Tanzania · Where to go
The northern parks, the Rift Valley and the coast — what each one is actually like, and how much of your trip it deserves.
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The places
Fourteen thousand square kilometres of plains and the migration that moves across them. The one park that rewards staying put.
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A collapsed volcano holding the densest concentration of large animals in Africa, and the best rhino chance in Tanzania.
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Elephants, baobabs and a dry-season river. The circuit’s most overlooked park, and its most underrated.
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Groundwater forest, a soda lake and the Rift wall stacked into a small space. Half a day, honestly told.
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Half an hour from town, and the only northern park where you can walk, canoe or climb.
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A shallow soda lake beneath an active volcano, and East Africa’s only regular flamingo breeding site.
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The island most people add to the end of a safari. Which coast, what to do, and when to go.
Maximum wilderness, minimum transit, for the time-poor.
Where your money goes, and who it reaches.
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