Tanzania
Tanzania holds East Africa’s trump cards: the Serengeti’s endless migration, Kilimanjaro’s snow above the clouds, the Ngorongoro Crater’s wildlife bowl and Zanzibar’s spice-scented Swahili coast.
Best time: June–October (dry season); January–February for calving season24°C · Partly cloudy in Dodoma (official)
CapitalDodoma (official), Dar es Salaam (largest)
Population65 million
CurrencyTanzanian shilling (TZS)
LanguagesSwahili, English
TimezoneUTC+3
Tanzania holds East Africa’s trump cards: the Serengeti’s endless migration, Kilimanjaro’s snow above the clouds, the Ngorongoro Crater’s wildlife bowl and Zanzibar’s spice-scented Swahili coast.
Fun fact
The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera — a natural enclosure holding some 25,000 large animals, including one of Africa’s densest lion populations.
