Credits
Photo credits
Photographs on this site are used under the free licences listed below, from Wikimedia Commons.
Sunbeams breaking through clouds over the open Serengeti plains, dotted with acacia trees
By Eric Kilby · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
Umbrella thorn acacias standing on the grassy plains of Serengeti National Park
By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A dense column of wildebeest crossing the Mara River in the northern Serengeti during the Great Migration
By Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Green crater floor and a winding lake beneath the forested, cloud-topped rim of the Ngorongoro Crater
By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A giant baobab tree rising above the green bush of Tarangire National Park
By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A dirt safari track leading towards the shore of Lake Manyara, with the Rift Valley escarpment behind
The snow-capped summit of Mount Kilimanjaro rising above a band of clouds
By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Trekkers with backpacks hiking a rocky trail towards the Lava Tower, with Kibo peak ahead
By Masa Sakano from Leicester, UK · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
A curving white-sand beach with turquoise water and coconut palms at Matemwe, Zanzibar
By Olivier Lejade from France · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
Stone Town waterfront in Zanzibar, with historic whitewashed buildings, palm trees and boats in the harbour
By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A traditional dhow under sail on the sea off Zanzibar at sunset, with moored boats in the foreground
By Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
A Masai giraffe and its calf on a lake shore in the Selous (Nyerere National Park), with hills beyond
By Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · CC BY 2.0 · Source
The braided Great Ruaha River with sandbanks, winding through Ruaha National Park
By Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · CC BY 2.0 · Source
View over the rooftops of Arusha city with Mount Meru in the background
By Halidtz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Maasai men and women in red and blue shukas performing a traditional dance in the Ngorongoro highlands
By Arnold Tibaijuka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A dark-maned male lion sitting in golden grass in Serengeti National Park
By Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
An African elephant walking through green grass in Tarangire National Park
By Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · CC BY 2.0 · Source
A Masai giraffe walking across golden grassland in Serengeti National Park
By Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A young leopard resting in the fork of a tree in Serengeti National Park
By Giles Laurent · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A hot-air balloon floating low over the Serengeti plains in the early morning
By Eric Kilby · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
A hand holding a freshly opened nutmeg fruit showing the red mace, on a Zanzibar spice farm
By Babacrash · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A skunk clownfish sheltering in a magnificent sea anemone on a coral reef off Zanzibar
By Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Silhouette of a lone acacia tree against a golden sunset sky in the Serengeti
By Wolves201 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Coffee bushes growing under shade trees beside a footpath at Nkoaranga, on the slopes of Mount Meru near Arusha
By Harald Ulver · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A quiet sandy beach fringed by tropical forest and a thatched shelter on Mafia Island
Open green meadow with flat-topped trees and grazing animals below wooded hills in Arusha National Park
The jagged summit and horseshoe crater of Mount Meru seen across forested slopes above Arusha
By Arnold Tibaijuka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
The ash-streaked cone of Ol Doinyo Lengai rising beyond the shallow soda flats and channels of Lake Natron
By Clem23 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
A flock of lesser flamingos wading and feeding in the shallows of Momella Lake, a soda lake in Arusha National Park
Two Hadzabe hunters walking home with their dogs across dry bush country near Lake Eyasi
The layered rock walls and dry riverbed of Olduvai (Oldupai) Gorge cutting through the plains below a big sky
Grass and scattered acacia scrub on the Mkata floodplain of Mikumi National Park, with blue hills on the horizon
By Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
View from a rocky ledge in the Udzungwa Mountains out over forest and the farmland of the valley far below
By Erasmus Kamugisha · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Evening light over a reed-fringed floodplain lake and woodland in Katavi National Park
Clear shallow water over boulders on the forested shore of Lake Tanganyika, the lake that laps the Mahale Mountains
By Halidtz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A wild eastern chimpanzee looking out from dense green foliage in Gombe Stream National Park
By Roland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
A pebble beach on Lake Tanganyika backed by thick forest in Gombe Stream National Park
A red sand track running between golden grass and coastal bush in Saadani National Park
By Rasheedhrasheed · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
The empty white sand and turquoise shallows of Vumawimbi Beach, backed by forest, on Pemba Island
By Marcel Oosterwijk from Amsterdam, The Netherlands · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
The domed coral-stone arcades of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani standing among grass and trees
By Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · CC BY 2.0 · Source
A street of weathered Swahili-Omani townhouses with carved balconies in the historic town of Bagamoyo
By Adam Jones, Ph.D. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Aerial view of the high-rise city centre of Dar es Salaam wrapped around its natural harbour
Ridges and rocky peaks of the Usambara Mountains fading into haze in the evening light
By Joachim Huber from Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
White human and animal figures painted on the wall of a rock shelter at the Kondoa Irangi rock art sites
A tightly packed herd of plains zebra, their stripes overlapping, in Serengeti National Park
By Thomas Fuhrmann · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A black rhinoceros standing in tall golden grass on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater
By Yoky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
A pod of hippos crowded together on a sandbank in a river in the Serengeti
By Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Three African buffalo with heavy curved horns standing in dry grass in the Ngorongoro Crater
Wildebeest cows with their tan calves on green short-grass plains in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
By Joachim Huber from Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Source
A spotted whale shark gliding through clear blue water off Mafia Island
By Barlky · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
A huge bare-branched baobab standing beside a track in Tarangire National Park
By Jorge Láscar from Melbourne, Australia · CC BY 2.0 · Source
A visitor following an armed park ranger on foot along a bush path during a walking safari in Katavi
Stalls piled with grain, beans and baskets along a covered aisle of the central market in Arusha
The bronze statue of Julius Nyerere, walking stick raised, on its stone plinth above the wide steps of Nyerere Square in Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania
By Mchiriku · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
A group of adults planting tree seedlings by hand in a wooded clearing near Arusha, one crouching to firm in a young plant while another turns the soil with a hoe
By Christian Anold Mosha · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
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