Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Tanzania
Two rainy seasons rather than one, a migration that is a circuit with no beginning, and the reason the cheapest months are cheap.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Tanzania: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Selous Game Reserve: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Fifty thousand square kilometers of miombo woodland and sand rivers, and the only Tanzanian property currently in danger.
Heritage
Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Two Swahili port cities that minted their own coinage, roofed a mosque in domes, and were called the most beautiful in the world.
Heritage
Serengeti National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
One and a half million hectares of grassland, the largest unaltered migration left on earth, and the rocks that give it its shape.
Heritage
Kilimanjaro National Park: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The highest mountain in Africa, inscribed on a single criterion, and five vegetation zones walked through in under a week.
Heritage
Ngorongoro Conservation Area: Visitor and Heritage Guide
A caldera, a hominin record four million years deep, and a property inscribed for both, with five criteria and a Danger List decade.
Destination
Tanzania
Kilimanjaro, the medieval trading ruins of Kilwa Kisiwani, and seven World Heritage sites across a country of mountain, plain and coast.
Heritage
Ngorongoro Conservation Area: A History Between Human, Heritage and Wildlife
The crater is one part of an 809,440-hectare World Heritage property that also holds Olduvai Gorge, the Laetoli footprints, Maasai pastoral communities and an unresolved argument about who conservation is for.
Heritage
Tanzania: A Land That Echoes with Rich and Diverse History and Heritage
Archaeological sites, rock shelters, Swahili coastal towns and a language spoken by 200 million people: a guide to the heritage landscapes of Tanzania, and how to travel among them responsibly.
Contributor
Alex William Machage
Tanzanian tour operator and historian writing on heritage landscapes, conservation and the communities living inside them.