Stunning scenery and rugged terrain combine with a fascinating cultural backdrop to create challenging and adventurous routes.
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With magnificent Swahili ruins, flower-clad meadows and tropical islands waiting to be explored, this East African country has far more to offer than just busy safari circuits.
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Wildlife, idyllic beaches, snow-capped Kilimanjaro, moss-covered ruins, fascinating cultures – Tanzania has all this and more wrapped up in one adventurous and welcoming package.
The Usambara Mountains are a quiet, peaceful corner of the country, rarely visited by tourists and best seen on village-to-village treks.
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The Usambara highlands are one of Tanzania’s most lush and fertile regions, with hillside farms peppered between mountains and rainforests.
A number of new initiatives are being put in place in Uganda to help safeguard the country’s environmental future and protect the world’s remaining wild mountain gorillas.
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