Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA)

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Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA)

About NCA

NCA was established in 1959 by the NCA Ordinance No 413 of 1959 as a multiple land use area, established specifically to promote the conservation of natural resources, safeguard the interests of NCA indigenous residents and promote tourism. NCA is the one of its kind protected area in Africa where conservation of natural resources is integrated with human development.

The main feature of the NCA include the Ngorongoro Crater, The Serengeti Plains that support about 2.0 millions ...

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Serengeti National Park

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Serengeti National Park

Facts About Serengeti National Park

The Safari to Tanzania would be incomplete without visiting the Serengeti National Park. This is one of the unique areas in the world and one of the World Heritage Sites since 1972. With an area of 14,763 sq. km. the Park has many scenic features: Grassland savannah plains, wilderness, kopjes, over 500 species of birds etc. Nevertheless, the most outstanding feature is  its fauna. It contains the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa and ...

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Manyara National Park

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Manyara National Park

Facts About Manyara National Park

Stretching for 50km along the  base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake   Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest  Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.

The compact game-viewing  circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari  experience.

From the entrance gate, the  road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where  hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue  monkeys scamper nimbly ...

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Mount Kilimanjaro National Park

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Mount Kilimanjaro National Park

Facts About Kilimanjaro National Park

Kilimanjaro National Park, in the East African country of Tanzania hosting the continent’s highest mountain, snow capped Mt. Kilimanjaro. Around the base of its tallest peak, relatively accessible hiking trails wind through rain forest inhabited by colobus monkeys and past the volcanic caldera of Lake Chala. Approaching the summit of Uhuru Peak, the slopes steepen and are studded with glacial ice fields.

The park is located 300 kilometers (190 mi) south of the equator and in Kilimanjaro Region, ...

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Mkomazi National Park

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Mkomazi National Park

Description

Set below the verdant slopes of the spectacular Usambara and Pare Eastern Arc Mountain ranges and overseen by iconic snow – capped peak of Kilimanjaro, Mkomazi a virgin breathtaking beauty exhibiting unique natural treasures and immense sense of space – adds to the fulfillment of high visitor enjoyment expectations – a much needed bridge between northern circuit and coastal attractions.

Everyday, thousands of people pass within a few kilometers of Mkomazi on one of Tanzania’s busiest highways. These and northern ...

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Arusha National Park

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Arusha National Park

Description

The closest national park to Arusha town – northern Tanzania’s safari capital – Arusha National Park is a multi-faceted jewel, often overlooked by safarigoers, despite offering the opportunity to explore a beguiling diversity of habitats within a few hours.

The entrance gate leads into shadowy montane forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and colourful turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white colobus monkey is easily seen. In the midst of the forest ...

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