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TOURIST ATTRACTIONS:

Kigosi Game Reserve:

It is located between Shinyanga Kigoma and Tabora. The reserve is within the Malagalasi-Moyowosi wetland.The area is dominated with grassy swamps to the south and open Miombo woodland to the north, allowing the Moyowosi, Nikonga, Kigosi and Gombe Rivers flow through the flood plain.

The inaccessibility to this reserve contributed to the concentration rare water birds, and it provides perfect and excellent habitation for elusive sitatunga, waterbuck, buffalo, and it also have many lions. There is a number of islands in the swamp where game often concentrates.

The Miombo woodland creates excellent refuge for  sable, hartebeest, buffalo, topi and other game seen in the woodland.
 

Malagarasi-Muyovozi Wetlands:


The wetland is spread within three regions of Kigoma, Shinyanga and Tabora, in northwest Tanzania.

The wetland is a large and excellent example of an East African floodplain wetland ecosystem in good condition. The wetland provides an important dry season refuge and feeding area for migratory animals including many waterbirds and large mammal species. Also, the wetland supports a number of endangered species such as the Tragelaphus spekei antelope species, and it is an important nursery and feeding area for a variety of fish species (at least 51 fish species). Pollimyrus nigricans and Bryconaethiops boulengeri are two of the rare fish species. In addition, there are a number of endemic fish species.

The Malagarasi-Muyovozi wetland ecosystem plays an important hydrological role in western Tanzania. The main hydrological functions of the system are water storage, flood control, groundwater recharge, sediment retention and water purification. Flood storage in the wetland reduces downstream flooding in towns. During dry season the steady discharge of water, supplements dry season river flow.

The floodplains play a role in trapping sediments carried by the major rivers in times of peak flow, hence reducing the levels of sediments carried into Lake Tanganyika. The average annual rainfall is 800-1,000 mm. Temperatures range from 12 - 20°C between November and April (main rainy season) and from 20 - 26°C in August and September (main dry season).

OTHER ATTRACTION:

Tabora has a lot of historical monuments one can experience. Visitors to Tabora can visit Dr. Livingstone Museum to Learn about his expeditions, and you can learn of slave trade which thrived in the Region during the late 1800s. (Livingstone House).

 

 

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