Safari Catering & Drinks

Dining on Safari

Surprise: The food on safari is often excellent! Most safari camps and lodges employ talented chefs who create impressive meals with simple means — from candlelit three-course dinners to bush lunches under an acacia tree.

• Breakfast: Usually hearty — eggs, toast, fruit, porridge, pancakes. Often as a boxed breakfast for early game drives.
• Lunch: Either at the lodge (buffet) or as a picnic lunch in the park (sandwiches, fruit, juice).
• Dinner: The highlight. Three courses, often under the starry sky. Soup, main course (meat/fish with local sides), dessert.
• Camping Cuisine: Even on budget camping safaris, the accompanying cooks are surprisingly good. Ugali, pilau, grilled meat, fresh vegetables.

Drinks

• Safari Lager & Kilimanjaro Beer: The two most popular Tanzanian beers. Chilled after a dusty game drive: heavenly. 3,000–5,000 TZS.
• Chai: Tanzanian spiced tea, strong, sweet, with milk and ginger. The national drink. Available everywhere for 500–1,000 TZS.
• Konyagi: Tanzanian gin (clear, made from sugar cane). Neat or with tonic. The party drink of Tanzanians.
• Fresh Juices: Mango, passion fruit, pineapple, sugar cane with ginger — at every street stall for 1,000–2,000 TZS.
• Tanzanian Coffee: Tanzania produces excellent Arabica coffee (especially from the Kilimanjaro region). More good cafés are emerging in the cities.
• Dawa: The famous East African cocktail — vodka, lime, honey. "Dawa" means "medicine" in Swahili. A sundowner classic at every safari lodge.