Pemba Island, north of Zanzibar, is generally considered the more serious diving destination in Tanzanian waters, with dramatic drop-offs and coral walls plunging into deep channel […]

Watamu Marine National Park, on Kenya’s central coast, has one of the longest-running sea turtle conservation programs in East Africa, run by the local organization Local […]

Humpback whales migrate through the Pemba Channel and the waters off Zanzibar and Mafia Island roughly between July and October each year, on their way to […]

Kizimkazi, a fishing village on Zanzibar’s southern coast, is the island’s established base for dolphin watching, home to resident pods of bottlenose and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins […]

Zanzibar’s interior, away from the beach resorts, is best explored by bicycle, and several operators run half-day cycling tours through spice farms and rural villages where […]

Northern Kenya’s arid Samburu region is the country’s main hub for camel trekking, a mode of travel that remains genuinely practical here rather than purely a […]

Horseback safaris are only possible in a handful of private conservancies where wildlife has grown accustomed to horses over years of controlled riding, which makes Kenya’s […]

Nature walks offer a slower, ground-level counterpart to a standard game drive, and several parks across the region set aside specific trails for exactly this. In […]

Uganda’s wild rhino population was hunted to local extinction by the late 1980s, and Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, established in 2005 on the route between Kampala and […]

Nyungwe Forest National Park’s canopy walkway, suspended roughly 70 meters above the forest floor and stretching around 200 meters across three linked sections, is one of […]

Golden monkeys are found only in the bamboo forests of the Virunga Massif, split between Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park and Uganda’s Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and […]