Tanzania presentation

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1. Why Tanzania?

2. Attractions

3. Why RoadScholar?

25% of all wild animals in Africa are in Tanzania including the migration (2 million)

Second largest bird checklist after Democratic Republic of the Congo (more than 1,130 species recorded)

28% is protected area of which 4.5% are national parks

Second largest freshwater lake in the world and second deepest in the world

Africa’s most famous national park and world’s largest game reserve

Zanzibar, Olduvai (Oldupai) Gorge

Ngorongoro Crater

Olduvai/Oldupai Gorge

Mt. Kilimanjaro

The Great Migration

Cultural Tourism

NGORONGORO CRATER

The world’s largest intact volcanic caldera Formed when a giant volcano exploded

and collapsed some 3 million years ago About 2,000 feet deep and 12.5 miles

wide Home to more than 25,000 large animals

including 26 black rhinos

(Source: Ngorongoro Crater Area Authority)

OLDUVAI GORGE

Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization” Contains sediments interspersed with

layers of lava that date back over 2 million years

Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed a 1.8 million-year-old fossil hominin skull of a Australopithecus boisei

(Source: National Geographic)

MOUNT KILIMANJARO

“The rooftop of Africa” Highest mountain in Africa and tallest

freestanding mountain in the world (19,341 feet)

Inactive volcano with seven distinctive peaks

Variety of climate types and year-round, snow-topped peak

(Source: Sevennaturalwonders.org)

THE GREAT MIGRATION

Longest and largest land migration in the world

More than 2 million animals travel 500 miles from southern Tanzania to the Maasai Mara Reserve in Kenya About 1.5 million wildebeest and 200,000

zebra The weather and the cycle of four

seasons influence the migration

(Source: Maasaimara.com)

About 3,000 lions prey on the “moving feast” and on resident herbivores Maasai Mara has one of the largest

densities of lion in the worldHyenas are perhaps the most

numerous predator of the large carnivores, totaling about 7,500

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The country ranks among the most ethnically diverse in the word with more than 120 tribes

About 1 million Maasai live in Kenya and Tanzania

The Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Maasai Mara, Amboseli, and Tarangire game reserves are located inside the Maasai region

(Source: Tanzaniasafariguide.com)

MTO WA MBU VILLAGE

Accommodations

Safari Vehicles

Guides/Lectures

MOUNT MERU HOTEL, ARUSHA

King Size bed

YOUR JOURNEY AWAITS

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