Arusha

Arusha's Clock tower

Arusha referred to as A town by the locals is the safari capital city in north Tanzania characterized by a mild climate weather. 

the region is situated between some of Africa's most famous landscapes and national parks making it a great gateway to most of places. 

On the eastern edge of the great rift valley there is a famous mount Meru that host Arusha national park as well.

Downtown

Close to Arusha there are famous national parks like Tarangire National Park, Serengeti, Olduvai
Gorge, Ngorongoro Crater, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Lake Manyara.

Facts
Area: 34,526 sq. km
Population:   1, 288, 088 

Where To Go

+ Meserani Snake Park

The Green Mamba

Meserani is keeping about 48 types of snake mostly of eastern Africa and southern Africa all in one place for previewing. Meserani is a great center if you want to learn about snakes and their lives.

You will get to see and learn about the most venomous snake of Africa the black mamba to the huge python and other snakes. 

Along with this, Meserani Snake Park include other attractions like a display of other reptiles and the maasai cultural museum which preserves the culture of maasai people where you will learn about the life of these exciting people, once you are done there  is maasai craft market as well where you can buy anything of maasai that interested you and walk away with memory in hands, if not enough you can take a camel ride and yes enjoy yourself.

Location: Monduli
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Link to full website
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+ Ngurdoto Crater

Being the only national park where walking is allowed Ngurdoto crater within Arusha national park can bring you one among those great experience.

Ngurdoto crater forest is inhabited with blue monkeys, trogons and turacos alongside with black and white fur colobus  monkeys  doing acrobats in every tree making these forests colorful.

Lions and elephants are uncommon in Ngurdoto crater however there are leopards and spotted hyenas as common predators. Other animals include but not limited to giraffes.

To get to Ngurdoto you will be driving 40 minutes from Kilimanjaro international airport.
For a half day time you can be able to visit the lakes, forests and the crater itself.

Location: Arusha national park
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+ Arusha Declaration Museum

The museum mainly exhibits the colonial history and political development of  Tanzania nation . 

It holds information about how the nation built self reliance policy and struggled for independence. 

The museum itself is a historical building that was used as a social welfare hall for people of Arusha. In 1977 it was opened to public and become a very first museum in Arusha.

Location: Kaloleni Rd.
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+ Natural History Museum

Main gate entrance to the museum

Firstly built during the colonial era by German as far back as from 1899 to 1900  to become soldiers' barracks, later regional government office and eventually Arusha Museum of natural resources in 1934  while opening to public in 1987.

This museum exhibits history about humankind evolution, unearthed items found by Dr leakey including the laetoli footprints of human ancestors. 

Other exhibition include but not limited to the display of entomology scheme presenting some insects of economic importance.  The museum include history of Arusha during colonial era as individual as well. 

Location: Boma Rd.
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+ Cultural heritage centre 

Cultural heritage centre

Find here a collection of curios in retail shops, precious jewelry, art gallery, high quality clothes, accessories, paintings and beautiful sculptures, antiques, books, precious to semi-precious stones including emeralds, diamonds, sapphires and the unique blue-violate Tanzanite that's only found in Tanzania.

Get a loose stone from the range of handmade jewelry or get in touch with designers and jewelers to create what will suit your taste. The cultural centre include a great restaurant too where all food is fresh to serve, so after you have shopped enough or cruised enough well you just go eat enough, and end your exciting moments with some exciting taste.
Cultural heritage centre is just a unique cultural centre in Arusha.

Location: Arusha
Tel: +255 272 507496
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+ Oldoinyo Lengai

9711 feet Oldoinyo Lengai

Oldoinyo Lengai is a maasai world which means "The Mountain of God". 
This mountain is the only volcanic mountain active in East Africa, furthermore it is the only volcanic mountain in the world that produces natrocarbonatite lava rich in rare sodium and potassium carbonate minerals that cause the temperature of it's erupting lava to have relatively low temperature to a point that its molten lava would appear black in daylight unlike the common lava that would appear red, Having producing a cool lava is unusual among the rest of volcano produced around the world.

The maasai people would go to this mountain to make prayers to the gods, they believe their prayers are answered from this mountain.

Near the mountain there is a shallow soda Lake called Natron that has very high concentration of salt and some minerals. 

During dry season as the lake water evaporates salinity levels go higher, at this point the salt loving micro-organisms begin to flourish in the beds of the lake.

Some of the salt loving micro-organisms include cyanobacteria that undertake photosynthesis, through the process red photosynthesizing pigment in the cyanobacteria develop redness in open water living the lake seeming to be red. You would want to see this, so after you are done with oldoinyo lengai visit the lake.

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