Sunday 14 June 2015

direct flights between Zanzibar and the Comoros?

Air Tanzania has, while attending a three day investment and trade mission from Tanzania to the island, agreed to consider the launch of direct flights between Zanzibar and the Comoros.

The airline, as was reported here, only recently announced an increase of flights between Dar es Salaam and the Comoros to eight per week and the new flights could be launched before the end of the year, going by comments attributed to Air Tanzania’s Johnson Mfinanga.

No details could however be obtained if the Zanzibar to Comoros flights would be combined with a Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar service, then going on to Moroni before returning the same way, nor if such flights would be offered over and above the present 8 schedule weekly flights.

Trade between the Comoros and Tanzania has significantly increased over the years, as has travel both ways and several trade and investment missions in the recent past have helped to raise awareness of new opportunities for the respective business communities.

Air Tanzania presently operated one leased Bombardier CRJ200 jet while their owned Bombardier Q400 is undergoing heavy maintenance, impacting on the airline’s ability to offer services to a number of domestic destinations normally served by the turboprop aircraft. While repeatedly in the past referring to plans to acquire more aircraft and widen the network, has this not taken place as yet.

Instead has the airline time and again depended on government bailouts to emerge from deep financial troubles which have been plaguing Air Tanzania for many years now.

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Wednesday 10 June 2015

Tanzania's Top Locations



The Ngorongoro Crater is sensational as well as most certainly one-of-a-kind. The crater has an instant and also frustrating preliminary influence on all ones detects. Designated as a World Heritage Site, the crater has among the largest concentrations of wildlife in Africa. An approximated 25,000 big mammals in a relatively little area make it a 'has to' destination when on safari on the Northern Tanzanian Safari Circuit. This natural amphitheater is as varied as the great Serengeti because of a cross-section of wildlife and also habitats all contained in the collapsed volcanic crater. Ngorongoro is home to among minority continuing to be populaces of black rhinocerous in Tanzania.

The Serengeti National Park has so much to provide for it is vast and every season is special in this remarkable National Park. For many safari travel plans the major focus of any trip to the Serengeti is the migration, depending on the lengthy rains from February to May, where up to 2 million herbivores take advantage of the brief lawn of the southern Serengeti to calve as well as feed, before moving north westerly to ultimately show up at the significant crossing of the Grumeti river, residence to some of Africa's greatest crocodiles.

The Zanzibar island chain consists of fifty or so islands the primary island is called Unguja yet typically referred to as Zanzibar Island. Stone Town is the capital of Zanzibar being the port as well as entry to these spiced islands.

Tarangire National Park is possibly Tanzania's many underrated park. There are some terrific camps right here such as Swala Camp and then the splendid Oliver's Camp in the wilderness area of the Park. The park is most fabulous for the large focus of elephants as well as the big baobab Trees that dominate the park.

Lake Manyara National forest is a tiny however picturesque safari park. The woody components of this park obtain so damp that the only getaway from the heat is to climb up the trees. It is most uncommon for lions to climb up trees, this park is well known for its tree climbing lions. The park additionally supplies canoeing on the lake as well as this is a fabulous method to obtain from the safari vehicle burn off a few calories and also view the video game from an unusual point of view.

Mt. Kilimanjaro, positioning on the Tanzania- Kenyan perimeter, is remote, attractive as well as simply put, awe impressive. Situated in North Tanzania, Kilimanjaro controls the landscape.

It is not as popular as the national Parks in the North of Tanzania, in recent years site visitors have begun to recognize this park has much to offer the tourist looking for the remote wild experience. The northern part of the park has a handful of high-end camps. This park genuinely provides the Out of Africa encounter.

Ruaha is most likely the most arid of Tanzania's parks. It is on the Southern Circuit as well as is in some cases know as Giraffe Park as it has in extra of 8,000 Maasai giraffe. From December to January the park delights in a big number of the unusual Eleanor's falcons.

Mafia Island is set off the coast of main Tanzania, twenty kilometers from the Rufiji Stream Delta, making this distant island a perfect place for relaxing after a safari in the Selous. A small island, fifty kilometers long and also fifteen kilometers broad and also completely surrounded by a barrier coral reef, entry by light aircraft is required. There are over 460 varieties of tropical fish in these reefs as well as 5 varieties of turtles.

Arusha National Park is a lovely park is set between the peaks of Mount Meru as well as Mount Kilimanjaro. It is a tiny park - only 53 square miles. The Park is an area of superior appeal and also could be checked out conveniently for a few hours from the nearby town of Arusha. The highlands are forested, with the optimal of Mount Meru increasing previously the forests to dominate the park. The woodlands are populated by a growing and also differed bird life and also climbing up in the ancient cedar trees is the drastically significant black as well as white colubus ape, barking its haunting telephone call through the peaceful forest.

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