 Overview
of Tanzania
Tanzania
is the United Republic of Tanganyika and
Zanzibar. Dodoma, its political capital is
in the center of the country and Dar es salaam,
the economic capital, is on the coast. It
occupies an area of 945,087 km2 out of which
over 100,000 km2 are devoted to reserves
and National Parks. The country has a vast
central plateau sloping down towards the
Indian Ocean, three great lakes (Lake Victoria,
Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa) and the Great
Rift Valley with its twenty large volcanoes
and hundreds of small cones. The coast is
lined with a series of coral islands such
as Zanzibar, Mafia and Pemba.
A wild, romantic undiscovered country,
a land with wide open spaces and magnificent
wildlife, warm hospitable people, explorers’ tales
and sultans’ palaces, slave trade and
spice island. A country where you can relive
all the enchantment of an ageless continent
while still enjoying all the comforts and
luxuries of modern life.
Tanzania has one of the world’s finest
wildlife sanctuaries and the most common
ones are Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire,
Lake Manyara, Mount Kilimanjaro, Selous,
Mikumi, Ruaha. Other areas pristine areas
include Gombe Stream, Mahale Mountains, Katavi,
Udzungwa Mountains and Rubondo.
A Tanzanian safari can be as luxurious or
as adventurous as you like, with a choice
of accommodation from luxurious lodges to
simple campsites, from safari in search of
the wild to climbing Mt Kilimanjaro – the
highest in Africa. |
