Safari Destinations

Mafia Island

Mafia Island Mafia Island is a relatively undiscovered exotic island 99.44miles south of Zanzibar Island, just off the coast of the Rufiji River Delta. It boasts truly splendid white sandy beaches and is one of the world’s best dive locations; scuba diving and snorkeling in Mafia Island is absolutely wonderful and you can be almost…

Zanzibar Island

Zanzibar Island

Zanzibar Island The very name Zanzibar conjures up mystery and romantic images. A jewel in tranquil coral waters of the Indian Ocean, Zanzibar is one of few undiscovered pristine island with beautiful white silky-sand beaches and azure blue coral waters. Zanzibar has for centuries attracted seafarers and adventures from around the world, offering a unique experience that goes beyond…

Udzungwa Mountains National Park

Udzungwa Mountains National Park

Udzungwa Mountains National Park Brooding and primeval, the forests of Udzungwa seam positively enchanted: a verdant refuge of sunshine-dappled glades enclosed by 30-metre high trees, their buttresses layered with fungi, lichens, mosses and ferns. Size: 1,990 sq km. Location: Five hours (350km) from Dar es Salaam; 65 km southwest of Mikumi. Getting there: Drive from Dar es Salaam…

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi National Park Swirls of opaque mist hide advancing down. The first shafts of sun colour the fluffy grass heads rippling across the plain in a russet halo. A heard of zebras, confident in their camouflage at this predatory hour, pose like ballerinas, heads aligned and stripes merging in flowing motion. Size: 3,230 sq km Location: 238…

Katavi National Park

Katavi National Park

Katavi National Park. Isolated, untrammeled 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…

Ruaha National Park

Ruaha National Park

Ruaha National Park. The game viewing starts the moment the plane touches down. A giraffe races beside the airstrip, all legs and neck, yet oddly elegant in its awkwardness. A line of zebras parades across the runway in the giraffe’s wake. In the distance, beneath a bulbous baobab tree, a few representatives of Ruaha’s 10,000…

Gombe Stream National Park

Gombe Stream National Park

About Gombe Stream National Park Size: 52 sq km (20 sq miles), Tanzania’s smallest park. Location: 16 km (10 miles) north of Kigoma on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania. Gombe is the smallest of Tanzania’s national parks: a fragile strip of chimpanzee habitat straddling the steep slopes and river valleys that hem…

Katavi National Park

Katavi National Park

Katavi National Park About Katavi National Park Size: 4,471 sq km (1,727 sq miles). Location; Southwest Tanzania, east of Lake Tanganyika. The headquarters at Sitalike lie 40km (25 miles) south of Mpanda town. Isolated, untrammelled and seldom visited, Katavi is a true wilderness, providing the few intrepid souls who make it there with a thrilling…

Mahale Mountains National Park

Mahale Mountains National Park

Mahale Mountains National Park The park like its northerly neighbor Gombe is home to some of the Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees, a population of roughly 900, they are habituated to human visitors by a Japanese research project founded in the 1960s. Tracking the chimps of Mahale is a magical experience. Mahale is located in…

Arusha National Park

Arusha National Park

About Arusha National Park Size: 552 sq km 212 sq miles). Location: Northern Tanzania, northeast of Arusha town. The closest national park to Arusha town – northern Tanzania’s safari capital – Arusha National Park is a multi-faceted jewel, often overlooked by safarigoers, despite offering the opportunity to explore a beguiling diversity of habitats within a…

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park. About Serengeti Size: 14,763 sq km (5,700 sq miles). Location: 335km (208 miles) from Arusha, stretching north to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the west. A million wildebeest… each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of…

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Ngorongoro Conservation Area Referred to as one of the eight wonders of the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is not a National Park as it’s mistakenly known by most of the people, but a conservation area where people and wildlife co-exist in their natural set up. The crater is 600-meters deep, 20 km in diameter and…

Kilimanjaro national park

Kilimanjaro national park

To begin with it’s the maximum free standing hill on earth at substantially more than 19,Three hundred feet earlier mentioned ocean amount in fact it is the main attraction within Africa being located within the Kilimanjaro Nationwide Recreation area coming from Tanzania. The greatest peak is actually Kibo (20 341ft) that’s one of many about…

Lake Manyara National Park

Lake Manyara National Park