Tanzania

Tanzania is a land of great contrast, from the snow-capped peak of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), to the Arabic coastline steeped in history of the slave-trade and spice-routes.
Tanzania’s most famous National Park, the Serengeti, occupies an area of 14,763 km2 and is located between the Ngorongoro highlands, Lake Victoria and Kenya’s Masai Mara. Each year, triggered by the rains, over 1.3 million wildebeest, along with hundreds of thousands of zebra and gazelle, make the long and hazardous trek north into the Masai Mara. The abundance of plains game brings a host of predators including prides of lions, solitary leopards and cheetah stalking the vast grassland plains.
Ngorongoro Crater is one of the world's greatest natural spectacles, with its magical setting and abundant wildlife. The Crater floor is 18 km across, it is a natural sanctuary for thousands of animals and hosts one of the world’s densest populations of large predators, mainly lion. The lush highlands surrounding the Crater give way to rolling plains and alkaline lakes of the Great Rift Valley.
Located deep in the heart of western Tanzania, overlooking the azure waters of Lake Tanganyika and accessible only by boat is the remote and isolated Mahale Mountains National Park. The Mahale Mountains are home to some of Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees, habituated to human visitors by a Japanese research project founded in the 1960s. Tracking the chimps is a fascinating experience, picking out clues such as nests from the previous night high in the trees, scraps of half-eaten fruit and fresh dung leading deeper into the forest. Then the magical moment of finding them and thereafter observing their daily activities; feeding, preening each other, squabbling noisily, or swinging effortlessly between the trees.