 Amir. Awesome all right so let me do a quick introduction and then we'll go ahead and start okay. Sure thing, sure thing. All right hi everybody welcome welcome for everyone who's joining us today my name's Habiba from the trekking pals and today I'm joined by Fahad Fouad an influencer from Tanzania and the wildlife photographer and the last few weeks I've been doing live streams on my Instagram after my one month long trip in Tanzania and I've been bringing people to share their experience about traveling in East Africa in general and traveling in Tanzania in particular and so today Fahad is going to be sharing his experience as a local in Tanzania and he's going to be sharing with us some tips about traveling to Tanzania. Fahad why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself what are some of the things that you do take it from there. Thank you basically my name is Fahad Fahad Fouad and I'm a Tanzanian travel influencer but also travel photographer and wildlife photographer but also among the directors in a platform called Anzip Tanzania which focuses more in promoting domestic tourism in Tanzania as we all know after COVID and even before COVID people never actually kind of valued traveling within you know their countries and what Anzip did was try to create the beauty of actually exploring how beautiful our country is in Tanzania and we've done it for four years and we're continuing to give experiences for Tanzanians within Tanzania but also now we have grown to apply to a point that we are also hosting foreigners to actually come and explore how beautiful and gorgeous Tanzania is and apart from that I'm really excited to be part of this live with you Habiba and I hope that we are gonna get to know a little bit about Tanzania but also get to connect and get to see how you know maybe if people have questions and if people have questions about Tanzania they should drop them over and we'll definitely answer and get back to everyone who will be inquiring awesome you know Fahad this is very exciting for me because I think Tanzania is now one of my favorite countries in Africa and just being able to talk about it brings a lot of beautiful memories so so that's exciting memories brilliant brilliant Fahad how did your love of you know just being outside and traveling and doing what you're doing where did it start okay so basically I have a background in the media industry whereby I started off as a photographer for corporate events and just just like any other photographer but then it turned out that I realized that most of what the western media was showing about my country wasn't really not really my country but generally in Africa was not what Africa really presented itself out there and also I figured that as a photographer I had a big role to play rather than just you know creating memories for people but also create awareness about how beautiful my country is and I got a privilege and a chance to actually got to explore a little bit a small part of Tanzania and I realized okay this is where my heart is and this is where I'll start my journey and my journey started by just trying to travel and capture a beautiful sunrise and beautiful sunset and a beautiful forest and a beautiful lake and it turned out to be a career and here we are now four years starting five years you know exploring how beautiful and truly unforgettable as you're saying you have so many beautiful memories about Tanzania and it's because of how unforgettable experiences that you get once you're in Tanzania and who am I you know just like you you know you you you you traveled in Tanzania you fell in love with it now you can imagine me living in it living in Tanzania how beautiful it is and being privileged to actually be be a content creator that means I have a huge responsibility to actually showcase to the world of how beautiful my country is so basically that's how we started and we continue showing you guys and I'm glad that we definitely connected out of the content that we get to share on the Instagram is probably that what caught your attention to actually follow me and probably even get to know a little bit more about Tanzania maybe beyond what you knew when you came to visit in Tanzania and I'm glad we we got into this call today absolutely I think this is fine and I've been watching some of your wildlife photography it's it's pretty impressive because I think there are a lot of things that you can do in Tanzania as a first time visitor but nothing beats experiencing and seeing the wildlife up close in in some of the not true true so it's very rich it's very rich in wildlife here yeah so let's so let's say um if I had someone who's coming to Tanzania for the first time maybe also it's their first time in Africa or East Africa what are some of the places that you highly recommend to to visit okay so Tanzania can be actually very vast and very broad it's a very huge country and it being a huge country obviously offers a lot of things to see and most of the people would think maybe if you talk about Tanzania you only talk about Kilimanjaro mountain which I believe you have tracked it um Serengeti being the largest national park one among the the large national parks in Tanzania but also the world but also the Zanzibar the blue and white Zanzibar but really Tanzania is not only about those three things and that's the reason we started a platform calling it unzipped Tanzania meaning that opening up to Tanzania and showcasing more beautiful places and hidden gems of Tanzania so that people can actually get to see beyond the Kilimanjaro Zanzibar and Serengeti so if ever a person asks me what they really should come to to see in Tanzania I will definitely first want to question about their interest you know in travel because if it's if you're an adventurous person then we have adventurous things if you're a beach kind of person then we have the