Posted in Tanzania Safari on Jun 11th, 2010
The Gombe Stream National Park is situated in western Tanzania. It is Tanzania’s smallest park – accessible only by boat. The terrain is made up of steep valleys, rolling hills with vegetation that ranges from grassland to alpine bamboo and tropical rainforest. It is most notably known as the park where Jane Goodall conducted her [...]
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Posted in Kenya safari on Apr 29th, 2010
The Tsavo National Park is one of Kenya’s oldest and largest covering an area larger than Wales. It is named after the Tsavo River which runs from west to east through the park, bordering the Chyulu Hills National Park and the Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania. It is located about 100 miles south east of [...]
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Posted in Wildlife news on Apr 21st, 2010
The annual wildebeest migration is one of the world’s greatest wildlife events. It is the largest mass movement of land mammals on earth, a dramatic 500km round trip story that takes place between the Serengeti and Masai Mara in Kenya and Tanzania.Over two million herbivores partake in this journey with 200 000 zebra and 500 [...]
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Posted in Tanzania Safari, Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2010
The crescent shaped Lake Manyara National Park adjoins the lake and supports an extraordinarily dense and varied population of wildlife. With its 315kms², the park is relatively small but the scenery is wonderful. In front of the steep wall of the Rift Valley open grassland turns into a landscape scattered with mahogany and fig trees [...]
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Posted in Tanzania Safari on Feb 2nd, 2010
Diving and snorkeling update from Zanzibar
The waters in December for wonderfully flat in Zanzibar – perfect for snorkelling and diving. Mantas have been spotted at one of the deep dive sites in the Pemba Channel and local fisherman have been spotting loads of hammerheads whilst out fishing. Large pods of dolphins have been spotted daily.
Fishing [...]
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Posted in Tanzania Safari, Uncategorized on Jul 15th, 2009
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is a conservation area situated 180km west of Arusha in the Crater Highlands area of Tanzania. It covers an area of 8200 square kilometres. Here pastoralism, tourism and conservation co-exist in carefully managed harmony.
The centre piece of this area is the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater - the worlds largest intact caldera which [...]
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Posted in Tanzania Safari on Jul 15th, 2009
The World Heritage Site of Stone Town or Mji Mkongwe (meaning ‘ancient town’ in Swahili) is the cultural capital of Zanzibar. With very little having changed over the last 200 years the town is infused with Arab, Persian, Indian, European and African influences and is a fine example of an East African coastal trading town [...]
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