One country,
many worlds.
Every itinerary is built by combining these places — crater floors, endless plains, chimpanzee forest, ocean, and altitude.
Northern Circuit
The classic route. Short drives between parks, and the migration at its centre.
The migration writes itself across two million acres of grass and acacia. Cheetah country in the south, river drama in the north.
A collapsed caldera holding the densest big-cat population on earth. You descend at dawn and eat breakfast among elephants.
Elephant herds the size of small towns moving between baobabs. A gentler, quieter park for the start of the journey.
Tree-climbing lions, flamingo flats and groundwater forest under the escarpment. A cinematic half-day on the way north.
Ninety minutes from the airport, with walking safaris, canoeing on the Momella lakes and Mount Meru behind it.
The only regular breeding site for East Africa’s lesser flamingos, under the active cone of Ol Doinyo Lengai.
A dawn hunt with one of the last hunter-gatherer communities on the continent, arranged on their terms rather than a schedule.
Southern & Western
Bigger, emptier and harder to reach. Fly-in country for a second or third trip.
Thirty thousand square kilometres of miombo and river channel. Boat safaris, walking and vehicles — three ways to see one park.
Around a tenth of the world’s remaining wild lions, in prides large enough to hunt buffalo. Almost nobody goes.
Fewer than a thousand visitors a year. By late dry season the hippo pack into shrinking pools in numbers that are hard to describe.
Chimpanzee trekking in forest that runs straight down to a clear-water lake beach. No roads, no vehicles.
Fifty-six square kilometres of steep valley where Jane Goodall began work in 1960. The longest-studied chimpanzees anywhere.
A walking park rather than a driving one. Endemic primates, waterfalls, and forest that has stood for thirty million years.
Four hours from Dar on tarmac, with open floodplain that reads like a smaller Serengeti. The easiest southern add-on.
Coast & Islands
Where most trips end. Reef, dhows and a week of doing very little.
Stone Town spice markets, tidal flats at Paje, dhow sails at sunset. The reward after the bush.
Clove plantations, thirty-metre visibility on the drop-offs, and a fraction of Zanzibar’s traffic. For divers.
Whale sharks feed in the channel from October to March, with an encounter rate near eighty percent in season.
The only Tanzanian park with a shoreline. Elephants on the beach, and a boat safari up the Wami river.
Mountains
Altitude and walking. Booked around weather windows, not game movement.
Five climate zones, 5,895 metres, eight days. Lemosho is our route of choice for acclimatisation and quiet trails.
Village-to-village walking through thirty-million-year-old forest, at a pace that has nothing to do with game drives.
Tell us what you want to see.
We will map the route.
Send us dates, a rough budget and the two or three things you most want to do. You will get a routed itinerary back, not a brochure.
