Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s most celebrated wilderness, a vast expanse of open plains, acacia woodland and rolling grassland that stretches to the horizon in every direction. It forms the heart of the Northern Circuit and is best known as the stage for the Great Migration, when more than a million wildebeest and zebra move […]
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park lies a short drive south of Arusha and is known for its dramatic baobab-studded landscape and the seasonal concentration of wildlife along the Tarangire River. During the dry months the river becomes one of the few permanent water sources in the area, drawing large herds of elephant along with buffalo, zebra, wildebeest […]
Shaba National Reserve
Shaba National Reserve lies in Kenya’s arid north, a rugged landscape of lava rock, acacia scrub and open plains along the Ewaso Nyiro River. Made well known internationally through Joy Adamson’s work with the lioness Elsa, the reserve retains a wilder, less-visited character than Kenya’s more famous parks. The Ewaso Nyiro River draws wildlife throughout […]
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is centred on the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera and one of Africa’s most concentrated wildlife destinations. The crater floor, roughly 20 kilometres across, holds a self-contained ecosystem of grassland, swamp and forest that supports a dense population of resident wildlife year-round. Descending into the crater reveals lion, elephant, […]
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Manyara National Park sits at the base of the Rift Valley escarpment, a compact park where dense groundwater forest, open grassland and the shallow soda lake itself create a striking variety of habitats in a small area. The park is best known for its tree-climbing lions, a local behaviour rarely seen elsewhere in Africa. […]
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest peak and the world’s tallest free-standing mountain, its snow-capped summit visible from the plains of northern Tanzania and neighbouring Amboseli in Kenya. Rising from surrounding farmland to over 5,895 metres, Kilimanjaro is one of the most accessible major peaks in the world, climbable without technical mountaineering skills on most of […]
Lake Natron
Lake Natron lies in a remote stretch of the Rift Valley in northern Tanzania, a shallow soda lake whose highly alkaline water turns a deep red in parts due to the salt-loving organisms that thrive in it. The lake’s harsh chemistry makes it inhospitable to most life, but it is one of the few regular […]
Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge is one of the most important paleoanthropological sites in the world, a steep ravine cutting through the Rift Valley floor where decades of excavation have uncovered some of the earliest known evidence of human ancestors. Fossil discoveries here by the Leakey family and subsequent researchers reshaped scientific understanding of human origins in East […]
Samburu National Reserve
Samburu National Reserve lies in Kenya’s arid north, a rugged landscape along the Ewaso Nyiro River known for a distinctive set of wildlife species adapted to dry conditions and found nowhere else in the country’s more famous southern parks. Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, Beisa oryx and gerenuk, together known as the Samburu Special Five, are […]
Buffalo Springs Reserve
Buffalo Springs Reserve sits across the Ewaso Nyiro River from Samburu National Reserve, sharing much of the same dry, rugged landscape and distinctive wildlife found in Kenya’s arid north. Open plains and doum palm groves along the river support elephant, lion, leopard and the same set of specially adapted species found in neighbouring Samburu, including […]
