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Clothing Suggestions

Functional Tips
As you will experience a wide range of temperatures and weather conditions, we suggest
several layers of clothing. If you like to hand-wash your clothes, look for fabrics that will dry
out overnight. You can buy clothing designed especially for travel, with features like wrinkle-
resistant fabric or built-in sun protection.

• Footwear: You’ll be on your feet a lot during the trip, and walking over some rough and
slippery surfaces. We recommend you wear sturdy walking shoes or similar supportive
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sandals (i.e., Tevas) for showering, wearing around the lodge, and general warm
weather use.

Fashion Dos and Don’ts

• Do wear muted earth tones (beige, khaki, etc.) because they don’t show dirt easily,
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• Don’t wear white or very brightly colored clothing. These colors have traditionally been
used to keep animals away, and even color-blind animals can spot dark and light shades
like black and white, which is why white is a danger signal for some species.

• Do wear clothes that are functional and casual. There’s no need for formal or
dressy clothing.

• Do dress conservatively, both in local communities on the main trip and especially on the
post-trip extension to Zanzibar as Muslim culture dominates the island. In this context,
“modest” means being covered from roughly elbows to knees-no bare shoulders, short
skirts, short shorts, or low-cut tops, etc.-and applies to both sexes. While you will see
people in strappy tops and short shorts, this is not appropriate in Stone Town; tourists
to Zanzibar dressed in this manner run the risk of being spat at, verbally abused,
and hassled.

Seasonal Cheatsheet for Tanzania
To help you pack season-appropriate clothing, here is a rough breakdown of the seasons from
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month at the start or end of a season could have mixed weather.

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• 8L]NS _Z 8Ld ɧ WZYR ]LTYd ^PL^ZY

• 8Ld _Z 5`Wd ,`R`^_ ɧ NZWO ^PL^ZY bTY_P]

• ,`R`^_ _Z 9ZaPXMP] ɧ ^SZ`WOP] ^PL^ZY ɧ bL]XP] OLd^ M`_ NZWO PL]Wd XZ]YTYR^
and nighttime

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