beaches if you love to trek and hiking and that means Kilimanjaro or Dono Lingai, Mount Meru these places and these mountains and if it's a person who loves afar we have over I think over 18 different beautiful national parks with different scenic environments that offers different you know experiences so I will definitely first want to know on what is the first thing but I obviously I have some of my favorite places that I would I'd wake up in any day I would pack my bags and go there but definitely because it's not about me it's about the person that wants to come and experience so I'll definitely want to know what they want to experience but also take them through a little bit more about the other destinations and things that they can experience in Tanzania rather than just the normal ones that are known from the international medias you know and what are some of your favorite places in Tanzania that you would go to maybe some off the okay so I'll start with the big ones the commonly known ones and then I'll try and express the diverse of why I love them and the first one obviously is Serengeti National Park with Serengeti means the endless plains this place from the sunrise when it rises out of the horizon and you overlook at how beautiful the sunrise is and you get to see the hot air balloons flying above the sky to when the sun sets and you start seeing the big hippos coming out of the hippo pools and going out to to graze throughout the whole night it's just mind-blowing it's like you're watching a Marvel movie throughout the whole day you know and being a content creator and and an artist we have this look out of things and we get probably to to just to just to see more beauty than a normal person so I truly love if anybody ever actually where I would rather be at any given time definitely Serengeti is going to be one among the places and the reason Serengeti is because it being a national park has a lot of diverse from the things from from the biodiversity that is found within the national park that means we have the big five within the national park obviously you know it will take you more than a couple of days to actually see the big five but it's one among the places whereby in Africa and probably the world with the for instance in among Africa and probably the world we have the highest number of lions you know so if you're looking forward to get to see the old big five because obviously right now I think this year they announced the new big five so if you're into seeing the big five meaning the rhino the elephants the buffalo the leopard and what else what else did I leave and there's one more remaining the rhino rhino elephant leopard buffalos what else so yes okay so there's a leopard there's a lion there's a rhino and there's a buffalo and what else got it the elephant the elephant the elephant's done the elephant's done I see people are only commenting no giraffe is not on the big five giraffe is actually a national animal symbol in Tanzania oh it's just giving my one too no not the hippo I want I want I want people to actually guess right now so obviously yeah sorry I was saying when I was in when I was in Tanzania we spent eight days on the safari and I was really trying to see all of the big fives but we didn't get to see the rhino it was really across any rhino which places did you visit we covered the the north serengeti central the Gorongoro and what else uh how and here it's around here beautiful places that you visited and then this is the other thing about you know planning your safari at least you have to know in the back of your head what you want to expect to see so if you want to see the big five then there are parts you don't obviously see them easily once you're in serengeti the places that you could also see the rest of other big five for instance for the rhinos which you missed out after staying for eight days safari you could have gone to a national park that is called the Komaze national park then you could easily see the rhinos you know every single day you would see a rhino in there in that national park so I feel like more information has to be out there so that people can actually get access to it and get to see and hear about this these uh these animals and obviously people have already answered we were correct it was a lion leopard a zebra rhino and a buffalo there's no giraffe guys yeah so if another place that I really love is um I love the mountains and obviously when you speak of the mountains there are two things there's either for the adrenaline junky people who are by the very feet and they can conquer big mountains like Mount Kilimanjaro but obviously there are other parts you know they're hidden beautiful parts of the mountains that obviously are not given the media attention but also they're not really well known you know it's actually for the people that usually go off track you know to actually look for these places and then that's when you come to discover the hidden gems you know that I found in Tanzania and one of the places that I really found my soul because for me traveling is connecting to myself and every time I travel I get to have this peace of mind that you know it's out of this world you know it's like you're in a movie you know in a big screen and it's just you and the reality over there so one of the places that I really truly love is called Mgeta it's a hidden place within the Morogoro region and I would say any day any time this place is out of this world out of its beauty but another thing if it's a person who loves the beaches then obviously the beach destination I wouldn't recommend the Zanzibar I would recommend mafia island and I have couple mafia island yes and I have couple of reasons to why I would recommend mafia and not Zanzibar so reason number one for for those people who really love the beach and they love the beach with the silence obviously