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Helpful Links
General Information
www.tatotz.org
Ensure that your tour operator is a TATO member.
www.tanserve.com
Tanzania's Leading Search Engine And Directory Service.
www.zanzibar.org
Everything you need to know about the Zanzibar Archipelago.
The Africa Guide
A complete and comprehensive guide to every country in Africa with essential travel information and 100s of tours and safaris, hotels and car hire throughout the continent.
www.tanzaniagateway.org
Tanzania Development Gateway is a portal that promotes and provides online networking and sharing of knowledge on development issues. Articles posted under Environment are especially useful for visitors to Tanzanian parks and reserves.
National Parks
www.tanzaniaparks.com
Official site for all Tanzania's parks
www.habari.co.tz/tanapa/serpakg.html
Government site for Serengeti National Park
www.serengeti.org
Serengeti National Park site, by Frankfurt Zoological Society
www.ngorongoro-crater-africa.org
Ngorongoro Conservation Area site
Wildlife
www.people-predators.org
The Peoples and Predators Fund works to protect large carnivores and their habitat while promoting human development through strategies which allow man and predators to coexist peacefully. The Livestock Predation Program has worked with villagers since 2003 on the eastern borders of Tarangire National Park where an estimated 40 lions die in retaliation for killing livestock.
www.wildwatch.com
Online publication dedicated to Africa wildlife and conservation created by CCAfrica, an eco-tourism company. Very good information about and map of the Serengeti's wildebeest migration.
www.awf.org
Africa Wildlife Foundation site
www.lionresearch.org
Serengeti Lion Project
www.wcs.org/cheetahs
Wildlife Conservation Society's Cheetah Project
www.zgf.de/frames_afrika_eng.html
Frankfurt Zoological Society home site
Famous individuals working in research and wildlife conservation.
Iain Douglas-Hamilton and his wife Oria began studying elephants in the 1960s. Among the Elephants is their 1975 book about their ground breaking work with the elephants of Tanzania's Manyara National Park. www.savetheelephants.org
American Cynthia Moss has spent 30 years in Africa studying elephants. She began as a research assistant for Iain Douglas-Hamilton. www.elephanttrust.org
Daphne Sheldrick's husband David was the first warden of Kenya's Tsavo East National Park in the 1950s. Her 1966 book The Orphans of Tsavo is about the menagerie of animals they ended up caring for in Tsavo, among them baby rhinos and elephants. Daphne opened a rhino and elephant orphanage at Nairobi National Park in 1977 and has since raised and rehabilitated 50 elephants and 12 Black rhinos. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
Culture
Maasai - great-adventures.com
Fifteen Cultural Tribal Tours - Tanzanian Cultural Tourism Office
East African news media
www.allafrica.com: collects and indexes the contents from over 125 African news organizations.
www.tanserve.com/news: news portal for a slew of publications - The African, the Guardian, Mtanzania (Kiswahili), Majira (Kiswahili), the East African, BBC Kiswahili.
www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current: Kenya's the East African newspaper online.
www.arushatimes.co.tz: for local news from Tanzania's north.
www.dailynews-tsn.com: the online version of Dar as Salaam's Daily News. I have files of Daily News clippings from when I lived in Dar. I became very attached to the paper.
Travel Blogs and Newsletters
Beth Whitman, author, traveler, teacher, guide: wanderlustandlipstick.com
Ndutu Safari Lodge newsletter
Accommodations
The North
www.ndutu.com
www.gibbsfarm.net
www.tarangiresafarilodge.com
www.sopalodges.com
www.africawilderness.com
www.maasaivillage.com
www.mbalageti.com
www.oliverscamp.com
www.plantation-lodge.de
www.tarangireconservation.com (Boundary Hill Lodge)
www.asilialodges.com
Arusha
www.ilborusafarilodge.com
www.arushahotel.com
www.karama-lodge.com
www.elewana.com
www.kigongoni.com
www.Ngare-Sero-Lodge.com
www.moivaro.com
www.serenahotels.com
www.ndarakwai.com
www.onseahouse.com
www.ngurdoto.com
The South
www.selous-mbega-camp.com
www.saadani.com
www.tanzaniasafaris.info
www.kipepeovillage.com
www.rufijirivercamp.com
www.behobeho.com
www.selous.com
www.sand-river-selous.com
www.swisshostel.net (Swiss Garden Hotel, Dar es Salaam)
The West
Speke Bay Lodge
Zanzibar
www.zanzibarhotel.nl (Clove Hotel)
www.stonetowninn.com (Beyt al Chai)
www.zanzibarpalacehotel.com
www.chumbeisland.com
www.casa-delmar-zanzibar.com (Casa del Mar, Jambiani Village)
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