A safari vehicle stopped on a track while a large buffalo herd moves across the plain around it

Game Drives

The heart of every safari.

Out before sunrise, back for the heat of the day, then out again until the park gates call you in.

Where

Where can you do it?

Thousands of wildebeest massed on a riverbank during a Serengeti river crossing

Serengeti

Fourteen thousand square kilometres, and the herds decide where the action is.

The Ngorongoro Crater floor seen from the rim, with the soda lake and the far crater wall beyond

Ngorongoro

Picture a collapsed volcano twenty kilometres across, with walls on every side.

An ostrich crossing a dirt track in front of a broad African baobab in Tarangire National Park

Tarangire

Giant baobabs, and more elephants than anywhere else on the circuit.

Zebras drinking from a narrow stream beneath the layered rock of the Rift Valley escarpment

Lake Manyara

A narrow strip of forest, lake and escarpment, packed into one easy morning.

A giraffe browsing in bright green woodland after rain

Arusha NP

Mount Meru, crater lakes, and walking safaris less than an hour from town.

An adult elephant and a calf feeding on dry golden grass in warm light

Nyerere

Boat safaris, walking safaris, and hardly another vehicle in sight.

Three lions walking abreast through long dry grass towards the camera

Ruaha

Big country, big lion prides, and hardly anyone else around.