
Serengeti
Twelve thousand square miles of open plains where the herds still run. The Serengeti is the reason most people come to Tanzania and the reason they return.
- Best time
- Jun Oct (migration crossings)
- Wildlife
- Great Migration, big cats, cheetah
Arusha, Tanzania · Est. safari operator
Tanzania is more than one landscape. Here's how we string them together from the crater rim to the coral coast.

Twelve thousand square miles of open plains where the herds still run. The Serengeti is the reason most people come to Tanzania and the reason they return.

A collapsed volcano that quietly holds the Big Five in a single, sunken bowl. Dense, unforgettable, best entered at first light.

Ancient baobabs and a river that draws animals in from every direction when the country dries out. Underrated. We love it.

A silver ribbon of lake under the Rift Valley escarpment. Short, poetic, endlessly photogenic.

Cloud forest, coffee farms, and the roof of Africa above. A grounding day or two on foot before the plains open up.

The exhale after safari. Stone Town lanes, dhow sunsets, and reef-quiet mornings on the east coast.