Tanzania & Zanzibar

Tanzania holds the two images most people picture when they close their eyes and think of Africa: the Serengeti rolling to the horizon under a million hooves, and Zanzibar's white sails leaning across turquoise water. Having both in one country makes for the perfect journey. Start in the north: the Ngorongoro Crater, a lost world sunk inside a volcano, then the Serengeti itself, timed to the migration if you wish, with balloon flights at dawn and camps that move with the herds. Then trade dust for salt air. Zanzibar gives you Stone Town's carved doors and spice markets, then days that dissolve on beaches where dhows drift past at sunset. Safari mornings, ocean afternoons. It is the classic double act, and it never gets old.