Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar

The Masai Mara lies in the Great Rift Valley, which is a fault line some 3,500 miles (5,600km) long, from Ethiopia’s Red Sea through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and into Mozambique. Here the valley is wide and a towering escarpment can be seen in the hazy distance. Most of the game viewing activities occur on the valley floor. The animals are also at liberty to move outside the park into huge areas known as ‘dispersal areas’. There can be as much wildlife roaming outside the park as inside. Many Masai villages are located in the ‘dispersal areas’ and they have, over centuries, developed a synergistic relationship with the wildlife. The best time to catch the migration in the Masai Mara is when the wildebeest are crossing the Mara River where they face the waiting crocodiles…. In the months of June until October.

Serengeti National Park is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous for its annual migration of over one and a half million white bearded (or brindled) wildebeest and 250,000 zebra. Serengeti National Park is widely regarded as the best wildlife reserve in Africa due to its density of predators and prey. Serengeti plains the endless, almost treeless grassland of the south is the most emblematic scenery of the park. This is where the wildebeest breed, as they remain in the plains from December to May. Other hoofed animals- zebra, gazelle, impala, harte beast, topi, buffalo, water buck- also occur in huge numbers during the wet season. Kopjes are granite florations which are very common in the region, and they are great observation posts for predators, as well as a refuge for hyrax and pythons.

Arusha National Park is a multifaceted jewel and one of the few parks that allows walking safari because there are a few predators. This is the closet park to Arusha town. The park contains a variety of habitats including forests. The entrance gate leads into shadowy montane forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and colorful turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white Colobus monkey is easily seen. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep, rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo and warthog. The rolling grassy hills enclose the tranquil beauty of the Momela Lakes, each one a different hue of green or blue. Here you can find thousands of flamingos, the lakes support a rich selection of resident and migrant waterfowl, and shaggy water bucks display their large lyre-shaped horns on the watery fringes. Giraffes glide across the grassy hills, between grazing zebra herds, while pairs of wide-eyed dik-dik dart into scrubby bush like overgrown hares on spindly legs.

Lake Manyara National Park is a beautiful area at the base of the Great Rift valley with a shallow lake and its home to herbivores such as the impala, wildebeest, hippo, buffalo, gazelle, warthog, giraffe, elephant. It is also a good place for those who love the bird life to be able to see over 300 migratory birds like the grey headed kingfisher, flamingos and long crested eagles, here you will find the amazing tree climbing lions and beautiful locations for a lunch picnic. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the  ancient mahogany trees, dainty bush buck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest horn bills honk cacophonous in the high canopy.  Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.

At the Ngorongoro Crater there is a population of approximately 25,000 large animals, largely ungulates along with reputedly the highest density of  mammalian predators in Africa lives in the crater. Large animals in the crater include the black rhinoceros, elephant, wildebeest, leopard, lion, buffalo, mountain reed buck. At the Ngorongoro area this is where rhinos are easily seen, it’s a UNESCO world heritage Centre and its often called ‘African Eden’ and the 8th natural wonder of the world. The main feature of the Ngorongoro Crater, is a large, unbroken, un-flooded volcanic called the caldera and this is a heavenly place for the animals and the clients who visit this place.

Zanzibar is known to most people as the ‘paradise’ and this tropical spice island has made many people to stay and make this place there home. Zanzibar is characterized by beautiful sandy beaches with fringing coral reefs, and the magic of historic Stone Town – said to be the only functioning ancient town in East Africa. The coral reefs that surround the East Coast are rich in marine diversity. The heat of summer is seasonally often cooled by windy conditions, resulting in sea breezes, particularly on the North and East coasts. Being near to the equator,  the islands are warm all year round. Animals found in Zanzibar are namely colobus monkeys, bush pigs, butterflies, mongoose and birds species. Important architectural features in Stone Town are the Livingstone house, Guliani Bridge, house of wonders.