Travel

Participants will incur their own transport costs to and from Tanzania. Special shuttles will be arranged to take foreign participants from the airport from two days before the conference.

Visa Requirements

The conference secretariat, upon receiving of a completed registration, will make official invitation to all participants so as to simplify the processing of VISA application at home country. Though, visas into Tanzania for East African Residents and some of the SADCC countries are not required. Please check with the Tanzanian high commission at your country. However, visas can also be applied for at the Dar es Salaam international Airport and other ground international entry points. 

Travel Information  

Participants will incur their own transport costs to and from Tanzania. Special shuttles will be arranged to take foreign participants from the airport from two days before the conference.

Tourism 

Tanzania is a beautiful land of tropical forests, savannah, grasslands, mountains, gleaming lakes, sandy beaches and coral reefs. It is one of few countries in the world home for a vast of wildlife. There are infinite tourist attractions in many places of Tanzania. For example, alone in the famous city of Arusha, there is the Kilimanjaro mountain, the highest in Africa, which is beautifully covered with a snowcap; Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Leaky discovered the Zinjanthropus which is believed by Archeologists in the world to be the evidence of the earliest human ancestral remain; and a number of national parks, which include Serengeti, Ngorongoro (among the wonders of the world is the Ngorongoro crater!), Lake Manyara and Tarangire.

Tanzania also has fascinating mix of people and cultures living on the mainland and residing on the islands of Zanzibar. In the mainland, you will have the opportunity to meet the Maasai worriers, whom, before marriage one has to bring the cut head of the lion! The islands of Zanzibar and her mesmerizing people and their culture and beaches is another attraction you wouldn’t want to miss when you are attending the ISCA conference; they are easily reached by daily flights or speed boats through the Indian ocean from Dar es salaam.

You also wouldn’t want to miss the opportunity to visit the ever-historical town of Bagamoyo, which is just a 40 minutes drive from the city of Dar es salaam. Bagamoyo is where the first missionaries landed, where there was the greatest slave market and where slaves were shipped to abroad.