The Best of Tanzania

Tarangire National Park is one of Tanzania’s most underrated and rewarding safari destinations, covering approximately 2,850 square kilometres of classic East African savanna dominated by ancient baobab trees and the life-giving Tarangire River in the Manyara Region of northern Tanzania. During the dry season from June through October, the Tarangire River becomes the only permanent water source in the region, drawing extraordinary concentrations of wildlife from the surrounding ecosystem including Africa’s largest seasonal elephant herds, often numbering in the hundreds, alongside lions, leopards, cheetahs, large buffalo herds, oryx, fringe-eared oryx and greater kudu found in few other northern circuit parks. The park’s iconic landscape of massive ancient baobabs silhouetted against golden light at dawn and dusk is among the most photographed in Africa. Tarangire also offers walking safaris and fly camping, and is typically the first park visited on the northern circuit after departing Arusha.

The Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s most iconic wildlife destination and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering approximately 14,750 square kilometres of endless golden savanna, riverine woodland, rocky kopjes and open plains that stretch unbroken to the horizon in every direction. The park is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth, the Great Wildebeest Migration where over 1.5 million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra and hundreds of thousands of gazelle move in a continuous clockwise circuit following rainfall and fresh grass across the ecosystem year-round. Beyond the migration, the Serengeti supports Africa’s largest lion population, exceptional leopard and cheetah sightings, enormous elephant herds, and over 500 bird species. The park is divided into distinct zones Seronera in the centre, Ndutu in the south, the Western Corridor and Kogatende in the north each offering a different chapter of the same extraordinary wilderness story.

The Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s most iconic wildlife destination and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering approximately 14,750 square kilometres of endless golden savanna, riverine woodland, rocky kopjes and open plains that stretch unbroken to the horizon in every direction. The park is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth, the Great Wildebeest Migration where over 1.5 million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra and hundreds of thousands of gazelle move in a continuous clockwise circuit following rainfall and fresh grass across the ecosystem year-round. Beyond the migration, the Serengeti supports Africa’s largest lion population, exceptional leopard and cheetah sightings, enormous elephant herds, and over 500 bird species. The park is divided into distinct zones Seronera in the centre, Ndutu in the south, the Western Corridor and Kogatende in the north each offering a different chapter of the same extraordinary wilderness story.

The Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s most iconic wildlife destination and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, covering approximately 14,750 square kilometres of endless golden savanna, riverine woodland, rocky kopjes and open plains that stretch unbroken to the horizon in every direction. The park is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth, the Great Wildebeest Migration where over 1.5 million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra and hundreds of thousands of gazelle move in a continuous clockwise circuit following rainfall and fresh grass across the ecosystem year-round. Beyond the migration, the Serengeti supports Africa’s largest lion population, exceptional leopard and cheetah sightings, enormous elephant herds, and over 500 bird species. The park is divided into distinct zones Seronera in the centre, Ndutu in the south, the Western Corridor and Kogatende in the north each offering a different chapter of the same extraordinary wilderness story.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is one of Africa’s most extraordinary and complex protected landscapes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the continent’s most biodiverse regions, covering approximately 8,292 square kilometres of the eastern Rift Valley in northern Tanzania encompassing volcanic highlands, open plains, ancient gorges, crater lakes and some of the world’s most significant paleoanthropological sites. Unlike a national park, the NCA operates as a multiple land-use area where wildlife conservation coexists alongside the traditional pastoral lifestyle of the Maasai people who are the only community permitted to live and graze their livestock within its boundaries making it a globally celebrated model of human and wildlife coexistence. The NCA contains within its boundaries an extraordinary collection of distinct sub-destinations including the Ngorongoro Crater, the Ndutu short-grass plains, the Empakai and Olmoti volcanic craters, the Olduvai Gorge paleoanthropological site, the Shifting Sands phenomenon, Lake Ndutu and Lake Masek, the Gol Mountains, the Salei Plains, the Empaakai highlands and the active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai on its northern boundary each offering a completely different landscape, ecological experience and cultural layer within one contiguous protected area that together represent one of the most layered and rewarding destinations in all of Africa.