East Africa Travel Guide & When To Go On Safari

Our East Africa travel guide is meant for you to use as a tenet on when it's the most effective time to go to East Africa's National Parks and Game Reserves. Please contact your consultant for seasonal changes to the present calendar. East Africa is situated on the equator, thus there don't seem to be massive variations between winter and summer temperatures and also the days have a lot of or less identical quantity of daylight. The coast is comparatively humid and inland it might get cold attributable to the high altitude.

There are 2 ancient rain seasons, the long rains fall throughout the months of April and will and short rains fall between October and November. The Serengeti plains are +-2000m on top of ocean level with an temperature ranging from10 to twenty degrees Celsius. throughout mid winter the evenings and mornings are typically chilly, the Ngorongoro Crater at +- 2200 m on top of ocean level might drop to below freezing throughout June / July.

The nearer to the coast you get the warmer and also the a lot of humid with Zanzibar experiencing virtually unbearable humidity throughout the summer months, thus please bear this in mind when designing your beach vacation and opt for a lodge providing fans and air-con.

Highlights and best times to go to the Serengeti National Park:

• February-April: Migration on the southern Serengeti plains
• August-October: Migration crossing the Mara River
• July-January: sensible predator sightings
• June-July: Migration through the Western corridor
• June-March: Best time for general game viewing
• April-May: the foremost reasonable time to travel (and still extremely good)
• February and March: Lake Ndutu within the bigger Ngorongoro Crater Conservation witness the migration withstand.
• July and August: is terribly dusty and busy - this can be conjointly the foremost expensive time to go to Ngorongoro Crater.