He's my Brother | Binyavanga Wainaina | Tanzania, Coast, Dar Es Salaam

I landed in Dar es Salaam so numb from grief that I felt detached from everything. Tanzanians amaze me - they have a languid self-assurance I have seen nowhere else. It really goads us Kenyans

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Journey to the Monster's Lair | Paul Miles | Tanzania, Coast, Dar Es Salaam

Villagers climb the volcano and clamber down a precipitous path to the lake's edge to make a sacrifice to the creature of the deep

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Tanzania's Serengeti Plains | Brian Jackman | Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Serengeti

When it comes to national parks, Serengeti is simply the best. So much space. So many animals. The park itself is enormous - at least as big as Holland - its oceans of grass rimmed by immense horizons

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Safari in Style | Francisca Kellett | Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Serengeti

This is how to do a Tanzanian safari in style: luxurious, small-scale lodges, good food and wine, expert rangers and an abundance of wildlife

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Game Boy | AA Gill | Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Serengeti

Africa makes sense of all that ecology-biodiversity-sustainable-habitat stuff that sounds so like the special pleading of socially inept, bearded weirdies when applied to a field in back-garden Britain. Here it has the depth and grace of a religious conviction

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One Man and his Search for Wildebeest | Adrian Mourby | Tanzania, Northern Tanzania, Serengeti

I lift my camera and immediately total panic breaks out below, wildebeest colliding and then scattering to all points on the compass. I get one blurred shot of total chaos and they are gone

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A Walking Safari in the Selous | John Hatt | Tanzania, South West Tanzania, Selous

John Hatt experiences an African Walking safari in Southern Tanzania...

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In Zanzibar | William Dalrymple | Tanzania, Zanzibar & Islands, Stone Town

The crossing took nearly four hours and it was late evening by the time we chugged into view of the Zanzibar coast. As the first minarets of Stone Town rose from the sea ahead of us

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Letter From Zanzibar | Gemma Pitcher | Tanzania, Zanzibar & Islands, Stone Town

Skeens - hotelier, bon viveur, patron of the arts and devotee of all things opulent, Eastern and just slightly risque - is a man who knows exactly what image the Zanzibar conjures up in the minds of most westerners.

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A Spell in Stone Town | Nick Maes | Tanzania, Zanzibar & Islands, Stone Town

I was dropped off on Kenyatta Road just as a call to prayer wheeled out from a nearby minaret and spiralled into the sky

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