Destinations

Rwanda's capital and safari hub, unusually clean and walkable, with the Kigali Genocide Memorial as its central, essential stop.

Africa's second-deepest lake, terraced into southwestern Uganda's hills with 29 islands, and one of the few East African lakes safe for swimming.

The Kenyan half of the Serengeti ecosystem, famous for the Mara River crossings between July and October and reliable Big Five viewing year-round.

Carved from the old Selous Game Reserve, one of Africa's largest national parks, with boat safaris on the Rufiji River and walking safaris rarely offered further…

14,763 square kilometres of plain hosting the largest overland migration on Earth, with resident Big Five wildlife in the Seronera Valley year-round.

A remote region of southern Ethiopia along the Omo River, home to a dozen distinct ethnic groups and some of the world's most significant early hominid…

A remote savannah park on Uganda's border with South Sudan and Kenya, the only place in the country to see cheetah and ostrich, with a fraction…

The world's tallest freestanding mountain, climbed on foot without technical skill through five climate zones to a 5,895-metre summit.

A spice-trade island off Tanzania with a UNESCO old town, beach towns on three coasts and the best diving in the region at Mnemba Atoll.

Gorilla trekking, chimp tracking and savannah game viewing within a day's drive of each other, plus a stretch of the Nile that forces itself through a…

The Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Kilimanjaro in one northern loop, plus a much quieter southern circuit and an Indian Ocean coastline in Zanzibar.

The most accessible mountain gorilla trekking in the world, a rainforest canopy walk in Nyungwe and a recovered Big Five park at Akagera, all within a…