Where a safari actually happens.

Kenya

Where the safari was invented.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct

Maasai Mara

Big cats, open plains, and the river crossing.

Best Jul–Oct

Amboseli

Elephants beneath Kilimanjaro.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct

Samburu

The dry north and its five special species.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Sep

Tsavo

Red earth, and space that does not end.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Sep

Laikipia

Conservancies, rhino, and almost no one else.

Best Jan–Mar, Jun–Oct

Lake Nakuru

Flamingo shallows and rhino country.

Best Jan–Mar, Jun–Sep

Diani & the coast

White sand at the end of the safari.

Best Jan–Mar, Jul–Oct

Serengeti

The migration, and the plains it moves across.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct

Tanzania

The migration, and the crater floor.

Ngorongoro

A crater floor thick with wildlife.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Sep

Zanzibar

Spice, stone town, and the Indian Ocean.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Oct

Bwindi, Uganda

Gorillas, in forest that feels prehistoric.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Sep

Uganda

Gorillas, and forest that feels prehistoric.

Volcanoes, Rwanda

Gorilla trekking on the Virunga slopes.

Best Jan–Feb, Jun–Sep

Rwanda

Gorilla trekking on the Virunga slopes.

Murchison Falls

The Nile forced through a seven-metre gap.

Queen Elizabeth

Tree-climbing lions and the Kazinga Channel.

Kibale Forest

The best chimpanzee tracking in East Africa.

Akagera

Rwanda's savannah park, and its lions are back.