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Tanzania Travel Video
Tanzania Travel Video - Wildlife galore, idyllic beaches, snow-capped Kilimanjaro, moss-covered ruins, friendly people, fascinating cultures -- Tanzania has all this and more wrapped up in one adventurous and welcoming package.
More than almost any other destination, Tanzania is the land of safaris. Thousands of wildebeest stampede across the Serengeti plains. Hundreds of hippos jostle for space in wild Katavi National Park. Massive elephant herds pass through Tarangire National Park on their seasonal migration routes. Chimpanzees swing through the treetops in the lushly forested Mahale Mountains. Wherever you go in the country, there are unparalleled opportunities to experience wildlife. Take a boat safari down the Rufiji River in Selous Game Reserve, past snoozing crocodiles and elephants cavorting on the riverbank. Watch a giraffe silhouetted against an ancient baobab tree in lovely Ruaha National Park, while zebras graze placidly nearby. Sit motionless as fish eagles soar overhead in Rubondo Island National Park and waterbirds peck in the shallows. See flamingos wading in Lake Manyara National Park, and hold your breath while a lion pads in front of your vehicle in Ngorongoro Crater.
Wonderful Tanzania Travel Video!!!
Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania, Ukerewe,
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Ukara is 10 km north of Ukerewe, in the southeastern corner of Lake Victoria
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Geography
Location Lake Victoria
Coordinates 1.839207°S 33.048935°E
Area 80 km2 (31 sq mi)
Administration
Tanzania
Demographics
Population 16,000
Pop. density 200 /km2 (500 /sq mi)
Ukara is an island in Lake Victoria. Part of Tanzania, it is located 10 km north of Ukerewe Island, in the Ukerewe District, Mwanza Region. Also known as Bukara.[1]
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Tanzania-Africa Part 1
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Tanzania,
At 947,300 km², Tanzania is the world's 31st-largest country. Compared to other African countries, it is slightly smaller than Egypt and comparable in size to Nigeria.
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peakTanzania is mountainous in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro,Africa's highest peak, is situated. To the north and west are the Great Lakes of respectively Lake Victoria (Africa's largest lake) and Lake Tanganyika (the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish) -- and to the southwest lies Lake Nyasa. Central Tanzania comprises a large plateau, with plains and arable land. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the island of Zanzibar lying just offshore.
Tanzania contains many large and ecologically significant wildlife parks,including the famous Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park in the north, and Selous Game Reserve and Mikumi National Park in the south. Gombe National Park in the west is known as the site of Dr. Jane Goodall's studies of chimpanzee behaviour.
The government of Tanzania through its department of tourism has embarked on a campaign to promote the Kalambo water falls in the southwestern region of Rukwa as one of Tanzania's main tourist destinations. The Kalambo Falls are the second highest in Africa and are located near the southern tip of Lake Tanganyika. The Menai Bay Conservation Area is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.
Tanzania has considerable wildlife habitat, including much of the Serengeti plain, where the white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi) and other bovids participate in a large-scale annual migration. Up to 250,000 wildebeest perish each year in the long and arduous movement to find forage in the dry season. Tanzania is also home to 130 amphibian and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic and included in the IUCN Red Lists of different countries.
Savanna at Ngorongoro Conservation Area.Tanzania has developed a Biodiversity Action Plan to address species conservation. A recently discovered species of elephant shrew called Grey-faced Sengi was filmed for the first time in 2005, and it was known to live in just two forests in the Udzungwa Mountains. In 2008, it was listed as vulnerable on the 2008 Red List of Threatened Species. Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is the largest breeding site for the threatened Lesser Flamingo, a huge community of which nest in the salt marshes of the lake. Areas of East African mangroves on the coast are also important habitats.
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( Swahili: Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern border lies on the Indian Ocean.
The country is divided into 26 regions, 5 on the semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar, and 21 on the mainland in the former Tanganyika.The head of state is President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, elected in 2005. Since 1996, the official capital of Tanzania has been Dodoma, where Parliament and some government offices are located.Between independence and 1996, the main coastal city of Dar es Salaam served as the country's political capital. Today, Dar es Salaam remains the principal commercial city of Tanzania and the de facto seat of most government institutions. It is the major seaport for the country and its landlocked neighbours.
The name Tanzania derives from the names of the two states, Tanganyika and Zanzibar, that united in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, which later the same year was renamed the United Republic of Tanzania. See also Articles of Union which are the main foundation of Tanzania.Wikipedia
Kitulo Plateau National Park
Bustani ya Mungu, Serengeti of flowers. Shot from over 33 miles of drone in a few days flying with the Phantom 4.
