Tanzania Destinations

Usambara Mountains

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The Usambara's are a part of the ancient Eastern Arc chain which mountains stretch in a broken crescent from the Taita hills in southern Kenya down to Morogoro and the southern…

Kilwa Kisiwani

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Kilwa Kisiwani, an authentic historical town in Real South, Located about 300km south of Dar es Salaam, Kilwa Kisiwani is the leading historical site in southern Tanzania. A quick…

Dar es Salaam City

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Dar es Salaam is the largest city and economic capital of Tanzania. Located in a quiet bay off the Indian Ocean coast, the city has developed into an economic importance to become…

Udzungwa National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Udzungwa is the largest and with most biodiversity and a chain of a dozen large forest-swathed mountains that rise majestically from the flat coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania.…

Selous Game Reserve

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Selous Game Reserve is Africa's largest game reserve and one of favourite game viewing areas in Africa. Covering 50,000 square kilometres, is amongst the largest protected areas…

Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest un flooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20kms across, 600 meters deep and 300 sq kms in area,…

Mount Ol doinyo Lengai

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

"Oldoinyo Lengai" means “The Mountain of God” in the Maasai language. The summit of this strato-volcano is 2962 metres above sea level, and affords direct views into the…

Tarangire National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Tarangire National Park has some of the highest population density of elephants as compared to anywhere in Tanzania, and its sparse vegetation, strewn with baobab and acacia…

Saadani National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

One gets to relish the palm trees as they sway in a cooling oceanic breeze. White sand and blue water sparkle alluringly beneath the tropical sun, brand Saadani is a splendid…

Rubondo Island National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Located on the south-west shores of Lake Victoria, Rubondo Island National Park includes Rubondo Island and several other small islands of Lake Victoria. The park boasts for its…

Mount Kilimanjaro National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

At 5896m Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain and one of the continent's magnificent sights, It has three main volcanic peaks, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. The name itself…

Mkomazi National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

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 is a virgin…

Mikumi National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Mikumi is Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park. It’s also the most accessible from Dar es Salaam. With almost guaranteed wildlife sightings, it makes an ideal safari…

Lake Manyara National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking…

Kitulo National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Locals refer to the Kitulo Plateau as Bustani ya Mungu – The Garden of God – whereas botanists have dubbed it the Serengeti of Flowers, host to ‘one of the great floral…

Katavi National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

It offers un-spoilt wildlife viewing in the country’s third-largest national park, in a remote location far off the beaten track. The national park is Africa at its most wild…

Katavi Region

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Katavi National Park, the real Eden of the Southern Highlands. Driving across lush green marshland, populated by of hippos, flocks of waterfowl and elephants on abundant foliage…

Gombe National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Gombe Stream National Park, located on the western border of Tanzania and the Congo, is most famous for Jane Goodall, the resident primatologist who spent many years in its…

Arusha National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Arusha National Park (ANAPA) is a gem of varied ecosystems and spectacular views of Mt. Meru, the crater that gives the region its name It is a popular destination for day trip…

Serengeti National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and scientific value, it has the greatest concentration of…

Lake Natron

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

A soda lake at the base of the active Ol Donyo Lengai volcano, the area around Lake Natron is often described as having a desolate and almost lunar beauty. Lake Natron is found in…

Lake Eyasi

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Lake Eyasi is a seasonal shallow endorheic salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau, just south of the Serengeti National Park and…

Lake Chala

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Lake Chala is a unique caldera lake, and is thought to be the deepest inland body of water in Africa. This lake is fed by underground springs from Mt. Kilimanjaro. The lake has a…

Lake Nyasa

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Lake Nyasa, also called Lake Malawi, lake, southernmost and third largest of the East African Rift Valley lakes of East Africa, lying in a deep trough mainly within Malawi. Lake…

Kaporogwe Falls

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Scenic View of the Kaporogwe Falls. Among notable, tourist attractions in Mbeya region is Kaporogwe Falls, natural huge water drop on Livingstone Mountains. Among notable,…

Lake Victoria

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

With a surface area of 68,800 sq km (26,600 sq mi), Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake. In addition, it's the largest tropical lake in the world, and the planet's second…

Pare Mountains

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Part of the Eastern Arc range in north-eastern Tanzania, the remote Pare Mountains are extremely rewarding to the avid trekker searching for hiking trails off the beaten path.…

Uporoto, Kipengere and Livingstone Ranges

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Eastern Arc Mountains offer best panoramic tourist Attractions. Not only the famous wildlife parks in northern Tanzania offer best tourist attractions by their animal diversity. …

Mpanga Kipengere Game Reserve

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Mpanga – Kipengere Game Reserve is the newest wildlife reserve in Tanzania and covers a total area of 1,574 kilometres. This reserve is famous by its unique flora and fauna,…

