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Tanzania geography presents a melting pot of landscapes in which we can find from one of the most spectacular plain that nature shows us as in the Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater, not to mention the white sand beaches in the island of Zanzibar.

Serengeti National Park offers the wilder side of nature, the struggle for survival of the animals. A fight begins with the migration. And they come and go more than a million wildebeest and zebra across the plains of the park is not lost to predators such as lions and hyenas. A spectacle of nature in its wildest in which survival is the only end. It is a World Heritage Site since 1981. Read the rest of this entry »

Surely when you think of Tanzania comes to mind the famous safaris. True, travel agencies usually offer us the most common drive: the Serengeti National Park. Certainly it is a spectacular park, but not the only area. On this occasion we give you the opportunity to meet other fabulous and little-known national park in Tanzania. This is the Ruaha National Park. This park has an area of 10.300 square kilometers. How to get here? Very simple you only need to travel 130 kilometers by bus from the town of Iringa.

Why Ruaha park is called? The park takes its name from the Ruaha River, which flows along the park.

Ruaha National Park was declared a protected area since early last century when the Germans still ruled. Later half of the twentieth century, British rule was also responsible for maintaining the care of the park.

What animals can be seen while on a safari in Ruaha? Well anyway we will see elephants living here since a large population of elephants coming to create a colony of 10.000. Not only that. If you are a bird lover then came to the right place. Here we have shown that there are over 475 species of birds Can you believe it? Surely you can shoot like a tropical bird bucerotidaes; to the famous alcedines, commonly known as Kingfisher, a passerine songbirds and even called to see live and live to the mythical stork. Anything else? Yes, zebras, giraffes, gazelles and many more!

The only thing we ask is that does not soil the place and not disturb the animals. Remember you are only a guest at the home of the wildlife!

Some naturalists who had the opportunity to experience the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, say it could be classified as the eighth wonder of the world, with an approximate diameter of 20 kilometers, the walls of a major collapse of the world boiler enclosed in inside a paradise populated by thousands of wild animals in the most representative species in Africa.

The Ngorongoro crater of volcanic origin, is located in Tanzania near the Serengeti National Park, which is administratively independent. At about 2,200 meters above sea level, covers an area of 300 square kilometers. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, and National Park, Ngorongoro Crater remains relatively isolated by a wall 600 meters in height limits inside the crater, the descent into the microworld is an adventure to discover a plain capable of accommodating lake, grazing savannahs, salt, and above all, thousands of animals of different species living together in a unique ecosystem capable of emulating the Eden.

Everything in the Ngorongoro crater appears to belong to another environment, from the weather, which is warmer inside as opposed to setting up the clouds in the morning, which seems to awaken from inside the crater as a mist that rises to sky. The fauna of the crater, including from herds of elephants, zebras, buffaloes, lions, wildebeests, and gazelles, flamingos in the lake to high salinity. A sightseeing tour vehicles with specialized guides will give us one of the best photo opportunities in full safari.

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Lake Manyara is one of the hotbeds of life in Tanzania, especially the number of flamingos that seem to crowd into their costs.

Tanzania has an impressive variety of places and landscapes. Among them, the magnificent Lake Manyara, an oasis of life in proximity to the major national parks and the city of Arusha, from where most safaris in the country. Lake Manyara National Park is one of a bearing the same name, a vast plain whose epicenter is the lake’s ecosystem.

The Lake Manyara National Park has a visitor center in the northeast, where we find out on the best route and points to visit. At the same time, it is important to consider the season, because that will be the variant that changes in the most extreme aspect of the lake and park. During the rainy season is when we find the highest number of bird species, from November to May. Meanwhile, in the dry season will be more abundant mammals walking in the almost dry bed of the lake, especially the giraffes and elephants.

The most striking of Lake Manyara (link in English) and the park are undoubtedly the colony of more than three million flamingos feeding on the rich hot pink. In the park canoe trips are organized or recommended, a night tour to discover some dark secrets that you try to protect: in Africa, few people sleep at night, at least, not always have one eye open.