Natural features
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro, Arusha
The world's largest intact volcanic caldera, 600 m deep and 20 km wide, a UNESCO site, home to about 25,000 animals including black rhinos, lions and…
Natural features in Tanzania
Natural features
Serengeti National Park
Mara
Endless plains with more than a million wildebeest and zebras on the Great Migration, and one of the highest densities of lions in Africa, a UNESCO s…
Natural features
Gombe Stream chimpanzees
Kigoma
A small forest park on Lake Tanganyika where Jane Goodall began her chimpanzee research in 1960.
Natural features
Jambiani Beach, Zanzibar
Nganane, Zanzibar South
A long stretch of white sand and turquoise water on the south-east coast of Zanzibar, beside a relaxed fishing village.
Natural features
Nungwi and Kendwa, Zanzibar
Nungwi, Zanzibar North
Zanzibar's northern beaches, where the tides change little, with white sand and turquoise water good for swimming all day.
Natural features
Ruaha and Nyerere (Selous)
Iringa
Southern Tanzania's wild parks: Ruaha has huge elephant herds, lions and baobabs, and Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous) offers boat safaris on …
Natural features
Tarangire National Park
Manyara
A park of giant baobab trees and huge herds of elephants, especially in the dry season (June to October), when animals gather along the Tarangire Riv…