Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Tanzania
Two rainy seasons rather than one, a migration that is a circuit with no beginning, and the reason the cheapest months are cheap.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Tanzania: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Selous Game Reserve: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Fifty thousand square kilometers of miombo woodland and sand rivers, and the only Tanzanian property currently in danger.
Heritage
Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Two Swahili port cities that minted their own coinage, roofed a mosque in domes, and were called the most beautiful in the world.
Heritage
Serengeti National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
One and a half million hectares of grassland, the largest unaltered migration left on earth, and the rocks that give it its shape.
Heritage
Kilimanjaro National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The highest mountain in Africa, inscribed on a single criterion, and five vegetation zones walked through in under a week.
Heritage
Ngorongoro Conservation Area: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A caldera, a hominin record four million years deep, and a property inscribed for both, with five criteria and a Danger List decade.
Destination
Tanzania
Kilimanjaro, the medieval trading ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani, and seven World Heritage sites across a country of mountain, plain and coast.
Heritage
Ngorongoro Conservation Area: A History Between Human, Heritage and Wildlife
The crater is one part of an 809,440-hectare World Heritage property that also holds Olduvai Gorge, the Laetoli footprints, Maasai pastoral communities and an unresolved argument about who conservation is for.
Heritage
Tanzania: A Land That Echoes with Rich and Diverse History and Heritage
Archaeological sites, rock shelters, Swahili coastal towns and a language spoken by 200 million people: a guide to the heritage landscapes of Tanzania, and how to travel among them responsibly.