Tanzania has a as a diverse of cultural backgrounds which we have over 124 different cultural backgrounds and being in the coastal region itself we have the cost of people that their culture and their tradition is kind of the same from Zanzibar, Kiloa, Intwara and mafia island but each destination offers a different variety of you know energy and adventure and beauty of how things are and mafia being one of them is is very is a small island it's not as populated as Zanzibar its beaches obviously are not so touristic as the Zanzibar beaches the way they are obviously if you have been to Zanzibar you will know and you'll notice a lot of people by the beach exploring the beach and having fun about the beach and there's nothing wrong with that but then again for some people then especially for the introverts they are not into going to places that they have so much you know crowd of people and I would highly recommend mafia for those people who want but obviously for the things that you can do in mafia number one is you are going to swim with big whale sharks which are found only in mafia within within the east african coast I believe within Tanzania lists you cannot spot them in Zanzibar but you cannot spot them in Kiloa, Intwara or Bagamoya or Tanga but you can only spot them in mafia island and these are seasonal whale sharks which come to bless our country usually at the end till the beginning which starts their season starts from October until late January and then the whale shark season is over so mafia could be my third destination and obviously I think these are my three big destinations obviously I would I would definitely say Arusha Arusha and the reason Arusha is my hometown this is where I grew up I started my I didn't start my travel career in Arusha I started over in Dar es Salaam city but I feel like Arusha has got more to offer it is a city whereby it's very close to all these beautiful destinations that means you can go to Kilo Manjaro within 30 minutes you can go to Serangeti within six hours maybe um no no you can go to Kilo Manjaro within two hours you can go to Serangeti within five to six hours and you're blessed with so much within the city meaning that from the vegetation the mountains the people and the people have different cultural backgrounds from the Maasai from the Meru people from the Chaga people the Nyaturu people um the people from Mulu so Arusha itself being a city gives a lot of diverse and makes me love it and makes it a travel destination for everybody who loves it that's awesome Fahad some of these destinations I haven't even heard of like Mafia Island and Mugeta yeah um we have a bunch of comments here we have a comment from our friend here saying Mafia is great just swimmed with the whale shark today such a lifetime experience to me those who want to visit Mafia for whale shark is until March is that a is that a true fact Fahad yes it is a true fact but and and I said the end of January meaning that the heises they usually stay till probably late March you know okay yeah well hello everyone thanks for everyone who's joining us today I am joined today by Fahad Fouad travel influencer and wildlife photographer from Tanzania and we're talking about the beautiful country of Tanzania he's sharing some of his travel stories and great places in Tanzania all right so what else Fahad um so let's talk about uh maybe we can talk about safaris in Tanzania and okay what are some of the tips that you have for someone going for a first time safari how to go about planning uh you kind of broke I can't really hear you yeah let me know if you guys can still hear me um I was saying uh maybe we can talk about safaris in Tanzania and how to go about planning a safari for the first time uh let's say you are limited by time you have four days five days what are some of the national parks that are worth visiting are you guys still hearing us okay oops I think I just lost Fahad all right we'll give it a couple of minutes until he joins back and uh you if you guys have any questions feel free to share them here and we can tackle them in a little bit here oh network problem hakuna matata all right there he is hello hello hi I think we had some network problem can you hear me Fahad yeah network problems yes I can definitely hear you loud and clear okay perfect um so let's talk a little bit about safaris and the wildlife we talked about some of the national parks how do you go about planning and preparing for a safari and what are some of the tips that you have to share with you know with tourists coming for the first time just to make sure that they are well prepared for an adventure like this okay um for an international person or any person any day any time that they want to plan for a safari a list first of all you should you should have it in your mind that you need more than a day to actually do a safari yes you can do a safari in one day that to actually have a beautiful experience for a safari can actually even take two weeks or it can take a month but then again a list highly I would recommend highly highly if you are to do a safari a list do it for five days average five days five days you get to see a lot you'll get to experience a lot sometimes yes you will get to see everything in one day if you're lucky because again it's what mother nature blesses you to see so if you're only coming to see you can have a day and you can see a zebra you can see a gazelle you can see a lion if you're lucky you can see an elephant you can see anything in a day but if you're coming for a true african wildlife safari you know it's just beyond saying you know you can look at it on the tv but experiencing different moments being in different landscapes and in different places it's what makes that safari a unique thing and for me I would recommend five days and within five days as you're planning your safari a list get to know what