Tanzania

Sorry it has taken a long time to write this, but we have been very busy. 

The last country we visited on the tour was Tanzania. Tanzania is not as poor as some of the countries we have been to. A lot of people from all over the world go to Tanzania every year. This is because there are lots of different things to see and do there. There are huge game parks with lots of animals. There is the highest mountain in Africa, called Mount Kilimanjaro, which is nearly 6000 metres high. It is so high that it has snow on the top all year. And there are also beautiful islands with lots of beaches.

The island that we went to is called Zanzibar. It is a very beautiful place and has white sandy beaches. The ocean is warm and clear like a swimming pool. A lot of people here are fishermen so there are lots of boats that go fishing every day. We went scuba diving here and saw lots and lots of pretty fish. We also saw an octopus, a stingray and some moray eels. And on the boat back to the beach we were very lucky and saw lots of dolphins playing in the waves.

At the end of our trip we went to two huge game parks called Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. Game parks are habitats where the animals are safe and people look after them. In Africa, many animals like elephants, rhinos and lions have been killed because people think they make their homes look beautiful. They use the skins of the animals or the tusks of the elephant to decorate their homes. We think the animals look a lot more beautiful alive in the wild. Game parks help to stop bad men killing these animals. Ngorongoro Crater is a very old volcano that does not erupt any more. There is lots of water for animals to drink and grass for the herbivores to eat. In these game parks we saw lions, elephants, hyenas, buffaloes, wildebeest, zebras and many more animals. And on our last day we were very lucky and saw a leopard sitting in a tree. It had killed a wildebeest and carried it into the tree to eat. After eating and taking the wildebeest up into the tree it was very tired, so it was resting.

This is T. Nick writing for the first time. T. Tanya is better than me at writing. I hope you are all enjoying the new school year and working hard. We are now in South Africa and the football World Cup has finished. We will write about South Africa soon and tell you about this amazing country.

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Take care,
T. Nick