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Make the most of your time on Earth™ with The Rough Guide to Tanzania.

The Rough Guide to Tanzania is the definitive guide to one of Africa's most beautiful destinations, with clear maps and detailed coverage of all the best attractions from climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to the exotic Indian Ocean beaches of Zanzibar. You'll also find an in-depth and full-colour guide to Tanzania's spectacular wildlife and national parks, and the most accurate map of the magically labyrinthine Stone Town based on satellite imagery. From Tanzania's volcanic landscapes of Ngorongoro Crater to arranging a Serengeti safari, the guide includes practical information on getting there and around, plus reviews of the best Tanzanian hotels, restaurants, bars and shopping for all budgets. You'll find introductory sections on Tanzania's cultural customs, health, food, drink and outdoor activities as well as specialist Tanzanian tour operators and an introduction to learning Kiswahili. Rely on expert background information on everything from bull-fighting in Pemba through to the mosaic of ethnic groups in Tanzania. Explore all corners of this fascinating country with the clearest maps of any guide.

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Publié par	Apa Publications
Date de parution	01 juillet 2015
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9780241237496
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	83 Mo

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CONTENTS HOW TO USE INTRODUCTION Where to go When to go Things not to miss Itineraries Wildlife BASICS Getting there Getting around Accommodation Food and drink Health The media Festivals Safaris Activities Crime and personal safety Culture and etiquette Shopping Travelling with children Travel essentials THE GUIDE 1. Dar es Salaam 2. The north coast 3. The south coast 4. Central Tanzania 5. The northern highlands 6. Arusha and around 7. The Northern Safari Circuit 8. Lake Victoria and northwestern Tanzania 9. Lake Tanganyika and western Tanzania 10. Southern Tanzania 11. Zanzibar CONTEXTS History Books Music Kiswahili Glossary MAPS AND SMALL PRINT How to Use How to Use Cover Table of Contents

HOW TO USE THIS ROUGH GUIDE EBOOK

This Rough Guide toTanzania is one of a new generation of informative andeasy-to-use travel-guide ebooks that guarantees you make the most of yourtrip. An essential tool for pre-trip planning, it also makes a great travelcompanion when you’re on the road.
From the table ofcontents , you can click straight to the main sections of the ebook.Start with the Introduction , whichgives you a flavour of Tanzania, with details of what to see, what not tomiss, itineraries and more – everything you need to get started. This isfollowed by Basics , with pre-departuretips and practical information, such as flight details and health advice. The guide chapters offer comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the whole of the country, including area highlights and full-colour maps featuring all the sights and listings. Finally, Contexts fills you in on history, books and music and includes a handy Language section as well as a Glossary .
Detailed area maps feature in the guide chaptersand are also listed in the dedicated mapsection , accessible from the table of contents. Depending on yourhardware, you can double-tap on the maps to see larger-scale versions, orselect different scales. There are also thumbnails below more detailed maps– in these cases, you can opt to “zoom left/top” or “zoom right/bottom” orview the full map. The screen-lock function on your device is recommendedwhen viewing enlarged maps. Make sure you have the latest software updates,too.
Throughout the guide, we’ve flagged up ourfavourite places - a perfectly sited hotel, an atmospheric café, a specialrestaurant - with the “author pick” icon . You can selectyour own favourites and create a personalized itinerary by bookmarking thesights, venues and activities that are of interest, giving you the quickestpossible access to everything you’ll need for your time away.

INTRODUCTION TO TANZANIA
Lying just south of the equator, Tanzania, East Africa’s largestcountry, is an endlessly fascinating place to visit. Filling the brochures areseveral world-famous attractions: Zanzibar, with its idyllic palm-fringed IndianOcean beaches, pristine coral reefs and historic Stone Town; the almostsix-kilometre-high Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, which can be climbed ina week; and a glorious spread of wildlife sanctuaries that cover one third of thecountry, and include Ngorongoro Crater, and the dusty Serengeti plains – the classicAfrica of elephants, antelopes, lions, leopards and cheetahs. Add to this Tanzania’srich ethnic diversity, rainforest hikes, and arguably the continent’s best divingand snorkelling, and you have a holiday of a lifetime.
For all these headline grabbers, Tanzania’s richest asset is its people . Welcoming, unassuming and relaxed, they’ll treat you withuncommon warmth and courtesy. Unusually for Africa, Tanzanians have a strong andpeaceful sense of dual identity: as proud of their nationas they are of their tribe. Although most ditched their traditional modes of lifedecades ago, a handful resist, the most famous of which are the Maasai – whose fiercely proud, red-robed spear-carryingwarriors are a leitmotif for East Africa. Yet there are almost 130 other tribes, allwith rich traditions, histories, customs, beliefs and music – some of which you’llbe able to experience first-hand via Tanzania’s award-winning cultural-tomprogrammes.