Lake Jipe

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Lake Jipe is a small, shallow lake (area 28 sq. km and average depth less than 3 m), lying astride the Kenya-Tanzania border, just to the east of the northern Pare Mountains of…

Matema Beach Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Matema Beach, a beachside town in Mbeya Region, Located on the beautiful shores of Lake Nyasa, Matema Beach is among the most scenic tourist attractive site in Tanzania. The…

Lake Ngosi

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Lake Ngosi, a thrilling crater lake in Southern Highlands of Tanzania Standing as the second largest Crater Lake in Africa, Ngosi Lake is the leading tourist attraction in Rungwe…

Mbozi Meteorite

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Mbozi Meteorite: World's eighth largest, located about 65km southwest of Mbeya is the Mbozi meteorite, weighing an estimated 25 metric tonnes, it's around 3m long and 1m tall …

Nyumba Nitu Natural Forest

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Paying a day visit inside Nyumba Nitu natural forest in Njombe would be an exciting and memorable adventure worth reckoning. The Nyumba Nitu natural forest is located in Mlevela…

Kijungu Falls, Natural Bridge and Kiwira River

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Kijungu falls and the natural bridge, key attractions on Kiwira River Kiwira River is a natural attraction in Mbeya region by its miracles which local communities associate with…

Mbeya Region

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Tourism jewel in the making. Mbeya Region is one of Tanzania's 30 administrative regions. It is located in the country's southwest. The regional capital is the city of Mbeya. A…

Njombe Region

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Upcoming tourist destination site in Southern Highlands, and Carved from Iringa region, the newly established Njombe region is an upcoming tourism attractive area, ideal for…

Lake Tanganyika

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest (660km), deepest in Africa and second-deepest in the world (more than 1436m) and second-largest (by volume) freshwater lake. At somewhere…

Mahale Mountains National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The park like its northerly neighbor Gombe is home to some of the Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees, a population of roughly 900, they are habituated to human visitors by…

Ukerewe Island

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Ukerewe is the largest island in Lake Victoria and the largest inland island in Africa, with an area of approximately 530 km². Ukerewe Island is situated in the Ukerewe District,…

Zanzibar Island

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Known as the Spice Island, the beautiful island of Zanzibar on Africa’s east coast is bursting with culture and history, seemingly at odds with its idyllic geography of…

Tabora Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The sleepy town of Tabora, in the hinterland of western Tanzania, remains a key transit point in the country. The Central Line railway branches at Tabora to both Kigoma and…

Mikindani Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Travelling to Mikindani is an adventure in itself. With rugged road access and a small airstrip, the area is very much off the beaten path. But such secluded surroundings mean…

Iringa Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Located in the southern highlands of Tanzania, near the country’s legislative capital of Dodoma and the agricultural centre of Morogoro, Iringa is a pleasant small town and a…

Musoma Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

It is located on the shores of Lake Victoria in the north of Tanzania, near the Kenyan border. The town offers much amusement to the passing visitors and is a point of cultural…

Mtwara Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The small town of Mtwara is located on the coast of south-eastern Tanzania, along the rugged patch of coastline that leads to the country’s border with Mozambique. Elevated…

Mwanza City

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The city of Mwanza is the major Tanzanian port on Lake Victoria and a major centre of economic activities in the region. The lake borders the country’s East African neighbours…

Lushoto Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

This leafy highland town is nestled in a fertile valley at about 1200m, surrounded by pines and eucalyptus mixed with banana plants and other tropical foliage. It’s the centre…

Arusha City

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Located in the northern highlands of Tanzania, beneath the twin peaks of Mt. Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro, Arusha is the safari capital of the country. Guests embarking on the…

Tanga City

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Tanga was once another stopping point, in competition with Pangani and Bagamoyo, for caravans on their way to the hinterland of Central Africa searching for ivory and slaves. The…

Karatu Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Visitors on their way to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater pass through the town of Karatu, under the benevolent peak of Ol Deani, on their way through the northern highlands.…

Dodoma Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Located in the heartland of Tanzania, Dodoma is the nation’s official political capital and the seat of government in the country. Comparably, it is much smaller and less…

Pangani Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Pangani is a small town in East Africa’s coast that was 50 kms South of Tanga with long history culture the town has Arabic, German, Asian and British Colonial rules influence.…

Kigoma Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The bustling town of Kigoma is the regional capital of western Tanzania and a central port in the area. Located on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika, Kigoma is surrounded by…

Bagamoyo Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The town of Bagamoyo is a home to world class Historical sites and one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites with rich cultural heritage waiting you to explore. This town was once a…

Saanane Island National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Saanane Island is a fully fledged National Park since July, 2013, covering an area of 2.18 sq km comprises of three islets and aquatic environment. The islets lie on the southern…

