The Tanzania Survival Expedition

By Tom Williams, winner of Channel 4’s Alone

Live with the Hadza hunter-gatherers, learn ancient bushcraft, and finish with a luxury safari.

£3,990

per person

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Step Into the Adventure

Our adventures follow a simple arc:
Learn → Survive → Celebrate.

Learn

70,000 years ago, humanity first walked out of Africa. Some remained. and still live as true hunter-gatherers today. The Hadza tribe of northern Tanzania are one of the last to follow this ancient way of life, and you’ll live with them.

Survive

For six days, you’ll join the Hadza in their daily rhythms: hunting with handmade bows, foraging wild roots and berries, collecting honey with the help of the Greater Honeyguide bird, and learning bushcraft skills passed down for millennia. Around the campfire, you’ll share meals, laughter, and stories in a click-based language older than history itself.

Celebrate

Then, after raw experience, you’ll shift into safari comfort. A luxury lodge with a pool, gourmet meals, and game drives through Tarangire National Park. spotting elephants, lions, giraffes, and leopards. Finally, you’ll stand on the rim of Ngorongoro crater, the largest unbroken volcanic caldera in the world, teeming with wildlife.

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  • A boy in traditional clothing aims a bow and arrow outdoors during the Hadza Tribal Bushcraft Immersion & Luxury Safari.
  • A safari vehicle drives on a dirt road as four giraffes cross nearby under a partly cloudy sky during a Hadza Tribal.
  • Aerial view of a green savanna landscape with scattered trees, a winding river, and a large, flat-topped hill under a.
  • Two zebras stand on a sandy area near a body of water, with a large flock of pink flamingos in the background—a scene.

Key Facts

Location

Lake Eyasi + Tarangire + Ngorongoro, northern Tanzania.

Length

10 days / 9 nights. tribal experience + safari finale.

Group Size

8–12 people. small and respectful experience.

Who It’s For

Adventurers seeking cultural depth, ancient bushcraft, and wildlife spectacle in one trip.

remarkable Moments

Hunt with bows alongside the Hadza tribe.

Learn fire-starting, shelter-building, and bushcraft from true hunter-gatherers.

Go on safari in Tarangire. elephants, lions, leopards, giraffes, buffalo.

Visit Ngorongoro Crater. the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera.

Relax at a luxury safari lodge with pool after the wild.

A different way to think about the price

How much per year of memory?

Tell us your age. We’ll do the maths.

254570
£99.75 / year
Less than a takeaway dinner a month.
You’re 45. That’s 40 years of telling this story.
Tanzania · £3,990 ÷ 40 years

More Info

  • Day 1: You arrive at Kilimanjaro International Airport and transfer to your lodge in Arusha. There's a pool, a good dinner, time to meet the people you'll be spending ten days with, and a proper briefing for what's ahead.
  • Day 2: After breakfast we drive five hours into the Lake Eyasi area, stopping for lunch in Karatu along the way. By evening we're at camp, fire going, and meeting the Hadzabe tribe for the first time. Dinner is cooked on the fire.
  • Day 3: Up at 5:30am and out before sunrise. We follow the hunters of the tribe as they track wild game, birds, antelope, the occasional monkey, whatever the day offers. They'll butcher and cook whatever they catch over an open fire and offer some to anyone willing to try. If the early start doesn't appeal, you can sleep a little later and spend the morning foraging with the women of the tribe instead. Both are worth doing.
  • Day 4: Hands-on survival training. Fire without modern tools, shelter from natural materials, water sourcing and purification the way the Hadzabe do it. If you want to sleep in the shelter you build tonight, you can. We recommend a mosquito net.
  • Day 5: Today, weather and conditions permitting, we join a honey-hunting expedition. The Hadzabe use a specific whistle to call the Greater Honeyguide, a wild bird that leads them through the bush to hidden honeycombs. It's one of the last genuine human-animal partnerships left on earth. Worth paying attention to.
  • Day 6: We continue with the Hadza and add more bushcraft from our instructors. The rhythm of camp life is well established by now.
  • Day 7: After a final hunt and breakfast we break camp and drive to our lodge in Karatu. A pool, a proper lunch, and no agenda for the afternoon. The contrast hits differently after a week in the bush.
  • Day 8: An early breakfast, then a full day in the Ngorongoro Crater. One of the most concentrated wildlife areas on the planet. In the afternoon we make our way to Tarangire National Park, where our lodge sits inside the park itself. A night game drive is available after dinner if you've still got energy.
  • Day 9: A full day of game drives in Tarangire. Large elephant herds, lions, giraffes, over 550 bird species. Hot lunch around 1pm, then we drive back to Arusha in the late afternoon. That evening a farewell dinner in town.
  • Day 10: Breakfast at the hotel. The tribe goes its separate ways. With rather a lot of stories.
  • Included: 6 days Hadza experience, bushcraft instruction, 2 nights luxury safari lodge, Tarangire game drives, Ngorongoro visit, meals + drinks, transfers.
  • Not included: International flights, visas, travel insurance, personal kit, personal expenses.
  • Where do I fly to?
    Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO).
  • How fit do I need to be?
    Moderate fitness, no extreme training required.
  • What will I eat?
    Mix of tribe meals + lodge cuisine; vegan/vegetarian catered.
  • What animals will I see?
    Elephants, lions, giraffes, buffalo, leopards, 550+ bird species.
  • What about insects/malaria?
    Low in this region; consult NHS Fit for Travel.
  • Who guides me?
    Bushcraft instructors + Hadza hunters + professional safari rangers.

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Only 5-Star Reviews

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    • “I'm not sure where to start, this was one of the best trips I've ever done. I learnt invaluable skills, reconnected to nature, reassessed whats really important to me, and made some new friends along the way...”
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      Thomas Nicholls
    • “There are experiences that are memorable and there are experiences that are life altering, Desert Island Survival was certainly the latter for me and it happened in the exact right moment in life when I desperately needed to reset, heal and regroup....”
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      Oleg Ravnushkin
    • “Amazing! ☀️ This trip was incredible, and I am so glad I did it! I would 100% recommended this company, they are great. They offer consistent communication and support from booking to preparing for your trip, and look after you well during it...”
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      Ciara Rooney

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