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FACT FILE
Tanzania was created in 1964 through theunion of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Covering 945,203 square kilometres , Tanzaniais four times bigger than the UK, and twice the size of California. Thepopulation is 49 million. Tanzania is a multi-party democracy governedby a President. Zanzibar is semi-autonomous and has its own Presidentand legislature. Tanzania is among the world’s poorest countries, with an averagesalary of $60–100 a month, and a third of the population subsisting onunder a two dollars a day , but its economy isgrowing fast, currently seven percent a year. Tanzania is among the four most naturallydiverse nations on earth, and thirty percent of the countryis protected natural habitat. With 128 officially recognized tribes, Tanzania is second only toCongo for ethnic diversity in Africa. UnlikeCongo, Tanzania’s ethnic melange is admirably peaceful, helped along byKiswahili as a common language .

ELEPHANTS IN THE WILD

Where to go
Most visitors make a beeline for the national parks and reserves of NorthernTanzania, which includes the Serengeti , whoseannual migration of over 2.5 million wildebeest, zebra and antelope – trailed bylions and hyenas, and picked off by crocodiles at river crossings – is anawesome spectacle. Another highlight is NgorongoroCrater next door, an enormous volcanic caldera providing ayear-round haven for rhinos, and plentiful predators. Ngorongoro is also thestarting point for a wild hike to Tanzania’s only active volcano, Ol Doinyo Lengai , and on to Lake Natron , an immense salt lake appealing to flamingos anddesert fanatics alike. Less well-known parks include Tarangire , fantastic for elephants, whose size is amplycomplemented by forests of gigantic baobabs; LakeManyara , in a particularly spectacular section of the Rift Valley;and Arusha National Park , which contains thecountry’s second-highest mountain, Mount Meru .The main base for Northern Circuit safaris is Arusha , which also has a clutch of culturaltourism programmes . East of here is snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro , the week-long ascent of which isan exhausting but fulfilling challenge, while to the south are the ancientformations of the Pare and Usambara mountains , repositories of some of theworld’s most biologically diverse rainforests, especially at Amani Nature Reserve near the coast, which welldeserves its nickname of “the Galápagos of Africa”.
  Much of Central Tanzania is dry and semi-arid woodland, at the centre of which– almost a desert – is Dodoma , Tanzania’sadministrative capital. It’s mainly useful as a springboard for seeing thefabulous prehistoric rock paintings of the IrangiHills. The town of Morogoro offers hikers access to the Uluguru Mountains , another place notable for high speciesdiversity, as well as interesting local culture. Even richer are the Udzungwa Mountains : their eastern flanks are amazingfor seeing primates, while the western side is birdwatching paradise.Safari-goers are catered for by a trio of sanctuaries: the star is the vast Selous Game Reserve , housing more elephantsthan anywhere else in the country. It’s a beautiful place, too, the northernsector watered by the Rufiji River’s inland delta.
  Also good for wildlife is Ruaha National Park ,en route to southern Tanzania. Ignored by mainstream tourism, the SouthernHighlands are a walkers’ wonderland of volcanic crater lakes, dense rainforestsand craggy peaks and the flower-bedecked KituloPlateau , with over fifty species of orchid. The highlands are bestexplored in the company of a guide from the town of Mbeya, or from Tukuyu –Tanzania’s wettest place. Further south is LakeNyasa , the southernmost of the Rift Valley lakes and home tohundreds of species of colourful cichlid fish; a port-hopping trip on the weeklyferry is one of the country’s classic journeys.
  The other big Rift Valley lake is the immense LakeTanganyika – the world’s longest and second-deepest freshwaterbody, and scene of another unforgettable ferry ride. The lakeshore is also thescenic setting for two remote national parks – MahaleMountains and Gombe Stream – bothof which are home to chimpanzees . NorthwesternTanzania is dominated by the shallow LakeVictoria , the world’s second-largest freshwater lake. The views aremagnificent, and the lake’s southwestern corner contains the little-known Rubondo Island National Park , positivelyswarming with birds. Equally remote, and just as rewarding, is Kagera Region between Uganda, Rwanda and the lake,where a cultural-tourism programme gets you to places few tourists haveseen.
  The Indian Ocean is an altogether different experience. Especially recommendedis Zanzibar , one of Africa’s most famous andenticing destinations. It comprises the islands of Unguja and Pemba, which havelanguorous beaches and multicoloured coral reefs(perfect for diving and snorkelling ), ancient ruins,and – in the form of Stone Town – a fascinatingArabian-style labyrinth of narrow alleyways packed with nineteenth-centurymansions, palaces and bazaars. On the mainland, the biggest settlement is Dar es Salaam , the country’s former capitaland still its most important city, and worth hanging around in to sample itsexuberant nightlife. North of here are a series of beach resorts ( Pangani is best), the coastal Saadani National Park , and several towns involved in theni