Arusha National Park is home to some fairytale forests, halfway up the slopes of Mount Meru, which can be explored on foot.
The sun sets over Meru.
STUART BUTLER (2)
Somewhere up high, where the air is cold enough to sting the back of the throat and butterflies lie dead and frozen on a bed of volcanic ash as black as a graveyard, is a gnarled and stumpy old tree festooned in dripping curtains of Old Man’s Beard.