Serengeti vs Ngorongoro Crater: Which Should You Choose?
The Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater are the two most famous wildlife areas in Tanzania, and they are very different. The Ngorongoro Crater is compact …
Parks & Places
Northern Tanzania’s parks and places near Karatu: Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Lake Eyasi, Olduvai Gorge, Ndutu and the Serengeti.
Empakaai Crater: Hiking Ngorongoro’s Hidden Crater Lake
Empakaai Crater is a smaller, wilder sister of the Ngorongoro Crater, hidden in the northern highlands of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. About 6 km across, …
Ngorongoro to Serengeti: The Drive, Stops and Timings
The drive from the Ngorongoro Crater to the Serengeti is one of the great road journeys in Africa. You climb through the misty forest of …
Ndutu and the Calving Season: The Great Migration Gives Birth
Ndutu is the area of short-grass plains, acacia woodland and soda lakes where the Great Migration gives birth. From roughly December to March, hundreds of …
Tarangire National Park: Elephants, Baobabs and When to Go
Tarangire National Park is famous for two things you will remember long after your safari: huge herds of elephants and ancient baobab trees. In the …
Olduvai Gorge: The Cradle of Humankind
Olduvai Gorge is a steep-sided ravine in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where fossils and stone tools have revealed nearly two million years of human evolution. …
Lake Manyara National Park: The Complete Guide
Lake Manyara National Park is a compact park at the foot of the Rift Valley escarpment, best known for its shallow soda lake, its flamingos …
Lake Eyasi, Tanzania: Hadzabe, Datoga and the Rift Valley
Lake Eyasi is a shallow, salty lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, about an hour south-west of Karatu. It feels nothing like …
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area Explained
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a protected area of about 8,292 square kilometres in northern Tanzania that includes far more than the famous crater. It …
Mto wa Mbu: Village Tour, Market and Banana Beer
Mto wa Mbu is the busy market town at the foot of the Rift Valley escarpment, right beside the entrance to Lake Manyara National Park. …