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What you should know about lake tanganyika

What you should know about lake tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest (660km), deepest in Africa and second-deepest in the world (more than 1436m) and second-largest (by volume) freshwater lake. At somewhere between nine and 13 million years old, it’s also one of the oldest. Thanks to its age and ecological isolation it’s home to an exceptional number of endemic fish, including 98% of the 250-plus species of…

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What you should know about lake tanganyika

What you should know about lake tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest (660km), deepest in Africa and second-deepest in the world (more than 1436m) and second-largest (by volume) freshwater lake. At somewhere between nine and 13 million years old, it’s also one of the oldest. Thanks to its age and ecological isolation it’s home to an exceptional number of endemic fish, including 98% of the 250-plus species of…

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Discover lake victoria

Lake victoria With a surface area of 68,800 sq km (26,600 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake. In addition, it’s the largest tropical lake in the world, and the planet’s second largest freshwater lake. Only North America’s Lake Superior is larger. An irregular quadrilateral in shape, its shores, save on the west, are deeply indented. Its greatest length from north to south is 210…

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RUAHA NATIONAL PARK

Ruaha national park is one of the few Tanzania’s famous wilderness area where one can have a rare experience of game viewing spiced up by the fascinating landscape. The park is rich of plants and animals such as Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) which can not be found in any other national park. The park boasts of her almost untouched and unexplored ecosystem, making visitors’ safari…

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Materuni waterfalls

This very impressive Waterfall is one of the tallest in the area, spewing crystal clear glacier water 70m into its basin. The beautiful path leading to Materuni Waterfall is located 2500m above sea level It traverses thru valleys and hills covered by tropical rainforest, past coffee, banana and avocado “shambas”, the Kiswahili word for farms. On a clear day great views of Kibo and Moshi town can…

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10 Best places to visit in Tanzania 2022

With so much to offer to the tourists, here are some of the best Tanzania tourist attractions, that you must visit on your trip to this safari paradise 1. Mt.kilimanjaro Measuring 5,895 meters tall, the prodigal mountain of Kilimanjaro is the highest peak of the African continent and also the tallest freestanding mountain on Earth. This mountain is a part of the Kilimanjaro National Park which…

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LEOPARD FACT

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1. Most leopards are light coloured and have dark spots on their fur. These spots are called “rosettes” because their shape is similar to that of a rose. There are also black leopards, too, whose spots are hard to see because their fur is so dark. 2. Leopards can be found in various places around the world – they live in Sub-Saharan Africa, northeast Africa, Central Asia, India and…

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3 Days - MikumiNational Park WildlifeSafari

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Introduction Mikumi is Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park. It’s also the most accessible from Dar esSalaam. With almost guaranteed wildlife sightings, it makes an ideal safari destination for thosewithout much time (Its a 5-hour drive or 1-hour flight from Dar es Salaam). It is situated less than300 kilometers from Dar es Salaam, which makes it a very popular park due to its…

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TOP BEACHES TO VISIT IN ZANZIBAR

TOP BEACHES TO VISIT IN ZANZIBAR

Beautiful beaches in Zanzibar White coral sand, a turquoise sea and hammocks stretched between coconut trees – a beautiful beach like from a dream. Zanzibar is packed with these, and a holiday on this African island is like a postcard image. Life in Zanzibar revolves around the beach, and is tied to the tides. At low tide, you can watch men cultivating seaweed and women gathering mussels. At…

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Usambara Mountains

The Usambara’s are a part of the ancient Eastern Arc chain which mountains stretch in a broken crescent from the Taita hills in southern Kenya down to Morogoro and the southern highlands. They are estimated to be at least 100 million years old and the rocks forming them may be as much as 600 million years old. The mountains are home to an exceptional assortment of plants and animals and represent…

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FIVE MOST VISITED TOURIST ATTRACTION IN TANZANIA

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5 MOST VISITED TOURIST ATTRACTION IN TANZANIA

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Top 20 Elephant Facts you wish to know

Top 20 Elephant Facts you wish to know

Want to know more about elephants? Check out our list of 20 elephants to learn more about these wonderful creatures!. There are many great facts about the elephant though that you should learn about, and this is the place to do so. Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world. It takes a female 22 months from conception to have a baby. This is longer than any other animal in the…

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Udzungwa National Park

Udzungwa is the largest and with most biodiversity and 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 as the African Galapagos for its treasure-trove of endemic plants and animals, most familiarly being the delicate…

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the lion on crucial mating

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Mount Ol doinyo Lengai

OL DOINYO LENGAI “Oldoinyo Lengai” means “The Mountain of God” in the Maasai language. The summit of this strato-volcano is 2962 metres above sea level, and affords direct views into the caldera of Tanzania’s only officially-certified active volcano, and the world’s only carbonatite volcano; records of eruptions have been maintained since 1883, the largest of which deposited ash 100 kilometres…

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UNZIP SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

UNZIP SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

SERENGETI MIGRATION SERENGETI Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. The Serengeti National Park in Tanzania was established in 1952. It is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth – the great migration of wildebeest and…