All Entries in the "Best of Tanzania Top 10" Category
Lake Manyara National Park
Stretching for 50 km along the base of the 600 meter high escarpment of the African Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers visitors a microcosm of the Tanzania safari experience. Though it is not as big as the other renowned national parks of Tanzania, the park contains wide variety of animals per square kilometer. [...]
Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge (sometimes spelt Oldupai Gorge) is the most famous archeological location in East Africa, and has become an essential visit for travelers to Ngorongoro or Serengeti. It is located about 40 km north-west of Ngorongoro Crater, just a few kilometers off the main Serengeti road.
The first European known to have seen Olduvai Gorge was [...]
Mafia Island Marine Park Information: Safari Activities
Lying in the Indian Ocean, Mafia Island faces the multiple deltas of the Rufiji River, while further inland lies Africa’s largest game reserve, the Selous. Mafia Island is only 30 minute flight south of the commercial capital of Dar es salaam and 20km off the Tanzanian coastline, opposite the Rufiji River mouth.
Mafia Island Marine Park [...]
Zanzibar: History, Culture and Safari Attractions Information
Think of Zanzibar and images of romantic dhows with curved white sails, veiled women of mystery, ancient ruins and exotic spices float before your eyes. Zanzibar is known throughout the world as the jewel of the Indian Ocean and has a romantic, colorful history of seafarers and explorers, of riches and tragedy, and of [...]
Mount Meru – Safari Attractions Information and Tour Activities
Mount Meru is a conical volcanic mountain reaching a height of 4,566m above sea level and is the fifth highest in Africa. The mountain is within Arusha National Park, which came into existence in 1960 when the wildlife area around the Momella Lakes and Ngurudoto Crater were officially declared a protected area. The park has [...]
Selous Game Reserve
Covering an area of around 50,000sqkm, the Selous Game Reserve is the largest protected wildlife are in the world. Despite this great size, the reserve is as yet uninhabited by man and could therefore qualify as the world’s largest unspoiled wilderness. Because of the unique ecological importance of the reserve, it is a Worl Heritage [...]
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park covers an area of 2,600sqkm and hosts the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem.
The park is about 118km, southwest of Arusha, along the Great North Road that proceeds to Dodoma, the administrative capital of Tanzania. The park is central to Tanzania. The park is central to Tanzania’s northern circuit of [...]
Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area
Ngorongoro is one of the world’s truly amazing places, Ngorongoro Crater is a huge caldera (collapsed volcano) that is 250sqkm in size and 600m deep and amazingly hosts over 20,000 large animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhinos. The Crater is the heart of Ngorongoro Conservation Area (N.C.A), which covers some 8,300sqkm and [...]
The Great Wildebeest Migration of Serengeti
Serengeti is the world’s best well known game sanctuary and one of the jewels of Tanzania’s wildlife crown. It lies in northern Tanzania between Ngorongoro Crater and the shores of Lake Victoria, and extends southwards from the northern frontier to the periphery of Lake Eyasi. With an area of 14,763sakm, its ecocystem extends beyond [...]
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is the crown of Tanzania. Rising abruptly from the open plains, capped by snow and frequently fringed by clouds, it is one of Africa’s classic images. At an elevation of 19,344 feet, it is the highest mountains in Africa and the highest summit in the world that can be reached by walking, without [...]
