Manyara
Treetop Walkway takes you on a sky-high adventure through the beautiful
forest of Lake Manyara. Walk among the treetops, the experience
untouched nature and wildlife from a unique perspective.
Treetop Walkway This
400m canopy walk starts with a short board-walk that gradually rises
from ground level up through the canopy of the forest. You walk over a
series of suspension bridges with thick netting on the sides, and reach a
height of 18m off the ground.
Birds-eye view of the forest This
is Tanzania's first Treetop Walkway and one of the longest in Africa.
It offers a unique birds-eye view of the world around you. Enjoy life in
the canopy amongst butterflies, monkeys and birds.
Nature lovers
A great outdoor activity especially for nature lovers and adventure
seekers. Families, couples, individuals and groups are all welcome.
The
average time it takes to enjoy the Treetop Canopy Walkway is
approximately 30 minutes to an hour from the time you entered the
ground, allow yourself ample time to relax and enjoy the views. Please
note that the walkway only allows for one-direction traffic. Guides are
available to give interpretation while in the canopy as well as
assisting for ease and enjoyable walk.
Only four people are on a section at a time and that everyone is spaced about 5 metres apart.
DOs and DONTs
You
must be dressed for treetop trekking. That means closed-toe, secure,
covered shoes; knee-length shorts or long pants; and clothing
appropriate to the weather.
All children must be 6 or older and accompanied by an adult. Ages 12 and older can participate without a chaperone.
Please note that we may need to limit access during heavy rain and strong winds, thunder and/or lighting.
We
are literally perched on the rim of the crater 2600 meters high, a
short drive to the descend road to the base of the caldera and a
starting point for many walking routes makes it the privileged location
to be
Situated at a priviledged site right at the crater rim, Pakulala
Safari Camp is a perfect place to stay for safari or walking routes in
the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
Nature walk -
Stretch your legs, you can do more than viewing the magnificent scenery
from your vehicle, be part of it, feel Africa on feet
Try the magnificent Empakai crater trek, to enjoy the migration of flamingos and descent to feel the soapy water of the Lake.
Visit a traditional Maasai Boma, just 45 min walk from the camp, and without the crowds.
Start a 3 day trek from here to lake Natron, passing the sacred Oldoinyo Lengai.
Possibilities are many, tell us what you feel doing
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VIUMBE wa ajabu wanadaiwa kuonekana katika Ziwa
Natron. Ziwa hili ambalo wataalamu wanasema lina kiwango kikubwa cha
‘Alkaline’ ambayo imekuwa ikiwaathiri viumbe wanaokuwa karibu na maji
hayo kwa kuchoma ngozi na macho inabadili muonekano wa viumbe hivyo.
Hizi picha zimepigwa kwenye ziwa Natron, ziwa ambalo ninajulikana kwa
kuwa na “alkaline” ya juu iliyopo kwenye vipimo vya PH9-PH 10.5,
inachoma ngozi na macho ya wanyama ambao wanakuwa karibu na maji.
Angalia picha mwenyewe ujionee viumbe hawa.
Approaching the shoreline of Lake Natron in Tanzania, photographer Nick Brandt
faced an eerie sight: There, lying on the earth as still and stiff as
statues, were calcified corpses of a variety of birds and bats that had
met their untimely demise after crashing into the deadly waters.
“No one knows
for certain exactly how [these animals] die, but it appears that the
extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, causing
them to crash into the lake,” Brandt writes in his new photo book Across the Ravaged Land.
“The water has an extremely high soda and salt content, so high that it
would strip the ink off my Kodak film boxes within a few seconds. The
soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as
they dry.”
(Story continues below.)
Calcified fish eagle.
Other than
serving as a breeding area for the endangered Lesser Flamingo and as a
home to certain kinds of algae and bacteria, Lake Natron is inhospitable
to life.
“Discovering
[these animals] washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron, I thought
they were extraordinary — every last tiny detail perfectly preserved
down to the tip of a bat’s tongue, the minute hairs on his face. The
entire fish eagle was the most surprising and revelatory find,” Brandt,
who photographed these calcified animals in 2010 and 2012, told The
Huffington Post in an email Wednesday.
The creatures, he said, were “rock hard” from the calcification.
“There was
never any possibility of bending a wing or turning a head to make a
better pose — they were like rock,” he said, “so we took them and placed
them on branches and rocks just as we found them, always with a view to
imagining it as a portrait in death.”
Calcified flamingo.
Calcified bat.
“The notion of
portraits of dead animals in the place where they once lived, placed in
positions as if alive again in death, was just too compelling to
ignore,” Brandt said of his decision to photograph the animals. “I took
these creatures as I found them on the shoreline, and then placed them
in ‘living’ positions, bringing them back to ‘life’, as it were.
Re-animated, alive again in death.”
Turkish Airlines will begin operating flights from Istanbul to the Tanzanian tourist destination of Zanzibar by the end of this year, the company said in a written statement on Friday.
The airline stated that Zanzibar would be the company's 293rd destination worldwide and the 50th across 31 African countries.
