Lake Manyara National Park stretching for 50 km along the base of the rusty-gold 600 metre high Rift Valley escarpment, is a scenic gem.
The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience.
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 ...

The Ngorongoro Crater is a natural amphitheatre created about 2 million years ago when the cone of a volcano collapsed into itself, leaving a 160 sq kilometres caldron-like cavity. This caldera, protected by a circular unbroken 2,000 foot high rim, contains everything necessary for Africa's wildlife to exist and thrive.
Ngorongoro is on Tanzania's northern safari circuit and receives a good number of visitors who stay in lodges around the crater ...

The Serengeti is the jewel in the crown of Tanzania's protected areas, which altogether make up some 14 % of the country's land area. A conservation record that few other countries can match.
The Serengeti ecosystem is located in north-western Tanzania and extends to south-western Kenya ...

The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red, the withered grass as brittle as straw. The Tarangire River has shrivelled to a shadow of its wet season self. But it is choked with wildlife. Thirsty nomads have wandered hundreds of parched kilometres knowing that here, always, there is water.
Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons ...

Mikumi is the 4th largest National Park in Tanzania.
Covering an area of 3230 sq kilometres, Mikumi National Park lies in a horseshoe of towering mountains and forested foothills.
Mikumi Nationalpark is named after the village just beyond its western border on the Dar es salaam-Iringa highway ...

Tanzania’s 2nd largest National Park after the Serengeti. Ruaha National Park is a remote bastion of spectacular wilderness, undisturbed wildlife, and breathtaking scenery. With herds of more than 10,000 elephants, vast concentrations of buffalo, gazelle, and over 400 bird species, Ruaha’s limitless wilderness, stretches over 40,000 square kilometres ...

Enter Africa's largest protected area, uninhabited by man, where Tanzania's greatest population of elephants wander in an area bigger than Switzerland. The Selous is considered important enough to be World Heritage Site, in which the lucky few can experience a safari in absolutely wild and unspoiled bush ...

Brooding and primeval, the forests of Udzungwa seem positively enchanted: a verdant refuge of sunshine-dappled glades enclosed by 30 metre high trees, their buttresses layered with fungi, lichens, mosses and ferns.
Udzungwa is the largest and most biodiverse of a chain of a dozen large forest-swathed mountains that rise majestically from the flat coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania ...