2. 1. Why Tanzania?
2. Attractions
3. Why RoadScholar?
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6.  25% of all wild animals in Africa are in
Tanzania including the migration (2 million)
 Second largest bird checklist after
Democratic Republic of the Congo (more
than 1,130 species recorded)

7.  28% is protected area of which 4.5% are
national parks
 Second largest freshwater lake in the world
and second deepest in the world
 Africa’s most famous national park and
world’s largest game reserve
 Zanzibar, Olduvai (Oldupai) Gorge

9.  Ngorongoro Crater
 Olduvai/Oldupai Gorge
 Mt. Kilimanjaro
 The Great Migration
 Cultural Tourism

10. NGORONGORO CRATER

11.  The world’s largest intact volcanic caldera
 Formed when a giant volcano exploded and
collapsed some 3 million years ago
 About 2,000 feet deep and 12.5 miles wide
 Home to more than 25,000 large animals
including 26 black rhinos
(Source: Ngorongoro Crater Area Authority)

13. OLDUVAI GORGE

14.  Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization”
 Contains sediments interspersed with layers
of lava that date back over 2 million years
 Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed a 1.8
million-year-old fossil hominin skull of
a Australopithecus boisei
(Source: National Geographic)

17. MOUNT KILIMANJARO

18.  “The rooftop of Africa”
 Highest mountain in Africa and tallest
freestanding mountain in the world (19,341
feet)
 Inactive volcano with seven distinctive peaks
 Variety of climate types and year-round,
snow-topped peak
(Source: Sevennaturalwonders.org)

20. THE GREAT MIGRATION

21.  Longest and largest land migration in the
world
 More than 2 million animals travel 500 miles
from southern Tanzania to the Maasai Mara
Reserve in Kenya
 About 1.5 million wildebeest and 200,000 zebra
 The weather and the cycle of four seasons
influence the migration
(Source: Maasaimara.com)

27.  About 3,000 lions prey on the “moving feast”
and on resident herbivores
 Maasai Mara has one of the largest densities of
lion in the world
 Hyenas are perhaps the most numerous
predator of the large carnivores, totaling
about 7,500

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31.  The country ranks among the most ethnically
diverse in the word with more than 120 tribes
 About 1 million Maasai live in Kenya and
Tanzania
 The Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Maasai Mara,
Amboseli, and Tarangire game reserves are
located inside the Maasai region
(Source: Tanzaniasafariguide.com)

35. MTO WA MBU VILLAGE

40.  Accommodations
 Safari Vehicles
 Guides/Lectures

41. MOUNT MERU HOTEL, ARUSHA

43. King Size bed

50. YOUR JOURNEY AWAITS

51. The End