While traveling to Africa, enjoy Tanzania safari holidays are all about excitement, adventures and charming moments that leave an everlasting impact in your mind. Embark on a 4×4 safari, entering into the rugged natural beauty of Tanzania’s vast national parks, experience incredible nature and unique animal life like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
A must catching phenomenon is the Great Annual Migration – a movement of up to 1.5 million wildebeest and 200,000 zebras, making their way to the refuge of the Masai Mara. Explore the 2.5-million-year-old Ngorongoro Crater, with its sublime views overlooking a wide plain cloaked in blue and green. Take a trip to see the famous tree-climbing lions in Lake Manyara National Park and the Bush Experience package including a dreamy canoe trip along the channels of Lake Victoria, a perfect spot for bird watching.
Honeymooners enjoy a little beach-based luxury along with a safari, visiting Zanzibar for a few days, followed by safari experience to the vast and wild Selous Game Reserve, in southern Tanzania. This reserve boasts over 54,000 square kilometres of terrain and is home to over 750,000 animals including the Big Five. The Selous Game Reserve is one of the largest reserves in the world and can be explored by 4×4, boat, or on foot.
Serengeti National Park in Tanzania is famous for being the location of the Great Wildlife Migration, which involves two million wildebeests, zebras and antelopes. It’s also an extremely large and wild game park, and home to the Big Five of Africa.
While on your tours in Tanzania without setting your eyes on the beautiful Serengeti National Park is not a safari worthwhile. The word Serengeti simply means endless plains in the Maasai language. The diversity and beauty of the park will leave you yearning to visit the park as soon as you can. The park is located north of Tanzania and stretches into the south of Kenya with an area of about 1.5 hectares of Savannah grassland.
One of the most spectacular events that take place in the Serengeti is that there is an annual migration of vast herds herbivorous animals such as the zebras, wildebeests and gazelles followed by their predators across Grumeti River. In Addition, the park’s diversity includes several endangered animals such as the black Rhinoceros and many others.
Other than being the biggest intact (unbroken) volcanic caldera on Earth, the Ngorongoro Crater is also a natural sanctuary for some of the densest populations of large mammals in Africa. Due to its enclosed nature, the Ngorongoro Crater has effectively formed its own ecosystem.
The Crater is located within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a protected region in Tanzania that comprises a large chunk of the southern Serengeti’s short-grass plains and the Ngorongoro Highlands, a range of ancient volcanoes on the west side of the Great Rift Valley. The Ngorongoro Crater has earned a fabled reputation as one of Africa’s most unique natural wonders, boasting a remarkable concentration of animals living in diverse habitats.
The Crater’s resident lion population is arguably one of the highest densities of prides in the world. This is one of the Ngorongoro Crater facts that make it such a popular safari destination. Consequently, the lions here have a complete disregard of safari vehicles.
Continue to Lake Manyara for the tree climbing lions. The behaviour of the tree climbing lions in Lake Manyara national park has been explained as a form of protection from irritation of insects biting the lions when they are on the ground. These lions are among the attractions in the national park.
Lake Manyara National Park is famous for housing vast flocks of flamingos, tree-climbing lions, and one of the highest concentrations of elephants in all of Tanzania. Lesser flamingos and pelicans thrive at Lake Manyara, but its alkaline waters are undrinkable for most other animals. However, many animals are forced to drink Lake Manyara’s alkaline waters to survive the dry season since most other water sources dry up completely.
Take a canoe trip along the channels of Lake Victoria. This trip to the glorious shores of Lake Victoria promises a combination of wildlife adventures and incredible bird life plus an insight into the life of a fishing community and a cultural connection to the Sukuma Tribe. With a truly diverse range of exciting things to do, you have a full day, at your own leisure; to explore the world’s largest tropical freshwater lake and all it has to offer.
On arrival at Lake Victoria, adventures abound; set off on a fishing safari or bird watching excursion in a canoe or dhow, pay a visit to a traditional fish market or local healer, or simply enjoy the magnificent landscapes and the tranquillity of the lake. After an eventful morning of exploring, a scrumptious picnic lunch, paying tribute to local ingredients and surrounds, will be enjoyed before guests set off on their return journey.
Visit the Selous game reserve. The Selous is unique among Tanzania’s game areas because it is a game reserve, and not a national park. This means that a wider range of activities are permitted such as; boating, walking and camping safaris.
Selous protects vast numbers of animals. Home to over one million large animals, half a million of which are antelopes, it contains the largest buffalo concentration in Africa (more than 110,000) and over half of Tanzania’s elephants (57,000). The ecosystem is also estimated to contain Africa’s largest population of Lichtenstein’s hartebeest, common water buck and Roosevelt’s sable.
However, it’s not just the reserve’s size that protects the animals – the presence of tsetse flies has made it unsuitable for humans and livestock, a factor which has undoubtedly helped to safeguard the Selous’ hunting dogs (the reserve is home to 30% of Africa’s hunting dogs). Most of Tanzania’s black rhinos inhabit the Selous, which also offers sanctuary to large numbers of lions, hyenas and ungulates.
Why miss out on Zanzibar? Located in the Indian Ocean 15 miles off the coast of Tanzania, is a breath-taking spot to escape from the world. You’ll enjoy clear, turquoise-blue water; shallow sandbars perfect for wading; and many small, nearly deserted islands virtually unvisited by tourists. Explore the World Heritage Site of Stone Town, Zanzibar City’s old quarter. Or just go beach to beach between tiny fishing villages—each one’s better than the next.
Spend time exploring the beautiful island of Zanzibar. Begin your vacation by discovering the historic corridors of Stone Town. Then connect to a beach side resort for a stay of swimming, snorkeling, and enjoying famous Swahili hospitality.
Spend time relaxing on the island of Pemba off the coast of this country. Pemba Island is a very attractive and scenic island known for its outstanding coral reefs and diving.
