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Northern Tanzania

Tony Clemens
2005-08-31 21:43:52

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I don't live in a major metropoliticial area so cheap seats are something I only read about. Local travel agents are only use to booking all-inclusive trips to Florida or Cuba. I ended up using a local agent to book a flight to London, England and obtained my own ticket to Kenya from a bucketshop in London. Note I said Kenya even though I was going to Tanzania. Nairobi International airport is one of the busiest airports in Africa so cheap seats are easily obtained. An airline that might only fly into Tanzania once a week will have daily flights to Nairobi. Arusha, the capital of safaria north is about 5 hours by road from Nairobi.

Arusha National Park

Arusha is a small city which sits at the foot of Mount Meru and has a year round temperate climate. Many National Parks are nearby so Arusha is the starting point of safaris of the northern parks. Nearby is the rarely visited Arusha National Park where Mt. Meru is located. This is the second highest mountain in Tanzania and fifth highest in Africa. Its a three day trek to the top. Because of its close promixity to Arusha there are no lions or rhinos but plenty of other animals. In fact, the park is nicknamed Giraffic Park because of its giraffe population. They slowly walked right in front and behind our vehicle. You will probably also see black-faced colobus monkeys, rarely seen in other parks.

Lake Maynard National Park

The first park many people visit is Lake Maynard National Park located at the base of the Rift Valley. Its only a small park but contains plenty of elephants, wildebeest, zebras and several antelope species. The grunting of hippos was heard but none were seen, the water level of the lake prevented us from getting too close to the water edge, unless we wanted to risk getting stuck. Watch out for the aggressive baboons. Rumor has it that this ...