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Oliver's Camp

Price per night from$2,710.58

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (USD2,710.58), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Safari stalwart

Setting

Baobab-blessed floodplains

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Named after Serengeti enthusiast Paul Oliver, Asilia safari stay Oliver’s Camp is a cornerstone of Tanzania’s game scene. Like its seasonally changing Tarangire National Park surroundings, this thoughtful camp has evolved over the decades, but its latest iteration impresses with contemporary canvas suites, walking safaris and night game drives. With its seamless set-up, your wish for poolside sundowners, romantic bush dinners and sunrise hot-air balloon rides is simply Asilia’s command. 

Once you’ve booked your safari stays, the Asilia team will be in touch within 48 hours to help arrange travel between camps, which may include charter or private small-plane flights and/or overland transfers.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

15 tented suites, including two for families.

Check–Out

10am. Check-in is at 2pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability. Please note that late check-out may incur additional park fees, food, drink and transport charges.

More details

Rates at Oliver's Camp include all meals and drinks (except premium wines), limited laundry service, open-vehicle and night game drives, seasonal walking safaris (age 12+ only) and return transfers to Kuro Airstrip.

Also

Unfortunately, this remote camp is not suitable if you have limited mobility.

Hotel closed

The camp opens annually from mid-May to mid-March.

At the hotel

Free WiFi in the main area and tents. In rooms: radio, electric fan, torch, USB charging ports, free bottled water, mosquito net, laundry detergent, bathrobes and Cinnabar Green bath products.

Our favourite rooms

At Oliver’s Camp, the tent’s traditional interiors — dressed in earthy hues and wooden accents — seamlessly blend with the natural landscape beyond. Plus, an alfresco shower at each brings you even closer to the outdoors. The two-bedroom Family Tented Suite is best if you’re travelling with little ones.

Poolside

The outdoor pool will swiftly become your preferred watering hole: its sunset-facing sunloungers also overlook the Tarangire plains, and alongside invigorating dips, you’ll find refreshment at the poolside bar.

Packing tips

A thrill-seeking streak: beyond your expected safari schedules, you can up the ante with hot-air balloon rides and night game drives.

Also

Once you’ve booked your safari stays, the Asilia team will be in touch within 48 hours to help arrange travel between camps, which may include charter or private small-plane flights and/or overland transfers.

Children

Kids aged five or older are welcome. With under-12s in tow, you’ll need to book a private vehicle for game drives. For some activities, the minimum age is 12 years old; younger Smiths will need to stay at camp, supervised by one of their adults.

Sustainability efforts

Asilia is a B Corp business and sustainability sits at the core of their safari offering, with camps designed to have minimal impact, and every operational choice rooted in reducing harm. This starts with the camp build itself, using locally sourced, natural materials.  Across all safari operations they minimise waste, prioritise renewable energy and respect the wilderness. The primary power source in their camps is solar, waste is weighed, segregated, and recycled, emissions are tracked, and Scope 1 carbon is offset via REDD+ projects. Asilia invests in initiatives that enhance sustainability and your experience at their camps, such as farm-to-fork projects that ensure the freshest produce and reduce the need for supply runs across the fragile landscapes where they operate. As part of the Nawiri Group, Asilia contributes over $10m annually to nature protection and impact funding, providing long-term stable funding to partners across Africa. Their impact approach is community-led and includes a focus on expanding access to quality education in rural areas, funding programmes that benefit over 20,000 primary school students and over 200 vocational scholarships annually.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Poolside with a cocktail or under the trees and stars on the convivial dining deck.

Dress Code

Come as you are in this remote, outdoorsy stay.

Hotel restaurant

Expect dining that showcases seasonality and is proudly low on food miles. A commitment to sustainability and a celebration of local, indigenous ingredients underpin Asilia Africa’s approach to cuisine across all camps. Breads, cakes and even ice-creams are made freshly in-house, and dishes are always paired with South African wines.  

At Oliver’s Camp, breakfast might be a picnic in the bush consisting of fresh fruits, yoghurt, muesli, freshly squeezed juices, baked pastries, breakfast sandwiches and wraps. But if you're staying in camp, you also have an option to start your day with hot dishes à la carte. 

Across all Asilia Africa camps, the menu changes by the day; at each meal, there’ll be a choice of starters, mains, sides and desserts, with vegetarians as well served as meat eaters. Lunch on Wednesdays and dinner on Sundays are a distinctly Swahili affair, spotlighting local culinary traditions. If you have food preferences or dietary requirements, the camp’s kitchen team will be happy to adapt dishes to suit. 

Hotel bar

At any hour in the main area, staff are on hand to pour drinks, which you can sip in the reading nook, out on the plains-gazing terrace or around the fire pit. You’ll find a formal bar by the pool; here, sunset aperitifs are particularly scenic, with the added pleasure of having them served to your sunlounger.

Last orders

Rather than working to set hours, meals fit around your plans and staff are happy to flex to meet your wishes.

Room service

Available 24 hours: you can order drinks and snacks to your suite; meals, too, can be arranged chez vous.

Location

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Address
Oliver's Camp
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire
Tanzania, United Republic of

You’ll find Oliver’s Camp in northern Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park, overlooking river floodplains and close to Silale Swamps.

Planes

From Kilimanjaro, Arusha or Dar Es Salaam airports, connecting flights touch down at Kuro Airstrip, where you’ll be met by Asilia staff for the one-hour shared drive to camp, included with your stay. Private transfers are available on request and subject to availability for an extra charge.

Automobiles

All the driving at Oliver's Camp is taken care of by trained staff using Asilia vehicles.

Worth getting out of bed for

Set in the south of Tarangire National Park, Oliver’s Camp is remote yet easily accessible to the Silale Swamps and its remarkable wildlife — big cat, buffalo and elephant, to name a few. Spy the region’s stellar residents on seasonal walking safaris and open-vehicle game drives; those at night bring extra excitement. Sunrise hot-air balloon rides are worth setting you alarm for, with their bird’s-eye view of the Tarangire floodplains. You can also learn about both meanings of ‘pride’ in a visit to Tarangire Lion Research Centre, where experts will explain how they protect local populations through conservation work. 

Starting with the up-close and intimate nature of safari in Tarangire National Park, after three nights at Oliver’s Camp, head to the sweeping rockscapes and abundant game of Ngorongoro Conservation Area for three nights at all-frills camp The Highlands. Ngorongoro and Serengeti are a classic double act, so completing your trip with three nights at northern Serengeti’s Namiri Plains is a finessed finale.  

Local restaurants

You’ll feast on the spectacular scenery of the Tanzanian savannah and enjoy your fill of safari adventures, but other than this, you can expect all your dining to take place either in camp or arranged by your hosts out in the bush. 

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this remote safari camp in Tarangire National Park and edited their reels of wildlife snaps, a full account of their all-natural break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Oliver's Camp in Tanzania… 

Oliver’s Camp has some big boots to fill: its name nods to local legend Paul Oliver, a tourist to the area turned safari entrepreneur. His original camp was in Kikoti, before moving to its current location, in the south of Tarangire National Park.  

Asilia acquired this long-loved camp over 20 years ago, but Paul’s spirit and commitment to the region is still felt in guided walking safaris, thrilling night game drives and trips to nearby Silale Swamps. Elephants, kudus and big cats roam these floodplains, and a ream of bird species soars overhead; you too can take to the skies with a sunrise hot-air balloon ride. 

Comfortable canvas tents and all-inclusive dining mean there’s a real sense of ease to days, which is particularly felt at feet-ups around the fire pit or poolside cocktails — just make sure to pour one out for Paul. 

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