This comprehensive trip offers the opportunity to observe rare mountain gorillas in their natural habitat, explore East Africa's most popular game parks like the Masai Mara, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti, and visit the lesser known ones including Samburu Game Reserve and scenic Lake Nakuru. On Zanzibar you can explore the intriguing alleyways of Stone Town and relax on the gorgeous beaches. We spend some time on Lake Malawi, one of Africa's largest freshwater lakes, and end this exciting trip in the adrenalin-charged town of Victoria Falls, where you can see the thunderous falls and have a go at a number of optional adventure activities.

The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.

It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.