TANAPA Public Campsites
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (TANAPA)
TANAPA's public campsites are the only genuinely cheap way to sleep inside Nyerere: $35.40 per adult per night including VAT, against several hundred dollars at the nearest camp. You bring everything, including water, fuel and recovery gear, and you still cannot go out on a boat or on foot without booking a park ranger. Realistically this suits overlanders and Dar-based residents rather than fly-in visitors.
Why you'd pick it
- The cheapest bed inside the park by a wide margin
- Your money goes straight to the park authority
- You need a fully equipped high-clearance 4x4 and all your own supplies
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Nyerere National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entry$70 plus 18% VAT, charged per 24 hours.
- $82.6per person, per day
- Vehicle$40 plus VAT, foreign registered.
- $47.2per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $637.2 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
The full fee schedule for Nyerere National ParkRates
$35.40 pppn. The official tariff is $30 plus 18 per cent VAT per non-resident adult, $5.90 for a child aged 5 to 15, and TSh 5,000 for East African citizens. Conservation and vehicle fees are on top, and all payments go through the GePG electronic gateway; cash is not accepted at the gate.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Indicative 2026 rates gathered in July 2026 from operators' own rate cards, and from the best third-party sources where an operator publishes nothing at all. No published rate means 'on request'. Always confirm with the property. Two things shift the real comparison in this park. First, park fees are extra almost everywhere: a camp inside the boundary carries the $82.60 conservation fee plus a $59.00 to $70.80 concession fee per adult per night, both including VAT, and most in-park camps bundle these into an all-inclusive rate while the camps outside the gate charge entry, boat and walking fees separately on the days you go in. Second, ignore any camp still advertising night game drives: they are not permitted inside the national park since the 2019 regazettement. Names you may still find in older guides but that we do not list: Azura Selous, which appears permanently closed, plus Selous Kulinda, Ol Moran, Jimbiza Lodge, Selous Great Water, Selous Mbuyu, Selous Mapumziko, The Retreat Selous and Amara Selous, none of which we could verify as currently trading.