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Eastern Africa
Tanzania is East Africa's classic safari country and the anchor of the northern safari circuit: Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Crater, and Tarangire sit within a few hours' drive of each other, and Mount Kiliman…
The dry season from late June to October is the most reliable window for game viewing acro…
Eastern Africa
Kenya is where the modern safari was invented, and it still runs the tightest safari machine in Africa: Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport puts you within a short flight or drive of the Maasai Mara, Amboseli,…
The two dry windows, late June through October and January to February, give the most reli…
Southern Africa
South Africa is the continent's self-drive safari capital: Kruger National Park has paved and well-graded gravel roads, clear signage, and rest camps spaced for a comfortable day's drive, so you can run a Big Five safari…
South Africa is in the Southern Hemisphere, so its dry winter runs May to September, the o…
Northern Africa
Morocco is North Africa's most complete short-haul trip: a three- to four-hour flight from most of Europe lands you in a country that packs Sahara dunes, snow-capped Atlas peaks, Atlantic surf towns, and two of the world…
March to May and September to November are the sweet spots: Marrakech and the desert are w…
Northern Africa
Egypt is the one country in Africa built entirely around a river and the monuments strung along it: the Giza pyramids and Sphinx sit at Cairo's edge, Luxor holds Karnak and the Valley of the Kings, and Abu Simbel's rock…
October through April is the main window: daytime highs in Luxor and Aswan drop from summe…
Eastern Africa
Uganda earns the nickname 'Pearl of Africa' by packing an unusual range of landscape into a small footprint: the source of the Nile at Jinja, the glaciated Rwenzori peaks on the DR Congo border, savanna parks with tree-c…
Uganda sits on the equator, so temperatures barely shift through the year; what changes is…
Eastern Africa
Rwanda built a gorilla-trekking industry around one hard advantage: Volcanoes National Park sits under three hours from Kigali International Airport, so travelers can land, trek, and be back in the capital the same week…
Rwanda has two dry seasons, June to mid-September and December to February, and both are g…
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Volcanoes National ParkEastern Africa
Burundi is not a safari country and shouldn't be marketed as one: it has no Serengeti-scale parks, no dense big-cat populations, and only a handful of foreign visitors a year. What it does have is Lake Tanganyika, the wo…
Burundi sits close to the equator at altitude, so it runs on two dry and two wet seasons r…
