Northern Tanzania: The Bradt Safari Guide with Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar
Author: Philip Briggs2nd edition • JULY 2009304 PAGES • 16 PAGES OF COLOUR PHOTOS • 20 MAPSISBN: 978 1 84162 292 7
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The north is the most popular destination for first-time visitors to Tanzania. The second edition of this tightly focused guide is fully updated throughout, including revised information on the best accommodation in every price bracket, from luxury lodges to simple hotels and hostels, and the best of the safaris. There's specific coverage of the wildlife and natural history of the region, making it the indispensable companion to a safari in northern Tanzania's renowned national parks. Plus there's an introduction to the Swahili language.
• Choosing a safari – the hows, whys and wheres of the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Manyara
• Natural history in depth, with a separate wildlife guide
• Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and relaxing in Zanziba
Northern Tanzania at a Glance
Includes the Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Mount Kilimanjaro amongst other national parks, and detailed descriptions and listings for the access towns of Arusha and Moshi.
Capital City:
Dodoma
Currency:
Tanzanian shilling (Tsh)
Language:
KiSwahili and English; over 100 regional languages
International Telephone Code:
+255
ISBN-13: 9781841622927
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“…but here he has done an outstanding job for the North. His clear style, balanced judgments and immense knowledge alone make the book worth reading. Briggs’ love for Africa, and his deep respect for its people, inform and illuminate the whole experience. It goes without saying that both titles are supported by the immense apparatus of practical information we have come to expect from this publisher. This information includes all aspects of health and safety, which leaves the Rough Guide to Travel Survival in something of a limbo. Its coverage is universal, and no doubt very sound, but rather thin. Bilharzia, for example, the bane of many parts of Africa, gets a mere mention, where both Bradts give it a full page…”
Travel Africa, Apr 06
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An excellent guide.”
G E Clarke, UK
“Excellent.”
S Vahidi
“Very practical and accurate. Very concise and clearly illuminated. Very useful for planning a visit and invaluable when in the country.”
B H Archer
"Useful."
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Background Information
Chapter 2 Practical Information
Chapter 3 Arusha
Chapter 4 Around Arusha
Chapter 5 Moshi
Chapter 6 Mount Kilimanjaro National Park
Chapter 7 Tarangire and the Central Rift Valley
Chapter 8 Lake Manyara and the Northern Rift Valley
Chapter 9 Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Chapter 10 Serengeti National Park
Chapter 11 Lake Victoria
Chapter 12 Zanzibar
Appendix 1 Wildlife
Appendix 2 Language
Appendix 3 Further Information
Index
About the Author
Johannesburg resident Philip Briggs is a travel writer and tour leader specialising in East and southern Africa. Born in Britain and raised in South Africa, he started travelling in East Africa in 1986, and his first book, Guide to South Africa, was published by Bradt in 1991.
Since then Philip has written or co-written numerous books on the African continent including Bradt travel guides to Northern Tanzania, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, and East & Southern Africa, as well as Bradt's East African Wildlife guide. He also writes regularly for magazines including Africa Geographic, Travel Africa and Africa Birds & Birding.
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Notes from the Author
Tanzania/Kenya, savannah, Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem
"This vast cross-border ecosystem, centred on Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park and Kenya’s abutting Maasai Mara Reserve, is Africa’s premier game viewing destination - no ifs or buts about it!
Impressive on every conceivable level, the Serengeti-Mara is surely without equal for predators. Trademark blond-maned lions lounge nonchalantly in the shade, solitary cheetahs pace the open plains, hyenas lope and sniff around their subterranean dens – even leopard are seen regularly in specific areas. Smaller plains residents include the dainty bat-eared fox, all three African jackal species, and half-a-dozen endemic birds, while punctuating koppies (granite outcrops) are frequented by the colourful agama lizard, scurrying rock hyrax and dainty klipspringer.
A great many upmarket lodges - some say too many - operate on both sides of the border, ranging from impersonal ‘hotels in the bush’ to intimate luxury tented camps. Somewhat obtusely, crossing directly between the Mara and Serengeti is forbidden, so most visitors opt for one or other reserve/country. For pure game viewing, the Mara possibly has the edge, but the Serengeti is more extensive, with remote corners such as Lobo and the Western Corridor still carrying remarkably little tourist traffic. If it’s wildebeest you’re after, December to March is when they calve in the southern Serengeti, moving northward through Lobo or the Western Corridor over May to July, then concentrating in the Mara from August to October."
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