African Safaris
If any African nation suffers from an embarrassment of natural riches, it’s probably Tanzania. From the gleaming glaciers of Kilimanjaro, to the windswept, wildlife-filled prairies of the Serengeti, to the alluring white sand beaches of Zanzibar, Tanzania offers visitors a remarkably diverse catalog of things to see and do.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a pair of laughing zebras in Serengeti National Park. Photographer Barbara Hayton captured this image while on safari in Tanzania. Stopping to photograph a zebra herd, these two caught her attention. See the full story!
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a zebra with a big itch. Photographer Steve Grodin captured this image while on safari in the Serengeti in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Conservation
The classical elemental forces of nature are air, earth, fire and water. But there are other great environmental powers that have a beating heart, such as when millions of wild animals come together as one to surge across an endless African plain. Such is the Great Migration of wildebeests in Kenya and Tanzania.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this Vitelline Masked Weaver in Tanzania. Photographer Marian Herz says he watched this bird making a nest, deciding to take a photo once it started doing gymnastics.
Nature Photography
Every Friday we choose our favorite photo of the week from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose this leopard resting in a tree in Tanzania. Photographer Karin Leperi say this leopard was taking a break from hunting in the afternoon the heat.
African Safaris
A new app called Serengeti Tracker will provide an interactive way for people around the world to follow the great migration of the Serengeti in real time on their smartphones and tablets.
African Safaris
Dying to witness the awesome spectacle of the Great Serengeti Migration, but only have 59 seconds to spare? Then you’ve come to the right place. Burard-Lucas Photography shot the footage below over a five-day period as the herds crossed the Mara River from Kenya into northern Tanzania.
Nature & Wildlife
Wildlife reserves offer safe haven to some of the planet’s most vulnerable species and give visitors the opportunity to view them responsibly. Here are five of our favorites: Pacaya Samiria Reserve, Peruvian Amazon Where: The headwaters of the Amazon in northern Peru.
Nature & Wildlife
This awe-inspiring time-lapse video captured hundreds of thousands of wildebeest fighting across the Mara River from Tanzania into Kenya. Amazingly, in just thirty minutes as many as ten thousand wildebeest are able to cross the river! It took five days for the photographers to record the entire crossing.
Nature & Wildlife
Africa’s Great Migration has long been a symbol of the continent’s abundant wildlife. The Serengeti Plains fill with millions of wildebeests and other animals, all traveling from the Ngorongoro region in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara in Kenya in search of food and water as the seasons change.
Nature & Wildlife
By Marsea Nelson, guest blogger for WWF Travel Many safari-goers travel to Africa with the hopes of seeing the “Big Five” and other iconic animals like the stunning giraffe and imposing hippo. But what about the less flashy animals that some travelers overlook?
