Why Visit Tanzania On A Holiday.
Visit Tanzania on a vacation; it has natural beauty, amazing animals, romantic beaches, little historic villages, archeological sites, and geological marvels.
On trip in Tanzania, you will see Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain rising from verdant, grassy plains and majestically snow-capped top above Tanzania’s terrain.
You will see the massive Great Migration thrashing over the Serengeti grasslands amid Tanzania’s wildness and beach costs. Most likely, you will finish your amazing safari trip with a calm beach vacation on Tanzania’s unique coast or the seductively stunning Zanzibar Islands.
You should go to Tanzania on a trip for many reasons, unnecessary ones included. Some of these will be discussed in the next book.
Observing the Great Wildebeest Migration
Certainly the year-round Great Wildebeest Migration in northern Tanzania is the most exciting wildlife show on the African plains. Many visitors to Tanzania on holidays are driven in great part by the phenomena. It has a unique natural beauty as well as the biggest assembly of wild creatures on Earth.
Along with hundreds of thousands of zebras, gazelles, and eland following to endure the difficult trek to new grazing areas across the northern Serengeti to Masai Mara and back, a Tanzania safari vacation will put you amid over a million wildebeests. And when there are such large numbers of ungulates, predators lack in frontiers seeking an easy meal. And then the whole performance becomes most fascinating.
Seeing the fragile lives and terrible deaths on the plains shapes your adventurous life. From the calving season on the Ndutu grasslands in Southern Serengeti to risky river crossing where hundreds perish, daring the most perilous path to grazing paradise.
While Jackals, vultures, and other carrion scavengers tidy the remains, lions, cheetahs, leopards, gigantic crocodiles, and hyenas pick out the weak one.
Watching this occurrence is best done in July through October when the wildebeest are seen on the northern Serengeti grasslands. Here you find the spectacular Mara River crossing spanning maybe thousands of years. It is the highlight of most Great Migration Safaris in Masai Mara in Kenya and Tanzania.
Calving season runs from December to March; the wildebeest are found in the southern Serengeti, most especially in Ndutu Plains. It is also a great time to view the herds gather in the southern spectacular sweeping plains and observe the river crossings.
The only time you are almost sure to see big herds gathering south for calving season is February.
Ascending The Beautiful Mount Kilimanjaro
Rising to 5,895m (19,340ft), Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest freestanding mountain in Africa and the globe. Towering over five kilometers (3 miles) above the scorching, dry plains of northern Tanzania is this dormant volcano. Many visitors visiting Tanzania on holidays do so mainly for this reason.
From its base, one of the most amazing vistas in Africa is Mount Kilimanjaro’s unique form and snowcap that highlights the jagged glacier peaks.
Not only is Kilimanjaro the tallest peak, but it’s also among the easiest mountains for trekkers to climb. With a respectable fitness level, some persistence, at least five days touring Tanzania, ordinary hikers may climb it without expert mountaineering knowledge or gear.
In awe of Tanzania’s rich native wildlife
One of the main reasons a lot of people go to Tanzania on a trip is marveling at the sheer abundance of animals running throughout the nation and for the diversity on show.
Tanzania has about 4 million wild animals, 430 different kinds and subspecies included. The nation has roughly twenty percent of the big animal population found in Africa. On a safari in Tanzania is the only better spot to see Africa’s BIG Five animals. Any safari will often see elephant, giraffe, hippo, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, and predators include lion, cheetah, leopard, hyena, and African wild dog.
About 60,000 bug species, 25 kinds of reptiles and amphibians, about 100 snake species, and numerous fish species call the location home. With around a thousand species, birds freely fly throughout Tanzania including hornbills, flamingos, and kingfishers.
Two of the greatest sites to appreciate this wealth of wild animals while on a vacation to Tanzania are Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The world-famous wildebeest migration takes place at Serengeti National Park (seen above).
The biggest un-flooded caldera in the world, Ngorongoro Conservation Area hides a deep, volcanic crater as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Among the roughly 25,000 big animals found in Ngorongoro are the threatened black rhino, wildebeest, gazelles, zebras, elephants, leopards, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, and hundreds more species. The Great Wildebeest Migration starts literally in Ngorongoro.
Returning in Olduvai Gorge from evolutionary times
A trip to Olduvai Gorge is your finest excuse to visit Tanzania on a vacation if you want to learn the life of our ancestor hominids from more than a million years ago.
Paleoanthropological site Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania has some of the earliest traces of human presence in East Africa. Millions of years of fossilized bones and stone artifacts abound on the site.
Olduvai has grown to be one of the most significant paleoanthropological sites and a UNESCO World Heritage site since Mary Leakey and her husband Louis came onto the treasures of the Gorge in 1959.
