TANZANIAN TOURISM
Tanzanian Tourism : Tanzania, a country which is utterly replete with the beauty of her Mother Nature and all the alluring attractions. This offers unique feature which creates the seemingly ceaseless count of potential safari destinations, starting from the outstanding plains of the tremendous Serengeti up to the jaws of the great Ngorongoro crater, the masterpiece of Ngorongoro conservation area. Those are just two out of about twenty-two National Parks and Game Reserves found in Tanzania, not to mention the majestic adventures of Kilimanjaro Mountain, various Cultural Heritage sites and museums, world wonders existing to date like the ever hot springs where you can even boil an egg and have it for breakfast, and all of the sort which do make Tanzanian Tourism attain on of the Zenith stages in the global tourism industry.
In the Kilimanjaro region, stands the African highest peak mountain with 5895 meters high above the sea level and 4900 meters above its plateau base. It is the highest single free-standing mountain in the world. The Kilimanjaro National Park is one of the world heritage site. In this park, you will choose either to view the beautiful snow-caped scene of Mount Kilimanjaro or climbing to the Summit. Its Uhuru peak on Kibo, is one of the world’s seven summits. Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira are the three volcano cones on this Mount. The best moment to climb Mount Kilimanjaro is on June through October and later on December through March. There exist four routes to take whilst climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, namely Machame route, Lemosho route, Rongai route and the Northern Circuit route. The route to take will base on your personal preferences, having number of days, and the climbing cost as the main factors to guide your choice. For example, Northern circuit route takes nine days and it cost about 2400 euros while Machame route takes seven days and it cost around 1800 euros. Rongai and Lemosho routes take seven days also with a cost of about 1900 euros. The Rongai route is less travelled but it is the best choice during rainy season because it is most sheltered. With these routes you can reach one of the seven summits in the world. Yes, the Uhuru peak.
Before moving from the Northern Zone of Tanzania, there are attractive scenes that may interest you to visit. These include the second highest mountain in Tanzania, Mount Meru located in the Arusha national park, the Lake Manyara national park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Putting Ngorongoro conservation area into words, you will be discoursing one among the world’s pre-eminent heritage site established in 1959 with an ID No. 39. This world’s largest caldera and indeed the most visited one is located 180 km west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands of Tanzania. Having about 500 species of birds, a variety of animals from huge elephants to the most endangered species of Black Rhino, Wild Hunting dog and the Golden Cat; all these makes Ngorongoro be on the top list of the most visited conservation areas in the world. Ngorongoro crater is also highly favored with the exploration of Olduvai Gorge, where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the hominin fossils which is said to be there for over the millennia. This goes hand in hand with exploring how livestock of the semi-nomadic Maasai tribe manage to graze juxtaposed to the wild animals without being affected. What makes it much more beautiful is its stunning landscape that attracts visitors to view the species of flora and fauna residing it. However, giraffes and impala are absent in this scene, while cheetahs, East African wild dogs and the African leopard are rarely seen. To observe these species, you will have to go to Serengeti National Park.
Serengeti National Park is also a World Heritage Site established by UNESCO in 1981. It is famous for the never-ending cycle of the Great Migration and of course the Annual Migration of animals such as the wild beasts. To cut the long story short, the cycle starts from the south, west, North and back to the South of the park. About two million wildebeest starts their migration where about half a million calves are born during the journey. In the journey, the number of wildebeest is reduced by numerous predators such as lions, hyenas and hungry crocodiles. Under ceteris Paribas conditions, the migration cycle begins in May and ends in December.
Apart from being home to Great Migration, Serengeti is also home to the Big Five impressive animals; lion, rhino, leopard, elephant and Cape buffalo. You will see the King of the African savannah, the lion and the world’s largest land animal, the African elephant. The other wildlife apart from the big five include the long-necked giraffes, ungulates such as eland, zebra, impala, kongoni and Grant’s gazelles. Cheetahs, leopards and hyenas are also available in Serengeti as it was in Ngorongoro Conservation area.
Tanzania tourism doesn’t just end on National Parks of the conservation areas; it rather extends to the colorful Cultural Diversity, which is being polished by multiculturalism. Exploring this attractive scene from the Northern Zone of Tanzania you will cross paths with the Olpopongi, a Maasai Cultural Village. This has been built intentionally in order to preserve the Maasai culture. It is built of Maasai Boma, a traditional hut made up of traditional materials with the same appearance like those of the real Maasai Villages. This village is located near the Tingatinga village in Tingatinga ward of Longido district in Arusha-Tanzania, at a distance of 74 km away from Kilimanjaro and 85 km for those coming from Arusha. Since Olpopongi’s village location is close to the Kilimanjaro International Airport, it is a good stopover point for tourist who want to visit the Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Meru and Arusha National Park.
Tanzania is also born under a lucky of natural resources, which offer unique features to an extent that they part of Tanzanian Tourism. These include the world’s second deepest lake, Lake Tanganyika located in Kigoma region. Alongside with that we also have the world’s largest tropical lake which is also the largest lake amongst all African Lakes; the Grate Lake Victoria located in Mwanza.
One can’t speak of unique Tanzanian lakes without mentioning Lake Manyara, despite ranking the seventh in size when speaking of lakes in Tanzania. It is situated within Lake Manyara National Park, which is located 126 kilometers from Arusha. This is a soda ash lake, uniquely distinguished for its pink appearance once looked from some distance away. This is because it hosts a large number of pink flamingos. Lake Manyara National Park is also famous for hosting tree-climbing lions, one of the largest elephants, many giraffes, wildebeests, buffaloes, impalas as well as the largest concentration of baboons in the world.
It is always a belief and indeed a point of relief that traveling is done not only for the sake of leisure and refreshments, but also for acquiring knowledge and explorations which tend to be vital weapons in the battle of creating lasting changes. Humans, since the dawn of time, visited one place after another not just to discover and explore the eye-opening learnings offered by this complex world, but also to establish and create new ones. The continuous advancement in Tanzanian level of science and Technology has allowed tourism to thrive with astounding progress, making its benefits accessible both for the travel industry’s producers and their consumers. Plane tickets are more affordable, information is more visible, and communication is more convenient. Millennials, in particular, have elevated tourism to new heights due to their social media savviness, making traveling not only as a break from the daily grind but the center of their way of life. With this kind of expansion, the prodigious learning experiences that traveling provides are now more far-reaching. It allows more tourists and locals, even ones in the middle-class range, to enjoy feeding their minds about the wonders of nature and culture, while also giving them the incredibly essential chance to participate in starting ripples of betterment in ways that could only be dreamt of in the past.
