Covering an area of 14763 sq km, Serengeti National Park is the largest national park in Tanzania. The park is located about 320 km north-west of Arusha, lying in a high plateau between the Ngorongoro highlands and the Kenyan-Tanzanian border, and extending almost to Lake Victoria to the west.

Aptly named ‘endless plains’ by the Maasai, you immediately experience this vastness when you en...

For those familiar with it, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area conjures up images of a giant wildlife-filled volcanic caldera, where the ‘big five’ and many other animals roam. But there's more to the area than this. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area also encompasses mountains, lakes, forests and wide-open African plains. It contains several globally significant archaeological sites.

The Ngo...

Lake Manyara is a popular and accessible park that continues to delight visitors with its diversity and abundance of wildlife.

The main habitats include the shallow soda lake itself which occupies about 70% of the park, the ground water forest, open grassland, acacia woodland and the rift wall.

The most famous spectacle in the park are the tree-climbing lions, which are occasionally...

Stunning Lake Natron, and the nearby active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, are located in Northern Tanzania near the Kenyan border, just north of the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area. Lake Natron and Ol Doinyo Lengai occupy a surreal landscape, overshadowed by the Rift Valley Escarpment.

Lake Natron is a soda lake with a large resident population of flamingos. It is also an excellent area t...

At the head of the valley lies Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania's only active volcano. It is unique because it is the only volcano in the world that produces natrocarbonatite lava. This unique and amazing geological feature is the most remarkable geological sight Tanzania has to offer, towering over the desolate landscape produced by the ash falling from its constant eruptions.

‘Ol Doinyo Lenga...