Rwanda on her small size is endowed with great natural and manmade attractions, un paralleled with any other country on the African continent. The “thousand” hills characteristic of Rwanda provide a unique scenic beauty , while the outstanding mountain features on the west and the plains in the east with the unique flora and fauna are part of the exquisite beauty that blanket Rwanda and make it so special. Rwanda is a magnificent country with an assurance of social comfort, rich in cultural variety and rare smile that tourism worldwide should not miss. The culture is also shown in the arts and crafts made by the Rwandese artisans and you can learn more about the culture when you visit the National Museum of Butare. Accommodation is available for people visiting the parks and other tourist attractions.
Rwanda has substantial natural resources for tourism with variety of tourism and ecosystems, climate and culture. Some of its features are outstanding by international standards while others are unique. The main attractions so far visited by tourists are:
The Volcanoes National park famous for the rare mountain gorilla and is soon being accorded a world heritage status. Just two hours’ drive from Kigali, there you will visit the Golden Monkeys, Dian Fossey tomb, you will experience Muhabura and Bisoke hiking, nature walk and you enjoy the warm climate of the high attitude and for gorilla trekking you have to be at Kinigi office at 7:00 am.
Rwanda’s fresh water lakes such as Kivu, Muhazi, Burera, Ruhondo and numerous lakes in Akagera National park offer opportunities for water activities and sports. The plains of Eastern Rwanda which make up the Akagera National park, the Nybarongo/Akagera River line region all display unusual habitats of great diversity, offering a wide range of recreational activities.
Nyungwe Forest
Nyungwe forest is the largest Afromontane forest in Africa and has now been declared a national park. It is just four hours’ drive from Kigali and for primate lovers you will find 13 types of them among which the famous Chimpanzee, the Colobus etc… There many types of birds like the rare Blue Bird Turacco, waterfalls and many types of orchids.
Akagera National park
The Akagera Ntional park which the place to be for safari with its complex mix of terrains, marshlands and lakes, vegetation and animal life plus the conducive “spring like” climate and offers an enchanting and adventurous environment. Here you can meet big mammals such as zebras, buffaloes, antelopes, giraffes and elephants. During the boat tour you can enjoy the calm of Lake Ihema, discover hippopotami and crocodiles. As for birds, it has more than 525 species. You could encounter unique species such as shoebill and the papyrus gonolek. Among the endemic species, there are ibis, jacanas, herons, plovers, sandpipers and many others.

City tourism
The City tourism offers now to visitors the chance to discover the Capital city before they drive to the country side, and are overtaken by a thousand hills that overtake one’s breathe. Kigali City tour takes the visitors around the busy town where they are able to learn about the history of the town from the colonial era to democracy, from the slums to suburbs. This tour takes around four hours and you can buy souvenirs after tasting Rwandan food in one of the fine restaurants in Kigali. Safaris and Travel tips…

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South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique have signed an agreement to share the tourism spin-offs of the 2010 Fifa World Cup through “border-free” tourism packages. This means more cheaper opportunities for the Fifa World Cup fans come 2010.
South Africa’s provincial Limpopo Tourism Parks Board, the Zambia National Tourist Board, Zimbabwe Tourism Authority and Mozambique struck the deal creating the Limpopo-Zambezi Destination at the Tourism Indaba conference and exhibition in Durban.
These agreements will see the creation of new package tours between and within the four countries and this will result in the easing of border formalities to smoothen the route of travellers through border posts, and joint marketing and branding in support of all the package tours.
The Victoria waterfalls, located at the border between Zambia to the north and Zimbabwe to the south, is one of the natural wonders of the world. It is 1 708 metres wide, making it the largest curtain of water in the world. Remember that South Africa is not only an important emerging economy in its own right but rather, it is also a key gateway to sub-Saharan Africa.

