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Karibu Tanzania 2018 | Edition BUSHWIDE African Safaris Inside, Insight To Tanzania Attractions Live Your All About Mount Kilimanjaro Climbing Dreams INSIDE KILIMANJARO ROUTES AN EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY OF EXPLORATION, WHEN YOU TRAVEL WITH US ! | www.bushwide.com Karibu BushWide African Safaris About Us Kundael Managing Director & Owner Bushwide African Safaris AN EXTRAORDINARY specializes in safaris and LEGACY OF EXPLORATION, trekking experience in WHEN YOU TRAVEL WITH Tanzania. We have the finest US ON AN EXPEDITION, employees that can take you YOU’LL ENJOY BOUNDLESS throughout Tanzania top OPPORTUNITIES TO BE destinations and can offer you SURROUNDED BY the widest choice of itinerar- NATURAL WONDERS AND ies - from group safaris staying EXOTIC WILDLIFE, TO at superb lodges to bespoke, EXPLORE CELEBRATED tailor made safaris staying at ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, the very best camps, TO LEARN ABOUT specialist safaris and family DIFFERENT CULTURES Swahili : Tembo safaris. AND SHARE IN LOCAL TRADITIONS. English : Elephant Page : 2 Page : 3 Next ! Tanzania National Parks Arusha National Park Serengeti National Park Ngorongoro Conservation Lake Manyara National Park Mikumi National Park Area Tarangire National Park Kilimanjaro National Park Zanzibar Island Holidays Page : 4 Page : 5 TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS Arusha Lake Manyara National Park National Park he park is the closest one to Arusha town, the WHAT TO DO tretching for 50km along the base of the rusty- GETTING THERE safari capital of the North. The park is often gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, overlooked by safari goers, despite offering - Forest walks, numerous picnic sites. Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting By road, charter or scheduled flight from Arusha, Tthe opportunity to explore a captivating diversity of - 3-4 days Mt. Meru climb (good acclimatization for Sextolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I en route to Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. habitats within a few hours. Although elephants are Kilimanjaro). had seen in Africa”. The compact game-viewing cir- uncommon in the park and lions absent altogether, - Game drive cuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of WHAT TO DO leopards and hyenas may be seen slinking around - Canoe trip in the lake the Tanzanian safari experience. in the early morning and late afternoon. You also Game drives, night game drives, canoeing when the have a good chance to see buffaloes, warthogs and WHEN TO GO nland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia water levels is sufficiently high. Cultural tours, pic- Colobus monkeys. The beautiful lake Momela will woodland is the favoured haunt of Manyara’s nicking, bush lunch/dinner, mountain bike tours, often be colored pink by thousands of flamingos To climb Mt. Meru: legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively abseiling and forest walks on the escarpment out- and the park has a rich selection of migrants like June-February, although it may rain in November. Itusked elephants. Squadrons of banded mongoose side the park. waterbucks, giraffes, zebras and dik diks. dart between the acacias, while the diminutive Kirk’s Best views of Kilimanjaro: dik-dik forages in their shade. Pairs of klipspringer WHEN TO GO n the middle of the forest stands the spectacu- December-February. are often seen silhouetted on the rocks above a field lar Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep, rocky cliffs Game drive: The whole year. of searing hot springs that steams and bubbles ad- Dry season (July-October) for large mammals; Wet enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds jacent to the lakeshore in the far south of the park. season (November-June) for bird watching, the wa- Iof buffalo and warthogs. At dusk and dawn the veil terfalls and canoeing. of clouds on the Eastern horizon is most likely to anyara provides the perfect introduction clear, revealing the majestic snow-capped peaks of to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 spe- Kilimanjaro. cies have been recorded, and even a first- Mtime visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to GETTING THERE observe 100 of these in one day. