Country Info
- Dar es Salaam
- Capital
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
- Currency
- 36,232,074
- Population
- TZ
- Country Code
Tanzania Slideshow
Tanzania
Travel Blogs from Tanzania
The Great Escape
This is a top pick! ... . I joined the queue, bought my visa, and waited for the mini-bus to fill up again. We were three minutes into Tanzania when the tire blew. Everyone piled out. Our driver and conductor using a rock, a log, and tire iron replaced ...
Baobabs, Boulders, Baboons and Big trucks
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas... We stayed at old Farm house, 50kms from Iringa Sept 22, Baobabs, Boulders, Baboons and Big trucks....toward Iringa Days go by but certainly do not resemble each other. If the campsite in Mikumi was not to my liking, the one ...
Arusha National Park
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas... Aug 26, Arusha National Park Sitting on our small porch, dipping my brioche type bread into the local café au lait and looking at the beautiful green leaves of all these trees that are in front of us, it is a bit easier ...
The Spice Island
This is a top pick! Greetings Everyone, Zanzibar is called the "spice Island" and it's a magical place to visit. Like all of the East African coast line, the Indian Ocean is dazzling. The turquoise water is very clear, bath temperature and the beaches have fantastic, ...
Dar's northern beaches
This is a top pick! Version française plus bas.... Sept 1, Dar Es Salaam, Northern beaches We tried to go to the beach nearby and could not find a public entrance because there are hotels lining it... luckily, after a long conversation, one hotel let us pass trough ...
Kilimanjaro 2, by Roman
This is a top pick! Kilimanjaro 2, by Roman 'Blaaaah! At least we brought our own foods too, that bread infection is to kill us!' Still spiting, I attempt to loose the revolting taste in a gulp of juice. Checker’s Choice, multi-fruit mix I read on the carton. Who the ...
The never-ending plains
Serengeti is derived from a Masai term meaning "never-ending plains", and as we approached the park gates from Ngorongoro Conservation Area it was already clear how it got its name. The land is very flat in every direction, covered only with dry grass ...
Last days in Ushongo; derniers jours
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas… Sept 13, Last days in Ushongo Walking on the beach at night, with the light of the full moon, I dare not think of the hundreds of crabs running around and I try to believe that they know I am here, just from the ...
Stonetown, Zanzibar
This is a top pick! Version traduite partiellement plus bas... Sept 20, Stonetown, Zanzibar Lance and Roman went via a dalla dalla (local bus full of people) to Stonetown and then, it was Peggy and Tristan's turn to visit the "big" city of Zanzibar, while Duncan stayed ...
Relaxing on a white sand beach
We arrived in the dark of night (about 7pm) after 4 wheeling the taxi over sand dunes to get to the hotel. This morning we realized there aren't any sand dunes, it's just a bit of sand on the very bumpy roads through the village. The owner of the hotel ...
A visit with the locals
... different tribes living together peacefully. We started our culture walk with a stop at the rice fields. Rice is a major agriculture in Tanzania but is rarely eaten by the locals. It is usually reserved for the most special of guests. It is also closely ...
Dar es Salaam
This is a top pick! ... book on Malawi but no luck there. We also booked our bus tickets for our next destination of Arusha up towards the north of Tanzania and after having afternoon tea/coffee and cake at a very swanky expensive hotel we jumped in a taxi and returned back ...
Kilimanjaro 4, by Roman
This is a top pick! Kilimanjaro 4 'Okay, I think I feel a bit better,' he announces. He head off again, and curiously for a minute, I have the feeling that my brother vomited for the two of us, because my nausea has momentarily vanished. ...
Dar Es Salaam centre
This is a top pick! ... announces a guy in the middle of Swahili sentences... all we could understand after that were the repeating words “Miss Tanzania”... “Ocean view hotel”... “2011”.... the rest sounded like gibberish to us... anyhow... by ...
Last day in Zanzibar
... I hope one day we can come back here. Zanzibar is truly magical! We decided to do some souvenir shopping before we left Tanzania. We filled our carry-ons with teas, coffee and spices and negotiated a taxi for later. We returned to the coffee house to ...
Olduvai Gorge and some wildlife
The drive from Eleyo village to the Serengeti was long but not without interesting points. The majority of the drive was through the Ngorongoro Conservation area which is not a national park but a very large conservation area. The Masai people are ...
Five Day Tanzania Safari Begins....
This is a top pick! We awoke in the night to kill a mozzie that had managed to get under our net and vowed that we had to resolve our malaria medication and insect repellent problem before we headed off on safari. And solve it we did. Our pick up at 8.00am ,after a ...
Turtles run for their lives; Les tortues courent
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas…. Sept 9, Turtles run for their lives! A few years back, Maziwe island was a forested island of 5 hectares and since the locals cut all the trees, it eroded so fast that it became a small sand bar, disappearing by so much ...
Iringa
This is a top pick! Dar es Salaam 11th June 2008 We left Moshi on the 9th June and took the 11 hour bus to Dar es Salaam. There we booked into the Safari Inn situated in the city centre. We visited the National Museum which proclaims to have the famous fossil ...
Missing Entry
This is a top pick! ... to me. ----------- It's later and I haven't really looked, however here's Em's voice on the matter. ........... Subject: Tanzania - part two. Sorry... very long e-mail, again. Chapter 3, in which Emma and Joanna are rained out of ...
Mbeya
This is a top pick! ... up on news, have a drink and play tennis while their children swim in a water that seems too cold for me. Some have lived in Tanzania for 4 or 5 years, working at the hospital or at the university. So, I take this opportunity to ask this Black man how he ...
Kilimanjaro 1, by Roman
This is a top pick! August 31st, A Metre A Word; The Kilimanjaro: 5896m By Roman Day 1 'A hundred and nineteen thousand! Isn't that a lot?' I ask, 'I mean, we are already paying a thousand two hundred for ...
Mbaya
This is a top pick! Mbeya 13th June 2008 For the first time since our safari days early on in our time in Tanzania we wake up to a lovely sound of bird song. No engine noise from cars or buses, no people talking in the hotel corridor with loud voices No calls for prayers ...
Finding our sea legs
Yesterday was a bit of a mixed bag. The staff prepared an early breakfast for us so we could eat before walking down the beach to the dive shop. Breakfast was delicious and filling. We met our dive group at the shop and got the lowdown. We took a small ...
Spice tour and Jozani Forest
We came straight from the airport to the Zanzibar Coffee House and were greeted like old friends. When we were unpacking our bags we noticed that my Leatherman was stolen or confiscated from my checked luggage. I am pretty sure it was stolen as it was in ...
An exciting game drive and the last of the Big 5
It was incredibly cold last night. I was told it could get as low as 10C here on the crater rim, but I think it was lower. My equatorial backpack with extra liner along with the pants and hoodie I was wearing were not enough combined to keep me ...
Safari in Lake Manyara
Our first safari of the trip began this afternoon. We were picked up after lunch and drove directly to Lake Manyara National Park in the Great Rift Valley. Just outside of the park we saw several baboons in and around the street. We watched them for a ...
Motos and tuba, par Corinne et Fabyan
This is a top pick! Version traduite plus bas... Sept 16, Zanzibar, Paje beach, motorcycles and snorkelling Zooming by white sand and sometimes desolate hotels or others that do have some tourists in them, I hold my (too big) helmet with one hand because it keeps on ...
Camp visitors
After lunch, our pop-up roof was closed and we drove for two hours through the plains and then winding up to the rim of the crater. The air is much cooler and windier up here, about 2,500m above sea level. We were warned to leave all our food and smelly ...