Serengeti & Ngorongoro

The Serengeti is the safari most people picture before they have ever been on one: golden plains to the horizon, columns of wildebeest a million strong, and predators that never have to look far for a meal. The Great Migration moves through it in a slow annual loop, and timing your camp to where the herds are is the whole game — which is exactly what we do for you.

An hour south, the Ngorongoro Crater is a different world: a collapsed volcano whose walls hold a self-contained ark of lion, elephant, black rhino and flamingo. One unhurried day on the crater floor is among the densest wildlife experiences in Africa.

It is a longer haul than Botswana, so we build it to be worth the trip — and we will tell you honestly when the herds will be where you are going, rather than promising river crossings in a month they don't happen.