Travel Guides

Getting to Tanzania

The Gateways to Tanzania
By Air
Tanzania has three International airports; Dar es Salaam International Airport which handles most international fligths, Kilimanjaro International Airport and Zanzibar International Airport. The airlines flying into Tanzania's airports are as follows:

Dar es Salaam International Airport
Air Tanzania, Air Zimbabwe, Air India, Air Mozambique, Air Malawi, British Airways, Emirates, Ethiopian Airline, KLM, Precision Air, South African Airways and Swiss Air

Kilimanjaro International Airport
Air Kenya, Ethiopian Airline, KLM and Precision Air

Zanzibar International Airport
Air Tanzania, Kenya Airways, Precision Air and South African Airways

By Road
From the north paved road connected Kenyan capital of Nairobi with Arusha and cross the border at Namanga post. A number of shuttle buses ,leaving twice daily between the two cities,also follow this route. The route takes aproximately 4-6 hours from South, the road from Malawi enters Tanzania at Karonga before continuing onwards to Mbeya. There no viable bus services on this route, It is possible to cross border from Uganda at the Mutukula border post, but transport options are are equally limited.
Internal roads connect Arusha and Dar es Salaam to major towns around the country. Roads to major tourist destinations are either already paved or under construction. The road from Arusha to Tarangire National Park to Ngorongoro Crater has been completed . A number of reliable bus services running throughout Tanzania are Hood Bus Services,Buffalo Coach, Mohamed Trans,Sumry High Class Coach,Royal Coach,Dar Express and Fresh Coach
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