By ADAM IHUCHA—Tanzania's
bound-tourists now have a reason to smile, thanks to a local tour firm for
rolling out a new tourism product beyond wildlife viewing.
An innovative Arusha based tour
company—Congema Safaris—has just unveiled its well designed ‘landscape tourism
product’, to offer holidaymakers a glimpse of a country’s unexplored scenery.
After two years of painstaking study,
sheer hard working and considerable private funding, the landscape tourism
product is now ready for Tanzania’s bound tourists with less interest on
mainstream game drive, says Congema CEO, ConstantineNgelengi Malembela.
“Spectacular landscape is a great new
frontier in tourism, promising a better future to the tourists who look beyond
wildlife, mountain and beach” Mr malembela says as he flagged off the first
group of 50 tourists to experience the new product.
The
holidaymakers mostly from France, Switzerland and Sweden, who commenced their
five-days epic journey on Sunday morning, have been covering 25 km a day.
The 125
km trip took the tourists through King’ori village under the slope of splendid
Mount Meru in Arusha to legendary Momella Lake, which straddles the border of
picturesque Arusha national park.
After Momella Lake they went through
Mukuru savannah land, where on the east side the visitors have been able to
see iconic Mount Kilimanjaro – the most famous mountain in
Africa and the world's tallest freestanding peak.
Mr Malembela says that the heroic
safari also taken the tourists through Longido wildlife management area, Lake
Natron and Olpopong’i cultural village.
“Much
of this route is a green and lush with vegetation and memorable landscapes”
Congema chief explains.
The group director, Gerald Verde net,
says that it was a milestone achievement to be able to organize the trip around
Mount Kilimanjaro after having done so in other African countries of Kenya and
Botswana.
“It is existing to come in Tanzania.
I am happy to meet such a welcoming community and country” chipped in one of
tourist, Vincent Revoire.
The East African
country's stunning wildlife, expansive volcanic crater and intriguing islands
all set it apart as a unique destination. Massive Mount Kilimanjaro just adds
to its allure.
The Indian Ocean laps
Tanzania's eastern edge between Kenya and Mozambique, and the "spice
island" of Zanzibar is 22 miles off the mainland.
Sometimes called
"Africa's Garden of Eden," some 25,000 large animals live in
the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, which stretches across 3,200 square
miles of the southeastern Serengeti Plains adjacent to Serengeti National Park.
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