An hour and a half by boat from Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, Zanzibar is known as the Incense Island. Zanzibar is an evergreen island with lush trees all year round.

It is composed of more than 20 small islands such as Zanzibar Island, Pemba Island and Turtle Island. On 24 April 1964, Zanzibar united with Tanganyika to form the current United Republic of Tanzania.

In Zanzibar, the main attraction is Turtle Island. Turtle Island is 5 km from Zanzibar city and only 40 minutes by electric boat. Because there are more than 100 large turtles on the island, it is called Turtle Island. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a paradise.

On the island, trees are shaded, flowers are in full bloom, and birds are singing. It is a quiet and flowery world. Standing on the island looking far away, the vast sea, the sound of waves, the water green and clear, people's minds open.

Here you can also see seabirds flying, fish sail dot, beautiful scenery. But the biggest attraction is the giant turtle on the island.

According to reports, the smallest turtle on the island has been 300 years old, and the largest turtle has more than 500 years. Although the turtles here are very old, they are lively and lovely. Some turtles hide under bamboo forests, some turtles play with visitors, and some turtles tease each other.

Taking pictures on the back of a turtle is allowed here, so visitors have a great time. The big tortoises here are dry tortoises, which are fed and managed by special staff. There are several paths on the island for visitors to walk around without any sources of pollution.

There is only one "restaurant" on the island, which is a place to cook food for the big turtle and a place for workers to eat. There is no litter on the island because there are heavy fines for littering. Visitors to the island especially abide by the rules, and have not seen a person littering. There are several souvenir shops about turtle shells, and no one who comes here leaves empty-handed.

Located in the west of the Great Rift Valley, 130 km west-northwest of Arusha, a narrow strip extends west into Lake Victoria for 8 km and north to the Kenyan border.

It became a protected area after 1940; In 1929, 228,600 hectares of the central Serengeti was designated a game reserve; It was established as a national park in 1951. It was expanded in 1959.

As part of UNESCO's People and Ecology Programme, the Serengeti-Ngorongoro Biological Reserve (together with the adjacent Masuwa Game Reserve) was internationally recognized and inscribed on the World Heritage List in the same year. Serengeti National Park (1,476,300 ha) is part of the overall ecological reserve (2,305,000 ha). It is bordered to the southeast by the Ngorongoro Reserve (809,440 hectares), to the northeast by the Loliondo Game Reserve (400,000 hectares), to the north by the Mara National Reserve of Kenya (151,000 hectares), and to the west by the Grumeti Game Reserve (500,000 hectares). It is between 920 and 1850 meters above sea level.

The Serengeti is dominated by volcanic ash covered crystalline rock with large outcrops of granite. The northern and western panhandle are mainly mountainous areas formed by volcanic eruptions. Two rivers to the west have water all year round, and there are many lakes, swamps, springs.

Rainfall is mainly concentrated from November to May of the following year, with peaks in December and March and April. The average annual temperature is 20.8 ℃. The average annual precipitation recorded at 1150 m above sea level is 1210 mm. Rainfall decreases to the east and increases from north to west, reaching up to 950 mm per year in a narrow strip near Lake Victoria in the west and 1,150 mm per year near the Kenyan border in the northernmost part of the park.

The vegetation is dominated by open steppe type plants, but almost all changes to desert during severe droughts. The main plants are thatch such as Matang and rat tail millet (representative plants of saline soil). In wetter areas, water centipedes are predominant. In the middle of the park is a large acacia woodland grassland. Hilly vegetation and dense woodland, along with some promenade forests, cover much of the northern part of the park. Lowland and mountain plants are mainly acacia.

Top 10 tourist attractions in Tanzania - Ngorongoro Nature Reserve, which was added to the World Heritage List in 1979. Ngorongoro crater is famous for its amazing variety of animals, from the smallest "Dick-Dick-dick-antelope" to rhinos, lions, and elephants.

Inside the huge Ngorongoro crater is a gathering place for wildlife, with a large number of large mammals. In the nearby Olduvai Gorge, fossils of early humans have been unearthed, as well as traces of human life. In order to protect the wildlife here, the Tanzanian government has invested a lot of manpower and resources.

The Ngorongoro Nature Reserve is located in northern Tanzania. It was added to the World Heritage List in 1979. The reserve is a vast volcanic plateau bounded by Serengeti National Park to the west and Lake Maniara National Park to the east, covering 80,944 square kilometres. The area was administratively set aside from the boundaries of Serengeti National Park in 1957 to become an independent nature reserve. The area has the famous Ngorongoro crater, Olduvai Canyon and the Empakai crater which has become a deep lake.

Every year in May and June, huge herds of zebras and spotted wildebeests gather on the Serengeti, standing in rows of six or seven, to begin their 500km westward migration. This spectacular sight in the Ngorongoro Nature Reserve is rarely seen anywhere in the world.

The Ngorongoro Crater is the most complete crater in the world at 2,286 meters above sea level. Ngorongoro was an active volcano eight million years ago. The bottom of the crater, known in technical terms as the caldera, is a large depression formed by the volcanic cone into the volcanic well, which covers an area of 160 square kilometers. Along the outer edge of the crater is a ring, with six peaks above 3,000 meters rising from the ground and soaring into the clouds.

Ngorongoro crater is famous for its amazing variety of animals, from the smallest "Dick-Dick-dick-antelope" to rhinos, lions, and elephants. When spring comes, tens of thousands of flamingos prepare for their annual migration to gather in the crater of the salty lake, like a layer of pink gauze spread on the lake, beautiful. The flowers in the crater are complex, lilies, calamus, petunias, daisies, feather lentils, clover compete to open, colorful and red, making the crater scenery charming. Maasai herders have lived in the crater area for generations.