Tanzania safaris

If Kenya is the classic, Tanzania is the grand scale. The Serengeti alone covers 14,750 square kilometres, bigger than Northern Ireland, and the wildebeest herd spends most of its year somewhere inside it, calving on the southern plains in January and February, then sweeping north towards the Mara River as the dry season sets in.

Then there is the Ngorongoro Crater: a 2,000-foot-deep volcanic caldera where the whole ecosystem, predators, prey and rhino, lives on one enclosed floor. There is nowhere else like it. After a morning inside it, Tanzania’s smaller parks round the trip out perfectly, with Tarangire’s elephants and baobabs and Manyara’s tree-climbing lions.

And when the safari is done there is Zanzibar: a short flight from Arusha to beaches, spice farms and Stone Town’s labyrinthine alleys. We can add it to any Tanzanian route.