Is East African Tourism Still Safe? East Africa has been an epitome and a focal center of African tourism. Your fantasy for a travel in the African wild can be summed under one east African roof!
East Africa is very convenient in location geographically, easily accessible with an all-year-round friendly weather that may not restrict much of your dream activities while you tour the exotic savanna with animal species of rare beauty and people of rich culture.
For most of countries in Europe and America, there is a need for only one connecting flight to reach the famous tourist circuit providing the riches of all ranges beginning from wildlife exploration, mountain hiking adventures, the white sand beaches in the eastern coast as well as the cultural tourism.
While the East African block remains in tight close relationship geographically and politically given their proximity and history, each individual country still holds their unique governance and sovereign independence with clearly defined borders.
The recent events happening in Kenya pertaining the financial bill that has prompted national wide demonstrations and riots particularly led by young people of the nation whose thirst for development is not seemingly quenched by the 70% external loan depended economy. This has elicited an opposition to the finance bill that initially started as peace demonstration which then escalated to go a bit overboard into burning and disrupting the parliament buildings.
This has incited Medias across the world to report constantly on the incidences around the rejection of the financial bill in Kenya making it a terribly unsafe place to visit. However, the demonstrations are fairly within the big cities in Kenya and while they are supposed to be peacefully, the country’s president has deployed his military security to ensure nothing goes overboard.
While it’s not exactly a good time to visit Kenya, this period is only transitory as the president and the politicians in the country are already responding to major concern of the population on the financial bill. If you already booked a trip to Kenya, most of the tourist’s site remain fair and are not target sites for the demonstration.
In the grand scheme of things, while our neighbor faces the challenges in keeping peace, Tanzania prides itself to still maintain its reputation of being one of the top safest countries in the world. The political atmosphere in Tanzania is one that is not only welcoming but natures the stay of tourists.
To top it off, Tanzania has indeed the most abundant tourist honeypots of all of the eastern Africa,
Tanzania is home to the roof of Africa, the highest free-standing mountain in the world often mistaken as to be in Kenya along the Serengeti that connects to the Maasai Mara plains in Kenya host an enormous wildlife and flora species earning it a title of one of the world’s seven wonders.
Tanzania is also formed partly by an archipelago of beautiful islands, the famous Zanzibar! An exotic famous honeymoon destination with a stretch of crystal-clear blue water and white sands, a perfect gateway and immersion to the Swahili culture.
With the current political atmosphere, Tanzania also encourages sustainable investment in tourism as well as other sectors for the common good of the citizens.
