Sorry, Only for Foreigners!

I went on a safari recently in Tanzania to the Manyara National Park and to Ngorongoro Crater. Both of them were awesome but VERY expensive!
A safari for two people for say 5 days is easily $2500 (including hotel and transportation and guide for the safari) - but this doesn't include any flight tickets to get to Tanzania or inland transportation. So a trip for two could easily amount to $6000 for about 5 days or so, which I think is quite pricey. There's a lot of places one can go vacationing and find cheap alternatives but definitely not on a safari. Even if you can find cheap hotels, the jeep rental and driver is expensive (at about $200-300/day).

After the safari I started wondering, what about average local Tanzanian? Do they ever go on a safari? I doubt that they can afford it so I decided to ask our driver in Dar es Salaam, Jonas. He said that overall, the locals would like to go on a safari but it is too expensive. But during low tourist seasons, the government does have 'free' days where locals can go and enjoy the safari. But that just takes care of the entrance fees - I'm not sure about the jeep and driver. Some of the safari's require a registered car and driver (including the Serengeti if I'm not mistaken).

I'm not sure how I feel about locals not being able to enjoy their own land - but there's definitely something wrong there.