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  Wild and Exotic have identified many remote and exclusive camps in different regions of Tanzania, as one of the best safari destinations, with a range of landscapes and wildlife only equalled by Kenya. Her huge National Parks receive comparatively few visitors, making Tanzania the perfect location for those seeking a wilderness east African safari. Though the Serengeti park boundaries officially define the Serengeti, the ecosystem goes way beyond these limits; we call this the Greater Serengeti. It's a giant picture of wild Tanzania - masses of animals, contrasting landforms and tribal people.. The Katavi National Park is one of the great wildlife experiences of the world. Miles from anywhere, it has almost a mythical status, and it's thought a greater density of mammals than any other Tanzanian reserve.  The Mahale Mountains National Park is one of the most romantic destinations in all Africa and the best place on the continent to observe wild chimpanzees. The Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar is an exotic setting in which to relax after an inland safari - escape to the best beaches on the north east tip, or ask us to organise your stay at the exclusive Mnemba Island or Fundu Lagoon on the larger but equally attractive Pemba Island.

Serengeti Safari camp is semi-nomadic - it won't move while you're there, but it is actually on a wide orbit shadowing the migration. So you, your Tanzanian driver/guide and your private four wheel drive vehicle are as close to a million wildebeest as possible. Whilst you can head off from dawn to dusk on your own expeditions, the small wandering camp is so sociable because it is shared with guests staying in classic bush style. Each of the six luxury bend tents sit alone on a beautiful patch of Africa; light in their footprint but with all the comforts anyone could need, and only a stroll away from the candlelit mess tent form some safari bonhomie. Serengeti Safari Camp travels within the Serengeti National Park and surrounding area, where densities of animals are mostly higher, and the chance of seeing large predators is much greater. It's the base for exciting game drives - conquering the landscapes and absorbing the sheer hugeness of it all. Daily adventures are yours to plan with your own private guide to take you into it midst.

Chada Katavi, massed on the plains are the last great herds of buffalo in East Africa, with up to 1000 head. Rivers groan with hippopotamus and crocodile. Almost everywhere you look, there's something grazing, bellowing, fighting, mating or hunting. Days on the hoof in Katavi can be beyond belief. In this mega - beast land (surely there are dinosaurs hiding somewhere), all animals need a really good place to hole up, and for a decade Man's retreat has been Chada Katavi, hidden on a shady spit of acacias and tamarinds on the edge of the Chada grasslands. Since the guy ropes were first hammered in ten years ago - the only camp in a million acres - it has evolved into a rather civilised campaign HQ. Comer dinnertime, the mess tent is nothing short of splendid, silverware gleaming and glasses shining in the lamplight. Hidden in the trees that flank it, are just six guest tents with find wooden furniture, woven rugs and beds spread with crisp white Egyptian cottons. The tents are large, romantic and airy, the bathrooms are bush-deluxe and the thoroughly good white wine sitting on your porch table is perfectly chilled. Happily indulged, watching the elephants head out to water as dusk falls, you feel like one of the last great pioneers, binoculars in your hand and Africa filling your head.

Greystoke Mahale, on a far flung beach along the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, below a huge story-book tropical forest lies this tiny sanctuary. The water is clear as gin, the air scented and the living very easy. The forested slopes of the Mahale Mountains rise behind the camp, home to the world's largest known population of chimpanzees, and within hiking distance is once such group of 60. Each day you can venture out into the forest to observe and commune with these, our closest relatives, as they groom, wrestle and forage across the leafy floor. Your home at Greystoke Mahale is in wildly exotic wooden bandas looking out across the soft sand beach, with interiors fashioned from seasoned dhow timber. The suites are open-fronted, with dressing rooms, adjoining bathrooms and upstairs chill out decks; designed with flair, generosity and passion for the most demanding castaway. With no roads for miles and miles everything is done by foot or boat. As if a day's "chimping" wasn't enough, you can kayak along the lakeshore, snorkel, and fish, have a private barefoot dinner on the beach or get friendly in the wildly thatched mess tent. For some evening pizzazz, there's the bar of all bars, on the rocks of the headland, with twinkley mirrors, fresh sashimi and iced vodka, looking way our west across the mighty waters of the lake.

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