is it that you're you really want to see okay again we're not going to speak about culture we're not going to speak about the landscape we're always going to speak about safari because it has a lot of things to experience and to explore and you know different activities and different destinations within Tanzania so if you're coming for safari I would recommend five days and then within those five days what you could actually do you could be you'll be able to actually go to different national parks so usually our safaris start from Arusha city the city of Arusha which is in the northern side of Tanzania but then again I'm saying all this in referral to if a person is only going for safari and safari in Tanzania is divided into multiple boundaries or destinations for instance we have the nothing circuit whereby in nothing circuit you'll find the Tarangera national park you'll find the manyara national park you'll find them Gorongoro crater you'll find them due to conservation area and you'll find the mighty Serengeti within the the northern circuit and then we also have the southern circuit whereby on the southern circuit you get to experience the Seleuze game reserve the Nyerere national park the Kumi national park you get to experience Ruaha national park and then there are other national parks like Mahale where they're popular for chimpanzees and we have a national park that is a flower or a floral national park which is called Ketulo national park this is called the aka for Ketulo national park is called the heavens garden this place is so beautiful it's like the Serengeti of flowers you know you go on a landscape it's a flat landscape with full of natural flowers growing over through March and blossoming and bringing different diverse and colors into you know into the landscape so saying all this now gives you an opportunity to at least know that now where do I start with being in a in a country where it has so much diverse right um and coming from Tanzania I would definitely obviously you have to know are you only going to be doing safari or you're going to be doing Kilimanjaro the mountains and safari or you're going to be doing beach and safari so once you know excuse me so once you know if you're going to be doing the safari and the beach then obviously I would recommend you being in the south and south and circuit whereby you will find the Ruaha national park the Mikumi national park the Seleuze game reserve and the Nyerere national park but also at the same time if you're going to if you're going to to experience the Kilimanjaro and the mountains meaning that the mountains are more located within the northern circuit that means after you summit the Mount Kilimanjaro the tallest freestanding mountain in the world then it's only fair if you also do national parks that are within the northern circuit that makes it you will start with the Arusha national park Terangiri national park um Manjaro national park Gorongoro crater due to conservation area and Serengeti so within the five days for instance if you're now doing the mountain which I believed you do you did the mountain Mount Kilimanjaro right yeah yeah we did climb Kilimanjaro so yes so obviously if you have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro that means you're within the northern circuit where you're within the premises of Kilimanjaro region Arusha region and you know the leg zone area whereby we get to share the ecosystem and the biodiversity of the national park within the Serengeti and uh and somebody else here reminded me in Komarzi national park for rhinos as I mentioned earlier there's a national park whereby you can sport rhinos very easily every single day you can be lucky enough to get to see rhinos it's called in Komarzi national park so now how do you plan your itinerary or your your days for safari is now depending again how many days you I think we're cutting off again all right guys can you can you still hear me okay I think I lost Fahed one more time I'm just going through the comments here man I'm local and never enjoy the mother nature tourism talk like this one absolutely Fahed has a lot of knowledge to share it's amazing I was just telling him that when we were in Tanzania I wanted to see all of the big five but we were having a hard time to find a rhino but if I knew about Komarzi national park I would have gone but it's sometimes you get a different perspective from locals two times in a year because as a tourist you only think about the the main attractions that are popular all right so let's see if we can get him back we lost you truly sorry my phone really gets busy sometimes I'm I'm sorry yes where were we you are telling us about your experience in Tanzania when I finish up yeah I was filling the gap waiting for you to join but talking about Komarzi I was saying that you know these are some of the parks that you don't pay attention to because most of people like you said they think about the plains of the Serengeti and that's the most popular national park and that's where all of the attention is so it's good to hear about these places that are not as popular yes and and that's basically what me together with my team and probably the rest of you know the ministry and other parts of you know of the Tanzania national park authority they're also trying to promote tourism of not only the Serengeti but also the other but obviously being in the Serengeti sometimes you can understand why people makes it more of a big deal and it's because of the ecosystem and the biodiversity that is found within the national park and I totally understand why everyone who comes to Tanzania they will live with an unforgettable memory and experience from Serengeti obviously they'll have beautiful experiences in other part of the national parks the Serengeti is what really truly wins people's heart most of the time yeah the the Serengeti is just