Tanzania

Photo: Wildebeests grazing

Wildebeests are eastern Africa's most common wild grazing animals.

Photograph by Medford Taylor

This is iconic Africa—the one that exists in the mind's eye. • Snowcapped Kilimanjaro vies with packs of wildebeest, their hooves pounding the hardpan of the Serengeti Plain. • Wedged between Kenya to the north and Mozambique to the south, hard on the Indian Ocean, Tanzania has been blessedly untroubled by the strife that has racked so much of the continent. • The powdery, palm-fringed coast and serene inland lakes offer beaches. • Then there are the spice islands of the Zanzibar Archipelago. • Dr. David Livingstone got lost here looking for the source of the Nile. Henry Stanley finally found him, uttering his legendary greeting.

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