Explore Tanzania
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Northern Circuit
The Serengeti is big, open country. Its name comes from the Maasai word for plains that seem to run on forever, and once you are out on the short grass south of Seronera you will see why. The park covers about 14,750 km² and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but numbers do not say…
Best time June to October (dry season) and January to February (calving).
Northern Circuit
The Ngorongoro Crater is the floor of an old volcano that collapsed in on itself, leaving a bowl about 260 km² across and roughly 600 m deep. Standing on the rim on a clear morning, you look down onto grassland, a soda lake, swamps and patches of forest, all ringed by steep green walls. Because…
Best time Year-round; June to October is the driest.
Northern Circuit
Tarangire is the park people tend to underrate until they get there. It is a land of huge, ancient baobab trees, wide grassy swamps and the Tarangire River, which keeps flowing when the rest of the region dries out. In the dry season that river pulls in wildlife from far around, and the result is…
Best time June to October for the largest elephant herds.
Northern Circuit
Lake Manyara is a small park with a lot packed in. It lies at the foot of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, so you drive in under a wall of rock with a shallow alkaline lake stretched out beside you. Between the two is a band of tall, shady groundwater forest, kept green by springs…
Best time June to October for wildlife; November to May for birdlife.
Northern Circuit
Arusha National Park is small, close to town and easy to underestimate. In a single day you can move from the forested slopes of Mount Meru to the open rim of Ngurdoto Crater and down to the shallow, colourful Momella Lakes. It is one of the few parks in northern Tanzania where you can walk…
Best time Year-round.
Northern Tanzania
Kilimanjaro has been at the heart of what we do since 2012. At 5,895 m, Uhuru Peak on the Kibo crater rim is the highest point in Africa, and the mountain stands alone above the plains rather than as part of a range. You do not need ropes or climbing experience to reach the top.…
Best time January to March and June to October.
Indian Ocean Coast
Zanzibar is where most of our travellers take their shoes off after a climb or a safari. The main island, Unguja, sits in the Indian Ocean off the Tanzanian coast, and it mixes two things you rarely get in one place: white-sand beaches on warm, shallow water, and Stone Town, an old trading port whose…
Best time June to October and December to February.
