Travel2Africa Tanzania&Kenya Safaris

Tanzania is among the best safaris destinations in East Africa.Various features including Kilimanjaro mountain(Africa summit),Ngorongoro crater(cradle of Mankind),Serengeti national park(Home of Predators and Wildebeest migration),Tarangire,Ruaha,Selous game reserve Islands of Zanzibar,Pemba and Mafia offers excellent holiday opportunities.

The Hadzabe live around Lake Eyasi to the south of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania. They are the last remaining ancestors of the original hunter-gatherer tribes who first inhabited Tanzania.They are skilled hunters, and use a number of methods to attract game within range of their arrows, including the use of the horns of an antelope, attaching them to their heads while mimicking the animal’s characteristic bobbing walk, which draws other curious animals closer. Another method is to hide under an animal skin, and wait for vultures to land, when they can easily be caught. The Hadzabe supplement their diet with roots,plants, and honey. The Hadzabe are not a Bantu race like the other peoples of Tanzania, but have more in common with the San Bushmen found in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, nearly 2000 miles away. They tend to be small in stature, physically slight, and have lighter coloured skin than most Africans. Their language too contains ma...

Forests of tamarind, mahogany, and fig in the north are set in contrast to the wide-open grasslands of the park center. The tall trees of the ground water forest are teeming with monkeys while elephants can often be seen on the slope of the escarpment amongst the baobab trees. In the acacia woodland, lions can be seen sprawled out in the heat of the day on the stout branches of the umbrella trees, while enormous hippos cool themselves in the pools along the lake shore.