Landscape, a Great New Frontier in Tanzania’s Tourism
Tanzania’s bound-tourists now have a reason to smile, thanks to a local tour firm for rolling out a new tourism product beyond wildlife viewing.
An innovative Arusha based tour company—Congema Safaris—has just unveiled its well designed ‘landscape tourism product’, to offer holidaymakers a glimpse of a country’s unexplored scenery.
After two years of painstaking study, sheer hard working and considerable private funding, the landscape tourism product is now ready for Tanzania’s bound tourists with less interest on mainstream game drive, says Congema CEO, ConstantineNgelengi Malembela.
“Spectacular landscape is a great new frontier in tourism, promising a better future to the tourists who look beyond wildlife, mountain and beach” Mr malembela says as he flagged off the first group of 50 tourists to experience the new product.
The holidaymakers mostly from France, Switzerland and Sweden, who commenced their five-days epic journey on Sunday morning, have been covering 25 km a day.
The 125 km trip took the tourists through King’ori village under the slope of splendid Mount Meru in Arusha to legendary Momella Lake, which straddles the border of picturesque Arusha national park.
After Momella Lake they went through Mukuru savannah land, where on the east side the visitors have been able to see iconic Mount Kilimanjaro – the most famous mountain in Africa and the world’s tallest freestanding peak.
Mr Malembela says that the heroic safari also taken the tourists through Longido wildlife management area, Lake Natron and Olpopong’i cultural village.
“Much of this route is a green and lush with vegetation and memorable landscapes” Congema chief explains.
The group director, Gerald Verde net, says that it was a milestone achievement to be able to organize the trip around Mount Kilimanjaro after having done so in other African countries of Kenya and Botswana.
“It is existing to come in Tanzania. I am happy to meet such a welcoming community and country” chipped in one of tourist, Vincent Revoire.
The East African country’s stunning wildlife, expansive volcanic crater and intriguing islands all set it apart as a unique destination. Massive Mount Kilimanjaro just adds to its allure.
The Indian Ocean laps Tanzania’s eastern edge between Kenya and Mozambique, and the “spice island” of Zanzibar is 22 miles off the mainland.
Sometimes called “Africa’s Garden of Eden,” some 25,000 large animals live in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which stretches across 3,200 square miles of the southeastern Serengeti Plains adjacent to Serengeti National Park.