Serengeti & Maasai Mara
Open plains, great herds and the patient art of watching wildlife.
Country guide
Tanzania
6 places across the five collections. Start with what draws you here, then build a journey that gives each place enough time.
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Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0Find your way through Tanzania.
The country guide gathers The Original 100 and every alternative included elsewhere on the site. A shared regional wonder may appear in more than one country.
Country orientation
Find the shape of your journey.
See how the 6 entries are distributed, then choose a cluster that suits the journey you want. Numbers on this map refer to the list alongside it.
Representative points, including broad regions and shared-border entries. A pin is not a visitor entrance or evidence of a direct travel connection.
- Serengeti & Maasai Mara
The Original 100 · Open plains, great herds and the patient art of watching wildlife.
- Ngorongoro Crater
Honourable Mentions · A vast volcanic bowl with a living wildlife landscape inside.
- Mount Kilimanjaro
Honourable Mentions · A high volcanic mountain rising above the surrounding country.
- Zanzibar
Honourable Mentions · A Swahili island landscape shaped by trade, forest and sea.
- Lake Malawi
Honourable Mentions · An inland sea with an extraordinary diversity beneath its surface.
- Kilwa Kisiwani
Extraordinary Discoveries · The ruins of a Swahili port within an Indian Ocean landscape.
The Original 100
1–100 · 1 place in this country
Honourable Mentions
101–200 · 4 places in this country
171 · Malawi, Mozambique & Tanzania
Lake Malawi
An inland sea with an extraordinary diversity beneath its surface.
Extraordinary Discoveries
201–300 · 1 place in this country
Turn the collection into a journey.
Begin with an anchor place and its suggested base. Compare the guides’ seasonal notes and allow separately for time spent travelling. A collection of places in one country is not automatically a sensible route, particularly where islands, mountains or remote regions are involved.
Use the travel workbench to record your chosen overnight stops and the transport information you have checked. It keeps unresearched connections visible and produces a day-by-day outline you can print or export.
For international travel, check current entry requirements, regional advice and the operating details of the actual transport and visitor authorities. Country and territory labels here organise the guides; broad shared landscapes do not imply unrestricted border crossings.