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Serengeti National Park

The Great Serengeti kopjes

The park covers 14,763 sq. km of endless rolling plains, which reach up to the Kenyan border and extends almost to Lake Victoria.
The 'untold plains' named Siringet by the wandering Masai, that support 3 million mammals, upwards of 2 million of whom annually migrate in concentrated herds north across the Mara River. The park is teaming with stunning wildlife - it is thought that over 3 million large mammals roam the plains. This great spectacle of nature' has a cast that includes around0.3M Thompson's Gazelle, 1.3M Wildebeest, and 0.2M Zebra. It begins in June with the return leg in October/November.

The Serengeti centres on acacia savannah, with dry grasslands to the south, western corridor of wooded highland that
fronts Lake Victoria and north, the wooded grasslands along the Grumeti and Mara Rivers. Around 3,000 Lions and upwards of 500 Cheetah inhabits this enormous sanctuary.

Witness the annual migration of millions of zebra and wildebeest in search of water and forage as the seasons change in early June.

Activities and Special Interests Are; photography, Bird watching, walking safaris, and ballooning with Serengeti Balloon Safaris.

Wildlife include; Large herds of antelope of all sorts including: Patterson's eland, Klipspringer, Zebra, gazelles, water, bush and reed buck, Dikdik, impala, topi, cotton's oribi, kongoni, Grey bush duiker, roan antelope buffalo, and wildebeest. Plus: lion, cheetah, leopard, and hyena bat eared fox, hunting dog and jackal. Smaller mammals: spring hare, porcupine, warthog, hyraxes, baboon, vervet monkey, colobus monkey, patas monkey, and mongooses. Larger mammals: giraffe, rhino, elephant, hippopotamus. Nearly 500 species of bird, including vultures, storks, flamingoes, martial and fish eagles, ostrich. Reptiles: crocodiles, a number of species of snakes and lizards

Mountain Climbing - Kilimanjaro National Park

Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro

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, which are surrounded by dense forests full of dazzling variety of flora and fauna. The area around the mountain is protected territory. The 756 sq. km lying above 2,700m comprise Kilimanjaro National Park , while parts of the lower slopes - which support five vegetation zones - are protected as forest reserves.

The main attractions are the volcanic centres; Shira, Mawezi and Kibo, and the change in forest from savannah grassland to raw forests, moorland, tundra, semi-desert, and snow.

The Mountain has attracted many tourists and researchers from all over the world. No visit to Tanzania 's northern circuit would be complete without at least a glimpse of the mountain.

It is the only peak of its size that can be climbed with relative ease by non-mountaineers, and many take the opportunity to do so. The mountain can be climbed any time of the year, although it is often wet in the rain forest zone from mid-March to May. The summit can be conquered in three days. The youngest person to have climbed it was an 11-year old and the oldest, 74 years old.

Ruaha National Park

roan antelop

Ruaha National Park and the Rungwa Ecosystem! This large region is comparable to the Serengeti National Park in size at 10300 sq km and is Tanzania's second largest National Park. The Rungwa ecosystem contains six protected areas, most famously Ruaha National Park. It is situated in the centre of Tanzania about 130km west of the town of Iringa. Ruaha National Park is accessible year-round either by light aircraft from Dar es Salaam, the Selous Game Reserve, the Serengeti National Park, Arusha, Iringa and Mbeya, or by road through Iringa from Dar es Salaam (about 10 hours) via Mikumi or from Arusha via Dodoma.

The Great Ruaha River is the main feature of the park, and meanders through its borders. On its banks, the game viewing is spectacular, whether done by land or by water. Hippos yawn under the midday sun and crocodiles lie lazily along the banks. Fish eagles dive and swoop along the riverbanks, and at night the sound of frogs croaking happily in the reeds extends across the hills and plains. Boating safaris are starting to gain in popularity, and provide a popular alternative to viewing the area by car.

Udzungwa Mountains National Park

Waterfalls in Uzdungwa Park

Udzungwa Mountains National Park is one of Tanzania's most outstanding, pristine, paradise and unique exciting wilderness mountains forested with greatest altitudinal range of forest. It is one of thirty-four 'World Biodiversity Hotspot' and one of 200 WWF Ecoregion of global critical importance.

