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SELOUS: Selous is one of the most remote and least visited game
park in Africa, but at 15,000 square miles, it is the world’s largest game
reserve. The name derives from hunter-explorer Frederick Courtenay Selous, a
keen naturalist and conservationist as well as a hunter. He was killed in the
First World War in the Beho Beho region of the reserve. The defining feature of
the Selous is the great Rufiji River, which naturally splits the ecosystem into
two distinct parts. The area can be explored by boat, sailing through swamps
and lagoons where elephant often come to bathe, or even by foot, as the Selous
is one of few Tanzanian reserves to allow walking tours. It has the world’s
largest number of big game, more than 120,000 elephants, 160,000 buffaloes and
about 2,000 rhinoceros. In addition, the Selous contains Africa’s greatest
concentration of hippopotamus, crocodiles and wild dogs. 4.680,0+ SGD
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name 'Serengeti' comes from the Maasai language and appropriately means an
'endless plains'. The National Park is as big as Northern Ireland, but its
ecosystem, which includes the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa Game
Reserve and the Maasai Mara Game reserve (in Kenya). It lies between the shores
of Lake Victoria in the west, Lake Eyasi in the south, and the Great Rift
Valley to the east. The Ngorongoro walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that
spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by
almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare
black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in
the planet. It contains a river, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like
steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. Lastly, Lake Manyara
National Park, a safari paradise that provides the perfect introduction to
Tanzania’s birdlife, More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a
first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in
one day.
2.580,0+ SGD
Zanzibar is a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast
of East Africa. On its main island, Unguja, familiarly called Zanzibar, is
Stone Town, a historic trade center with Swahili and Islamic influences.
The name alone is likely to conjure up images of
spice markets, palm-fringed beaches and white-sailed dhows on a turquoise sea –
and happily the reality doesn’t disappoint. Lying only a short distance off the
Tanzania coast but at the crossroads of Africa, the Middle East and Asia,
Zanzibar has long been at the centre of the Indian Ocean experience in East
Africa and a Zanzibar holiday is a sensory experience par excellence.
Go on spice tours, taste local dishes and walk
the cobbled streets of the capital’s old quarter Stone Town, now a World Heritage Site buzzing
with colorful back-street markets and local flavours. And then of course there
are the Zanzibar beaches: perfect for anyone who simply wants to enjoy a lazily
luxurious beach vacation - Zanzibar and its outlying islands are home to some
of the finest beaches in East Africa as well as a number of its best dive sites.
750,0+ SGD
SERENGETI: The name 'Serengeti' comes from the Maasai language
and appropriately means an 'endless plains'. The National Park is as big as Northern Ireland, but its ecosystem, which
includes the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa Game Reserve and the
Maasai Mara Game reserve (in Kenya).
It lies between the shores of Lake Victoria in the west, Lake
Eyasi in the south, and the Great Rift Valley to the east. As such, it offers the
most complex and least disturbed ecosystem on earth. A unique combination of
diverse habitats enables it to support more than 30 species of large herbivores
and nearly 500 species of birds. Its landscape, originally formed by volcanic
activity, has been sculpted by the concerted action of wind, rain and sun. It
now varies from open grass plains in the south, savanna with scattered acacia
trees in the center, hilly, wooded grassland in the north, to extensive
woodland and black clay plains to the west. Small rivers, lakes and swamps are
scattered throughout. Rising in the southeast are the great volcanic massifs
and craters of the Ngorongoro Highlands. The Serengeti plains
are host to a dramatic annual migration of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest
and numerous other species of animals indigenous to the area. 7.095,0+ SGD
