East Africa Things to see and do Articles

Nairobi Hit or Miss: Tourist Reviews from Kenya

Courtney S. Ries dishes the dirt on Nairobi attractions and services.

The Seychelles – Paradise on the Cheap – Seychelles

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Into Africa – Kenya

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Mozambique Embassies and Consulates – Mozambique

Mozambique Embassies and Consulates
South Africa
Pretoria (Embassy): 199 Beckett Street, Arcadia, tel (+ 27 12) 343 784, fax 343 6714.
Johannesburg: 252 Jeppe St, 7th fl Cape York building tel (+ 27 11) 336 1819;
Cape Town: 45 Castle St, 7th fl, tel (+ 27 21) 26 2944;
Durban: 320 West St, 5th [...]

Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania

Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world. Standing at 5,896 metres (19,340 feet), Kilimanjaro rears up out of the surrounding African plains to form a snow-capped challenge to any hiker!

Previously thought to be extinct, Kilimanjaro has now been confirmed as merely dormant and may still [...]

Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania

Lake Tanganyika, known as the Fossil Water Lake, lies along the Western side of Tanzania, bordering Burundi, the Congo and Zambia.

Lake Tanganyika fills a deep, 4,700 feet, canyon formed by the Great Rift Valley. Due to its huge length (420 miles), and depth, the lake contains nearly 7,413 square miles of water, [...]

Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

This isolated and little explored park is Tanzania’s second largest National Park. Infested by the biting Tsetse fly, this huge area of woodland and grassland has remained undisturbed by man and his cattle and has remained virtually unchanged through centuries.

The large Ruaha River forms the eastern border of the park, and is also [...]

Arusha National Park, Tanzania

This small, 137 square km, park is located an easy 40 minute drive from Arusha and is only 60km from the Kilimanjaro International Airport. The home of Mount Meru, this delightful little park is seldom used by the majority of visitors to Tanzania; being popular only with hikers using Mount Meru (14,990 feet) [...]

The Aberdare Mountain Ranges (Nyandarua Range)

Also known as “Scotland with lions”, this is not y

Tsavo East National Park, Kenya

This a a true wilderness park. It even has pink el