Honeymoon Safari

A Tanzania honeymoon safari is the most romantic, most genuinely extraordinary, and most deeply memorable honeymoon experience available anywhere on earth — a journey into a world of such breathtaking natural beauty, such intimate luxury, and such profound emotional resonance that it creates a shared landscape of wonder and love at the very beginning of a marriage that becomes part of the permanent, private mythology of the couple who experience it together. Tanzania’s finest honeymoon lodges — many of them small, exquisitely designed properties of six to twelve suites set in private wilderness concessions in the southern Serengeti, the remote southern circuit, or on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Zanzibar — understand the architecture of romance with an effortless sophistication that reveals itself in every carefully considered detail: the private plunge pool overlooking an endless sea of golden grass, the outdoor bath filled under a canopy of stars while lions call in the darkness beyond the camp boundary, the private sundowner set up on a rocky kopje at sunset with nothing visible in any direction but the vast, burning sky and the silhouettes of acacia trees against the horizon, the candlelit bush dinner served on the open plains with the Southern Cross blazing overhead and the warm, fragrant air of the African night carrying the distant sounds of the wilderness to the table like a living, breathing soundtrack composed specifically for this evening, this couple, this beginning. The combination of a classic northern circuit safari through the Serengeti and Ngorongoro followed by a week of blissful, unhurried relaxation on the coral-white beaches and turquoise waters of Zanzibar is widely and deservedly regarded as the world’s finest honeymoon itinerary — a pairing of wild, untamed adventure and languid, sensual beauty that creates a honeymoon of such extraordinary richness and variety that couples return home not merely rested and happy but genuinely, deeply changed by the experience of having begun their life together in one of the most beautiful places on earth.