I write you from the very dry heart of Tanzania where the ground is very brown, the grass is lion-colored and the trees look like they could all use a bit of water. I tell you Gio, it is everything ...

After successful years of flights over Serengeti National Park, exciting balloon safaris come to Ruaha National Park in Southern Tanzania. After successful years of tourist flights over Africa’s ...

At 7,800-square miles—roughly the size of New Jersey—Ruaha is Tanzania's largest national park, 40 percent bigger than the much-better-known Serengeti. But it gets a fraction of the visitors: While ...

The Serengeti is easily one of the most famous wildlife sanctuaries in the world. Its vast plains sprawl over 5,700 square miles and its otherworldly animal migration is—some lists say—one of the New ...

Msembe Airstrip is no high-tech air hub. It’s a stripe of red earth in the depths of the Tanzanian outback, with bushwillow shrubs and baboons in place of a departure lounge. Hawk-eagles perch just ...

The woman next to me leaps to her feet. "Oh my God!" she yells. "Look!" The Landcruiser crunches to a sudden halt and, heart pounding, I turn in the direction she's pointing. I expect to see a leopard ...

When travelers think of a safari, the majestic savannahs of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park often come to mind, brimming with wildfire and punctuated by acacia trees under a blue dome of sky. And ...