Tanzania

Tanzania is the Africa of the imagination, scaled up. The Serengeti's plains stretch beyond the curve of the earth, host every year to the largest land migration on the planet. Ngorongoro Crater is a self-contained Eden of lions, rhino and flamingo. Kilimanjaro — the highest free-standing mountain in the world — rises in solitary splendour above the savannah, while Tarangire's baobabs and Lake Manyara's tree-climbing lions add their own quiet drama. Travel further and Tanzania reveals other faces: the Hadzabe, one of humanity's last true hunter-gatherer peoples; the Maasai with their herds and red shukas; the coffee farms and waterfalls of Materuni village on Kilimanjaro's slopes; and finally Zanzibar — where powder-white sand, turquoise sea and the spice-scented alleys of Stone Town complete a perfect safari-and-beach circuit.