Thirty miles long and 295 feet deep is the Gorge. Beyond the lifetime of the Leakeys, scientists have been working in the Gorge gathering data to recreate a picture of our ancestral existence 1.8 million years ago.
According to the data, Gorge hominids battled lions, leopards, and hyenas among other predators. Our forebears scroulled abroad for corpses of giraffes, elephants, wildebeests, and antelope. They felt safer in the woods, so they ate there as well.
See Olduvai Gorge to learn for yourself the site where the human evolutionary past collapsed.
Monitoring wild chimpanzees in the Mahale & Gombe Forests
Once-in-a-lifetime cause to go Tanzania: spend an adventure-packed vacation exploring Gombe stream and the wooded slopes of the Mahale Mountain National Park for wild chimpanzees.
You may be pardoned to link Tanzania with only herds of wildebeest and recognizable predators across large areas of grassland. Let me be the one to surprise you—that Tanzania also has chimps soaring across forest canopy. Visitors may mix the safari vacation experience with chimpanzee monitoring at two national parks, Gombe Stream and Mahale Mountains National Parks.
With the little Gombe northern-most of the two parks not far from the town of Kigoma, both chimpanzee sanctuaries are situated on the eastern banks of Lake Tanganyika.
One of just two protected areas in Tanzania, the Mahale Mountains ideally lie on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on the western boundary. It also boasts of a sizable chimpanzee population.
Running over the massive Mahale Mountains that define the northwest and southeast areas of the park, Mahale’s landscape generally shows rugged and undulating slopes.
Wander a walking safari in the breathtaking lowland forests and follow the routes of many creatures and birds calling the park home. Among the roughly eighty animal species found in Mahale National Park are a group of habituated chimpanzees that define each trip there.
Although sightings of chimpanzees are never certain, regular walking trips sponsored by informed and experienced guides increase your chances of seeing this fascinating animal. Once you locate the resident chimp group, you will have one hour to watch the happy antics and social interactions among the chimps before returning to the resort.
Though you may compare it to the chimpanzee trekking in Kibale, Uganda, the Mahale experience is more isolated and far from the world. Many go to Tanzania for this reason—more for the adventurous who loves to vanish into the bush.
Unlike the amazing Mahale, Gombe is a small park of 56 km² (5,700 hectares) containing a vulnerable and valuable area of chimpanzee habitat 16km north of Kigoma. Celebrated as the habitat for chimpanzee research, this area packs remarkable biodiversity despite its small scale. Here in the 1960s, Jane Goodall pioneered her primative research.
Like in Mahale, Gombe is best experienced in the park over a few days and accessible to guided chimpanzee trekking expeditions.
Discover the immaculate shoreline and Zanzibar island holidays.
Tanzania’s east coast has brilliant white beaches, and during a summer vacation the warm waves of the Indian Ocean are very appealing. Here you may enjoy thrilling deep-sea fishing and world-class scuba diving. One of the main reasons visitors to Tanzania on a Holiday come is
With vast lengths of uninhabited sand, tranquil Swahili towns, and little fishing settlements, Tanzania’s beaches are picture perfect. Once, significant commercial hubs German colonists, Swahili traders, and Arab slavers. Now tranquil and peaceful tourist villages. Still, the stunning beaches draw plenty of vacation visitors to Tanzania.
With its stunning surroundings and intriguing trade history, the vivid and exotic Zanzibar stimulates the imagination. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Stone Town’s unique appeal is hidden behind a labyrinth of meandering lanes and elaborate doors.
Zanzibar is a resort spot rich in cultural diversity and Seatrade adventurous past. It is not a letdown that the island attracts vacationers. It should be among the key reasons of your trip to Tanzania.
See the uncommon Kirk’s red colobus monkey and Aders’ duiker in the Island’s Jozani Forest Reserve, if you’re bored with the scenery and people. Mnemba Island marks the northern shore off the islands. Rich marine variety, gorgeous landscape, and opulent lodging abound on this dreamy private island.
Ideal vacation time to go to Tanzania
Perfect for wildlife watching, Tanzania should be visited during the late June to October dry season. June and July provide the finest opportunity for seeing the Great Wildebeest Migration.
November–May’s rainy season generally brings out the most breathtaking landscape, and visitor count is lower during this time. But during the lengthy rains of March through May, the Southern and Western safari circuits are less accessible; some lodges may even shut during that time.
Making plans for your Tanzania safari trip
Our ideal is to arrange a vacation visit to Tanzania’s Serengeti during the wildebeest migration with a gorilla walking trip in Uganda or Rwanda. Let Katland Safaris Ltd. guide you through the local logistics and arrange your safari vacation using their finest local expertise.
