Hey everybody hope you're doing well today we're actually going to be talking
about great things to do in Tanzania it's actually comes down as a great time
because we're gonna be running our first photography tour to Tanzania in August
so make sure you check the link below if you're interested it's gonna be awesome
and if you like our videos we're gonna be doing a lot more top 10 throughout
the summer because we have been to more than a hundred countries over the past
20 years of travel we spent a lot of time in each country so we can do a good
little our top ten tips of what to see and do at each one that we've been to so
stay tuned this is the first of our series
So most people when they're
heading to Tanzania
are going to visit Arusha and this is highly recommended
first you have to go to the Arusha cultural center which has all these
incredible crafts masks anything you want that is Tanzanian you can find at
this place it has also Africa art from all over the continent it's one of the
best displays of African art that I have ever seen
so you have to go and they'll even ship everything home for you if you decide to
buy something and while you're there just down the street you have to go to
the Shanga village this is a really great place it's a it is an artisan
place where they help people with disabilities hone their skills so that
they can sell their own arts and crafts and it's really uplifting to go to and
these artisans they are very talented and it's sustainable and you get to
watch them make it and you can buy it afterwards to help support that whole
operation
Now if you're in Tanzania you're gonna visit a lot of national
parts one that we highly recommend is Lake Manyara which is an alkaline Lake
that's pretty famous for its pink flamingos it is so wicked to see them
millions of birds flying around you can walk out on a boardwalk to go
see everything closer there's hippos in the water it's really a spectacular
scene and there is a lot of wildlife there as well we saw just an incredible
display of baboons I'm talking but probably thousands of baboons it was
like Planet of the Apes was awesome it was one of the coolest things where we
saw giraffes on the shore I've never seen anything like it it was pretty
awesome there were at least 15 to 20 giraffes we
saw in one spot just standing like statues it was gorgeous definitely go
there for sure now no visit to Tanzania would be complete without visiting a
Maasai village now this is something that you have to go and do and get a
feel for what it was like for the Masai tribes and living out there in Tanzania
yeah it's become a little bit touristy now because you know what everybody
there they're one of the most organized tribes in all of Africa for getting
tourists to come and see their way of life got tourism down yeah but but it is
really fascinating to see and to see them in their traditional dress and
visit their village just one word of warning do not let them talk don't don't
let them talk to you in two by two months a lot of people really get taken
for a ride there and everyone that was in our van with us they felt really bad
about the amount of money they spent in the village so you know what you can
barter with them we got some great crafts for a very reasonable price and
if you don't want to buy anything at all you can say no
now I know one place that I always wanted to visit in Tanzania was e'en
Goro and Goro crater not just because the name is so cool but it's this
incredible ecosystem with like houses like 45,000 animals it's it's absolutely
incredible to see and it's all surrounded by this giant caldera all of
the animals are inside living in harmony and this is the largest non submerged
non broken caldera in the world so it's pretty cool to see just in its own right
and then to see these zebras and lions all living in harmony I felt like I was
in a little world of utopia it felt like a Disney cartoon it did it felt like I
was in the Lion King actually
a lot of people don't think of Terran Gary National Park but it is very cool
because it's one of the only national parks that has it's surrounded
completely by civilization so you know you're right out there and there are
communities all around the park and this is a place where we really had some
really cool moment yeah we got to see lions in trees which is something that
you don't see very often at all our first time ever yeah so it's pretty
unique to that area also just the sheer amount of elephants that we saw in this
park was enough to absolutely blow your mind yeah it was really cool watching
the elephants and the zebras and the Buffalo all walking to the watering hole
is really neat because they're all walking together at once and then we had
lunch over the watering hole and we were watching them all drink and graze and
then they cropped and they moved on it was very cool and that's where we
actually had that remember that bull elephant experience where it was like so
close to us and almost like you did like a fake charge it freaked everybody out
yeah well when you see elephants on their own it's usually either an old
male that's been kicked out of the pack or a young male that's been kicked out
of a kicked out of the pack and he has to go find his own place so they can be
a little bit aggressive entry provoking yeah it was there we saw the ostriches
mating well I had never seen that before it was wild we watched the whole ostrich
dance meeting I loved it it was very it was very unique to see that I think I
remember when our guide stopped he's like you have to see this and it was
definitely well worth it one of the things we are doing on our photography
tour is we are going to go to the Great Migration Dave and I haven't yet get to
do this so this is gonna be a first for us but we have taken a balloon safari
over the Great Plains of Africa before and then I can't wait to do it during
the migration I'm definitely going that's in one for sure I think it's one
of the best things you can ever do it's extremely expensive they range anywhere
