Tanzania · East Africa
Zanzibar and the coast.
Zanzibar is the standard finish to a Tanzanian safari — a Swahili archipelago with a World Heritage capital and a long history of its own.
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Stone Town carries the trading history, the architecture and the food; the beaches are on the north and east coasts, and they differ enormously in tide. The east coast has dramatic tidal movement that leaves the reef exposed at low water, which matters if swimming is the point of the stay.
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Elsewhere in Tanzania
- The SerengetiThe Serengeti is the ecosystem the wildebeest migration moves through, and it is large enough that where you stay decides what you see.
- Ngorongoro and the crater highlandsThe Ngorongoro Crater is a collapsed caldera holding a resident population of game year-round, including some of the last black rhino in the north.
- Tarangire and Lake ManyaraTarangire is baobab and elephant country and the northern circuit's most underrated park; Lake Manyara is a short, scenic stop beneath the Rift escarpment.
- The southern and western circuitsNyerere, Ruaha, Katavi and Mahale are Tanzania's wild end — far larger, far emptier, and considerably harder to reach.
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