The vast and beautiful country of Tanzania, locked between the shores of Lake Victoria and the shimmering stretches of the Indian Ocean, is world-renowned for her quite extraordinary abundance of wildlife and fabulously unspoiled vistas.

It is also home both to the exotic spice island of Zanzibar and the magnificent snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, which, at 5,896 meters, is the highest freestanding mountain in the world.
Some 100,000 sq km of Tanzania's vast area is devoted to her national reserves. Amongst the better known are the endless plains of the Serengeti, host to the global marvel of the annual migration, and the massive wilderness of the untamed and largely undiscovered Selous. Finally there is the 'eighth wonder of the world', the enthralling Ngorongoro Crater.
 
The Serengeti.
 
The mighty Serengeti is Tanzania’s most famous national park found in the southern sector of Maasai Mara. It covers some 14,760sq km of gloriously varied savannah, gold-green plains, verdant hills and volcanically contorted mountains with an extraordinary concentration of animals here, to include some spectacular prides of lion and wildebeest. The torrents of the Grumenti River are also home to hundreds of fearsomely gigantic crocodiles.

A million wildebeest... each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km pilrimage begins again.

A  million wildebeest... each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km pilgrimage begins again.

But there is more to Serengeti than large mammals. Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite koppies. 100 varieties of dung beetle have been recorded, as have 500-plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.

Visit neighbouring Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano and Lake Natron's flamingos.