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Tanzania Destination

Herd of african elephants taken on a safari trip to Kenya with a snow capped Kilimanjaro mountain in Tanzania in the background, under a cloudy blue skies.

Tanzania

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  • Capital City:Dodoma
  • Language: English, Swahili
  • Currency:Tanzanian Shilling
  • Best Time To Travel: July to September, November to March
  • Country Dialing Code: +255
  • Population: 61.5 million

About Tanzania

  • Clothing: Tanzania is deeply conservative, so both men and women should cover their knees and shoulders in public. Traditionally, women only wear skirts, but it's fine for foreign women to wear jeans or trousers – as long as they aren't too form-fitting.

  • Cuisine:Some typical mainland Tanzanian foods include wali (rice), ugali (maize porridge), nyama choma (grilled meat), mshikaki (marinated beef), samaki (fish), pilau (rice mixed with a variety of spices), biriyani, and ndizi-nyama (plantains with meat).

  • Culture: Tanzania is a culturally eclectic and largely homogeneous society that is extremely rich in age-old cultures and traditions. The local population is well known for being friendly and polite to visitors, and there is a strong sense of national pride that reverberates throughout the country.

Travel Attractions

Serengeti National Park

A migration of Wildebeest in Serengeti National Park,Tanzania

You may see vast numbers of wildebeest moving through the Acacia plains. Possibly the closest thing to an unspoiled African wilderness, and despite hundreds of creatures constantly in motion, time appears to have stopped there.


Mount Kilimanjaro

A hiker walking away the rocky landscape of mount Kilimanjaro

Africa's tallest mountain, Kilimanjaro, is 5,895 meters high. This volcanic mountain towers majestically over the nearby lowlands, its snow-capped top towering over the savannah. Peak forest encircles the mountain.

Lake Victoria

Rocks on the shore of Lake Victoria, Tanzania

Nestled between Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, it is the biggest lake in Africa. Discovered in 1858 and named after Queen Victoria. The animals, archipelagos, and sheer size of Lake Victoria make it a crucial component of any expedition.

Stone Town

An aerial view of Stone town, Zanzibar

Situated on a cliff extending out into the Indian Ocean on the western side of Unguja island, a superb illustration of a Swahili trading town. Growing larger under Arab, Indian, and European influence yet retaining its indigenous components and creating a distinctive urban cultural unit.

National Museum

A photo of the interior of the Tanzanian national museum

The earliest and biggest of these museums in Tanzania. Found in Dar es Salaam on Shaban Robert Street. The National Institution of Tanzania has this as its flagship museum. It is the largest and oldest museum in the nation.

Unguja

An aerial view of azure sea and stunning yellow beaches on Unguja island, Tanzania.

The main island in the Tanzanian archipelago of Zanzibar is called Unguja, sometimes referred to as Zanzibar Island. Unguja is surrounded by a number of smaller islands and islets, with only two of them, Tumbatu and Uzi, being inhabited.