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OLDUVAI GORGE IS IN TANZANIA
Tanzania
Tourist Board (TTB) has been following up the ongoing discussions on social
media following a video clip being posted on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iveX49WE7fw) which
has been circulating through various media channels showing a person claiming
that Oldupai Gorge, a site in Tanzania that holds evidence of the earliest existence
of mankind is in Kenya.
This
video clip has triggered a lot of discussions on the different social media
among Tanzanians and other people who have good wishes for Tanzania tourism who
know very well that Oldupai Gorge is in Tanzania and NOT in Kenya.
As a public institution, responsible
for marketing and promotion of Tanzania tourist attractions, Tanzania Tourist
Board is also dismayed by this misleading information which intends to distort
the good work the Board has been doing in promoting Tanzania tourist
attractions including the Oldupai Gorge.
The Board would like to take this opportunity to
strongly refute this statement delivered by the said person from a neighboring
country while addressing one of the sessions of the International Young Leaders
Assembly (IYLA) in USA, August 2016.
We
would like to inform the world that as it is the case for Mt. Kilimanjaro,
Serengeti National Park, Zanzibar to mention just a few, Olduvai Gorge which is
referred to as the Cradle of Mankind, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey
discovered important hominid remains of the nutcracker ‘Australopithecus
bosel’, who lived nearly two years ago, is also in Tanzania and not elsewhere
in the world.
It is located in
the eastern Serengeti Plains in the Arusha Region and about 45 km, from Laetoli, another important archaeological site of early human occupation. The
paleoanthropologist-archeologist team Mary and Louis Leakey established and developed the excavation and
research programs at Olduvai Gorge
which achieved great advances of human knowledge and world-renown status. Olduvai Gorge is one of the key tourist
attractions for Tanzania.
We call upon Tanzanians and those with good wishes for
Tanzania wherever they are to continue supporting the effort’s undertaken by
TTB in marketing Tanzania and her all tourism attractions. We believe that it
is the role of every single Tanzanian to promote Tanzania as Africa’s best
destination and ask them to join and support Tanzania Tourist Board in its
efforts to promote destination Tanzania.
We would like to applaud the reaction made by Tanzanians
and non-Tanzanian s alike within and out of Tanzania, who through this incident were able
to stand up as ‘one voice’ and tell the world that OLDUPAI GORGE is INDEED IN
TANZANIA!
Issued by:
Public
Relations Office
TANZANIA TOURIST BOARD
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