Splendor Safari
Endless plains, a collapsed volcano teeming with wildlife, the highest mountain in Africa and an archipelago of spice islands — all in one country. Here is every destination we travel to, and the attractions worth planning a trip around inside each one.
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The classic safari route — Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire and Manyara.
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The Serengeti is the reason most people come to Tanzania. Nearly 15,000 square kilometres of open grassland, acacia woodland and granite outcrops, it holds the larg…
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Ngorongoro is not a national park, and the difference explains almost everything about it. It is a conservation area — a multiple-use landscape where Maasai familie…
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Tarangire is the most underrated park on the northern circuit, and the mistake is almost always the same: it gets a single night on the way to somewhere else, when …
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Manyara is small — a narrow strip about fifty kilometres long, squeezed between the wall of the Great Rift Valley and the lake that fills two-thirds of the park — a…
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Arusha National Park is the one every itinerary skips and the one we most often suggest adding, because it does something none of the others can.
ExploreSoda lakes, active volcanoes and the emptiest country in the north.
The roof of Africa, and the trekking country around it.
Bigger, wilder and far quieter — rivers, boat safaris and walking.
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Nyerere is the largest national park in Africa — around 30,000 square kilometres carved out of what was the Selous Game Reserve, which is why almost everyone still …
ExploreRuaha is the second-largest national park in Tanzania at around 20,000 square kilometres, and it is the one experienced safari travellers name when asked where they…
ExploreRemote forests and lake shores, reached only by light aircraft.
White sand, warm water and Swahili history at the end of a safari.
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Zanzibar is where most Tanzanian trips end, and the reason is straightforward: after a week of early starts and long drives, an island an hour's flight away with a …
ExplorePemba and Mafia are the Zanzibar archipelago's other islands, and they are what Zanzibar was thirty years ago: few visitors, few hotels, reefs in genuinely good con…
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