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5 Best Things To Know Before You Go On Tanzania Safari Tour
Thinking of going on a Tanzania safari? After all, a wildlife safari is an encounter like no other. Just you and raw, untamed Mother Nature taking at its best. Tanzania is a gigantic mainland with numerous extraordinary parks to visit with everyone offering an exceptional arrangement of wildlife, nature, and culture. All these parks offer a variety of adventure activities like walking safari, balloon safari, birdwatching safari and many more.
As you may expect, before going on a Tanzania Safari Tours, there’s much for you to learn and plan to guarantee that your first safari will live up to the expectations.
Which National Parks Cover In My Tanzania Safari Tour?
1. Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti is a standout amongst the most acclaimed national parks in Africa and offers the absolute best-untamed life seeing on the planet; in any case, there are various activities in the Serengeti other than game drives. The Serengeti National Park fits well into a great many people’s dream of an African safari with its inexhaustible wildlife, tremendous brilliant fields dabbed with prickly umbrella acacia trees, kopjes, and sausages trees, and its crocodile and hippo-filled rivers.
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Highlights
Big Five Animals: Comprised of the lion, the leopard, the elephant, the rhino and the buffalo, the Big Five They were chosen as they were famously the hardest creatures in Africa to chase. No excursion to Africa is finished without taking off on safari looking for the Big Five.
Annual Great Migration: The Serengeti is the setting for one of the world’s incredible characteristics scenes: the Great Migration of groups of over a million wildebeest just as countless other hoofed creatures, including zebras, eland, and gazelle.
7th Natural Wonder of the World: The Serengeti has earned the titles of one of the “Seven Natural Wonders of Africa” for being the site of the biggest terrestrial mammal migration on the planet around 2 million creatures.
Wildebeest Columns 40km In Length: On occasion, the column of wildebeest can be 40km in length. The breeding season an explosion of 8,000 calves’ multi-day are created.
High Population Lions And Leopards: Leopards are habitually spotted unwinding while huge crowds of elephants and buffalo graze on the savannah. The ‘King of the Beasts‘ and strikingly the ‘King Of The Jungle‘ – despite the fact that they are the high populace! Of all the big cats, the lion is the main species to exist in groups.
Accommodation
The accommodation we give amid your Serengeti National Park visit is four lodges, six tented camps. The campsite is dissipated through the park. We are intending to open a lodge next season. We have one luxury camp, a lodge, and two tented camps just outside which are stunning.
2. Arusha National Park
Located on a short drive from Arusha and Moshi, the Arusha National Park is Tanzania’s most open national park. With assorted wildlife that incorporates herbivores, for example, elephants, hippos, buffalos, zebra, giraffes, and even the intermittent wildebeest, Arusha National Park is additionally an ideal spot to get out and extend your legs – with both walking safaris and canoe safaris accessible inside the park.
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The Serengeti is one of the territories in Tanzania that offers great game viewing throughout the entire year, despite the fact that you should need to maintain a strategic distance from the substantial rains in April and May. Be that as it may, contingent upon your sightseeing needs June to October is the best time, you’ll need to design your visit in like manner.
Highlights
The Momella Lakes: The Momella Lakes inside Arusha National Park are a series of seven shallow lakes. It is conceivable to see an assortment of birds like flamingos and creatures, for example, waterbucks, giraffes, zebras, in the encompassing zone.
The Nugurdoto Crater: This swampy crater is occupied by an enormous assortment of creatures and is a well-known stop for game drives. Guests can hope to see the Cape buffalo, elephants, monkeys, mandrills, warthogs, and various diverse gazelle species here.
Mount Meru: An active volcano, Mt. Meru is likewise a famous ascending goal for guests to Tanzania and a good introductory on the mountain for those wishing to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro.
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Game viewing is at its best during the dry season from July to March. The park is excellent year-round for birding when migratory birds from Europe and North Africa are present and the local birds have their breeding plumage on display.
Accommodation
The accommodations provided by us are two lodges, two rest houses. Our campsites are located amidst the two mountain huts inside the park. We also have more lodges at the USA River outside the park. We also have many hotels and hostels in Arusha Town.
Marangu Route
While this is the quickest and cheapest route up the mountain with sleeping huts at every campsite, you will also find this route to be more developed and encounter considerable traffic throughout the climb. With the final ascent using the grueling Gilman’s Point, you will find the Marangu Route much more challenging allowing less time for altitude acclimatization leading to lower success rates.
Rongai Route
This route is logistically uncomfortable, starting on the northern, Kenyan side of Kilimanjaro. The first couple of days can be rough as it is a steep climb, and also there is little in way of attractive scenery. The final ascent follows Gilman’s Point and the trek down will use Marangu Route, making it a relatively hard and busy route.
Umbwe Route
This is one of the quicker, more intense routes to reach the Uhuru peak, with a particularly hard first day’s climb. There is also little in the way of scenery when compared to the Machame and Lemosho routes, and you do not see much of Kilimanjaro itself.
Mweka Route
This route is used strictly for the descent down Kilimanjaro.
Climbing Kilimanjaro – Fitness
climbing Mount Kilimanjaro’s peak tests the body and mind, as walking multiple days at high altitude will not only challenge one’s physical fitness but fortitude and self-discipline as well. Remember, the altitude is felt by everyone no matter how fit they are – it is a good idea to look at the detailed climb descriptions of the Machame and Lemosho Routes to better understand the trails you will encounter. To best manage and adjust to the altitude it is imperative to walk or climb as slowly as possible, this will also allow you to truly admire the beautiful vegetation, wildlife, and landscapes of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Climbing Kilimanjaro – Seasons
Kilimanjaro’s rainy seasons usually occur in April, May, and November. Although climbing tours can be scheduled year-round, the weather conditions can have a huge impact on your experience – particularly with one’s comfort level and climbing success rates.
| Months | Forest | Heath / Moorland | Alpine summit | Overall |
| Mid Jan – Mid Mar | Med chance rain | Med chance mist/drizzle | Not too cold | Great |
| Mid Mar – Late May | High chance rain | High chance mist/drizzle | High chance of snow | Really hard work |
| June – July | Med chance rain | Med chance mist/drizzle | Very cold | Good but cold |
| Aug – Mid Oct | Low rainfall | Often clear – mist/cloud cover in the afternoon | Temperature going up | Great |
| Mid-Oct – Mid Nov | Med chance rain | Med chance mist/drizzle | Med chance snow | Can be very variable |
| Mid Nov – Mid Jan | Med / high chance rain | Med / high chance mist/drizzle | Med chance snow | Can be very variable /wet |
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