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Serengeti National Park The Serengeti National Park is Tanzania oldest park and covers 5,700 sq miles, (14,763 sq km). The Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world and has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa. The Serengeti  is most famous for its great migration, an annual migration of over one million white bearded (or brindled) wildebeest and 200,000 zebra. Mount Kilimanjaro At 5896m Mt Kilimanjaro is not only the highest peak on the African continent, it is also the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. Kilimanjaro is one of the world’s most accessible high summits, with climbers reaching the crater rim with little more than a walking stick, proper clothing and determination. Kondoa Rock-Art Sites The Kondoa rock art site is a series of caves carved into the side of a hill looki...

Kaole ruins Kaole ruin    The oldest ruins of an Islamic mosque in the region, stemming from the 13th or 14th century, are a few km south of Bagamoyo near Kaole - possibly the oldest mosque on mainland of East Africa at all. The first settlers came from the Persian town Shiraz. This town was attacked in 1256 by the Mongoles who did not occupy but who ruled Shiraz up to 1352. Reasons enough for inhabitants to flee. On the cemetery near to the nothern mosque you can see one Pillar tomb, probably 13th or 14th century with a badly erased epitaph and an inscription on the side. There is another tomb with an epitaph with a Quoran text from Suria II and the Throne Verse, probably 14th century, on stylistic grounds. The northern mosque has an external staircase, which enabled the Muezin to call for prayers from the roof. Such an external staircase has only one old mosque in Kilwa. Only in East Africa Muslim cemeteries are adjacent to a mosque. Near the...