Kategorie: Tansania
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Lake Manyara
From Tarangire it is only a few kilometers to a completely different national park: Lake Manyara. Its highlights are the many (water) birds and the famous tree lions that are typical here and in Elizabeth Park in Uganda. By the way, they are not a species of their own, but smart lions who flee from…
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Ngorongoro Crater
A piece of Eden in Africa, the Ngorongoro-Serengeti ecosystem, once the exclusive habitat of the Maasai. We start with a day in the Ngorongoro Crater. From Karatu you climb a steep mountain forest and cannot find a suitable superlative when you reach the top of the crater rim. The view into the 600 meters deep,…
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Serengeti (1)
Boundless space, storybook savannahs and an adventurous wildlife. This is how Professor Grzimek once awakened the understanding and longing for Africa. With its adjacent conservatories, the Serengeti has the size of the Netherlands and with the unimaginable number of 3 million larger mammals, it’s the game richest national park. Endlose Weiten, Bilderbuch-Savannen und eine Tierwelt…
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Serengeti (2) – Migration
Two thirds of the three million mammals are wildebeests, zebras and Thomson gazelle, which (often followed by lions accompanying their food) participate in this unimaginable annual migration through the vastness of Serengeti and Maasai Mara. Serengeti migration is the last mass migration of wildlife on Earth. Circular, clockwise, they migrate 1,000 km west in May/June…
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Serengeti (3) – for cat lovers
Nine lions. Batteries are charged and the fridge is full. I could sit and watch for hours. Als wir den badenden Elefanten zusahen, gab uns ein Guide den Tip, wo zwei Löwen liegen. Als wir ankamen waren es neun!
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Bye Tanzania
Four remarkable differences of East Africa to the South. – Impressive are the huge animal herds (wildebeest, zebras, buffalos, elephants). What we lack (on this trip) is the loneliness of a Hoarusib valley in Namibia and the confrontation with transient cultures like the Himbas. – What you get in the parks for quite a lot…
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Back again
We’re back in Africa. „We“ – that’s a small team this year: Lore, Walter and Toyo. who celebrated (really?) his 30th birthday in April. In a garage at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro together with other two- and four-wheeled off-roaders from Toyota, Rover and BMW. „Africa“ – means only two countries this year, Tanzania and…
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Ready to go. Almost …
We spend two nights at Kili-House. On the one hand because nine months in a dusty garage makes a basic cleaning of Toyo necessary. Plus we have to buy the compulsory insurances, pay road tolls and stockpile beer, wine, water as well as noodles, apples, cookies as well as …. We only drove 5 km…
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Zanzibar
An island that contains all the ingredients for an exotic holiday: A place full of mysterious stories, memories of princesses and adventurers, scents of cloves and frangipani, palm-fringed beaches, turquoise sea to the horizon and the fascinating underwater world of the Indian Ocean. A total contrast and at the same time the ideal complement to…
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Stone Town
Zanzibar’s cultural must-see is Stone Town, an UNESCO World Heritage Site. After Zanzibar was first owned by the Portuguese, the archipelago came under the rule of the Sultan of Oman in 1698 and became rich by trading slaves and cloves. Money that helped to build houses from coral stone, a completely new type of construction…