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpet- An easy 40-minute drive from Arusha. Approxi- ual migration, as well as other large waterbirds such mately 60 km from Kilimanjaro International Air- as pelicans, cormorants and storks. port. The lakes, forest and Ngurdoto Crater can all be visited in the course of a half-day outing at the beginning or end of an extended Northern safari. Page : 6 Page : 7 TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS HERDS OF UP TO 300 ELEPHANTS SCRATCH TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS THE DRY RIVER BED FOR UNDERGROUND STREAMS, WHILE MIGRATORY WILDEBEEST, ZEBRA, BUFFALO, IMPALA, GAZELLE, HARTE- Tarangire BEEST AND ELAND CROWD THE SHRINKING Serengeti National Park LAGOONS. National Park The Great Wildebeest’s t’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside Migrations the Serengeti ecosystem and the one place in WHAT TO DO Tanzania where dry country antelope such as the Istately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked Guided walking safaris. gerenuk are regularly observed. Day trips to Maasai and Barabaig villages, as well as to the hundreds of ancient rock paintings in the uring the rainy season, the seasonal visitors vicinity of Kolo on the Dodoma Road. spread out over a 20,000 sq km range until they exhaust the green plains and the river WHEN TO GO Dcalls once more. But Tarangire’s mobs of elephant are anzania’s oldest and most popular National bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the easily encountered, wet or dry. The swamps, tinged Year round but dry season (June - September) for Park, also a world heritage site and recent- black eagles, soar over the beautiful landscape. green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, more numbers of animals. ly proclaimed a 7th Worldwide Wonder, Hundred varieties of dung beetle have been record- the most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in Tthe Serengeti is famous for its annual migration, ed. the world. when around six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebras and 300,000 WHAT TO DO Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for - Hot Air Balloon safaris fresh grazing. Even when the migration is quiet, - Walking saf ari the Serengeti offers arguably the most amazing - Game drives game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffa- - Bush lunch/dinner lo, smaller groups of elephants and giraffes, and - Maasai rock paintings and musical rocks thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, - Visit neighboring Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai impala and Grant’s gazelle. Gorge, Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano and Lake Na- tron’s flamingos. he scene of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-manned WHEN TO GO lion prides feast on the abundance of plain Tgrazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees To follow the wildebeest migration: December-July lining the Seronera River, while a high density of To see predators: June-October cheetahs prowls the Southeastern plains. Around 500 bird species, ranging from the ostrich and Page : 8 Page : 9 TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS Mikumi National Park ikumi National Park abuts the northern border of Africa’s biggest game reserve the Selous and is transected by the sur- Mfaced road between Dar es Salaam and Iringa. It is therefore the most accessible part of a 75,000 square kilometer tract of wilderness that stretches east al- most as far as the Indian Ocean. ions survey their grassy kingdom – and the zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo herds that migrate across it – from the flattened tops Lof termite mounds, or sometimes, during the rains, from perches high in the trees. Giraffes forage in the isolated acacia stands that fringe the Mkata River, islets of shade favored also by Mikumi’s elephants. WHAT TO DO Game drives and guided walks. Visit nearby Udzu- ngwa or travel on to Selous or Ruaha. WHEN TO GO Accessible year round. Page : 10 Page : 11 Ngorongoro Conservation Area he Ngorongoro crater is WHEN TO GO a conservation area and a UNESCO world her- Since the animals stays in the Titage site located 180 km west crater all year, there really is no of Arusha. The carter is recog- good or bad time to be in the nized by one private organiza- park. However, given that the tion as one of the seven natu- crater floor can be busy with ral wonders of Africa. Land in vehicles the low season months the conservation area is multi- can be beneficial. But travelling use and unique because it is to Ngorongoro at any time of the only conservation area in year will guarantee great game. Tanzania that protects wildlife while allowing human habita- tion. pproximately 25,000 large animals, mostly ungulates live in the Acrater. Large animals in the crater include the black rhi- noceros, the local population of which declined from about 108 in 1964-66 to between 11-14 in 1995, and the hippopotamus. There also are many other un- gulates: the wildebeest, zebra, the common eland, and Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles. Impa- la are absent because the open woodland they prefer does not M exist. Giraffe also are absent, T : ou X n possibly because of a lack of E t browse species. Cheetah, Afri- N K can wild dog and leopard are i l rarely seen. i m WHAT TO DO a n j a r Game drive, Masaai walk out- o side the crater, trekking outside of the crater Page : 12 Page : 13 T 5896M MOUNT KILIMANJARO, AFRICA’S TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS HIGHEST MOUNTAIN AAND ONE OF THE CONTI- Mount Kilimanjaro NENT’S MAGNIFICENT SIGHTS, National Park IT HAS THREE MAIN VOLCANIC PEAKS, KIBO, Roof Of Africa MAWENZI, AND SHIRA. THE NAME ITSELF “KILIMANJARO” • Lemosho Route IS A MYSTERY WREATHED • Marangu Route • Machame Route IN CLOUDS.