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Destinations: Selous | Zanzibar | DAR ES SALAM | Mikumi | Serengity | Arusha
The scenery, topography and very friendly people make Tanzania one of the best places to visit and promise the best wildlife photographic safaris on the continent. Tanzania indeed has it all Tanzania has 14 National Parks, 1 conservation area, 17 game reserves, and several marine parks, a breathtaking coast and Lake Zone and gently undulating highlands that are a hikerâs paradise.
Visa Requirement
A Tourist Visa costs US$50 or US$100 for a three-month single entry and a three-month double entry visa, respectively. The visa can be obtained upon landing in Dar es Salaam, Kilimanjaro, Mwanza and ports of entry.
HERITAGE AND CULTURE
Travelers and merchants from the Persian Gulf and Western India have visited the East African coast since early in the first millennium CE. Islam was practised on the Swahili coast as early as the eighth or ninth century CE. Islam is the dominant religion in the country residing harmoniously with the minority Catholic community.
Cuisine
Almost each of the 126 tribes has preferred cuisine and drink types.
Along the coast, rice and green vegetables (mchicha) or fish or meat is the popular staple food
In the interior of Tanzania, people eat cooked or steamed green bananas (matoke) or maize and millet meal eaten with relish such as beans, fish or meat relish.
Relish for maize meal or rice is normally cooked with coconut stew obtained by grating the coconut and squeezing the fatty juice.
Maize cooked with beans or meat (makande) is also the staple food of several tribes especially the Pare tribe of Kilimanjaro Region.
Instruments for peeling maize, millet or rice are usually a wooden mortar and thick stick. Peeling is achieved by pounding the grain in the wooden mortar using the stick. Maize, millet or dry cassava is also pounded to flour and cooked into hard porridge or dough known as "ugaliâ. To eat, one makes a ball, dips into the relish broth and then into the mouth.
Drinks are made of different types of grain, or banana, sugar cane, honey, bamboo juice or palm juice. After the drink is processed, it is left over a night or several nights to ferment into a light or potent alcoholic drink.
Wanyambo Festival
The Wanyambo Festival is one of the best opportunities to check out the local culture of Tanzania in early January. The event is staged in the northern area of Dar es Salaam known as Makumbusho, with lots of traditional music, dance, costumes, and food.
Kilimanjaro Marathon
A separate entity from the Kiliman Adventure Challenge, the Kilimanjaro Marathon is a road race under the guise of the worldâs highest solitary mountain. Thereâs also a half marathon and fun runs so everyone can get involved. The events take place in late February when itâs the coolest.
Bagamoyo Arts Festival
The coastal town of Bagamoyo, between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, puts on the annual Bagamoyo Arts Festival which features traditional and contemporary music and dance. The week-long event in September also includes grand exhibitions, workshops and acrobatics shows.