Fifteen places we send travellers most often, across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Each can stand alone or combine into a longer route. Tell us which appeal and we will build the itinerary around them.
Kenya’s flagship reserve and the northern end of the Great Migration. Big cat densities here are the highest in Africa, and the open plains make them…
Famous for elephants photographed against Kilimanjaro, Amboseli sits on a dried lake bed fed by underground springs from the mountain. The swamps draw enormous elephant families…
A compact Rift Valley park built around an alkaline lake, Nakuru is one of the best places in Kenya to see both black and white rhino…
North of Mount Kenya the landscape turns arid, and the wildlife changes with it. Samburu holds the northern specials found nowhere further south: Grevy’s zebra, reticulated…
White sand, warm Indian Ocean water and a coral reef a short swim offshore make Diani the natural end to a Kenyan safari. The beach runs…
Fourteen thousand square kilometres of grassland that gave the Great Migration its stage. Depending on the month the herds are calving on the southern short-grass plains,…
The largest intact volcanic caldera on earth, six hundred metres deep and holding around 25,000 animals that cannot easily leave. Black rhino, huge elephant bulls and…
An Indian Ocean archipelago of turquoise shallows, dhows and spice farms, thirty minutes by air from Dar es Salaam. Stone Town’s carved doors and Swahili, Arab…
Africa’s highest mountain at 5,895 metres, and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Climbers pass through rainforest, moorland, alpine desert and glacier in under a…
Baobab-studded country along the Tarangire river, holding the largest elephant concentrations in northern Tanzania during the dry season. As surrounding water sources fail, game funnels to…
Ancient montane rainforest on Uganda’s southwestern border, home to roughly half the world’s remaining mountain gorillas. Trekking means a guided hike through steep, dense forest to…
Crater lakes, savannah and the Kazinga Channel linking Lakes Edward and George. The channel boat cruise passes hippo pods, buffalo and one of the densest concentrations…
Uganda’s largest national park, split by the Victoria Nile as it forces through a seven-metre gap and drops in a thunderous plume. A launch cruise runs…
The highest primate density in Africa, with thirteen species sharing the canopy. Chimpanzee tracking reaches habituated communities that feed, groom and call within metres of the…
A deep, island-scattered lake in the terraced hills of southwestern Uganda, and the natural place to rest after gorilla trekking. There is no bilharzia and no…