from 400 to 700 dollars for a balloon ride but if you're going to do one once
in your life you have got to do it yeah this is the place to do it it gives you
that unique vantage point to take in those beautiful plains of Africa and see
wildlife running it's just like you're in a movie and you get to stop and land
in the middle of the Serengeti and have some champagne and a picnic for
breakfast we're all about the same like that part now a place that doesn't get
visited a whole lot would be the older by or old pi gourds which is the cradle
of civilization it is so cool because this is basically where humans began
this is the first human existence this is where they found the remains of the
first humanoid hominoids I should say this was their walking path their
migration area dating back three million years so it is just really cool to see
and it's a really beautiful sight I would love to go hiking through the yeah
so there's a lot of great cultural experiences in Tanzania and is one for
sure that you have to do is visit the Iraq village this was I love this way
more than visiting the Maasai village it was just really a real experience he got
in there and you were singing and dancing with the villagers you met the
chief of the tribe we all they dressed us in their songs and their headdresses
it was so much fun and when everybody came out like the whole village came out
when they were playing the drums and all the women are playing the drums and the
men are dancing and it was just such a you really felt like you were sort of in
the heart of Africa that you know it really was you how do you do you can't
help but absorb it all one of the things you can't miss in Tanzania is the beauty
and sheer size of the Rift Valley this is so spectacular it actually spans
almost the whole continent of Africa it starts in Lebanon and then it goes all
the way down to Mozambique we stayed in this amazing hotel called dillema mojo
lodge that had the most incredible view overlooking the valley valley oh yeah
Dave and I we we cycled through the Rift Valley before and we've seen the Rift
Valley before but I never seen it from this vantage so it was filthy but it
really because it really gave you an appreciation for how huge this you know
beautiful lush part of the Rift Valley is and to stand there and watch the Sun
Rise over that that's a moment you will never forget and engineer
it is the mother of all safari destinations on earth I'm talking
there's nowhere better than beef Serengeti and I think one of the reasons
that it really stands out is not only is sheer size but I think that its sheer
density of lions like when you're going on safari truthfully you're going to see
some lions right that's what you want to see the most the king of the the king of
the jungle the king of the Serengeti and there's no doubt in my mind that if you
go there you will see a lion oh you see everything on one day we saw it
I'm not lying 20 lions we saw a bunch of mothers and Cubs we saw three male lion
stalking elephants we saw elephants stalking Lions we sell lions chasing a
female trying to mate with her it was absolutely spectacular and then we ended
off the day seeing a leopard climb a tree you know how rare that is it's
amazing then the Serengeti you're just gonna
have a really great chance of seeing it and the reason you do also is because
everyone always spent several days in the Serengeti you got three nights in
the Serengeti where you're really going to get to see all the big five do you
know what the big five are Dame the big five are leopard lion elephant buffalo
what's the last one did you say rhino no right oh there we go the poor cheetah
doesn't make the big guys but it is is really cool to see cheetahs yes I'm
putting at it
all right drum roll please what is our number one recommendation to do when you
go to Tanzania is to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for anyone who's an
adventurer out there this is like really at the top of the list it's the highest
peak in Africa there's two different routes going up Kilimanjaro there's the
whiskey root which is the tough one that we did or there's the Pepsi route which
is the one that's said that's a little bit easier
you won't be disappointed no matter which one you do because both have
spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro and they both take you up to the summit
and you don't have to have any climbing experience I recommend if you are doing
the whiskey route the Mushaf a route that we did that you have a little that
you are comfortable scrambling because you are doing a little bit of cher cliff
walk scrambles you know if where you have to have three points of contact at
all times but if you don't have any experience this is something you can do
if you're fit if it's always something you've wanted to push yourself to the
limit do that ultimate bucket list bragging rights trip this is the one to
do it is something I will never forget and it's my number one choice definitely
I agree a hundred percent actually on our photography tour we are going to
Zanzibar as well it's such a great place to relax after you've taken in all the
wildlife from the culture of Tanzania and but a lot of people don't know is
this actually the birthplace of Freddie Mercury Zanzibar also has some of the
best beaches in the world they're white sandy beaches that go
really far out during the tide it's really cool to see because all the boats
they just sit on the shore yeah and then everyone goes out and starts looking for
clams and things like that so it's really wild you have to go spend some
time in the beach and do some of the watersports so those are our
recommendations for what you should do when you're in Tanzania take a look at
them choose the ones that you think are right for you and hey if you're looking
for a great adventure make sure to check out the link below because we are doing
our photography tour there in August of this year and hey come on and join us
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