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National Museum & House of Culture
The National Museum houses the famous fossil discoveries of zinjanthropus (nutcracker man) from Oldupai Gorge (although only a copy), along with other archaeological finds. Wander through the History Room and ethnographic collection for insights into Tanzanias past and its mosaic o
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Stone Town
If Zanzibar Town is the archipelagos heart, Stone Town is its soul. Its magical jumble of cobbled alleyways make it easy to spend days wandering around and getting lost - although you cant get lost for long because, sooner or later, youll end up on either the seafront or Creek Rd.
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Manyara Ranch Conservancy
Occupying an important wildlife dispersal area northwest of Tarangire National Park, the privately run, 140-sq-km Manyara Ranch Conservancy is a critical cog in the ecosystem of Northern Tanzanias Maasai Steppe.The conservancy began life as a colonial cattle ranch that later fell i
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Lukwika
This tiny game reserve is hidden away in the hinterlands southwest and west of Masasi. With great luck you may see elephants, elands, crocodiles and hippos, though its more likely youll return having seen none of these. The main challenge, apart from getting around the reserve, is
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Kitulo National Park
This national park protects the flower-clad Kitulo Plateau, together with sections of the former Livingstone Forest Reserve, which runs south from the plateau paralleling the Lake Nyasa shoreline. The area, much of which lies between 2600m and 3000m in the highlands northeast of Tu
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Mafia Island Marine Park
At around 822 sq km the park is the largest marine protected area in the Indian Ocean – it shelters a unique complex of estuarine, mangrove, coral reef and marine channel ecosystems. These include the only natural forest on the island and almost 400 fish species. There are also abo
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Kilimanjaro Conservancy
Centred on 44-sq-km Ndarakwai Ranch and set up in 2001, this private conservancy is one of very few such projects in Tanzania. Like similar places in Kenya, the former colonial cattle ranch, which includes grassy plains and woodland, has been artfully converted into a protected are
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Jozani Forest
Living among Jozani’s tangle of vines and branches are populations of the endangered red colobus monkey, as well as Sykes monkeys, bushbabies, Ader’s duikers and more than 40 species of birds. There’s a nature trail in the forest, which you can follow with an information sheet (it
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Udzungwa Mountains National Park
Towering steeply over the Kilombero Plains 350km southwest of Dar es Salaam are the wild, lushly forested slopes of the Udzungwa Mountains, portions of which are protected as part of the 1900-sq-km Udzungwa Mountains National Park – an intriguing offbeat destination for anyone bota
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Ruaha National Park
Ruaha National Park, together with neighbouring conservation areas, forms the core of a wild and extended ecosystem covering about 40,000 sq km and providing home to Tanzania’s largest elephant population. In addition to the elephants, which are estimated to number about 12,000, th
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Mwalimu Julius K Nyerere Museum
Julius Nyerere, the first President of Tanzania, was born in the otherwise insignificant little town of Butiama. This small museum inside the family compound celebrates his life and work. It contains a few stools, shields and other gifts he was given. Boxes of Nyerere’s personal ef
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Bagamoyo Town
With its cobwebbed portals and crumbling German-era colonial buildings, central Bagamoyo , or Mji Mkongwe (Stone Town) as it’s known locally, is well worth exploration. The most interesting area is along Ocean Rd. Here you’ll find the old German boma (a fortified living compound; i
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Kaole Ruins
Just south of Bagamoyo are these atmospheric ruins. At their centre are the remains of a 13th-century mosque, which is one of the oldest in mainland Tanzania and also one of the oldest in East Africa. It was built in the days when the Sultan of Kilwa held sway over coastal trade, a
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Ol Doinyo Lengai
Ol Doinyo Lengai (2878m), ‘Mountain of God’ in the Maasai language, is one of the most beautiful mountains in Africa. The northernmost mountain in the Crater Highlands, its an almost perfect volcanic cone with steep sides rising to a small flat-topped peak. It’s also the youngest v
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Livingstone’s Tembe
This deep maroon-coloured, flat-roofed Arabic-style home, built in 1857, is the main attraction in these parts. It was Livingstone’s residence for part of 1871. Later that year, Stanley waited three months here hoping that the Arabs would defeat Mirambo, famed king of the Nyamwezi
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Sukuma Museum
The Sukuma Museum in Bujora village is an open-air museum where, among other things, you’ll see traditional Sukuma dwellings, the grass house of a traditional healer, blacksmith’s tools and a rotating cylinder illustrating different Sukuma words for counting from one to 10. Also o
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Zanzibar National Museum of History & Culture
One of the most prominent buildings in the old Stone Town is the elegant Beit el-Ajaib, now home to the Zanzibar National Museum of History & Culture . It’s also one of the largest structures in Zanzibar. It was built in 1883 by Sultan Barghash (r 1870–88) as a ceremonial palac
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Mikumi National Park
Mikumi is Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park, and the most accessible from Dar es Salaam. With almost guaranteed year-round wildlife sightings, it makes an ideal safari destination for those without much time. Within its 3230 sq km, it hosts buffaloes, wildebeests, giraffes, e
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Beit el
Occupying several blocks along the waterfront, the imposing Palace Museum is a reconstruction of the Sultan Seyyid Said’s 19th-century palace home, which was destroyed by the British bombardment of 1896. It was renamed the People’s Palace in 1964 when the last sultan, Jamshid, was
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Mahale Mountains National Park
It’s difficult to imagine a more idyllic combination: clear, blue waters and white-sand beaches backed by lushly forested mountains soaring straight out of Lake Tanganyika and some of the continent’s most intriguing wildlife watching. The park is most notable as a chimpanzee sanctu
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