Tanzania offers a unique mix of experiences with an African heart influenced by a spicy Arabian past and British colonialism. Tanzania has embraced these into a blend that is unlike anywhere else. There are usually two main reasons for coming to Tanzania; to witness masses of wild animals in huge reserves and to rest on an exotic, sun-kissed, island beach. This is where we come in and plan both aspects down to perfection so all you have to do is turn up.

Tanzania has set aside an enormous amount of land for wildlife reserves and national parks, making Tanzania one of the hottest safari destinations on the planet. It has some of the largest concentration of big game found anywhere, best known of which is the wildebeest migration of the Serengeti. The Serengeti is huge with its name derived from “Serengit" meaning ‘Endless Plains, so let us take you to the right spot at the right time of year to make the most of the wildlife sightings.  

To put the Serengeti into perspective, it extends all the way to Kenya where it meets the Masai Mara, although the migrating wildebeest, zebra and gazelles know no border and cross the river in search of sweet grass, then turn around a few months later and come back.  Another of the most visited parks in Tanzania is the Ngorongoro Crater and Conservation Area; a unique ecosystem where a collapsed volcano has created a fecund caldera like a veritable Garden of Eden. The area also contains the Olduvai Gorge, location of some of the oldest hominid fossil remains.  

Everyone goes on safari in Tanzania, then usually heads for the coast. The Zanzibar archipelago is the most favoured beach holiday spots, because it offers quite simply, the most idyllic tropical beach resorts. It’s usually a short hop in a plane or a boat trip to traverse the 35 km of warm Indian Ocean to reach one of Africa's most inviting destinations. The Spice Islands of Zanzibar and its neighbours are fringed with overhanging coconut palms, coral reefs and white powder beaches. It’s exactly like you dreamed it would be. But Zanzibar is not all like that, old Stone Town brings you back to reality, throbbing in all its complexity and worth a visit to at least see how the other half of Zanzibar lives and conducts business in the web of cobbled streets and markets.  Its history of maritime empires has produced a cosmopolitan culture and eclectic  influences, notably seen in the arresting architecture and the abandoned cities and derelict palaces dotted around the islands. It is best to visit the islands from July, avoiding the April-June rainy season.

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