absolutely free - valid from 1st June 2010 - 31st May 2011
Mbweni Sand & Spice Special
valid from now until 5th July 2011
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One hour with Painted Hunting Dogs - by Dominic Oldridge
photo by Dominic Oldridge
This all happened 0700-0800 on Sunday 20th June. North of the Rufiji, in the Selous Game Reserve. Driving from our Selous Impala fly-camp.
We see nine dogs just waking up around the den they whelped at last year. From the fuss they're making at the den entrance, the tiny squeaks and growls coming up from the den, the Alpha Female must have had her pups that night! The dogs make off slowly, bonding as they wake. Then it's an incredible sight seeing them move off line abreast, a width of 200 metres, as they sweep the bush at a long loping trot seeking game. One shoots off, full speed, close to the ground with head, back and tail all in a perfectly straight line. The dog is after an impala. He hits it hard and before we know it, the kill has been made with another dog from the pack so quickly. A third, then fourth dog comes in for a very rapid, noisy and gorging feed.
Finally, the yearlings get their turn to demolish the impala. In less than 20 minutes there is only the skull and backbone left. It is all very precise, surgeon-like and carried out at an incredibly fast pace: from waking to finishing feeding all in an hour.
Wow, what a start to my best ever safari day!
Click here to see a slideshow of Dominic's fab photos of this Wild Dog kill
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Selous Impala Camp Reopens with new Lodge and Pool
 
Selous Impala Camp re-opened on 1st June after extensive refurbishment. The lodge area and pool have been completely rebuilt further back from the river bank.
Come and see the lovely new 8-tent camp!
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Read an article in the New York Times about Mbweni Ruins Hotel
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Read the Diary of a two week visit to our four properties set in Southern Tanzania and Zanzibar:
I am lucky enough to be designing websites and brochures for Adventure Camps of Tanzania; this means that every year I visit the three camps (two in Selous, one in Ruaha) and the hotel in Zanzibar, to take new pictures, gather updated information and so forth.
This year I was particularly eager to see if I could find the lion cubs born around Christmas which have been seen from Impala camp, and also to find out if its true that one of the guides at Lake Manze camp has seen the two little leopard cubs which were orphaned in November, alive and well.
read more....
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photos of the two leopard cubs taken in October, before their mother died
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Great photos taken by our guests
Click here to see more images by our Guests
If you have been to any of our properties and would like to share some of your photos with us,
please send to info@adventurecampstz.com and we'll put them here for everyone to see!
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Ruaha Leopard steals Cheetah's dinner
- photo by Chris and Lucy Harris Feb 2010
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Chris and Lucy Harris went on Safari in Tanzania in 2010
They have kindly allowed us to put their excellent diary and photos on our website.
They started in the north, continuing to the south in mid February where they stayed at Mdonya Old River Camp in Ruaha and at Selous Impala Camp
Read their diary....
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Other Safari News:
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Kate Humble at Mdonya Old River Camp
Fly-camping at Selous Impala
Selous Impala Camp Game Diary - Lion Mania in February-March
Lake Manze Game Diary - with many Wild Dog sightings in January-March
Mdonya Old River Game Diary - with special sightings from this amazing wilderness area
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Marvin and Helen Raulston stayed with us in June 2008 (right)
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We have so many newsletters about African Wild Dogs that you may be interestd to read some articles about them at:
www.africanconservation.org/wilddogs
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Short film taken by Jan Corlett of the Selous Wild Dog puppies playing - July 2009
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Download Adventure Camps Indemnity Form
(This form must be signed by all clients when they visit any of our camps)
Please note that children of 15 years and younger are not permitted to go on walking safaris in the Selous or Ruaha.
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Credits
We are especially grateful to Pietro Luraschi, who has taken many of the photos on this website.
Pietro was manager of both Selous Impala (2005) and Mdonya Old River (2005 and 2006)
and has done special guiding for Selous Impala in 2007.
Pietro has his own website where you can see more of his work and contact him if you wish to purchase photos:
www.pietroluraschi.it
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Photos and text © 2004-2010 Adventure Camps
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