Mwagusi Safari camp is a small exclusive tented camp on a bank of the Mwagusi Sand River in Ruaha National Park. It offers high quality accommodation, food and wildlife viewing.
Mwagusi Camp has 13 tents within traditional thatched bandas, each comfortably furnished with high density mattresses, dressing table, wardrobe, luggage racks and safari chairs all built in the traditional style of the camp. Each banda has an ensuite bathroom with flush loo and hot shower. At the front of each banda is a large covered veranda with a table and armchairs made from local materials, and superb game viewing can be experienced from the seclusion of these verandas. Solar powered lights as well as a number of traditional hurricane lamps provide lighting.
The writer John Hemmingway once wrote that Mwagusi Camp is designed as a "boy's fantasy of independence" along the lines of a traditional old-style African safari experience.
Renowned for its high calibre of local Tanzanian guides and their in-depth knowledge of the African bush, Mwagusi offers guests rewarding, quality wildlife guiding with plenty of opportunities for game drives and walks throughout the area. Mwagusi Camp has specially adapted open-sided 4WD vehicles, each with comfortable seats and high shade awning to enable guests to stand and still be in the shade whilst game viewing. Each vehicle is equipped with reference books and bean bags for photography, medikits and all the necessities for a day in the bush. They also carry radios for communication with the camp. Walking safaris , accompanied by an experienced guide, or viewing by vehicle without the disturbance of lots of other vehicles is one of the main attractions of Mwagusi's safari adventure.
Mwagusi Camp has strong links with local communities. Many of the camp's staff are local and the camp is actively involved in the building and staffing of an orphange for children of AIDs victims and in making improvements to local schools and clinics.
