Tanzania Safaris

Lying just South of the Equator, Tanzania is the largest and perhaps least developed of the three East African countries, having stagnated during almost three decades of post independence communist isolation, and having been wrestled from the Germans after the First World War, remained only a mandated British territory rather than a colony. Mount Kilimanjaro, towering over the country’s northern border with Kenya is the highest mountain in Africa, (over 19,000 ft) and dominates the northern landscape of the country, with Mount Meru a close second.

The Ngorongoro Crater, the largest volcanic closed cauldron in the world, 12 miles across, cradles an amazing concentration of wildlife that indulge in their own mini migration around its basin. Nearby the famous Olduvai Gorge provides an opportunity to view finds of early man and beyond the plains of the famous Serengeti National Park offer a wonderful opportunity to witness one of the grandest spectacles of nature, the annual wildebeest and zebra migration which spills into Kenya’s Masai Mara at the end of the dry season in July/August.

For the more adventurous the Ruaha and Selous National Parks are more remote, more secluded and well worth a visit. Just off the coast lies the lush and beautiful spice island of Zanzibar, still permeated by the scent of cloves, as well as the islands of Pemba and Mafia, famous for their fishing.
Tanzania Safaris and Tours.