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.

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.

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.

While on the Prison Island, you will see the Giant Tortoises, which are the main attraction of  the Island. They were brought here from Seychelles at the end of the 19th century. The carapace is a brown or tan color with a high domed shape. It has stocky, heavily scaled legs to support its heavy body. The neck of the Aldabra Giant Tortoise is very long, even for its great size, which helps the animal to exploit tree branches up to a meter from the ground as a food source.

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.