TANAPA Special & Fly Campsites
Exclusive-use bush camping · Undeveloped exclusive-use sites across the park, including Rufiji sandbanks · Tanzania National Parks
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Budget
Inside the park
Park-run (TANAPA)
Special, seasonal and fly campsites are undeveloped sites reserved for a single group, and they are how the top-end camps run their nights out on a Rufiji sandbank. Everything is carried in and carried out, and the site has to be booked before you arrive rather than claimed at the gate. The tariff also carries a rest house and a group hostel line for Nyerere that TANAPA does not promote, and a twenty-room rest house was reported under construction at Mtemere in 2025.
Why you'd pick it
- Your group has the site to itself, with no facilities at all
- Fly camping on a Rufiji sandbank is why most people book one
- Must be reserved in advance, not taken on arrival
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
$59.00 pppn. Special and seasonal campsites are $50 plus VAT from October to June and $60 plus VAT from July to September; fly campsites are $59.00 including VAT and must be booked in advance. The same tariff lists a Nyerere rest house at $35.40 and a hostel bed at $11.80 for organised groups, neither of which TANAPA actually markets.
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.