6. 25% of all wild animals in Africa are in
Tanzania including the migration (2 million)
Second largest bird checklist after
Democratic Republic of the Congo (more
than 1,130 species recorded)
7. 28% is protected area of which 4.5% are
national parks
Second largest freshwater lake in the world
and second deepest in the world
Africa’s most famous national park and
world’s largest game reserve
Zanzibar, Olduvai (Oldupai) Gorge
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9. Ngorongoro Crater
Olduvai/Oldupai Gorge
Mt. Kilimanjaro
The Great Migration
Cultural Tourism
11. The world’s largest intact volcanic caldera
Formed when a giant volcano exploded and
collapsed some 3 million years ago
About 2,000 feet deep and 12.5 miles wide
Home to more than 25,000 large animals
including 26 black rhinos
(Source: Ngorongoro Crater Area Authority)
14. Also known as the “Cradle of Civilization”
Contains sediments interspersed with layers
of lava that date back over 2 million years
Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed a 1.8
million-year-old fossil hominin skull of
a Australopithecus boisei
(Source: National Geographic)
18. “The rooftop of Africa”
Highest mountain in Africa and tallest
freestanding mountain in the world (19,341
feet)
Inactive volcano with seven distinctive peaks
Variety of climate types and year-round,
snow-topped peak
(Source: Sevennaturalwonders.org)
21. Longest and largest land migration in the
world
More than 2 million animals travel 500 miles
from southern Tanzania to the Maasai Mara
Reserve in Kenya
About 1.5 million wildebeest and 200,000 zebra
The weather and the cycle of four seasons
influence the migration
(Source: Maasaimara.com)
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27. About 3,000 lions prey on the “moving feast”
and on resident herbivores
Maasai Mara has one of the largest densities of
lion in the world
Hyenas are perhaps the most numerous
predator of the large carnivores, totaling
about 7,500
31. The country ranks among the most ethnically
diverse in the word with more than 120 tribes
About 1 million Maasai live in Kenya and
Tanzania
The Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Maasai Mara,
Amboseli, and Tarangire game reserves are
located inside the Maasai region
(Source: Tanzaniasafariguide.com)