Arusha City Tour
Arusha is the centre of northern Tanzania and the starting point of almost every safari on the northern circuit.
Activities in Tanzania
Is a safari all about game drives? Mostly, but not only. In between there is room for a balloon flight at sunrise, a market visit, a walk with a ranger or an afternoon on a spice farm. Filter by destination and tell us what appeals to you: we will plan the activity at the right point in your route.
Boat Safari Lake Manyara
Lake Manyara National Park lies at the foot of the East African Rift; its alkaline soda lake takes up around two thirds of the park's area.
Chemka Hot Springs
Chemka Hot Springs, also known as Kikuletwa Hot Springs, are natural spring-fed pools between Arusha and Moshi.
Coffee Tour in Arusha
The volcanic soils around Arusha are among Tanzania's long-standing growing areas for Arabica coffee.
Crater Rim Hike
The highlands around the Ngorongoro Crater are made up of several extinct volcanoes with pronounced crater rims; besides the Ngorongoro Crater itself, these …
Datoga Community Cultural Tour
The Datoga are a cattle-herding people who live, among other places, in the area around Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania.
Fishing on Lake Eyasi
Lake Eyasi is a shallow soda lake south of the Ngorongoro highlands whose water level fluctuates sharply with the rains.
Four Seasons: Bush Breakfast
A “bush breakfast” is a common format at upmarket safari lodges in East Africa: breakfast in the open, served out in nature away from the lodge itself.
Four Seasons: Bush Dinner
At upmarket safari lodges, a “bush dinner” means dinner in the open air, often staged with a campfire or paper lanterns.
Four Seasons: Mwamba Sunset Picnic
“Mwamba” is Swahili for rock or reef.
Four Seasons: Pool Romantic Dinner
A romantic dinner by the pool is a common format for special occasions at upmarket hotels.
Four Seasons: Serenity (Private Chef BBQ Dinner)
Here, “Serenity” refers to a private dinner with your own chef and grill, of the kind upmarket hotels offer as a special extra.
Four Seasons: The Vineyard (Wine Pairing Dinner)
“The Vineyard” is the name of a wine-pairing dinner in which individual courses are matched to selected wines.
Guided Walk at Lake Eyasi
Lake Eyasi lies at the southern edge of the Ngorongoro highlands, framed by an escarpment of the East African Rift.
Hadzabe Cultural Tour
The Hadzabe live at Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania and are among the last communities in Africa to live mainly from hunting and gathering.
Hiking at Materuni Waterfalls & Coffee Tour
Materuni is a Chagga village on the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, known for a waterfall reached by a trail through rainforest and fields.
Hot Air Balloon Safari
Balloon flights over the savannah are among the best-known ways to experience East Africa's landscape from the air; in Tanzania they are especially associated …
Lake Duluti Visit
Lake Duluti is a small crater lake a few kilometres from Arusha, surrounded by natural forest.
Lake Natron & Engaresero Waterfalls Guided Walk
Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is one of the world's most important breeding grounds for lesser flamingos; its extremely alkaline water and the surrounding …
Leparekashi Escarpment Trek
The name refers to an escarpment in the northern Tanzanian highlands, where the East African Rift steps the landscape down in terraces.
Maasai Village Visit (Boma)
The Maasai are a semi-nomadic, cattle-herding people living across much of northern Tanzania and southern Kenya.
Moshi City Tour
Moshi lies on the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro and is the starting point for climbs via the Marangu and Machame routes.
Mountain Climbing Day Trip
Both Kilimanjaro and neighbouring Mount Meru offer day trips into their lower reaches as well as multi-day climbs, for example through the montane rainforest …
Mto wa Mbu Market Tour
Mto wa Mbu is a village between Lake Manyara National Park and the Rift Valley highlands where members of numerous Tanzanian ethnic groups live side by side.
Night Game Drive
Most Tanzanian national parks close to game drives after dark.
Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area ranks among the world's most important palaeoanthropological sites.
Serval Wildlife Sanctuary Visit
Serval Wildlife is a private sanctuary in Siha District near Kilimanjaro that cares for orphaned, injured or otherwise endangered wild animals.
Village Walk at Lake Eyasi
Around Lake Eyasi, different peoples live side by side, among them the cattle-herding Datoga and the Hadzabe, who live as hunter-gatherers.
Walking Safari
On a walking safari, the landscape is explored on foot rather than from a vehicle, accompanied by a guide and, in many areas, an armed ranger as well.
Zanzibar Aquarium Visit
Along Zanzibar's coast there are several natural tidal pools that tourists know as an “aquarium”.
Zanzibar Dolphin Tour
Off Zanzibar's south coast, especially near the village of Kizimkazi, boat trips to watch wild dolphins have long been established.
Zanzibar Jozani Forest Tour
Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park in the south of Zanzibar has been the archipelago's only national park since 2004 and protects one of the island's last …
Zanzibar Mnemba Snorkeling
Mnemba Island lies off the north-east coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, and is surrounded by a coral reef within a marine …
Zanzibar Prison Island Tour
Changuu, known as Prison Island, lies off Stone Town and was built as a prison at the end of the 19th century, but was then used mainly as a quarantine station …
Zanzibar Safari Blue Tour
Safari Blue is the name for boat trips with traditional dhows in Menai Bay south of Stone Town.
Zanzibar Salaam Cave Tour
Along Zanzibar's coast lie several natural caves of historical or geological significance.
Zanzibar Spice Farm Tour
Under the rule of the Omani sultanate in the 19th century, Zanzibar became one of the world's most important growing areas for cloves and still carries the …
Zanzibar Stone Town Tour
Stone Town is the historic core of Zanzibar City and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
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