Field Notes & Stories
Wildlife guides, field dispatches, and honest accounts from Tanzania's wild places.
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Poaching, land encroachment, and climate variability are reshaping Tanzania's ecosystems. We spent a week with the rangers and conservancy managers working to hold the line — and found more reason for hope than despair.
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We visited fourteen camps between June and October to update our recommendations. Here's what we found — the outstanding, the overrated, and two hidden gems that don't appear in the mainstream guides.
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Most visitors spend two days in Stone Town and leave. The reef systems around Mnemba Atoll and Chumbe Island — accessible in under an hour by boat — are among the Indian Ocean's most biodiverse. Here's how to find them.
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Altitude headaches, the Barranco Wall at 5am, and what it actually feels like to stand at 5,895 metres. Our client Laura Henriksen filed a field report from the Machame Route.
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While everyone floods the Serengeti in July, the elephant herds of Tarangire peak in October and November. The short rains bring green, the big tuskers come down from the hills, and you'll have the baobabs almost entirely to yourself.
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