The company added that flights between Istanbul and Zanzibar would operate three days a week to and fro on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, with costs starting as low as $636 all-inclusive. They will start on Dec. 12
Turkish Airlines already offers flights to the Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam and to Kilimanjaro International Airport.
Turkey's flag carrier flies to 116 countries around the world, more than any other airline, according to the company.
Team Tanzania comprising of members from
the Tanzania Tourism industry will participate to the forthcoming World Tourism
Market travel show, scheduled to take place
from 7th–9
November 2016 in London, UK. Four Public Institutions namely Tanzania Tourist Board (TTB), Tanzania
National Park (TANAPA), Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA) and Zanzibar
Commission for Tourism (ZCT) will team up with 42 private companies to form a total
number of 46 exhibiting companies that will showcase Tanzania’s tourism attractions
and services to UK travellers.
Participants from the private sectorswill
include representatives from
Tour and Travel operations, Airlines
carriers, Accommodation facilities and Event
management who will be exhibiting under the
TTB stand and will beshowcasing the
country’s spectacular tourism attractions as well as their services to tourism
and travel trade professionals from all over the world.
The participation of team Tanzania
will be under the new slogan ‘Tanzania;
The Soul of Africa.’ which was officially launched in October last year by the
retired President Dr. Jakaya Kikwete to replace the previous one ‘The Land of
Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar and the Serengeti.
The Board is expected to continue to
promote its traditional tourism products, its new Tourism portal (www.tanzaniatourism.com),
recently developed tourism facilities
and services in Tanzania which include the newly launched Air Tanzania Company Ltd
as well as the new Julius Nyerere International Airport’s Terminal 3 and other
major developments happening in Tanzania.
The Managing Director of Tanzania
Tourist Board Ms Devota Mdachi calls uponthe Press, trade professionals and other
visitors from all over the world attending WTM this year to visit the Tanzania
Stand. (AF 450)
Serengeti is not all about animals but the diversity of both plants and
animals, attractive landscape and beautiful scenery as well as the
combination of plants, animals, sky and landscape.
Waziri Wa Maliasili Na Utalii, Profesa Jumanne Maghembe, ameahidi
kuibadili Bodi ya Ushauri ya Chuo cha Taifa cha Utalii na kuifanya kuwa
Bodi ya Utawala.
Lengo la mabadiliko hayo ni kuhakikisha Chuo
Cha Utalii Cha Taifa kinatoa wataalamu wenye sifa na viwango stahiki
wanaokubalika ndani na nje ya nchi kufanya kazi.
Waziri Maghembe ametoa kauli hiyo jana alipotembelea chuo hicho na
kuangalia namna ya kuboresha na kukifanya kiwe cha ushindani.
Aidha, Prof.Maghembe ameutaka uongozi wa chuo kuondoa jina la wakala wa
chuo cha utalii ambalo limekuwa likitumika na chuo hicho badala yake
kiitwe chuo cha taifa cha utalii ili kionyeshe hadhi yake kitaifa na
kimataifa huku akisisitizia suala la ubunifu katika uendeshaji na
kuongeza mapato badala ya kulalamika kukabiliwa na changamoto nyingi
ambazo chuo kingeweza kuzitatua.
Pia , Waziri Maghembe amekitaka
chuo hicho kuwa mfano kwa kuwafundisha wanafunzi kuwa na maadili mazuri
kwa kuwa wengi wao wa wahitimu wamekuwa na sifa za udokozi hivyo
kuwafanya watu wenye mahoteli kuajiri wafanyakazi kutoka nje ili kuepuka
fedheha kwa wageni
‘’Baadhi ya wahudumu katika hoteli zetu
wamekuwa na tabia ya udokozi hii ni sifa mbaya kwa wageni kwani
huharibu taswira ya hoteli‘’
It rules over the sky – Kilimanjaro, Africa’s
highest mountain, distinguished by its three distinctive volcanic cones.
First conquered in 1889 by Hans Meyer and Ludwig Purtscheller, it has
called adventurers to its base ever since. And that’s just where G
Adventures traveller and soon-to-be-newlywed Sarah Manion found herself
last spring, standing on the precipice of a grand adventure. This is her
story of ascending to the fabled “roof of Africa.”
We’d never even come close to doing anything like this.
We
met our group and Kenny, our Chief Experience Officer (CEO), in the
quaint town of Moshi. What had just begun to seem real on the plane was
now a physical tightening in my stomach, brought on by our first glimpse
of the mountain; so high and wide, it was its own landscape – its own
planet.
We’d opted to trek the Marangu Route
– at five days, the shortest of the options available. Our journey took
us across fields and other areas Kenny called “moorlands.” We hiked
over rocky passes and even through a rainforest, almost always uphill.
Truth be told, I hadn’t expected to encounter a rainforest on
Kilimanjaro, but it was probably the most pleasant introduction to the
mountain and its environment possible. A light rain had started to fall a
few minutes before we entered the canopy, and for the next five hours,
our group walked and talked and got to know each other, sheltered under a
gorgeous leafy green roof as the storm rolled past overhead.