incredible when I got back home sometimes I have to pinch myself and say was that even real it doesn't yeah I was going to ask you so obviously all of these national parks and conservation area they are bio diverse the government is probably putting some some work to make sure that they are maintained what are some of the things that we can do as tourists to make sure that we are responsible and we are being respectful to the land okay so rule number one trashy and trash out right so obviously once you enter the national parks or being even outside your home or even when you're inside your home it's just good to to protect your environment and keep your environment clean because once it is clean once it is protected that means it's also going to protect you in return and that goes now beyond when tourist visits visits our national parks in Tanzania and any other part of the world is to actually do not trash or litter once you're within the national park you know but then again there there has been more of now travelers who would travel with blows to speakers and I don't know why you'll be in mother nature and still have your bust music you know either in your car or have earphones you know sometimes it's very respectable to respect the environment or that you're within if you can just keep it quiet and keep it low you know and and to protect the animals is and the environment that they within the the animals is always to try and do not interfere with their well-being do not interfere with with the peaceful environment that they have that means if you go there and you start driving fast rushing from one point to another that means you're creating chaos within mother nature and once you create chaos within mother nature that means you're not respecting it and if you do not respect mother nature a lot of things can come out of it you know so obviously do not trash you will see a lot of tourists would eat will drink and throw outside their safari cars and I believe most of the tourist companies obviously try and and educate on how it is important to preserve and take care of the environment and but some people they're always just the old ones and they'll continue doing such things you know sure and also keeping your distance from wildlife usually if you are going in a vehicle with a guide I think that they do a pretty good job just telling you the do's and dance so what it's like I mean I know from from my experience would be in a vehicle with a guide and we will be basically just spending the whole time inside of the vehicle um yeah if I had can you switch on other types of safaris that include walking in the plains maybe with the park rangers or things like that what are the types of safaris that are available okay so obviously there's blue safari whereby it happens mostly in the Zanzibar and the coastal side whereby there you could be doing diving and get to see how beautiful the underwater world is and obviously there's walking safari that is found within the national parks and where by within the walking safaris mostly what you get to experience is it's just magical you know escaping the same sport where the king of the jungle is actually stepping it's different from actually the feeling and that's why I say once you do safari is not about seeing it's about experiencing so you can imagine for instance for those who are doing camping maybe you would camp and you could definitely hear animals passing outside your tent that's like you're in a very direct interactions with this while wilderness once you're doing your safari but obviously while doing walking safari you have your park ranger you have your guide and obviously you as a tourist you'll probably be in between these guys and while doing the safari obviously people think that safari vehicle but obviously once doing walking safari is a different safari experience that a person can actually embark to for instance they're kind of vegetation insects prints could be poop or feasts you know from animals you know that you cannot probably see and witness once you're in a big safari gym but once you're doing walking safari this is where you get back to experience you know for instance you would see probably a giraffe eating from an acacia tree but once you're within the car you can only be within the road you cannot step outside and even fill the acacia and as we all know the acacia trees have big thorns but the same time the giraffe can still eat from the acacia tree so you being able to do a walking safari that means you can actually go closer and get to see how the acacia tree can protect itself from you know other animals but also other vegetation and probably sometimes if you're lucky enough you could see prints from animals sometimes yes you can see an antelope you can see a lion but seeing a footprint and you walking through that footprint it's just you know it's like being in a Jurassic Park that's how a walking safari feels like all the time that's awesome that's really cool to do walking safari gives you a chance to see the inseam absolutely absolutely true true awesome so have you ever done walking safari before no i have not i've only done the jeep safari if you were asking me i thought you're yeah okay got you no but but walking obviously yeah go ahead no i was saying that a walking safari would be would be a great way to to explore because from the jeep you you only get to see that far and you can probably rely on your zoom lens but it's not as as exactly in close to the wildlife as being on the same for instance and then another thing about fascinating about walking safari is also getting to to learn the survival skills as we all know most of the people that are traveling probably are coming from the cities but now being in the wilderness that brings you and it takes you back to a memory lane whereby probably how our ancestors used to live in harmony with the wilderness