Where to Visit in Tanzania | Best Tanzania Safari Destinations

Where to Visit in Tanzania | Best Tanzania Safari Destinations for a Tanzania Safaris tour. Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa with numerous wildlife inhabiting the country’s conservation areas. There are very many tourist destinations in Tanzania ranging from national parks to conservation areas.

However, there are those places where wildlife viewing offers very spectacular experiences, and these according to several tourist experiences are the top places to visit in Tanzania. For the best Tanzania safari destination experiences, choose these and many more places to visit.

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park is one of the most famous Tanzania wildlife safari game drives destinations. The park is renowned for a large concentration of wildlife including the great migration which includes about two million wildebeest.

Serengeti is almost endless grassy plains covering about 14,750 square kilometers with the oldest ecology in the country. This is the second-largest protected area in Tanzania after Selous Game Reserve.

The park is located in the northern corridor 7 hours’ drive from the tourist city of Arusha driving through the Lake Manyara region, Ngorongoro Conservation Area as well as the Serengeti National Park.

You also go through the Maasai warrior Manyatas where cultural tourism is done. From the kopjes in the north to the acacia dotted endless plains to the south a stay in Serengeti is amazing as you can spend time in different points of the park and feel like it’s all a new experience.

Serengeti National Park borders the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the south and the Masai Mara National Reserve of Kenya in the North where the wildebeest also roam to.

The Ngorongoro Conservation Area has open plains with little dotted trees which attract highly nutritious grass which attracts wildebeest, especially in January for the calving season which takes about 2 months then after migrating back to the central Serengeti area when the newly born have the strength to walk for long distances.

Where to Visit in Tanzania | Best Tanzania Safari Destinations

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro crater within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is one of the highly visited areas in Africa. This is the world’s largest inactive, unbroken and unfilled volcanic caldera formed when a large volcano erupted and collapsed on itself about 3 million years ago.

This is one of the most beautiful natural wildlife safari destinations in Africa exceptional for high-density wildlife viewing. Ngorongoro crater is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Ngorongoro crater measures between 16 to 19 kilometers by diameter covering a total land area of 264 square kilometers (103 square miles). The rims of the crater are much raised to almost 2,000 feet (about 610 meters) above the crater floor.

Ngorongoro Crater is situated in the Northern part of Tanzania around the tourism region of Arusha. From the safari capital of Arusha, the crater lies about 120 km in the west. The crater can be accessed by road or air depending on the individual’s interest.

The Ngorongoro crater is unique because it is one of its kind, the world’s largest inactive, unbroken and unfilled volcanic caldera.

The crater also has a unique micro-climate that makes it enjoyable for wildlife viewing all year round. Since wildlife mainly stays in the crater all year round, the crater is good to visit any time.

However, during the rainy season, Lake Magadi found within the crater get higher water levels that attract higher concentrations of flamingos. The crater floor can get busy with safari vehicles and unique for a visit all year round.

Zanzibar Island – Where to Visit in Tanzania

For adventure lovers, couples, families, and honeymooners you better be headed for the beaches in Zanzibar. The “spice island” has flawless landscapes from serene forests to smooth white sand beaches.

There are also a lot of things to see as you relax at the beaches and these include historic forts, coral reefs, exotic markets, and many more.

While at the beaches, it is the perfect time to relax and to go adventurous why not go snorkeling on the southeast coast or swim with dolphins at Fumba or Kizimkazi.

Gombe and the Mahale Mountains – Where to Visit in Tanzania

Tanzania isn’t the ultimate chimpanzee trekking destination, however, it is a unique chimp tracking place. Mahale Mountains National Park is home to one of Africa’s most studied chimpanzee populations and Gombe streams have a small population that lives in a great environment.

Gombe streams are just 16 miles north of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania and were made famous due to the pioneering work of Jane Goodall who founded a behavioral research program in the 2960s and is still running.

Around 1000 chimpanzees roam around the isolated and lush rainforest of Mahale just above the beaches of Lake Tanganyika. On a chimpanzee trekking safari in these unique settings, tourists walk through guided trails in search of the chimps.

The trek is guided by clues like the previous night’s nest, shadowy clumps high in the trees, fresh dung, or scraps of half-eaten fruit.

Watching the chimpanzees swing through the forests is amazing, it feels like being so close to nature unlike when on a game drive.

These and many more are the places to visit in Tanzania that can be included in an East African safari itinerary. Within the region, we also plan Uganda safaris, Kenya tours as well as gorilla tracking in Uganda safaris.