These are the costs for the Tanzania and Zanzibar holiday. For those who have never been in Africa, you can notice that prices are by no means cheap at all, Asia is way cheaper. When locals see a white man they imagine a walking dollar and bombard you to buy something from them. Here you get nothing for free, not even taking photos. Rest assured that people will ask you money if they catch you taking their photo which is one of the reasons we preferred taking shots of animals.

Tipping is expected, or more accurately forced upon you for each service you get, in fact this has been the holiday with the highest tipping costs. During the holiday we rarely got to carry our own bags because as soon as you arrive somewhere people come rushing out to carry your bags obviously expecting tips. The only tips that were really deserved were those we gave to our safari guide and cook.

I'm shy by nature and I hate to force people so I'm not good at haggling, however here some souvenir prices were so high that it all came natural. At first I was a little bit too aggressive until I realized that the prices weren't supposed to be cheap either. In general we managed to get a 10-20% discount by haggling.

Keep in mind that the prices quoted below are quoted for a single person. Since we were two people prices like taxis and hotels will obviously be higher if traveling alone.