Tanzania Wildlife Adventures and Kilimanjaro Climbs

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Tanzania Map on Virtual Earth   Tanzania High Commission London

 For more trips going through Tanzania also see

African Budget Truck Adventures   African Safaris and Overland Adventures  African Wildlife Adventures  Trans Africa Expeditions

Tanzania is home to one of Africa’s most magnificent game reserves, namely the Selous Game Reserve and also the seemingly endless plains of the Serengeti National Park, where one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles, the annual migration of some two million wildebeest followed by their predators can be observed. The Serengeti holds some of the largest concentrations of lion, cheetah and leopard in Africa, and is probably the best national game park on the continent to see these predators. 

Kilimanjaro truly stands alone among the mountains of the world. The huge, solitary volcano is unaccompanied by any mountain chain. People who are in good shape can make the ascent to its summit in a matter of days, passing through five distinct ecological zones along the way.  The lower slopes of the mountain are defined by coffee and banana fields that rise up and end where the mountain’s forest begins. An average of 80 inches of rainfall a year make the forest home to some botanical treats. Tree ferns in this region are known to grow up to 20 feet, and giant lobelia often reach 30 feet. At an altitude of about 9,000 feet, the forest gives way to grasslands and shrubbery, and elephant can sometimes be spotted roaming the high slopes. At about 13,000 feet life begins to recede, a result of extreme weather conditions inhospitable to anything more than small mosses and lichens.