If only they could talk…
A true icon of Africa and Tanzania, the baobab tree is certainly in no hurry. And why should it be – it has all the time in the world!

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.” – Kahlil Gibran
Safari is best known for getting you extremely close with things that roar. You travel halfway across the world...

The Serengeti. Even the word itself sounds far away, like a distant galaxy or unreachable star. Yes, we all know the Serengeti is in Africa.Yes, we know that the Serengeti is a place where lions roar...

Three million years ago, there slumbered a massive supervolcano in what we now call Northern Tanzania.The mountain stood higher and mightier than nearby Mount Kilimanjaro...

What makes a place exceptional? What makes a city, a mountain range, or a pile of ancient ruins shimmer like polished diamonds? What makes a place magic?..

Every holiday starts with a vision. Maybe the vision was born in your childhood, after looking into the eyes of a lion in a zoo and wondering where these oversized cats come from. I’ll go there someday, you thought, where lions roam free...

Question: What does a hippopotamus, a black rhino, and a bat-eared fox have in common? Two answers: first, they all can be found in Tanzania, and second, they’re all terrestrial animals.They’re land-based. Isn’t it true that landlocked creatures ...

It’s noon in Arusha and the streets are flaring with life. Everywhere you look there is action. A businessman rides by on a motorcycle talking on his cell phone and laughing at the same time. A Maasai warrior strolls the other direction wearing traditional red-checkered attire...

Lucky enough to have seen the exciting, 2019 remake of ‘The Lion King’ movie, released in July 2019? Then maybe it’s time for some real-life adventure. If so, Easy Travel...

Closer to Mother Nature
“I can smell elephant” says our guide in hushed tones.
Elephant? As a complete novice at taking a walking safari, I can only smell my own fear...

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights;
it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of the living.”
When American historian Miriam Beard wrote this, I think she referred to the most important thing about travel,..

It’s early morning and your safari vehicle bounces along a ribbon of dirt in the Serengeti. You peer into endless savannah plains at sunrise, that quintessential African scene...

If only they could talk…
A true icon of Africa and Tanzania, the baobab tree is certainly in no hurry. And why should it be – it has all the time in the world!

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.”
– Kahlil Gibran
Safari is best known for getting you extremely...

The Serengeti. Even the word itself sounds far away, like a distant galaxy or unreachable star. Yes, we all know the Serengeti is in Africa.Yes, we know that the Serengeti is a place where lions roar...

The cheetah’s amber eyes sharpen their gaze as she identifies lunch three miles away: a Thomson’s gazelle. The average human couldn’t spot such movement with a pair of...

Hippopotamuses are the two-ton, amphibious tanks of Africa.As the third largest land mammal on Earth (elephants first, rhinos second) these rotund, water-loving behemoths can...

“A sense of humor is good for you.
Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heartburn?”
– Bob Hope

Two days ago an American student from Seattle, Washington was enjoying his spring break in Tanzania when two cheetahs came a little too close for comfort. Source...

Close your eyes for a moment and listen. Listen for that rumble, a groundswell of two million wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles encircling you at this very moment...

Now, imagine that instead of a doctor's hands catching you, instead you had to fall six feet to the ground, to a great thud onto hard-packed Earth. Ouch.....

Let's go get a closer look," says your guide. Yes, you think. Yes, please. The speed picks up. Dust spirals behind your vehicle. Each member of your small group holds onto their hats as the Land Cruiser draws near, closer, so close now....

As the third largest land mammal on Earth (elephants first, rhinos second) these rotund, water-loving behemoths can grow the length of an adult giraffe and can weigh over twice the size of an average sedan...