Where to go

Tanzania, place by place.

Before you choose a journey it helps to know what you are choosing between. These are the places our journeys run through — what each one actually is, the month that suits it, how many nights it needs, and who it suits badly. Written by the people who work them, out of our office in Moshi.

Northern TanzaniaThe SerengetiThe plains that most people mean when they say safari — and a park large enough that where you stay in it matters more than whether you go.Read the guide→Northern TanzaniaThe Ngorongoro CraterA collapsed volcano holding a self-contained ecosystem on its floor — the densest concentration of large mammals in Tanzania, and the busiest.Read the guide→Northern TanzaniaTarangire National ParkBaobab country with a river through it — the elephant park of the northern circuit, and the one most itineraries give too little time to.Read the guide→Kilimanjaro RegionMount KilimanjaroThe highest mountain in Africa, and the highest free-standing mountain in the world — walked up rather than climbed, which is precisely why it is underestimated.Read the guide→Indian OceanZanzibarAn island with a thousand years of trading history and a coastline that behaves very differently depending on which side of it you book.Read the guide→Ruaha & NyerereSouthern TanzaniaRivers, walking country and vast areas with almost nobody in them — the answer for travellers who have done the north and started to mind the traffic.Read the guide→