East Africa
Tanzania
The most complete safari country on earth — the Serengeti, the Ngorongoro Crater and the beaches of Zanzibar.
If you only ever did one safari country, it could be Tanzania. The northern circuit — Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire — is the postcard, and for good reason: the scale is genuinely hard to believe until you’re standing in it. Head south to Nyerere and Ruaha and you trade the crowds for boats, walking and silence. Then collapse onto a beach in Zanzibar.
Field notes and lodge reviews for Tanzania are below.
Main destinations
Serengeti
Endless plains and the year-round stage of the Great Migration.
Explore →Ngorongoro Crater
A collapsed caldera with extraordinary density of wildlife.
Explore →Tarangire
Baobabs and some of the largest elephant herds in the north.
Explore →Lake Manyara
Groundwater forest, flamingos and tree-climbing lions.
Explore →Nyerere (Selous)
Vast, wild and water-based — boat safaris on the Rufiji.
Explore →Ruaha
Remote, rugged and gloriously uncrowded big-cat country.
Explore →Zanzibar
Spice-island beaches, reefs and Stone Town to finish.
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