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1. Why Tanzania?
2. Attractions
3. Why RoadScholar?
25% of all wild animals in Africa are in Tanzania including the migration (2 million)
Second largest bird checklist after Democratic Republic of the Congo (more than 1,130 species recorded)
28% is protected area of which 4.5% are national parks
Second largest freshwater lake in the world and second deepest in the world
Africa’s most famous national park and world’s largest game reserve
Zanzibar, Olduvai (Oldupai) Gorge
Ngorongoro Crater
Olduvai/Oldupai Gorge
Mt. Kilimanjaro
The Great Migration
Cultural Tourism
NGORONGORO CRATER
The world’s largest intact volcanic caldera Formed when a giant volcano exploded
and collapsed some 3 million years ago About 2,000 feet deep and 12.5 miles
wide Home to more than 25,000 large animals
including 26 black rhinos
(Source: Ngorongoro Crater Area Authority)
OLDUVAI GORGE
Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization” Contains sediments interspersed with
layers of lava that date back over 2 million years
Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed a 1.8 million-year-old fossil hominin skull of a Australopithecus boisei
(Source: National Geographic)
MOUNT KILIMANJARO
“The rooftop of Africa” Highest mountain in Africa and tallest
freestanding mountain in the world (19,341 feet)
Inactive volcano with seven distinctive peaks
Variety of climate types and year-round, snow-topped peak
(Source: Sevennaturalwonders.org)
THE GREAT MIGRATION
Longest and largest land migration in the world
More than 2 million animals travel 500 miles from southern Tanzania to the Maasai Mara Reserve in Kenya About 1.5 million wildebeest and 200,000
zebra The weather and the cycle of four
seasons influence the migration
(Source: Maasaimara.com)
About 3,000 lions prey on the “moving feast” and on resident herbivores Maasai Mara has one of the largest
densities of lion in the worldHyenas are perhaps the most
numerous predator of the large carnivores, totaling about 7,500
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The country ranks among the most ethnically diverse in the word with more than 120 tribes
About 1 million Maasai live in Kenya and Tanzania
The Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Maasai Mara, Amboseli, and Tarangire game reserves are located inside the Maasai region
(Source: Tanzaniasafariguide.com)
MTO WA MBU VILLAGE
Accommodations
Safari Vehicles
Guides/Lectures
MOUNT MERU HOTEL, ARUSHA
King Size bed
YOUR JOURNEY AWAITS
The End
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