safaris Tanzania
Ruaha National ParkAt 13,000 sq. km, it is the second largest Tanzanian park and one of the wildest. It is also the world's largest elephant sanctuary. "There is not a blade of grass here in the dry season", says Kenyan Wildlife sculptor Rob Glen about Ruaha National Park, his home for the past two years. |
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Selous Game ReserveThe pristine reserve, a World Heritage Site since 1982, comprises an area of 55,000 sq. km, covering about six per cent of Tanzania's land surface. Larger than Switzerland, it is the world's largest game reserve and second only to the Serengeti in its concentration of wildlife. |
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Serengeti National ParkCovering an area of 14,763 square kilometers, equal in size to Northern Ireland, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park, and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. It is contiguous with Kenya's Maasai Mara Game Reserve and stretches as far as Lake Victoria to the West. |
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Olduvai GorgeOlduvai, more accurately called Oldupai after the wild sisal in the area, is the site of some of the most important finds of early hominid fossils of all time (made famous by the work of the Leakey family) - The "Nutcracker Man" or Australopithecus boisei who lived 1.8 million years ago. |
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Ngorongoro Conservation AreaThis vast protected area stretches from Lake Natron (the breeding ground for East Africa's flamingos) in the northeast, to Lake Eyasi in the south, and Lake Manyara to the east. The area includes the still active Ol-Doinyo Lengai (meaning "Mountain of God" in Maa, the language of the Masaai) volcano (which last erupted in 1983), Olduvai Gorge |
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Mikumi National ParkLocated astride the main Dar to Mbeya highway, to the north of Selous Game Reserve and only 283 km from Dar-es-Salaam, the park is an important educational centre for students of ecology and conservation, having been established to protect the environment and resident animals. |
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Lake Manyara National ParkSheltering under the massive escarpment of the Great Rift Valley, and covering an area of 325 sq. km, this park is a flash of green amid an otherwise parched landscape. (In The Green Hills of Africa, Hemmingway describes the park's magnificent hunting country.) A line of springs support the lush vegetation of a groundwater forest, where blue monkeys, |
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Lake EyasiDrive across the Rift Valley and up the escarpment to Lake Eyasi, where you spend the day exploring on foot. This dry and rugged landscape is inhabited by a small group of Bushmen who still live in small nomadic groups hunting with bow and arrow and gathering roots, tubers and wild fruits. Be prepared for an extraordinary cross-cultural |
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Kilimanjaro National ParkWhen Johann Rebman reported that he had seen at the latitude of the equator a vast mountain capped with snow, the British Geographical Society Laughed! Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and stands at 5,895 meters, three degrees south of the equator. The mountain, a dormant volcano, has two peaks - Kibo and Mawezi, |
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Arusha National ParkThis park has three distinct zones: Ngurdoto Crater (often called the 'mini-Ngorongoro'); the shallow alkaline Momella Lakes fed by underground streams (upon which rest thousands of lesser and greater flamingoes, |
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Gombe Stream National ParkLocated 16 kilometers north of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika is the smallest but one of the best known of Tanzania's national parks. It is one of the few places where chimpanzees can still be found in their natural habitat. Since 1960, Dr. Jane Goodall and colleagues have lived here studying the primates. |
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Katavi National ParkThis remote and difficult park to reach (strictly recommended for those of an adventurous spirit) lies on a high flood plain surrounding Lake Katavi, to the south of the Mahale Mountains. The main vegetation found here is the Miombo woodland. It has a wide variety of wildlife (crocodile, hippo, leopard, lion, roan and sable antelopes, southern reedbuck, |
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Tarangire National ParkThe park's permanent water supply ensures a huge and varied animal population, especially during the dry season when it rivals that of the Serengeti. The animals include large herds of elephants, rhino, buffalo, zebra, lesser and greater kudu, eland, wildebeest, hartebeest, gerenuk, impala and fringe-eared Oryx. |
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Mahale Mountains National ParkLocated at Ujiji on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, where Stanley is reputed to have met Livingstone and given the famous greeting "Dr. Livingstone I presume". The Mahale Mountains, like Gombe, are one of the last natural home to chimpanzees and are rich in birdlife. The park is a unique ecological zone with lowland forest, miombo |
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