Tanzania's Best Safari Parks

The Great Migration. 3,000+ lions. 14,763 km² of endless plains.

Tanzania's crown jewel and the world's most complete predator-prey ecosystem. Its name comes from the Maasai word 'siringet' — endless plains — and that is exactly what you find: horizon-to-horizon grassland, broken by granite kopjes where lions den and cheetahs hunt.

World's largest intact volcanic caldera. All Big Five permanently resident.

The Ngorongoro Crater is a collapsed volcanic caldera 19 kilometres wide and 600 metres deep. Formed 2–3 million years ago, it contains one of the highest concentrations of wildlife in Africa in a self-contained ecosystem.

Elephant herds numbering in the hundreds. Ancient baobab trees. The quiet northern circuit park.

Tarangire is the most underrated of Tanzania's northern circuit parks. It is defined by the Tarangire River — a permanent water source that draws elephant herds numbering in the hundreds during the dry season, along with lion prides, leopard, and the rare African wild dog.

Tree-climbing lions. 50,000 flamingos. Groundwater forest. All in 650 km².

Lake Manyara is a small park with exceptional diversity: a groundwater forest of fig and mahogany, acacia savanna where lions spend their days in the branches, and a soda lake that turns pink with 50,000+ flamingos in the right season.