until and and and how lucky we and privileged we are until today that we can still get to to witness how beautiful the wilderness is is because that obviously these guys were also doing a walking safari every day and i feel like the maasai people does walking safari every day because for instance we we didn't borrow borrow conservation area that is one among UNESCO world record heritage places and what makes it special and unique is the the living in harmony between the wilderness and the human and they get to interact you find a maasai man grazing his cattle and at the same time there's zebras and there's giraffes within cows and gods and ships and they live in peace and and and and just being them and sometimes witnessing that makes you feel like you would wish to be a maasai you know absolutely so talking talking about the the the maasai i know that there are a lot of tribes in Tanzania and as as a shuri for first time visitors you get to experience some some of that culture i know that there are some tours where you can hang out with with the maasai the toga hadzabi different tribes so tell us a little bit more true true true um so obviously as i said and mentioned Tanzania has a great diversity in culture and obviously as i mentioned the number over 124 different cultural diverse groups you can imagine now all of this or most of this very few of them still hold into their cultural ethics and still practice you know their cultural backgrounds is still dressed like how they're meant to dress and not dressing in t-shirts and stuff like that so one among or few among these cultural tribes are the maasai the hadzabi and there's one um in bulu my friend comes from that tribe um and and very few you know like who still practice in dresses up and they still use their language and they're kind of ignoring the globalization that is happening within the world you know and it's very beautiful also to get to see the diverse obviously coming from an international for instance for international tourists coming to get to see people that they still live in the wilderness and still dressing yes the da toga thank you mazige for for sharing and then the sundae there's so many other other cultural uh groups that still practice so obviously when tourists come to to visit Tanzania they get to witness this and apart from just the the tribes that are still wearing and dressing the same like how they used to wear uh 20 50 years ago but obviously without forgetting the swahili coastal people most of the people when they go to zanzibar they find like the swahili people or the people in zanzibar they could be you know intercultural people living in zanzibar but it's very unique from and very diverse coming from maybe Dar es Salaam or coming from Arusha after your safari and getting to see the lifestyle of the maasai and the colors these maasai dresses too and their homes and the the landscape that they live in and flying or driving or going all the way to the coastal side of zanzibar and getting to see people living in an old building it's like you're living in the centuries whereby buildings are very old you know people are still wearing white and you know african truans meaning the kanga and the muslims you know it's it's like you're living in a different country but still you're in tanzania and you get to experience a huge diverse you know from the maasai or the hadzabe and all the way to the swahili culture you know so i feel like if any person ever tries or ever plans to come and visit tanzania then one among the best to witness the cultural backgrounds and the cultural differences that are found in tanzania awesome i mean i know that zanzibar is a great place to go because like you said it's not just the beaches although that's what the majority of people go to zanzibar for but it's very rich you get to to learn about the the arab influence in the area and then the the people who live in it nice yes awesome yes and we have inherited a lot of of traditional backgrounds from the indians the the arab and the islam you know way of life in zanzibar but then again as i said if you travel all the way to arusha or to the to the wildest part of gorongoro conservation area and get to see the the way the maasai live in their lifestyle it's outstanding and mind-blowing to get to see the difference you know in lifestyle even not only in the lifestyle but also even the architecture you know from how the maasai people built their houses and homes and how you know the the swahili zanzibari people build up their homes awesome very cool this is this is really fun and exciting so i i know you've been going for 46 minutes but do you have anything else that you'd like to to share with our folks here maybe if anyone has a question they could ask us and i would definitely get to to answer them but all you know all is that i feel like 2022 if you are planning your bucket list obviously while ignoring our covids you know if you're we're planning our covids our bucket list then i feel like Tanzania should be on top of your list and and the reason is that once you you come to Tanzania you get to experience a huge diverse of experiences meaning from waterfalls lakes culture safari beach you know and you know some very beautiful um animals and biodiversity that they very rarely get to be seen and you can actually get to see them within Tanzania for instance the chimps that are found in Mahale National Park and the Gombe National Park this is a national park filled up with chimpanzees where else can you find chimpanzees yes you can find them in other countries but where else has all the diverse and still has the chimpanzees and still has the whale sharks and beautiful Christ of clear sand beaches in Zanzibar and mafia you know and just we have zipline also in in um they have a zipline um adventurous place where you could go and experience on a day um also it's really