Primate Papio anubis
Lake Manyara’s troops are some of the biggest in Africa, and the most entertaining hour of any game drive.
Olive baboons live in troops of a hundred or more, with a strict hierarchy that is fascinating to watch. Lake Manyara’s forest supports some of the largest troops anywhere, and they often sit on the road, grooming and squabbling, while you wait.
They are also good lookouts. When a troop barks in alarm, there is often a leopard nearby, so our guides always stop to listen.
Lake Manyara’s groundwater forest, Arusha National Park and along the Serengeti rivers.
Guide’s tipWatch the babies. Olive baboon infants are black, and the whole troop takes turns carrying them.
Sightings are never guaranteed: these are wild animals in wild places. What we can promise is a guide who knows where to look.
Destinations
The parks and reserves where our guides look for it, each with its own best season and safaris.
Montane forest, the Momella Lakes and Hartlaub’s Turaco, just 45 minutes from Arusha.
Seasonal soda lake with flamingos, waterbirds and quiet dry bush.
Clear lake, western forest birds and the gateway to Gombe and Mahale.
Huge elephant herds, ancient baobabs and Tanzania’s endemic birds.
Tree-climbing lions, groundwater forest and a soda lake full of waterbirds.
Vast plains, the Great Migration and big cats all year round.
Track wild chimpanzees in the forests where Jane Goodall began her research.
Keep exploring
Loxodonta africana
Tarangire’s big herds are the classic sight: families drifting between baobabs to the river in the dry season.
Panthera leo
The Serengeti holds one of the largest lion populations left in Africa. Prides of twenty are not unusual.
Panthera pardus
Secretive and beautiful. The Seronera valley’s sausage trees are the best place in Africa to find one by day.
Acinonyx jubatus
Built for the short grass plains. Watch one scan from a termite mound in the southern Serengeti.
Diceros bicornis
Critically endangered and closely guarded. The Ngorongoro Crater is the most reliable place in Tanzania to see one.
Syncerus caffer
The Big Five’s heavyweight. Herds of several hundred are a daily sight in Arusha National Park and the crater.
Giraffa tippelskirchi
Tanzania’s national animal, with jagged star-shaped patches. Common almost everywhere except inside the crater.
Equus quagga
The migration’s other half. Hundreds of thousands of zebra move with the wildebeest across the Serengeti.
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