| ich wildlife and stunningly beautiful scenery makes | | | | Tanzania's Northern Circuit. This is not a |
| East Africa the ultimate in African safari travel. To | | | | destination but several that revolves around the |
| top it up quality safari lodges ensure intimate | | | | iconic Serengeti National park to include the |
| ambience and privacy making East African safaris | | | | Ngorongoro Crater Reserve and other smaller |
| a great travel experience. | | | | parks perhaps not that well know but each having |
| First on this list of top safari destinations is | | | | something unique to offer like Tarangire National |
| certainly Kenya's Masai Mara. The Mara is | | | | Park, Lake Manyara National Park, Lake Eyasi, |
| considered to be an extension of Tanzania's | | | | Arusha National Park and Kilimanjaro National Park. |
| serengeti plains, before there were ever borders | | | | Queen Elizabeth National Park Uganda. This park is |
| dividing this region into two countries, this was | | | | situated at the base of the Rwenzori Mountains in |
| one big region. Perhaps most famous for the | | | | Uganda and covers an area of 2090km2. Perhaps |
| snorting, bellowing, thundering spectacle of over a | | | | more affectionately known as the QEII, the |
| million wildebeest on the move - closely attended | | | | Queen Elizabeth National Park offers a unique |
| by all the big predators. The migration is a | | | | safari experience with crater-dotted hills and open |
| seasonal event, rotating through the Mara in | | | | grassland. It supports an abundance of wildlife, |
| Kenya and Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. | | | | including elephant, lion, leopard and the rare |
| Amboseli also known as elephant country, is a top | | | | Ugandan antelope, the kob. |
| destination for a Kenya Safari. This park is 39,206 | | | | Bwindi National Park. The Bwindi Impenetrable |
| hectares (392km2; 151sq miles) in size at the core | | | | Forest is a magnificent green swathe of dense |
| of an 8,000 square kilometres (3,100 sq miles) | | | | rainforest, so ancient its thought to have survived |
| ecosystem that spreads across the two countries | | | | the last ice age. The National Park covers 330 |
| Kenya and Tanzania. Here the locals are mainly | | | | km2 of this rainforest and spans altitudes of 1,100 |
| Maasai, but people from other parts of the | | | | metres to 2,400 metres - a dramatic landscape |
| country have settled there attracted by the | | | | of steep hills, narrow gorges and streams tumbling |
| successful tourist-driven economy and intensive | | | | down waterfalls. You are in gorilla country. |
| agriculture along the system of swamps that | | | | A proclaimed World Heritage site, Bwindi is |
| makes this low-rainfall area (average 350 mm (14 | | | | considered one of the most biologically diverse |
| in)) one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in | | | | areas on earth. Its unique, precious flora sustains |
| East Africa if not Africa as a whole. Indeed, one | | | | roughly half of the world's known population of |
| of the classic images of East Africa, let alone | | | | mountain gorillas - believed to number just 600, |
| Kenya is that of herds of elephants strolling | | | | most having been destroyed by war and human |
| across the plains with the snow-capped peak of | | | | activities through out Africa. There's also a |
| Kilimanjaro in the background. It is to catch this | | | | substantial chimpanzee population and Bwindi is |
| sight on memory and perhaps to experience it, | | | | perhaps the only forest in Africa in which these |
| that people flood to Amboseli National Park. | | | | two apes live together. |