Game safari adventures in Tanzania offer the best opportunity to enjoy the ambiance of the East African bush. Tanzania, a premier hunting safari destination in Africa, boasts two safari circuits (north circuit and south circuit) with most wildlife lovers choosing to explore the southern circuit.

The Southern circuit is anchored on Dar es salaam and covers Ruaha, Mikuni, Udzungwa Mountains National Park and the Selous Game Reserve. The northern circuit, on the other hand, covers the endless plains of Serengeti, the world’s largest caldera in Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara, Mount Kilimanjaro and Mout meru within the Arusha National Park.

Selous Game Reserve is the star of the southern safari circuit. Tanzania safaris can be very rewarding here. The reserve is named after the intrepid Fredrick Courtney Selous, a celebrated explorer and naturalist who died here in a sideshow of the First World War. Located 500 km to the southwest of Dar, the Selous Game Reserve occupies a staggering 55,000 sq km – larger than Switzerland- and is the largest of its kind in Africa.

The Selous was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982 due to the significance of both its flora and fauna. This immense wilderness has a diversity of habitats including savanna woodlands, swamps, open grasslands and forests. Read the rest of this entry »

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Placed on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Moshi is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Tanzania. The small town located in northern Tanzania serves as the base for Mount Kilimanjaro climbing adventures.

Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa, and the highest ‘walkable’ mountain in the world offering a breathtaking undertaking.

One of the most unique aspects of Mount Kilimanjaro is the accessibility of its peak to climbers with no mountain climbing experience of scaling such heights.

Kilimanjaro rises to 5,895 m above sea level and is is composed of three extinct volcanoes: Kibo 5895 m, Mawenzi 5149 m, and Shira 3962 m. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’ve seen people are searching for the top luxury lodges in Tanzania. Below are some of them

• Mnemba Island Lodge

Mnemba is an idyllic island situated within a marine reserve comprising four distinct habitats which are home to a diverse array of Indian Ocean wildlife. Mnemba Island Lodge, owned by Conservation Corporation Africa comprises just 10 rustic palm-frond bandas with en suite bathrooms and private verandas nestling in a tropical beach forest fringed by a soft white coral-sand beach.

Mnemba, an Arabic word meaning octopus head, is a 20-minute cruise in a traditional 16 foot flat-bottomed boat from the Island of Zanzibar. Just one-mile in circumference, a pristine swathe of beach halos the island, fringed by a tropical forest.
A protection zone surrounds the island, conserving magnificent coral reefs where giant turtles, ghost crabs and spectacular tropical fish drift through the lagoons.A stay at this fine lodge wll cost you about US$ 1300. View updated rates here

• Singita Saswaka Lodge

Sasakwa Lodge is situated on top of Sasakwa Hill, adjacent to the Western Corridor of the Serengeti in Tanzania. The property is built in the style of a turn-of-the-century east African ranch house, and every effort has been made to celebrate the spectacular views of the Serengeti plains below. Grumeti Reserves are part of the great annual wildebeest migration route and even when it’s not migration season, herds of gazelle, zebra and giraffe can be found across the plains. Expect to pay US$ 15,000 for the whole villa for one night and about US$ 1,500 for the Sasakwa Lodge.

Sasakwa Lodge is owned by Singita

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