Tanzania

About to climb Kilimanjaro for the fifth time, Macon Dunnagan, author of Sons of Kilimanjaro, gives his top advice for conquering Africa’s highest mountain.

Carrie O’Callaghan gives her candid advice for traveling around East Africa.

Mt. Meru lacks a lot of the things Kilimanjaro has in abundance: high price, altitude sickness, droves of tourists. No wonder, Graydon Hazenberg, thinks it’s so worthwhile.

Courtney S. Ries examines the signs of altitude sickness and looks at the side effects of a popular prescription used to avoid the illness.

Courtney S. Ries shares her tips for climbing Africa’s highest mountain.

After four visits to Tanzania, Harold Hedin still find his heart in East Africa.

Sinead Murtagh underestimated Tanzania. She learned to let go and have some fun.

BootsnAll Daniel Demole tackels the mythical snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Ian Kutschke reflects on his six days on Kilimanjaro. He didn’t do push ups at the top.

While working in Iraq, Gary Pierce takes a break from the war and visits Tanzania with his young son.

Dangerous Dan Demole dares to climb Kilimanjaro.

Debby Merickel’s goal was to survive her encounter with Kilimanjaro, not conquer it.

Interested in gorilla trekking in Uganda or Rwanda? Read this interview for more need-to-know details about exploring the last home of the great gorilla.

There is day after day of cloudless skies in Tarangire National Park. The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red, the withered grass as brittle as straw. The Tarangire river has shrivelled to a shadow of its wet season self. But it is chocked with [...]

Cradled in the glory of its surroundings below the sheer majesty of the Rift valley wall, Lake Manyara lies serene, spreading in a heat haze backed by a thin green band of forest and the sheer 600 metre red and brown cliffs of the escarpment.
A wedge of surprisingly varied vegetation sustains a wealth of wildlife, [...]

The vast majority of Tanzania’s elephant herd live in one remote stretch of safari wilderness – the Selous Game Reserve. Stigler’s Gorge is one of the park’s most striking features. This gaping chasm channels the frothing confluence of the Great Ruaha and Rufiji Rivers.
After this bottle neck, the Rufiji swells through the park down to [...]

Swirls of opaque mist hide from the advancing dawn at Mikumi National Park. The first shaft of sun colours the fluffy grass heads rippling across the plain in a russet halo. Confident is the camouflage of their stripes at this predatory hour, zebras pose for our pleasure, like ballerinas on stage, heads aligned, stripes [...]

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area which lies between the Serengeti and the Lake Manyara National Parks boasts the largest unbroken, inactive, and unflooded caldera in the world. Perhaps having once been about the same size as Mount Kilimanjaro, when the volcanic activity subsided, it collapsed inward resulting in a crater 18 kilometers (11 miles) across. Surrounded [...]

A million wildebeest, each driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfilling their instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a frenzied 3 week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40 kilometer long columns plunge through crocodile infested waters on the annual exodus north, replenishing the species in a [...]

Arusha National Park is a secret jewel of Tanzania. It is not only the closest national park to Arusha town, but also one of the most undiscovered. This is a treasure, a rich tapestry of habitats, teeming with animal and birds. The park has three distinct zones that contribute to its variety [...]

From gorilla trekking in Uganda, to the famous safari park the Serengetti, to the exotic spice island of Zanzibar, Tracie Thorson gets to see many sides of life in Africa.

11 Tanzania volunteers set out in two Land Rovers in search of animals and adventure – and boy do they find it!

6 women, 6 causes, 6 personalities, and one big mountain: Mt. Kilimajaro in Tanzania.

Philip Giovannini doesn’t climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, he rides his bicycle around it.

Macon Dunnagan, author of Sons of Kilimanjaro, gives his top 10 list of strategies for conquering Africa’s highest mountain.