Country Info
- Dar es Salaam
- Capital
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
- Currency
- 36,232,074
- Population
- TZ
- Country Code
Tanzania Slideshow
Top Hotels in Tanzania
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Mamy Hotel Pemba Island
1 review -
The Africa House Hotel Stone Town
78 reviews
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Baghani House Hotel Stone Town
1 review
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Andy's Karibuni Romantic Garden Bwejuu
2 reviews
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Hakuna Matata Beach Lodge Bububu
291 reviews -
Dik Dik Hotel Arusha
15 reviews -
Mbuyuni Beach Village Jambiani
85 reviews
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Ocean Paradise Resort Kiwengwa
186 reviews
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Coco De Mer Hotel Stone Town
12 reviews -
Diamonds La Gemma dell' Est Zanzibar
280 reviews
Tanzania
Travel Blogs from Tanzania
When we lost our innocence
This is a top pick! ... police, but they couldn't have helped us and the place was tainted for us now. Both of us wanted to get out of Tanzania. We got on the bus. We had 12 hours to process the loss of our backpacks, and all the cheap but extremely ...
Land of the long greetings
This is a top pick! ... us away from the tiring paradox of idleness and activity that is Arusha and out into the rich and varied scenery of Tanzania's Northern Highlands. For a while we can see the solitary splendour of Mount Kilimanjaro, challenging us to climb it. ...
Security don't like water - internationally
This is a top pick! ... staff man looked at me and asked; "Which Kilimanjaro?" Which Kilimanjaro? How many were there..... 'Kilimanjaro Airport, near Arusha, Tanzania' "Yes, but which Kilimanjaro flight?" he replied 'Urm, the one leaving in 30 minutes, this evening.' ...
The Cast and Crew of the Big Brother Truck
This is a top pick! ... on the beachfront camp site in Dar es Salaam it was time for our longest drive yet (about 11 hours) to southern Tanzania. Seems like a good opportunity to introduce you to my fellow passengers: Swiss Susy The only passenger my age! Lives in Basel ...
News Of luggage.... And The Tazara Train To Catch.
This is a top pick! ... worst places in the world currently for malaria! This train trip is called the Tazara Railway and travels from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania to Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia. One never knows how long the trip is going to take, as it is famous for delays. ...
Kili Trek - Day 5
This is a top pick! A short day today, only a 2.5 hour trek from Karanga camp to Barafu camp at 4700m. We arrived in camp at midday , had some lunch and went to bed for a few hours. When I woke up heavy snow started to fall and covered camp, I suppose it's better than ...
To Arusha (with kindness of strangers).
This is a top pick! ... drive like a maniac. We had a six hour journey (it was supposed to be four) from Nairobi airport to Arusha in Tanzania. We weren't able to sit together with Heather scoring a fully veiled young Muslim Mum, with a fractious and fidgety child to share ...
A glimpse of Kili
This is a top pick! Moshi is the starting point for almost all treks up Kilimanjaro. Mt. Kilimanjaro, in case you were not aware, is the tallest in Africa, and its top is flat. It's a strange mountain, and early explorers were astonished to see snow so ...
A little spice
This is a top pick! Zanzibar Even if you have no idea where it is or why it's famous, you've surely heard of it. I hope very much the first time you heard of it was not in a Jack Black/Tenacious D song. Everybody's heard of it. Everybody wants to see ...
Coffee shops and Ice Cream
This is a top pick! ... 6am. I needed to be sure that if everything else failed, I would still have time to get to the airport. My time in Tanzania was done. Checking out I woke up the Kindoroko attendant. No receipt was offered today as I struggled in to the taxi. 5:50am. ...
TOUTzania
This is a top pick! Arusha is either the place to go or the place to avoid in Tanzania. Fellow travellers, guide books, and other hearsay told us we were in for a case of serious touting. Crossing the border we had a little taste of this trickery. The ...
Tanzania is Stripey!!!
This is a top pick! ... the relaxation but unfortunately we must leave this afternoon. After our brief re-visit to Kenya, we headed pretty quickly to Tanzania, stopping only for a couple of hours at a town where they mine and carve soapstone and where we spent lots of money ...
Dilly-Dally to Mwanza
This is a top pick! I would set this as Map pin only, except I have a photo up - I'll move it later. For now go here for the ...
Dilly-Dally No 2 to Mwanza
This is a top pick! I would set this as Map pin only, except I have photos up - I'll move them later. For now go here for the ...
Eating out in Impala
This is a top pick! Eating Indian food in a hotel called the Impala in Arusha Tanzania has to be one of the funniest things. But damn, it was good. As was the company. A mass of biologists from many different countries, and there was Guinness ...
Mwanza Dumps
This is a top pick! ... there(myself included)). What did I do to deserve this? Thankfully 2 of them were only travelling a short distance. Then into Tanzania, things improved slightly. Myself and a new friend managed to get the, comfortable, front seats of a minibus to ...
Zanzibar - (With Lots Of Rain).
This is a top pick! ... didn't take visa for payment of meals etc. and there were no AT M's outside of Stone Town. We had to carefully count out our Tanzania shillings and US dollars to be able to budget to eat! We had a late lunch then went for a walk around the very poor ...
Sorry, we're full
This is a top pick! ... to find a place, a cheap place, that they collapsed with joy. All I have to say is this: don't come to Tanzania during high season. The only place we could discover for dinner was the Jambo Inn, which had rejected us for housing but ...
It began in Africa ca ca ca ca
This is a top pick! ... section of the main Dar hospital. We all went for a drink and he explained what are the challenges of living and working in Tanzania. There was an hour before dark so we walked down to the waterfront to see a slice of Dar life. People were hurrying ...
Tanzania Summary
This is a top pick! Distance travelled so far - 9665km (equivalent of New York to Istanbul) In Tanzania - 3420km (equivalent of London to Cairo) Tanzania Summary Useful Swahili (phonetic - as with all Bantu languages, the 'e' at the end of words is pronounced ...
Serengeti
This is a top pick! Day the Thirty-ninth - in which we see a bat-eared fox, and break out the tent. ~~~~~~~~~~ Up at 7.30 to meet our guide and driver, Ben. We turned out not to be completely alone as he brought his sister [?] Lucy along too. He asked if we minded, we ...
Bye Bye Zanzibar.
This is a top pick! Before leaving Zanzibar I decided to stop in Stonetown for a couple of days, Afterall, why leave a little bit of paradise sooner than you have to. Stonetown's a great place, I loved the atmosphere of the town as you wander around streets which are ...
Safari sorted!
This is a top pick! ... like drowned egg. In need of money, our next stop was the bank to change a travellers cheque. As became a common problem in Tanzania and other places, they asked for the receipt to photocopy. First off, I'm not so happy handing that over anyway, and ...
Serengeti Scenes & Ngorongoro Crater.
This is a top pick! ... and found them to be a party of ten plastic surgeons, theatre nurses and anesthetists who had volunteered two weeks work in Tanzania rebuilding the faces if Tanzanians born with cleft palates. When chatting to them we found that several of them knew the ...