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 Tourism - National Parks and Game Reserves
Tanzania hosts 13 national parks and 16 wildlife reserves plus Ngorongoro Conservation area. The most common area for tourists is the Northern Circuit, with Serengeti, Lake Manyara, Tarangire, Arusha, Kilimanjaro and Ngorongoro...  The beaches of Zanzibar are its biggest tourist draw. With numerous beach hotels and resorts to choose from, you can unwind from that stressful safari, Some of the best beaches include Nungwi beach on the North Coast. Bwejuu beach and Jambiani beach on the South East coast. All of these beaches have accommodations that should suit all budgets. For those looking for more up market fare, Mnemba Island is gorgeous.   Set below the verdant slopes of the spectacular Usambara and Pare Eastern Arc Mountain ranges and overseen by iconic snow - capped peak of Kilimanjaro, Mkomazi a virgin breathtaking beauty exhibiting unique natural treasures and immense sense of space - adds to the fulfillment of high visitor enjoyment expectations - a much needed bridge between northern circuit and coastal attractions. Everyday, thousands of people pass within a few kilometers of Mkomazi on one of Tanzania's busiest highways. These and northern circuit safari - goers are now most welcome to discover the treasures....  Serengeti National Park is a vast treeless plain with thousands, even millions of animals searching for fresh grasslands. 'Serengeti' means an 'extended place' in the Maasai language. As the largest national park in Tanzania, the Serengeti attracts thousands of tourists each year. A visit to Serengeti National Park is enriching at any time but the best months for wildlife viewing is between December and June. The wet season is from March to May with the coldest period from June to October. The Serengeti National park  Brooding and primeval, the forests of Udzungwa seem positively enchanted: a verdant refuge of sunshine-dappled glades enclosed by 30-metre (100 foot) high trees, their buttresses layered with fungi, lichens, mosses and ferns. Udzungwa is the largest and most biodiverse of a chain of a dozen large forest-swathed mountains that rise majestically from the flat coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania. Known collectively as the Eastern Arc Mountains, this archipelago of isolated massifs has also been dubbed the African Galapagos for its treasure-trove of endemic plants and animals, most familiarly the delicate African violet.  A pair of fish eagles guards the gentle bay, their distinctive black, white and chestnut feather pattern gleaming boldly in the morning sun. Suddenly, the birds toss back their heads in a piercing, evocative duet. On the sandbank below, a well-fed monster of a crocodile snaps to life, startled from its nap. It stampedes through the crunchy undergrowth, crashing into the water in front of the boat, invisible except for a pair of sentry-post eyes that peek menacingly above the surface to monitor our movements. Rubondo Island is tucked in the southwest corner of Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest lake, an inland sea sprawling between Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.  In a landscape reminiscent of the volcanic upheavals of the Rift Valley, the world's largest unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera (collapsed cone of a volcano) covers 300 sq km (117 sq miles). In this restricted space, exceptional climatic conditions have favoured an explosion of animal life. Some 20,000 mammals are permanently in residence, as there are permanent water springs here there is no need to migrate as they do in the nearby Serengeti. On a full days game drive (with stop for delicious picnic lunch) there plenty of animals to be seen, including black rhino, lions, countless elephants, spotted hyenas, golden jackals, buffalos, zebras, wildebeests, and Rhino in Ngorongoro Crater In a landscape reminiscent of the volcanic upheavals of the Rift Valley, the world's largest unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera (collapsed cone of a volcano) covers 300 sq km (117 sq miles). In this restricted space, exceptional climatic conditions have favoured an explosion of animal life.  Isolated, untrammelled and seldom visited, Katavi is a true wilderness, providing the few intrepid souls who make it there with a thrilling taste of Africa as it must have been a century ago. Tanzania's third largest national park, it lies in the remote southwest of the country, within a truncated arm of the Rift Valley that terminates in the shallow, brooding expanse of Lake Rukwa. The bulk of Katavi supports a hypnotically featureless cover of tangled brachystegia woodland, home to substantial but elusive populations of the localised eland, sable and roan antelopes. But the main focus for game viewing within the park is the Katuma River and associated floodplains such as the seasonal....  Set deep in the heart of the African interior, inaccessible by road and only 100km (60 miles) south of where Stanley uttered that immortal greeting "Doctor Livingstone, I presume", is a scene reminiscent of an Indian Ocean island beach idyll. Silky white coves hem in the azure waters of Lake Tanganyika, overshadowed by a chain of wild, jungle-draped peaks towering almost 2km above the shore: the remote and mysterious Mahale Mountains.  Described by Ernest Hemingway as the roof of Africa and "as wide as all the world, great, high and unbelievably white." Mount Kilimanjaro stands in isolated glory, the tallest free-standing mountain in the world at 5,895m. Three majestic peaks Shira in the west, Mawenzi in the East and the snow capped Kibo in the centre provide ample challenge for mountain climbers and adventurers. With a wide variance in climates, from tropical; where lush rainforests exist that are home to......  The fourth largest park in Tanzania Mikumi is 3230 sq km [1250sq miles] in size and located only 283 km [175] miles west of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s administrative and commercial capital. Mikumi is part of a much larger ecosystem that is centered on the uniquely vast Selous Game Reserve. The open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mikumi Park draw frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti plains.... |
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