Who's behind Visit Ruaha?

Who writes this

This guide is written by someone who overlanded much of Africa in his own Land Cruiser with a rooftop tent, and for whom the national parks were what stayed. The information about them online was usually missing, wrong or years old: fees from three tariff sheets ago, camps that had closed, roads described by people who had never driven them.

So he started writing it down properly. This guide runs on the park authority's own tariff documents, on climate normals rather than brochure weather, and on what the camps tell us directly, with a date on every claim.

What this site is

This is a reader-funded-in-spirit guide to Ruaha: no bookings taken here and no safari company behind it. We built it because the practical information about this park was scattered, outdated, or written to sell something.

How we check things

Fees come from the official TANAPA tariff documents, not from copied operator pages, and every fees page shows when it was last verified. Wildlife claims follow peer-reviewed research where it exists. Folklore figures are skipped or marked. Lodge information is compiled from operators' own materials and cross-checked against multiple sources.

Found something outdated or wrong? Tell us via the contact form and we'll fix it, that's the whole point of this site.

Sister sites

We run a small group of guides to Africa's quieter great parks, each one built the same way: Katavi and Udzungwa elsewhere in Tanzania, Kafue in Zambia, Gonarezhou in Zimbabwe. There is no shared booking engine and no advertising between them.