Mount Meru

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Con i suoi 4566m, il Monte Meru è la quinta montagna più alta del continente africano e la seconda più alta in Tanzania. Circa 250.000 anni fa, una massiccia esplosione…

Kalambo Falls

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Kalambo Falls is said to be Africa's second tallest free-leaping or single-drop waterfall (second to one of the tiers of Tugela Falls in South Africa) at 221m. As a matter of…

Materuni and Kuringe Waterfalls

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

This very impressive Waterfall is one of the tallest in the area, spewing crystal clear glacier water 70m into its basin. The beautiful path leading to Materuni Waterfall is…

Rundugai Hot Springs

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Rundugai hot water springs / (Kikuletwa Hot Springs) or Chemka hot springs are an unexpected paradise hidden in the desert scrub outside the town of Boma. Situated about 35…

Moshi Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Nestled at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, Moshi is the coffee producing centre of the country. All around the town and on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, there are vast plantations of…

Amboni Caves

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The Amboni Caves are the most extensive limestone caves in East Africa. They are located 8 km north of Tanga City in Tanzania off the Tanga-Mombasa road. The caves were formed…

Ruaha National Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Ruaha national park is one of the few Tanzania’s famous wilderness area where one can have a rare experience of game viewing spiced up by the fascinating landscape. The park is…

Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The Dar es Salaam Marine Reserve System (DMRS) is a group of marine wildlife reserves in Tanzania, situated off the coast of Dar es Salaam Region. The reserve system consists of…

Mafia Island Marine Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Mafia is renowned as an excellent world-class diving destination with some of the richest reefs in the world, The park covers the Southern part of Mafia Island and includes the…

Mikindani Bay Marine Reserve

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Mikindani is a fascinating old town with winding streets and an exciting blend of African, Arabic and European architecture. The arms of the bay mouth contain old houses with…

Mnazi Bay-Ruvuma Estuary Marine Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Located in southern Tanzania, on the Mozambique border, is home to important populations of whales, dolphins, four species of turtle and numerous birds. The park is a…

Olduvai Gorge & Laetoli

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Over the last thirty years or so, it has become increasingly apparent that Africa is probably the "Cradle of Mankind". From Africa they spread out to populate the rest of Earth.…

Maziwe Marine Reserve

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Maziwe island is a very small unvegetated island surrounded by coral reefs located about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) south east of the town of Pangani off the northern coast of…

Tanga Coelacanth Marine Park

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Tanga Coelacanth Marine Park (TACMP) is located on the northern coastline of Tanzania. It extends for 100 km along the coastline from north of Pangani River estuary to Mafuriko…

Chumbe Island Marine Sanctuary

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Chumbe offers some of the most pristine and colourful coral reefs in the world, with over 200 species of coral providing a sanctuary for more than 400 species of colourful fish.…

The Nature Forest Reserve

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

The Forest Nature Reserve (NFR) category of protected area (PA) offers the highest level of protection under the National Forest Act of Tanzania. FNRs are state-owned and are…

Nachingwea Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Nachingwea is a hidden tourist attractive area in Southern Tanzania, notably known by its rich African cultures, colonial history and the Mozambican liberation struggle for…

Liwale Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Named after local Miwale palms, Liwale district is a rich tourist attractive site by its history and cool weather combined with active, thrilling nightlife. A visit to Liwale…

Ipole WMA

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

IPOLE WMA is located in Sikonge District, Tabora Region, some 96 km from Tabora Municipality (town). It covers an area of 2,540 kilometres of conserved forestland. IPOLE WMA,…

Mbomipa WMA

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Neighbouring the Ruaha National Park, Mbomipa WMA is made up of land carved from 21 villages located in Idodi and Pawaga administrative wards in Iringa Rural District. MBOMIPA…

Enduimet WMA

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

LOCATED in Longido District on the Basin land of the western foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (WMA) was established in 2003 with land allocated…

Morogoro Town

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Morogoro lies in the agricultural heartland of Tanzania, and is a centre of farming in the southern highlands. Tobacco is grown in the region and consolidated here before going to…

Mnemba Island Conservation Area

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

Mnemba Island is a single small island located about 3 km off the northeast coast of Unguja, the largest island of the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, opposite Muyuni Beach. It is…

Burunge WMA

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

BURUNGE WMA is located in Babati District, Manyara Region along Arusha-Babati-Singida-Dodoma highway, about 120 kilometres from tourist city of Arusha. Home to elephants and…

Randilen WMA

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

RANDILEN WMA is located in Monduli District, Arusha Region, occupying an area of 31,200.68 hectares of forest land, carved from Mswakini, Mswakini Juu and Naitolia villages. Best…

Ikona WMA

Category: Tanzania > Tourism > Destinations Source: Tanzania Tourist Board

SETTING a natural home to migrating animals from Serengeti National Park, IKONA WMA is a community based wildlife conservation area where photographic safaris had paid a…