tanzania

Tanzania’s second largest national park: baobab hills, the Great Ruaha River, and big predators in the deep south.

A lakeshore rainforest in far western Tanzania where chimpanzees are tracked on steep, forested slopes above Lake Tanganyika

A narrow strip of groundwater forest, floodplain and soda lake beneath the Rift Valley escarpment in northern Tanzania.

A collapsed volcanic caldera in northern Tanzania holding one of Africa’s densest resident wildlife communities.

Tanzania’s northern plains carry up to two million wildebeest through a migration loop that turns year-round.

Tanzania’s baobab country, where the dry season packs vast elephant herds onto a single perennial river.

A floodplain wilderness in remote western Tanzania, where dry-season thirst gathers game in extraordinary numbers.

Tanzania’s Spice Islands in the Indian Ocean, where Swahili heritage meets coral reefs built for divers.

Low-lying coral islands off Tanzania’s central coast, where whale sharks feed off the Rufiji and Swahili ruins stand under the baobabs.

Tanzania’s largest national park, a river-laced wilderness of channels, lakes and walking safaris.

An island national park in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria, forested and reached only by light aircraft or boat.

A hyper-alkaline soda lake in the Gregory Rift, beneath the Maasai’s sacred volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai.

The staging town beneath Mount Meru where northern Tanzania’s safari journeys begin and end.

Walking safaris through fan palm forest, floodplain and miombo woodland in western Tanzania, served by one small seasonal camp.

A century-old working coffee estate on the outskirts of Arusha, Tanzania, and the calm first or last night of a northern safari.

Laba Mama Simba is a nine-room lodge on Arusha’s North Dolly wildlife estate, named for a Spanish conservationist called Mama Lion.

An eight-room country house in flowering gardens on the coffee estates west of Arusha, with Mount Meru filling the northern sky.

Arusha Coffee Lodge is a plantation lodge inside a working Arabica coffee estate on Arusha’s western edge, Tanzania.

A spring-fed lake, a 1905 farmhouse and colobus monkeys on the forested slopes of Mount Meru, near Arusha.

Little Chem Chem is a six-tent camp in the Kwakuchinja corridor between Tarangire and Lake Manyara, Tanzania.

A low-impact camp on the Endabash River in the remote south of Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania.

Chem Chem Lodge Lodge is a private-concession lodge between Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks in northern Tanzania.

Four tents under fever trees in the Burunge corridor between Tarangire and Lake Manyara, taken by one group at a time.

Ten stilted treehouse suites in an ancient mahogany forest, the only permanent lodge inside Tanzania’s Lake Manyara National Park.

A private island in Tanzania’s Mafia Archipelago, set inside a protected marine reserve and taken by one group at a time.

The Manor at Ngorongoro is a Cape Dutch country manor on a coffee estate in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro highlands.

Eight geodesic domes on the forested slopes of Olmoti volcano, the highest camp in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Gibb’s Farm is a century-old coffee farm and highland retreat on the outer slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

A tented camp in ancient acacia forest on the eastern rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, beside the quiet descent road.

Sanctuary Crater Camp is a ten-tent camp on the wooded rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, close to the descent road.

A riverfront lodge on the northern bank of the Rufiji in Nyerere National Park, Tanzania, built for walking safaris and boating.

Roho ya Selous is a tented camp on a Lake Nzerakera peninsula in Nyerere National Park, Tanzania.

Jabali Private House is an exclusive-use, three-bedroom villa on a rocky kopje in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.

Jongomero Camp is a remote tented camp on a seasonal sand river in southern Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.