nice um right now during the pandemic i know a lot of countries have a lot of restrictions but Tanzania has been pretty open for a very long time at first there are some in place you need you will have to do your your test and make sure that you are protected but they've been pretty open to to tourists which is really nice for people who are comfortable to travel now yes and obviously whatever the world is going through and everyone else is going through travel is part of the medication i'm using the medication because again everything if everything is in chaos once you travel that's where you find peace and obviously traveling to Tanzania that's where peace is absolutely Tanzania is a great country i highly highly recommend it i have a question here do you plan to bring with you more tourists to Tanzania and experience the nature while Sahed has given you only one percent of it absolutely the goal of these live streams is to encourage people to travel to Tanzania some people you know they have never traveled to Africa before so we want to encourage people to go and explore Africa and explore Tanzania in particular that's the goal here already Rubon do a national park has chimpanzee and that's also in Tanzania yes as i said Tanzania has a huge diverse just in national parks itself and the things that are found within the ecosystem awesome so i absolutely recommend that you guys if you are not already following uh Sahed you should because he's showing parts of Tanzania that i personally have never seen before and if you plan on traveling to Tanzania that's the right place to be you will find a lot of good recommendation from from his page of course and you have another page for wildlife right yes it's called wild by Farhad for and the reason i've decided to is because i feel like the beauty of the wilderness is so beautiful to actually mix it with other travel content that's why i had to open another page that is strictly just for wildlife just to praise how beautiful and magical the wilderness is awesome all right so we have a few questions rolling in where can you stay when you visit mafia i mean a place with a friendly budget um so mafia has a huge um variety of places from camping to high resorts you know and um i would recommend butiama mafia lodge obviously because they roasted me and because i've also get to experience their their service and they're also budget friendly and then they also have different parts and then of lodges and hotels within the mafia and mafia being it's just like zanzibai it's divided like how lung we paje is the same way in mafia also it has its divisions and parts whereby if you have a hotel in such an area then it's it's it's beautiful but also there's um there's a lodge that is found within one among the islands that are found in mafia but obviously just please send me a dm and i will try and uh recommend and obviously once one day very soon probably i will share recommendations for mafia because obviously as we all have seen that most people do not really know of how beautiful mafia is and where to start when they want to travel to mafia awesome uh the next question is halal food accessible yes um obviously tanzania has a huge population of muslims uh obviously all other in respect to all other religions and um most of the places they they sell and provide halal food so whenever you're coming and planning to travel in tanzania each and every store has a halal food for for you awesome this is pretty diverse when it comes to uh religion in tanzania right i think is it 50 percent christiansi 50 percent muslims what is that is that a fair number um yes but still in respect to also other religions like the hindu's and and other other religion religious backgrounds yeah so it's it's it's really diverse and the i think like yes it's really diverse it's it's interesting when you move from from the mainland to to zanzibar and then to zanzibar the all the diverse yes yes so if you're going to zanzibar then there you're gonna go and interact with more of the islamic muslim community that obviously if you're an international traveler then you obviously have to kind of align and abide to the cultural um system of of zanzibar whereby the if you dress in a respectful manner that means once you respect someone's culture then you make the host very easy to host you you know awesome all right so there's one more question uh i'm planning a safari and zanzibar trip really looking forward to it which month do you recommend to visit can you also recommend places to visit within mafia island all right so let's uh oh no no sorry guys whoops okay i think we just lost fahad if you want to try to join again and i accepted the wrong person all right so we'll try to get these questions answered then if you have any other questions feel free to share them here as well already there we go and i apologize guys for the network issues show you once again i'm back no worries okay um we were trying to answer this question there's a person who's planning a safari and a trip to zanzibar and they want to know what's the best month of the year to to visit oh that's a very very beautiful question um so in in Tanzania specific and specifically for safari any time of the year is beautiful to actually explore the wilderness and the reason why is because for instance the term that we use in serengeti serengeti shall never die that means the wilderness is still going to be there but now for instance if we look at the northern circuit whereby we have the big great migration of the wildebeest and the zebras to cross from serengeti national park to the masai mara in kenya if you try and follow throughout the whole journey that means each and every month it's very beautiful to actually come and witness for instance right now from now till march we might start getting a rain season in tanzania and obviously some people will tell you the best