Animals
This tall animal uses its long blue tongue to eat leaves from thorny acacia trees.
What is a Giraffe?
Tanzania is 8 hours ahead of North American Eastern Standard Time (EST). If you eat breakfast at 8:00 AM at home, what time is it for safari guides in Tanzania?
What is 4:00 PM?
This is the most important item to wear on your head to protect you from the hot African sun.
What is a sun hat?
This famous phrase made popular by movie characters means "no worries" or "no problems."
What is Hakuna Matata?
This world-famous national park in Tanzania is known for its vast, flat, grassy plains and hosting the Great Migration.
What is the Serengeti?
This big cat is the fastest land animal on Earth and can be spotted running across the Serengeti.
What is a Cheetah?
If you call your family from your Tanzania safari at 9:00 PM local time, what time is it back home in the EST time zone?
What is 1:00 PM?
You should pack neutral colors like khaki, brown, or olive green instead of this bright, eye-catching color style because it can scare away wildlife.
What is neon?
This is the most common, friendly, single-word greeting used to say "Hello!" to anyone you meet in Tanzania.
What is Jambo?
Mount Kilimanjaro is famous for having this cold, white substance on its peak, even though it sits right near the hot equator.
What is snow (or glaciers)?
These large, water-loving mammals look calm but are actually one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They spend their days cooling off in muddy rivers.
What are Hippos?
You go to sleep at camp in Tanzania at 10:00 PM on Tuesday night. What day and time is it back home in EST?
What is Tuesday at 2:00 PM?
Avoid packing blue or black clothing, because these colors are known to attract this painful, biting insect.
What is the tsetse fly?
If your guide spots an amazing animal and you want to say "Thank you" in Swahili, you use this word.
What is Asante?
This massive, circular volcanic caldera acts like a giant natural bowl, keeping over 25,000 large animals living inside its walls.
What is the Ngorongoro Crater?
This animal is known as the "laughing" predator of the savannah, but it is actually a highly skilled hunter.
What is a Spotted Hyena?
Traditional "Swahili Time" starts counting at sunrise (6:00 AM standard time is 1 o'clock). If a guide says meet at "3 o'clock in the morning" Swahili Time, what standard time is it?
What is 9:00 AM?
This is the name of the special hand-held device you use to bring distant lions or birds into close, sharp focus.
What are binoculars?
When driving on bumpy dirt roads or walking carefully, a guide might say "Pole pole" (pronounced poh-lay poh-lay). It means this.
What is slowly, slowly?
Tanzania is bordered by this massive body of water to its east, which contains the tropical spice island of Zanzibar.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This rare, armored mammal looks like a walking pinecone, rolls into a ball for defense, and is very hard to spot on safari.
What is a Pangolin?
Tanzania never changes its clocks for Daylight Saving Time. If your hometown moves its clocks forward 1 hour in the summer, does the time gap with Tanzania widen, narrow, or stay the same?
What is narrow? (It drops from an 8-hour gap to a 7-hour gap)
Because mornings on safari are freezing cold but noon is very hot, this is the smartest clothing strategy to use when getting dressed.
What is dressing in layers?
To wish someone "safe journey" or "safe travels" as they head out into the wild, you say this phrase.
What is Safari Njema?
Part of Tanzania's border is formed by this specific lake, which is the largest lake in Africa.
What is Lake Victoria?