Holidays to Tanzania and Zanzibar offer some of the best game viewing in Africa. Home to more than 50 per cent of the biomass of all animals in Africa, a Tanzania safari is the stage for nature's most magnificent spectacle, the Great Migration on the Serengeti plains. Lions loll under flowering Kigelia trees, pods of hippos make their obscene hippo noises in muddy waters, Grevy's zebra and wildebeest race along seasonal migration routes while parades of elephant feast on the acacia-filled savannahs.
Luxury Tanzania safaris offer a myriad of opportunities, staying in some of the continent’s finest safari lodges and camps. In the northern plains, Mt Kilimanjaro casts a long shadow beckoning with its magnificent snow-capped summit. Nearby at the base of the Western Rift Valley escarpment is Lake Manyara National Park, an alkaline lake with flocks of flamingos, said by Ernest Hemingway to be the 'loveliest in Africa'. Further on is the Serengeti, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa; its south-eastern area is the Ngorongoro Crater, the world's largest unbroken caldera that isn't a lake.
