Mbeya Around Mbeya Tukuyu Lake Nyasa Mbinga Songea Tunduru Morogoro Mikumi National Park Mikumi Udzungwa Mountains National Park Iringa Around Iringa Ruaha National Park Iringa to Makambako Makambako Njombe Kitulo National ParkĢ74 278 279 280 282 285 286 288 289 289 290 Tabora Kigoma Ujiji Gombe Stream National Park Mahale Mountains National Park Uvinza Mpanda Katavi National Park Sumbawanga Kasanga & Kalambo Falls Musoma Lukuba Island Bunda Mwanza Around Mwanza Mwanza to Bukoba Rubondo Island National Park Bukoba Ngorongoro Conservation Area Karatu Olduvai Gorge Engaruka Lake Natron Lake Eyasiĭodoma Babati Mt Hanang Kolo-Kondoa Rock Art Sites Kondoa Shinyanga Nzega Singida © Lonely Planet Publications 10 C O N T E N T S Northern Tanzania Moshi Machame Marangu Mt Kilimanjaro National Park Trekking Mt Kilimanjaro West Kilimanjaro Arusha Around Arusha Arusha National Park Trekking Mt Meru Lake Manyara National Park Tarangire National Park Serengeti National Parkġ54 158 160 164 167 168 168 168 169 170 174 176 176 177 178 178 179ġ80 182 187 189 191 191 194 195 204 207 209 212 214 216 ZANZIBAR Zanzibar Town Around Zanzibar PEMBA Chake Chake Around Chake Chake AROUND PEMBA Kiweni Mkoani & Around Wambaa Pujini Ruins Wete Tumbe Ngezi Kigomasha Peninsula Offshore Islandsġ08 109 128 142 143 146 147 147 147 148 148 149 151 151 151 152īagamoyo Saadani National Park Pangani Tanga Around Tanga Muheza Korogwe USAMBARA MOUNTAINS Amani Nature Reserve Lushoto Around Lushoto PARE MOUNTAINS Same Mbaga Mwanga & Around Usangi Mkomazi Game Reserve Getting Started Itineraries History The Culture Safarisįood & Drink Dar es Salaam HISTORY Orientation Information Dangers & Annoyances Sights & Activities Dar es Salaam for Children Sleeping Eating Drinking Entertainment Shopping Getting There & Away Getting Around AROUND DAR ES SALAAM Pugu Hills Offshore Islands Northern Beaches Southern BeachesĨ5 85 85 88 89 89 90 95 96 97 97 98 100 100 100 101 102 104 See the terms and conditions on our site for a longer way of saying the above - ‘Do the right thing with our content.’Ĭontents On the Road Tanzania Highlights Destination Tanzania In other words, please don’t upload this chapter to a peer-to-peer site, mass email it to everyone you know, or resell it. In return, we think it’s fair to ask you to use it for personal, non-commercial purposes only. To make it easier for you to use, access to this chapter is not digitally restricted. She has authored and co-authored many guidebooks on the region, speaks fluent Swahili and is convinced she holds the unofficial record for kilometres-travelled in Tanzania’s buses. Her fascination with languages and cultures soon led her further south to Africa, where she has spent over a decade living and working all around the continent, including extended periods in Tanzania.
Originally from Washington, DC, Mary spent several years in Europe after graduate studies. With its diversity and equanimity, Tanzania has a way of getting under your skin, and once you’re hooked, it’s hard to break free. To the south, rolling, green highlands and lively market towns and to the east the Swahili coast, studded with idyllic beaches and moss-covered ruins. To the north, stampeding wildebeests, elephants, zebras and giraffe, the Serengeti (p216) and Mt Kilimanjaro (p191).
To the west, the vast hinterlands stretching off into Lake Tanganyika (p268). Yet, I was loving every minute of it here, near the centre of Tanzania. And the 180km yet to go before reaching Dodoma promised to be just as dusty and bumpy.
It had been a mostly very dusty and bumpy 180km from Makuyuni (where the tarmac ends) to Kolo, which would be a completely undistinguished village but for its proximity to the Kolo-Kondoa Rock Art Sites (p236) and the impressive carved door here at the Antiquities Office.