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Tanzania offers divers world-class reefs and plentiful schools of tropical fish just offshore of the popular beaches and secluded locations.
Dive courses are offered at many of the hotels and lodges on the mainland coast as well as Zanzibar, Pemba and Mafia islands, and it is a rewarding skill to learn while on holiday, but the surface swimmer need not to despair since most of the reefs are accessible to snorkellers and equipment are easily rented from dive shops and lodges.
Diving can be done all year-round, however during the rains visibility can be limited.
Dar es Salaam City
Dar es Salaam is the largest city and economic capital of Tanzania. Located in a quiet bay off the Indian Ocean coast, the city has developed into an economic importance to become a prosperous centre of…
Things to do:
Beach Holidays, Diving and Snorkelling, Fishing, Historical Sites, Museums and Monuments, Shopping and Nightlife
614 sq miles (1,590 km²)
Lake Chala
Lake Chala is a unique caldera lake, and is thought to be the deepest inland body of water in Africa. This lake is fed by underground springs from Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Lake Nyasa
Lake Nyasa, also called Lake Malawi, lake, southernmost and third largest of the East African Rift Valley lakes of East Africa, lying in a deep trough mainly within Malawi.
Things to do:
Beach Holidays, Birding Safaris, Boating and Canoeing, Diving and Snorkelling
Area 29,500.00 km2
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is the world’s longest (660km), deepest in Africa and second-deepest in the world (more than 1436m) and second-largest (by volume) freshwater lake. At somewhere between nine and 13 million…
Things to do:
Beach Holidays, Birding Safaris, Boating and Canoeing, Cultural Tourism, Diving and Snorkelling, Fishing, Mountain Climbing
32,900 square km
Mahale Mountains National Park
The park like its northerly neighbor Gombe is home to some of the Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees, a population of roughly 900, they are habituated to human visitors by a Japanese research project…
Things to do:
Boating and Canoeing, Diving and Snorkelling, Fishing, Mountain Climbing, Walking Safaris
1 613 sq km and 128 km south of Kigoma
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