On our route, Kilimanjaro sort of pounces upon you. Past the
rainforest, we hiked around a bend and suddenly boom: there she was, lit
up by sunbeams peeking through the clouds. That first glimpse is
burned into my mind like a mental postcard. You look at it, off in the
distance, and the first thing you think is, "I’m going to climb that.”
The second thing you think is, “Holy moly. How am I even going to get
there?”
The first night was magical, but it had nothing to do with the
mountain. We set up our camp in the dark (the crew provided headlamps)
and then disappeared. A few minutes later, they came back bearing our
night’s meal – delicious, warm, and satisfying after a long day on foot.
And plentiful; the food just kept coming, leaving us wondering how on
earth they managed to carry it all up here.
Morning coffee on Kilimanjaro.
On
a trek like this, your experience is only as good as the people who
help you get there. In our case, we were blessed with a team of
charming, knowledgeable CEOs and porters who saw it as their duty to get
us to the top in the best spirits possible. They set a pace for us that
was relaxed and comfortable, ensuring that the group stayed together
and nobody fell behind. This had as much to do with safety as it did
with building camaraderie; the slow pace helped us acclimate to our
surroundings and pass the time with conversation and jokes. What’s the
point of doing something like this if you’re not having a good time?
Kilimanjaro support team greets the dawn.
The
challenge for me wasn’t in the terrain or the altitude, but in the
unknown of what lay ahead. Nothing was consistent. The sun shone for a
while, and then it got cloudy. Then it rained. Then it was foggy. The
temperature. The terrain. Hungry some moments and anxious others. After a
while, though, you get used to it and accept it as part of the
experience. If climbing one of the world’s Seven Summits were easy, it
wouldn’t be an accomplishment, right?
JP and I almost always walked together, but I learned that when
you’re doing something as challenging as this, there are times when
you’re just alone with your thoughts. Kenny was so caring, visiting each
of us in the group periodically to gauge how we were feeling and
encouraging us to continue. Our porters were inspiring too, carrying
everything the group needed in a way that seemed almost effortless.
This trek felt deeply personal and I thought if it resembled marriage in any way, we were off to quite a start.
How
do you describe the moment when you’re watching the sunrise from the
highest point on a continent? You just can’t. You can look at pictures
and read books, but nothing – nothing – can prepare you for what it’s
really like to stand there and gaze down at how far you’ve come.
Mt Kilimanjaro is waiting for you.
Getting There
G Adventures runs a number of departures to Kilimajaro
encompassing a wide range of departure dates. We’re thrilled at the
prospect of showing you this big blue planet of ours — check out our small group trips here.
Footprints were preserved in the mud in northern Tanzania
No other site in Africa has as many homo sapien footprints
It was previously thought the footprints dated back 120,000 years
'There's
one area where there are so many prints, we've nicknamed it the "dance
hall"', paleoanthropologist, William Harcourt-Smith, said
Researchers were able to identify at least 24 tracks, including evidence that some of the prints were made by people jogging
A massive
set of more than 400 human footprints found by geologists is thought to
date back to between 10,000 and 19,000 years ago.
It
was previously thought that the footprints dated back as far as 120,000
years, and that they had been preserved by ash falling from the sky,
following the eruption of a nearby volcano.
But the
research team has now been able to date them more accurately after
discovering that a muddy flow of debris and ash from the volcano's sides
was responsible.
The huge collection of
footprints was discovered on mudflats on the southern shore of Lake
Natron in the village of Engare Sero in northern Tanzania (pictured)
The footprints were preserved in the mud nine miles away from a volcano that is sacred to the Maasai.
'It's
a very complicated site,' William Harcourt-Smith, a
paleoanthropologist at the City University of New York and a member of
the research team told National Geographic.
'There's
one area where there are so many prints, we've nicknamed it the "dance
hall", because I've never seen so many prints in one place....it's
completely nuts.'
No other site in Africa has as many homo sapien footprints.
The
huge collection of footprints was discovered on mudflats on the
southern shore of Lake Natron in the village of Engare Sero in northern
Tanzania.
The Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano, known to the Maasai people as 'Mountain of God', towers over the lake.
The researchers were led by Appalachian State University geologist and National Geographic grantee Dr Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce.
'The
footprints were created (and then preserved) sometime between 19,000
and 10-12,000 years ago,' Dr Liutkus-Pierce told MailOnline.
'This means that the Engare Sero prints are latest Pleistocene in age.'
'The footprints at Engare Sero add to the unique record of fossil footprint sites throughout the world.
'They
record traces of our ancestors, their activity and behaviour during the
latest Pleistocene along the margin of Lake Natron in Tanzania.'
The Maasai regularly travel on pilgrimages to the volcano to pay tribute to their god Engai.
The huge collection of footprints was
discovered on mudflats on the southern shore of Lake Natron in the
village of Engare Sero in northern Tanzania. No other site in Africa has
as many homo sapien footprints
Due
to high levels of ash present in the mud preserving the footprints,
researchers the believe it may have washed down from the volcano.
It is thought that the the surface would have dried out in days, or even hours, preserving the prints.
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