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More Kruger camps for South Africa 2010 tourists
The world’s biggest sporting event is coming to South Africa: Good news for South African tourists finally here, most especially for those who intend to watch the 2010 Fifa World cup. The whole nation is working around to make sure extreme comfort for the travellers. In regard to this, a third of the beds available in Kruger National Park’s Skukuza, Berg-en-Dal and Pretoriuskop camps will be reserved for foreign tourists through the duration of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, South African National Parks (SANParks) announced this great news at the Tourism Indaba in Durban. SANParks tourism and marketing director Glenn Phillips told delegates that 30% of available accommodation in the national parks would be reserved for 2010 tourists, with the remainder for the general public.
The most exciting part of this decision is that approximately 15 000 people will get to see the national parks for the first time in their lives. The government wants to use this event to optimise marketing opportunities while they continue to build the brand. Other parks close to the World Cup matches that have been contracted are Addo Elephant National Park, Garden Route National Park, Tsitsikamma and the Knysna lake area, Marakele and Golden Gate Highlands National Park.
To the parks, this event is more than just about sport, but rather they want to send a message to the world is that SANParks is on track to deliver to everyone’s expectation.

It’s highly believed that the move will send a positive signal to critics who didn’t believe South Africa would be ready to host the World Cup, adding that SANParks wanted to see optimal occupancy in all national parks during the event. Key to this is the retention of the regular client base, as the event falls during the extended school holidays.
MATCH income
SANParks has also signed a contract with MATCH, a professional services company selected by Fifa to provide ticketing, accommodation and event information technology during the 2010 World Cup event in South Africa. This makes all those intending to travel access an all-in-one kind of service within South Africa. SANParks spokesperson Reynold Thakhuli said new mobile tents would also be erected in the Kruger camps and this will provide an additional 420 beds that will form part of the legacy beyond 2010. These tents will be used after the tournament in all our national parks as and when they are needed.
You can’t afford missing the fascinating giraffe found in the world-famous Kruger National Park. It is no wonder that South Africa is one of the world’s fastest growing travel destinations .
Remember that there are also special visas for 2009, 2010 fans for the huge tourism opportunities in 2010. You can’t afford to miss the Kgalagadi’s desert, Kruger’s wildlife, Mapungubwe’s ancient heritage, and so much more.

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Understanding the rules of your health plan
These are the important tips and rules that you must understand when considering getting your travel insurance for your safari. If you have insurance through your employer, you probably are in a managed care plan. If you are in Medicare, you might be in a managed care plan too. You can’t always tell from the name of the plan but rather from the rules to which you must agree before you sign up.

 You are then probably given a packet that describes the kind of coverage you have with the details of the rules which you must to read and internalize. For most plans, the important rules fall into the following groups:
Doctors and hospitals
Managed care plans sign contracts with certain doctors and hospitals to care for their plan members. Your plan may refer to them as providers. This group of providers is often called the plan’s network. Your health insurance company might not pay for you to go to a provider who is not in its network. If it does pay for you to use a provider outside your network, it may pay less than it would for a network provider. In either case, you are responsible for the part of the bill that the plan doesn’t pay. Even if your doctor is part of the plan’s network, he or she may prefer to send patients to a hospital that isn’t in the network. If so, ask if your doctor can send you to a hospital in the network. If that isn’t possible, you can ask the insurance company if it will approve the use of the out-of-network hospital. If no other arrangements can be made, you might have to see another doctor.
 

Rules for seeing specialists
Many managed care plans won’t pay for you to see a specialist unless your primary care physician (usually your family doctor) thinks it is necessary. If you see a specialist without a referral, you might have to pay more for the care you receive. If your doctor decides that you need to go to the hospital, have surgery or have certain tests, your health insurance company may refuse to pay for it unless it can preauthorize the treatment (approve it beforehand). Almost every managed care plan has a drug formulary. A formulary is a list of prescription medicines that your health plan has approved. If a drug isn’t on the formulary, you’ll probably have to pay more for it. Your insurance company can give you a list of drugs that are on the formulary. If necessary, show the list to your doctor when the doctor writes you a prescription.

