This ten-night route runs in three parts. It opens at Arusha, the staging town at 1,400 metres on Mount Meru’s southern slopes, then moves into Serengeti National Park for the wildebeest migration, and closes on Bwejuu Beach on Zanzibar’s southeast coast, where a barrier reef breaks about a kilometre offshore.
You begin on foot and on horseback across a predator-free estate near Arusha, then shift to a tented camp that relocates through the year to sit inside the densest concentrations of the migration. The islands finish the trip with reef diving, tidal rock pools and Swahili-Omani architecture. Each stay is comfortable and run by its owners or long-standing operators.
Mama Simba is a nine-room lodge on the North Dolly wildlife estate, thirty-five minutes from Kilimanjaro International Airport. There are no large predators across the estate, so plains game grazes calmly up to the lawns and guests explore on foot with Maasai trackers or from the saddle rather than from a vehicle. Cape eland, wildebeest, kudu, impala, gerenuk and both Thomson's and Grant's gazelle roam the grass below Mount Meru, whose summit emerges at dawn and dusk in shades of rose and orange.
Olakira is a semi-permanent tented camp that moves the length of Serengeti National Park to keep pace with the wildebeest. From December to March it stands on the Ndutu short-grass plains, where the herds disperse to calve and that concentration of young draws lions, cheetahs and spotted hyenas onto open ground, often within minutes of leaving camp. From June to October it sits in the north, its tents facing the Mara River near the Makutano crossing. Tents stand on raised wooden decking with deep sofas and handwoven rugs.
Breezes Beach Club & Spa lies the length of Bwejuu Beach, a quiet stretch of white sand behind coconut palms and bougainvillea. Nathalie Raguz Fusillo and Paulina Raguz Macksoud opened it in 1997, with buildings and furniture drawn by Paulina and carved in teak by Zanzibari craftsmen in Swahili-Omani plantation style. Swimming, kitesurfing, sailing and diving fill the high water, while low tide reveals the rock pools. Dining runs across four venues, from the thatched Salama dining room to a single table for two on the sand.
Ed Charles, BBC Producer
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A Lemosho-route climb of Kilimanjaro, then Kigali and a mountain gorilla trek from a ridge above Rwanda's twin lakes.
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Eight nights in Tanzania: walking safaris in the central Serengeti, then Bwejuu Beach on Zanzibar's southeast coast.
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Eleven nights from Rwanda's gorilla country to the Maasai Mara and the reefs of Pemba, across four distinct stays.
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