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Essential Destinations - Fanjove's Dolphins
The winds rules the seas and decides the weather conditions. The Kusi (the southern winds) are over and now turning to Matilai (eastern gentle wind) with some sprouts of Kaskazi (northern wind). We had some few days of Kaskazi which is the wind of the monsoon that brought some rains. Obviously nobody is too happy to spend a holiday by the beach under the rain. but worry not! It is actually a beautiful experience! The rain never lasts long, it builds up over few sunny and hot days until the clouds pile up and within
an hour or so they make the sky turn black and pour down very refreshing and needed water. And as the clouds came so they go and the sun shines again to make the water look as a swimming pool again.
Since the change of the winds the sea some days can be as flat as oil, the swahili say it's flat as a tarmac road..
The sea has given us some beautiful sea horses just in front of the beach
and both bottle nose as well as spinner dolphins are now much easier to see,
especially when the sea is like a tarmac road..
Crossing Lake Victoria,the Largest Lake in Africa
My journey started from Nyegezi Bus Terminal in Mwanza City, then headed to Kigongo Ferry to cross the L.Victoria to the other regions, despite of been the largest lake in this video you will learn aot of things about the history of lake and the amazing facts about the lake.
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The Dangerous Waves of Lake Victoria
Migingo Island, Africa | The Fishing Paradise
Our life is full of contradiction - sometimes vast areas remain virtually untapped human. This is what happened with a small island called Migingo, which is situated in African Lake Victoria, the size of island is 2,000-square-meter or 0.49-acre. The Lake Victoria, one of the world’s biggest bodies of fresh water, which 30 million impoverished Africans depend on for their survival, may be running out of these fish. According to a recent study, Nile perch stocks are down by nearly 70 percent, threatening a crucial industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Migingo island area can only be compared with the size of a regular football field, but the population of this island is only 300. Active development of these places started relatively recently - even before 1991, there were only rocky shores, greenly and reptiles zone. But in the adjacent waters vodilsya is very valuable fish species and large quantities of Nile Perch.
The story of this island is quite interesting, In 2008-09 this island was claimed by Uganda and Kenya, But territorial ownership of the island has been consistently shown on map and language of official as Kenya. The Ugandan protests revolve around the lucrative fishing rights, mostly for valuable Nile perch, and Ugandan waters come within about 510 metres or 1,670 ft of the island. In July 2009 the Ugandan government shifted its official position, stating that while Migingo Island was Kenyan, much of the waters near it were Ugandan, but continued to point out that Kenyan fisherman were illegally fishing in Ugandan waters which lie about 500 meters to the west of Migingo, the Ugandan flag was lowered, Uganda withdrew its military troops, and agreed that all its police officers would leave the island.
Today almost all the inhabitants of the island are somehow related to fishing - every day from coast to cast off more than a hundred boats with gear, and local bazaars conducted a brisk trade in freshly caught fish. Cash momentum on this small piece of land is just crazy and make millions of dollars, because perch are exported to the mainland and from there exported to EU countries. Despite the huge earnings by African standards - about three hundred dollars a day - the locals live in appalling conditions. Their shacks are built of metal sheets and wood, and life leaves much to be desired. But on Migingo has several bars, a pharmacy and even a beauty salon!
The much larger Usingo Island is 200 metres or 660 ft to the east of the small white rectangle that is Migingo, and Pyramid Island, the largest of the three, is 2 kilometres or 1.2 mi due south of Migingo and 11 kilometres or 6.8 mi north of the Tanzanian border in Lake Victoria. On detailed maps, all three islands have been shown on the Kenyan side since the 1920s, when the Kenya Colony and Protectorate Order in Council, 1926 awarded all three islands to Kenya. Today, it is still just a hazy bump on the horizon when seen from shore, though more than 300 people live there, mostly Kenyan fishermen. Migingo may be smaller than a football field but it boasts half a dozen bars, discos and brothels.
Two Kenyan fishermen, Dalmas Tembo and George Kibebe, claim to have been the first inhabitants on the island. When they settled there in 1991, it was covered with weeds and infested with birds and snakes. Joseph Nsubuga, a Ugandan fisherman, says he settled on Migingo in 2004, when all he found on the island was an abandoned house. Subsequently, other fishermen — from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania — came to the island because of its proximity to fishing grounds rich with Nile perch. An unusual claim in 2009 by some Kenyan fishermen was that since none of the Nile perch breed in Uganda (the nearest Ugandan land and nearest Ugandan freshwater is 85 kilometres or 53 mile away), then the fish somehow belonged to Kenyans. [Source — Wikipedia, Nytimes]
Fishing Village and School at Lake Victoria - February 25, 2019
Visit to Fishing Village and Zariki School Near Speke's Bay, Lake Victoria, Tanzania
Serengeti National Park
Music by Hennie Bekker