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A new species of the crane has been found in Uganda by a group of bird watchers in the eastern district of the country, bordering with Kenya. It is a unique crane different from the common one we have always known; this one doesn’t have a crown. It is quite interesting to have a new record of this beautiful bird. This brings a total number of bird species in Uganda to 1040, more than the bird population in the United States and Europe.
Bird watchers have another reason to enjoy as this extra species is added their optical delicacy. It is said that this type of crane is mainly found in southern Africa, with an isolated population living in the highlands of Ethiopia. The single largest concentration is found in the Okavango delta, in Botswana. The impact of climate change could have made these cranes migrate to Uganda because cranes are known to be migrating birds. The bird mainly breeds in swamps and is now threatened by the wetland degradation and the authorities are working with farmers to and other land developers to make sure the life of the treasured cranes does not fall in danger. For all birdwatchers, be informed that every 23rd of May, it’s a bird watching day in Uganda and so the Wildlife authority waives all fees for bird watching. A bird watching tour in Kilimanjaro area…

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Did you actually know the source of the world’s longest river?  have you been to the source to the Nile? Well,  you  are all along missing out on nature’s beauty.

The Nile actually has it’s catchments in Tanzania and further into Rwanda, however the main source of River Nile is in Uganda. Take time and visit this land and experience the beauty you have always desired. Watch the waters of Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest in land water body.

Experience  variety of fauna species that you have not seen anywhere else. Here we are, we take you to experience the atmosphere at the world’s longest river through our safaris. Africa travel and tourism is mainly about exploring nature, admiring and wishing for more.

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George Obama, the half-brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday. According to the Inspector Augustine Mutembei, the officer in charge, said Obama was arrested on charges of possession of cannabis, known in Kenya as Bhang, and resisting arrest. He is scheduled to appear in court Monday, Mutembei said.He is being held at Huruma police post in the capital of Nairobi. Speaking from behind bars, Obama denied the allegations.George Obama and the president barely know each other, though they have met. George Obama was one of the president’s few close relatives who did not go to the inauguration in Washington last week.In his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Barack Obama describes meeting George as a “painful affair.” Barack Obama’s trip to Kenya meant meeting family he had never known.McKenzie tracked down George Obama in August and found him at a small house in Huruma, a Nairobi slum, where he lives with his mother’s extended family. His birth certificate shows that he is Barack Obama’s half-brother.The two men share a Kenyan father. In the memoir, Barack Obama struggles to reconcile with his father after he left him and his mother when he was just a child. Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident when George was just 6 months old. Like his half-brother, George hardly knew his father. George was his father’s last child and had not been aware of his famous half-brother growing up.Unlike his grandmother in Kogelo, in western Kenya, George Obama had received little attention from the media until reports about him surfaced in August. The reports sprung from an Italian Vanity Fair article saying George Obama lived in a shack and was “earning less than a dollar a day.” Those reports left George Obama angry.Obama, who is in his mid-20s, said at the time that he was learning to become a mechanic and was active in youth groups in Huruma. He said he tried to help the community as much as he can.Remember you can book your trip to the land of Obama! Get there and see the ancestral home of the US president! 

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Tanzania offers wonderful safaris ensuring a perfect Tanzania Safari Holiday. Fundamentally a fly-in safari because of the long distances and bad roads, the southern and western safari areas are, as a result, pristine and untouched, making for a truly wild African safari. Southern Tanzania is considered Africa’s heart of tourism.

You will land in Kigoma and take a boat across Africa’s deepest Lake Tanganyika from where you head to the national parks of Gombe and Mahale.

Gombe Stream National Park is renowned for chimpanzees, no very common anywhere. It is a low key reserve but with a very high international profile as a chimpanzee research area.

On the other hand, Mahale National Park is set against the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in a place characterized by exotic and isolated beauty.

It is here that, the clear waters of Lake Tanganyika lap against the sandy deserted shores of Mahale while the forested peaks rise up in the distance and the area is home to the largest number of primate species of any Tanzanian park including more than1000 chimpanzees.