time to do safari is during a dry season but in reality even in the rainy season there's more blessings coming with it what blessings so in the wilderness during the rainy season which is within the january till march this is the season we call the dropping season the dropping season is a term that safari guides use whereby they mean is the time where the wildebeests and the zebras give birth so after the whole migration they do from july august september and all the way back to october to the central serengeti when they do the migration they the wildebeest come back pregnant for some reason so they they start giving birth during the the the the january february and march and they give birth in a special place called due to conservation area so if you are planning to do safari it's very good to know which time are you are going but also what is the action that is happening during that time now in due to conservation area is very popular for the wildebeest and the and the the wildebeest and the zebras because the then due to conservation area is very the soil is very feta with with what do they call with very nutritious grass so the the wildebeest and the zebras will travel all the way uh from the central serengeti to the due to conservation area in search of these um nutritious you know grasses because again they will be breastfeeding but also as we know the wildebeest and the zebras as soon as they give birth the babies have to stand up and start walking in the next maybe three minutes so so that means the mothers have to feed in with a lot of greens that have the best nutrients and where the best nutrients found they're found in due to conservation area when do the wildebeest migrate to the due to conservation area they can uh they migrate during the the rainy season in tanzania which is from january to march so if you are lucky enough to travel within this period of time even for those people who have traveled within serengeti within the past few weeks they will say that the migration is moving towards ngorongoro the migration of the animals is leaving serengeti going towards ngorongoro and now the fascinating part about this is that when the migration moves the wildebeest and the zebras move that means even the big cats also move the lions also move to find food you know uh the hyenas also move the scavengers also move and yes obviously serengeti will not be empty but the big wilderness experience and the game watching will be now available in the due to conservation area and this is the beginning of the year from january to march and then obviously from that period of time obviously now the migration will start going back to the central with the with the small baby zebras and small wildebeest and again they will set in the central serengeti and when it reaches july they start now crossing again you know and and it's just fascinating knowing where to see them so there's a time where there will be in seri central serengeti there's a part where there will be in koga tender which is where the migration usually happened koga tender is the part of serengeti which is uh there's a separation between the the serengeti and the masai mara where it's divided with by the masai mara river so this the tanzanian side is called koga tender and serengeti happens within the koga tender okay so for anyone that tanzania tanzania can host you any time of the year but you just have to know on on what you want to experience and when is that thing that you want to experience available within the year that's awesome that was a great question and that was an even greater answer and really thank you go to tanzania or for stafari any time of the year you are going to have a unique experience which is amazing true and obviously within forgetting about just not leaving not just talking about the national park but also the flower national park remember i told you about a beautiful place called kitulo national park where it's the heavens garden that's where now also the flowers now start to blossom and all the beauty from that national park starts showing off during the rainy season i can't believe that one hour went by so fast i know there's a lot to to talk about and to experience in tanzania and you cannot finish you know it was very great to to be part of this yeah i really i really found it to be helpful you share a lot of places i've been taken down notes because someplace i've never heard about so that's great um so i don't want to take much of your time but uh so give us a quick crash course on some words that you should know when you travel to tanzania in swahili so the first word you should know is say jambo jambo is like saying hi or saying habari jambo or habari is like these are the easiest words you can you can greet a person and you can say hello to a person but also you should be nice to people and when people say caribou when they welcome you to tanzania you should know how to say thank you and the way you say thank you you say asante so jambo asante which means jambo means hello caribou means welcome and asante means thank you and i would like to say asante habiba for hosting me and it has beautiful it has been a beautiful experience and talking about how my country is beautiful and i would like to welcome every person who is watching and who has not traveled with me or with tanzania or with trekking powers then we'll definitely want to say caribou sana and obviously my sister polin has also reminded me of one last word which means quahiri which means goodbye well i i'm gonna close this out and i'm gonna tell you also asante san up ahead for for your time and asante san thank you so much thank you thank you everyone who joined us today we love tanzania i can't wait to go back one more time and if you haven't made it to tanzania i highly encourage that you go and explore this beautiful country asante sana habiba and until next time bye bye