 
    
    
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 looking out over the steppe. The site has a 
spectacular collection of images from over 150 shelters depicting 
elongated people, animals, and hunting scenes. Today many of
    the shelters are still considered to have ritual associations with 
the people who live nearby, reflecting their beliefs, rituals and 
cosmological traditions
 
    
    
Stone Town, Zanzibar
Stone Town
 is the old part of the beautiful Island of
    Zanzibar. Justification for the inscription, includes its rich 
cultural fusion and harmonization; its great symbolic importance in the 
suppression of slavery; and the intense seaborne trading
    activity between Asia and Africa, which is illustrated today in the 
exceptional architecture and urban structure of the Stone Town.
 
    
    
Ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani and Ruins of Songo Mnara
From the 13th to the 16th century, the merchants of Kilwa
    dealt in gold, silver, pearls, perfumes, Arabian crockery, Persian 
earthenware and Chinese porcelain; much of the trade in the Indian Ocean
 thus passed through their hands. Noted visitor sites
    include the Great Mosque, the Mkutini Palace and some remarkable 
ruins.
 
    
    
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The jewel in Ngorongoro's
 crown is a deep, volcanic crater,
    the largest un flooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 
20kms across, 600 meters deep and 300 sq kms in area, the Ngorongoro 
Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. It is home to
    approximately 30,000 animals at any one time, is said to have the 
highest density of wildlife in Africa.
 
    
    
Selous Game Reserve
The Selous Game Reserve
 covers a total area of 54,600 km
    (21,081 square miles) and is one of the largest fauna reserves of 
the world. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982 due to
 the diversity of its wildlife and undisturbed nature.
    Selous Game Reserve is Africa's largest game reserve and one of 
favourite game viewing areas in Africa. 






 
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