You will absolutely enjoy tracking chimpanzees and various primates through these deep forests and the experience is quickly becoming a world favorite wildlife activity.

Ruaha National Park boasts wildlife populations as grand as they are diverse. It was exploited by poachers in the 1980s, but Ruaha has quickly re-established itself as one of Africa’s best wilderness areas anywhere and it’s no wonder that Ruaha and Selous are considered to offer the best game viewing in the whole of Africa.

Selous game reserve is considered by many to be the future flagship of southern Tanzanian safari travel. A vacation in Selous will live to be the best in your memory.

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Conference tourism is becoming a thriving industry in Tanzania with visitors keen to take advantage of their stay in the country to tour spectacular sites once the meetings come to end. This range from venturing into safaris to the vast Serengeti National Park to spending days on the tropical beaches in Zanzibar. In short, conference incentives have taken on a whole new meaning in Tanzania.

Centrally located luxury hotels in Dar es Salaam and Arusha offer high-tech facilities at all major hotels and with special bookings, tour packages are available all the year round. Non-Governmental Organizations and special interest groups from Tanzania, East Africa and the world host conferences in Tanzania and offer the delegates a special experience in quite unique surroundings and take advantage of the tour packages.

Tanga is now one of those places on track to enter the fray in conference tourism with the opening of its Meeting point Center at Mwambani on the shores of the Indian Ocean and is owned by Tanga International Conference Centre Ltd. It started in November 2006 and now takes great advantage of the tourism industry’s opportunities being offered.

The center has promised to conduct conference tourism with a difference; the center would combine several themes such as a learning center for sustainable development and growth in Africa. Tanga cultural heritage is a mixture of African and Arabic cultures with working ambience and therefore a perfect spot for meeting point. The center has begun organizing special youth programs aimed at giving them working experience that is crucial in their lives in future. Tanga has an increasing economic optimism, however, the local community lacks skills on entrepreneurship.

For any one planning a conference of any kind, this is absolutely the place to be.

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If unanticipated circumstances force you to call off or postpone your trip, redirect your travel plans, go back home prematurely or even seek crisis health management, travel insurance can surely cover all these costs of the unpredictable events.  Who needs Travel Insurance? This is a question that most of us always ask. Just to let you know that anyone planning to travel needs the protection of Travel Insurance.  Travel Insurance covers comprehensive travel protection for today’s Holiday, Business, Winter sports, Backpackers and all frequent travelers.    We are very confident that when it comes to top quality insurance cover, value for money, and excellent customer service you won’t fail to find a better travel insurance specialist in Tanzania. If you have any queries regarding travel insurance packages, please do not hesitate to contact any company to help you. Choose any insurance company for your trip insurance, remember when you are on your holiday in East Africa, you will have complete peace of mind for an unexpected emergency.  Let’s travel together with a safe mind and a health stay in this wonderful East African country. Get your insurance cover now!   It is strongly recommended that you always purchase comprehensive travel insurance for the duration of your journey. Quite a number of unpredictable things can go wrong while you are on your vacation. Please note that insurance can only be acquired prior to departure and should always be acquired within atleast14 days of affirmation of your travel reservation. We further urge you to entirely appraise your needs and get yourself satisfactory and rather necessary travel insurance coverage. There are a number of independent agents that specialize in travel protection programs and offer policies with finest travel insurance companies. You may get in touch with them by clicking on their advert on this page. Traveltotanzania.com, advises you to get in touch with companies that provide insurance policies for travelers regardless of where you are based and where you are going.Be assured of risk coverage for you and your spouse be it a multiple or single entry trip or even a long-stay on holiday. You will get travel insurance policies well suited to you. A number of companies have got a very good comprehensive range of travel insurance cover options, with superior benefits and at competitive premiums. A number of travel insurance companies work with leading international insurance and finance organizations like AIG and many others.

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