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This is your Briefing Page for TANZANIA.  To help get you started, and to set the scene, below are descriptions from my books of some of the world’s most amazing destinations.  These outtakes are to help you learn about the location, prep for your travels and drive up your excitement about a specific place.

After the quotes, you’ll find a brief overview of the destination with my comments and guidance for globally-thinking entrepreneurs.  These destination pages are being continuously updated so check back before each trip.

TANZANIA

Dar es Salaam

You can see the rise of spending power in the transforming skylines of developing world cities. Dar es Salaam is the largest city in the East African nation of Tanzania. ‘Dar’ is a busy, crowded city where popular transportation is often mini-buses with hand-written destination signage, or a guy shouting out where the bus is going. But the city is on pace to become one of the biggest in the world.

Optimism is in the skyline. In downtown, you can look in any direction and see overhead cranes, the steel landmark of unbridled development. But you can also see roads being paved (although unfortunately not widened), and businesses springing up on many corners. Dar is a city to watch for its potential and its opportunities.

Money has arrived. Money to invest, grow and prosper. New business follows investment in search of an opportunity to be part of rising prosperity from the ground floor.

– Describing Dar es Salaam in Life Dream: 7 Universal Moves to Get the Life You Really Want through Entrepreneurship by Case Lane

 

Ngorongoro Crater

The three humans stood inside the magnificent volcanic caldera, an inverted mountain forming a bowl in the midst of flat lands. Across the plain the spectacular mix of Africa’s wild animals roamed in indifference to the rapid world around them. Within the 116 square miles forming the base of Ngorongoro, a human views ostriches, zebras, antelopes, elephants, rhinoceros, gazelles and lions not skyscrapers, hovering transports, flashing texts or often, other humans.

Instead, people travel around in classic open jeeps, with spears and stun guns, merging with the animals, but prepared to defend themselves if the two species irreversibly clashed.

– Describing the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania in The Probable Cause: A Future Tech Cyber Thriller by Case Lane

 

Zanzibar

For five long centuries, people by the tens of thousands were kidnapped from the forested Congo with ropes twisted around their wrists and ankles; rafted across the furious waves of Lake Tanganyika; dragged in chains through the vast flat plains at the end of the Rift Valley; and skirted across the final open water pouring into the Indian Ocean, to be sold in an unforgiving, frantic marketplace in a city still fittingly called Stone Town.

Reflecting on the area’s history as her animated driver pointed out varied tourist sites, Kadie noted the thousands of free Africans buying and selling trinkets, t-shirts, spices, food, beer and soft drinks; with thousands more wandering tourists who had come this time from Europe, Arabia, and Asia to lie on the beach, dine in the ruins, and brush their bare skin against intricately carved wooden doors highlighting the sinking foundations on the island of Zanzibar in Tanzania.

Stone Town was no longer a slave trader’s port. The haunting ghosts of many millions who went to their dreadful fate, caressed cobble-stoned streets before fading from stained ramparts. The frenetic outdoor markets now sold every product except humans. The commerce surged on tourists buying the locals’ time to lead boating excursions to the isolated beaches of outer islands, or to walk among the alleyways to find secreted artist shops and restaurants. The mood was exuberant, bustling, choked in oil and foreign exchange, moving forward from a sweeping and bitter distant past.

The taxi rolled out of the city and into the narrow roads of the less hectic countryside. One main highway ringed a protected and isolated center few tourists visited. Around the outer perimeter, side streets periodically branched off to vibrant tourist resorts, or overnight towns full of dance bars and beer halls throughout the officially culturally conservative Muslim island.

– Describing Zanzibar in The Unbroken Line by Case Lane

 

BRIEF OVERVIEW

 

Place: United Republic of Tanzania in east Africa at the southern end of the Great Rift Valley

Visited: Lived and worked as a law intern in Dar es Salaam for a summer

Most Recent Visit: 2013

Original sites: Manageable

Familiarity: Medium

English usage: Rare

Surprise: A country of superlative natural wonders the most famous places to visit – Serengeti, Kilamanjaro, Zanzibar – are also the word definitions for exotic Africa.  Each location stands alone as its own unique myth, and none disappoint.

For Rising Entrepreneurs Expanding to Global Markets: A young and vibrant population in a country synonymous with African travel tales is definitely an emerging market to watch.  Outside the cities, the challenges of poverty remain but the entire region is moving forward.

Country Details:  U.N. Country Data Stats for Tanzania

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