East Africa

The easiest first safari in Africa, with an Indian Ocean coast to finish on.

The country you come to for gorillas and chimpanzees, with decent savannah game alongside.

Southern lowlands where a dozen peoples live very differently from highland Ethiopia — and where visiting raises real questions.

Open grassland with the highest density of big cats in Kenya.

A steep, wet montane forest holding roughly half the world’s mountain gorillas.

A seventeenth-century royal compound of stone castles, and the road head for the Simien Mountains.

Elephants at close range with Kilimanjaro behind them, on the days the mountain shows.

Savannah and crater lakes on the Rift floor, with a channel full of hippos.

Afro-alpine plateau in the south-east, and the best chance anywhere of seeing an Ethiopian wolf.

Dry northern country holding species you will not see further south.