Arusha is a pleasant city, due to its moderate weather, location, beautiful countryside and lively music scene. Arusha is home to many of Tanzania’s festivals, and the yearly festival is hosted by a few Tanzanian corporate sponsors that attract various artists from around the world.
Arusha also hosts the annual Arusha Nane Nane Agricultural show. Nane Nane is one of the many vibrant public holidays in Tanzania, held on August 8 (the 8th of the 8th month, nane nane means eight eight in Swahili).

The compact game-viewing circuit through Lake Manyara National Park offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy.

Serengeti is derived from the Maasai language, Serengit meaning Endless Plains. The spectacle of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-manned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River, while a high density of cheetahs prowls the southeastern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here (the golden jackal, the black-backed jackal, the side striped jackal), alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat. But there is more to Serengeti than large mammals. Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite kopjes. A full 100 varieties of dung beetle have been recorded, as have 500-plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.

The phrase Big Five game was coined by big-game hunters and refers to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot. The term is still used in most tourist and wildlife guides that discuss African wildlife safaris.The big five are among the most dangerous mammals:
-The Lion (Panthera leo) is a large carnivorous feline of Africa, having a short tawny coat, a tufted tail, and, in the male, a heavy mane around the neck and shoulders.
-The African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) is a very large herbivore having thick, almost hairless skin, a long, flexible, prehensile trunk, upper incisors forming long curved tusks of ivory, and large, fan-shaped ears. There are two distinct species of African elephant: African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and the African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana).
-The African Buffalo or Cape Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) is a large horned bovid. It is the most dangerous of the Big Five, reportedly causing the most hunter deaths.
-The Leopard (Panthera pardus) is a large, carnivorous feline having either tawny fur with dark rosette-like markings or black fur. Leopards are the most difficult to acquire hunting licenses for and are often difficult to hunt due to their behavior and their nocturnal feeding habits. Leopard hunting usually overlaps several weeks of baiting.
-The Rhinoceros is a large, thick-skinned herbivore having one or two upright horns on the snout. In Africa, there are two distinct species of rhinoceros; the Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and the White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). Both of these species have two upright horns on the snout.

A million wildebeest... each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily before the 1,000 km pilgrimage begins again.
Tanzania‘s oldest and most popular national park, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some two million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson‘s gazelle join the wildebeest‘s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most dazzling game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, impala and Grant‘s gazelle.

The famous Ngorongoro Crater, situated at the eastern edge of the Serengeti, in northern Tanzania is considered by some as the Eighth Natural Wonder of the World and it is a World Heritage Site since 1979. The crater is the largest unbroken ancient caldera in the world.
The Ngorongoro volcano before it exploded and collapsed 2 million years ago, was one of the world’s tallest mountains and nowadays, it is considered Africa’s Garden of Eden, a haven for thousands of wild animals. The crater measures about 19 kilometers across and is ringed with 600m. high steep walls and shelters forests, which stretch to the crater’s floor, between grasslands and fresh springs and it has a large sparkling soda lake at its centre.

The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red, the withered grass as brittle as straw. This is Tarangire National Park image in the dry season. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem – and the one place in Tanzania where the antelopes Oryx and gerenuk are regularly observed. Tarangire`s pythons climb trees, as do it lions and leopards, lounging in the branches of the sausage tree disguises the twitch of a tail.

Zanzibar is still the best-kept secret in the Indian Ocean, with its fascinating historical Stone Town and magnificent beaches.
Zanzibar’s Indian Ocean offers world class watersports including scuba diving, snorkeling, deep sea fishing, kayaking, windsurfing, waterskiing and sailing on traditional local dhows.

This historical Island was formerly owned by an Arab and used for the confinement of refractory slaves.
It was bought by General Matthews and the jail which still stands, was built in 1893 and hence the name Prison Island. While on the island, you will see the Giant Tortoises, which are the main attraction of  the Island. The beautiful beach is an ideal spot for sunbathing and the clear waters lend to excellent snorkeling.

The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa. It retains its urban fabric and townscape virtually intact and contains many fine buildings that reflect its particular culture, which has brought together and homogenized disparate elements of the cultures of Africa, the Arab region, India, and Europe over more than a millennium.

 The beautiful beach is an ideal spot for sunbathing and the clear waters lend to  excellent snorkeling. Ride the Tortoises!

A visit to a plantation is certainly very interesting for the wide variety of spices and fruits there grown which includes cloves, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla, citronella grass, saffron and curious fruits like tope tope.