Discover Tanzania on a Safari Tour
Tanzania is officially known as the United Republic of Tanzania and it is situated in East Africa. In 1964 two states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar united and turn out to be the United Republic of Tanzania. Tanzania is the oldest recognized inhabited area on earth. It usually has a tropical climate. Its economy is mostly agricultural which provides over half of its monies. Tourism is becoming a very essential part of the economy also. Tanzania is wealthy in natural resources and has gold mines, natural gas, diamonds and iron plus many others.
The money is the Tanzania Shilling. The official language is both Swahili and English. Tanzania has Kenya and Uganda to the North and Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west and on the east of Tanzania is the Indian Ocean. So if you are preparing one of the Tanzania safari tours you could combine a trip to Tanzania with one of the bordering nations in Africa.
When you are considering about Tanzania safari tours in East Africa you have to consider the time of year that your strategy to travel. Like a lot of Africa, there are the dry months, the wet months when rainfall is the heaviest and those months in in between where you may get light rain, no rain or extremely short periods of rain. You can take Tanzania safari tours in the North American summer months of June, July and August when you might see the wild animals like the various females with babies and the area is greener because of the rainfall in the preceding spring.
The dry winter months are the higher season in Africa and this is when you have to plan your bookings additional in advance and the safaris price much more throughout those months. The peak season is the end of the dry summer time months like mid August to mid September when the land has been dry and the animals usually congregate about traditional watering holes so the chances of seeing most of them is higher at that time. Particularly if you are planning Tanzania safari tours this is the region where wildlife is at it greatest. So Tanzania is exactly where you would want to take that safari particularly to view wildlife.
Within the area of Tanzania are many national parks such as Serengeti National Park which was established in 1951. It is where a big annual migration of animals happens and is regarded as the best wildlife reserve in Africa because of the big amount of animals within the park. With an area of 5700 miles it has grasslands in the south where Wildebeest breed. This park is usually divided into three components, the plains or grasslands, the Western Corridor which is swampy savannas which contains the Grumeti River which is house to the Nile crocodile and the Northern Serengeti with its open woodlands and hills plus bushy savanna which is house to elephants and the giraffe.
