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 Tourism - Unique Attractions
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...  Oldoinyo Lengai is in the north of Tanzania, right on the Kenyan border and extremely off the beaten track. The drive to Lake Natron, with the imposing volcano Oldoinyo Lengai in the background is surreal and breathtaking. The landscape has been pock-marked with volcanic activity...   A meteorite is defined as a piece of rock that has fallen from space and landed on the ground. The fall of a meteorite is said to be a most spectacular event. At night it seen as a flaming mass flying through the sky, accompanied by a loud roaring noise. But, very surprisingly, meteorites picked up within minutes of falling as flaming objects are found to be extremely cold, and may become covered in frost under the warmest conditions.  When one mentions mountain climbing in Tanzania, what springs to mind is Mount Kilimanjaro, the rooftop of Africa, the highest point of Africa!! But there is so much more to climb and hike over in Tanzania. From the dramatic crater of Mount Meru to the active volcano of Oldonyo Lengai, to t he tamer USambara and the comparatively gentle slopes of the crater highlangs, indeed this land of contrasts has something for everyone, the challenge lover, the hiker, the beginner mountaineer and the abseiler...  Just the name Zanzibar evokes the exotic. From this island paradise, at the hub of the Moonsoon trading routes, history was enacted as journeys of discovery were planned, Sultanate empires were established and the first mediaval global village was founded. Today, zanzibar retains the imprint of its historic legacy in the labrythian streets of Stone Town, in the crumbling palaces and old forts, the...  Tanzania is the home of the 40 kilometre-long Oldupai Gorge, the world famous palaeoanthropological site studied for more than 40 years by the Leakey family. Olduvai is a mispronunciation of Oldupai, the Masai word for a type of wild sisal found around the gorge. The Gorge was re-named in 2005 to correct this mistake, It is located at the border of the Ngorongoro conservation area....  Tanzania's coastline that is also referred to as the SWAHILI coast whereby the word Swahili is Arabic for 'coast', harbours a beautiful and historic region. Ancient Greek manuscripts tracing early marine journeys note that the coast of Africa was visited by sailing vessels in classical times. In the ninth and tenth centuries came the Shirazi Persians [modern day Iranian] Chinese and Japanese merchants and pirates, traders and... |
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