The park is home of primate and known from the treasure of high biodiversity of plants and animals. The park has high density of endemism species with some plants and animals that are only found in these mountains nowhere else in the world can be found hence center for endemism in the eastern arc mountains.

Udzungwa Mountains National Park is part of the Eastern Arc Mountains, which is a series of mountains ranging from Taita Hills in Southern Kenya to the Makambako Gap in Southern central of Tanzania.

Selous Game Reserve

Selous Game Reserves

Named after British hunter and writer Frederick Courteney Selous, a World Heritage Site since 1982, At over 50,000 square kilometers, this is the largest game reserve in Africa , representing over 5% of Tanzania 's total land area.

The most outstanding feature of this enormous generally flat landscape is the drainage system comprised of three mighty rivers the Rufiji, Ruaha and Beho Beho. Larger than Switzerland , it is the world's largest game reserve and second only to the Serengeti in its concentration of wildlife. It is also the sanctuary of the biggest elephant herd in the world, about 32,000 elephants live in the reserve - 70 per cent of those in Tanzania .

Much of the landscape is a vast inaccessible swamp, where enormous populations of game exist unhindered by mankind. Only a relatively small corner of the game reserve is accessible to the visitor and there are just six camps licensed to operate within the park boundaries.

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi National Park was gazetted as a National Park in August 1964 and is the 3rd largest park in Tanzania covering 3230 square kilometers.

The park is named after the village just beyond its western border on the Dar es Salaam - Iringa Highway which bisects the park for 50 km. Mikumi shares its boundary in the extreme south, with the Selous Game Reserve, and the two make one ecosystem with some animals (Elephant, Buffaloes and Zebras) migrating to and from the northern part of the reserve into Mikumi National Park.

The park lies in a horseshoe of towering mountains and forested foothills which almost enclose the flood plain of the Mkata river. To the east rises the 2743 metre massif of the Uluguru ranges while to the south west is seen the craggy-peaks of the Lumango mountains. The hog backed ridges of the Mbesera, Madzini and Mazunyungu hills sweep round northward and westward.

To the far south is the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, gazetted in 1992, which is part of the Eastern Arc Mountains which include the Usambaras. It is possible to visit the Udzungwas as a day trip from Mikumi.

The best time to visit the park is during the dry season which is June through February. During the rainy season (March through - May) some of the park roads are impassable.

Olduvai Gorge in Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The Olduvai Gorge

Olduvai, more accurately called Oldupai after the wild sisal in the area, is situated near the Ngorongoro Crater and 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 Australophithecus boisei who lived 1.8 million years ago.

There is a small informative museum located at the visitor center. The gorge is a treasure trove of archeological sites filled with fossils, settlement remains and stone artefacts. Lecture tours are offered.

Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika and Nyasa

Lake Victoria

Lake Tanganyika

Lake Victoria
Africa 's largest and the world's second largest freshwater lake, this lake supports fishing communities along its shores as well as commercial operations.

Lake Tanganyika
The lake is the longest fresh water lake in the world (677km), and the second deepest (1433m), with over 250 species of fish. Its great age, isolation and stability have made it a marvelous evolutionary storehouse. Nearly all of the lake's cichlids are unique as are some species of crabs, mollusks and crustaceans. All these make it a truly remarkable biological habitat.

Lake Nyasa
Also known as Lake Malawi , Lake Nyasa is the most southerly of the Rift Valley lakes and is also, biologically, the most diverse. For example, the lake contains 30 per cent of the world's cichild species - colorful fish easily observed in the clear water.

Mahale Mountains National Park

Baboons in katavi park

The Mahale Mountains, famous for its large chimpanzee population that is well acclimatized to human contact, is located in western Tanzania on the dramatic shores of Lake Tanganyika. The forested slopes of the Mahale Mountains are overwhelming and the park area extends to the sandy beaches of Lake Tanganyika. Although only accessible by a light aircraft due to its remote location, the up close sighting of the endangered chimpanzees of this park, in their natural habitat, is a lifetime adventure.

The habitat combines rain forest, grasslands, alpine bamboo and woodland and apart from the chimps, also hosts other species of primate, including black and white colobus, red colobus and red-tailed monkeys. Activities here include tracking endangered chimpanzees and walking in the forest, swimming in the waterfalls and the lake and drifting on a dhow.

The best time to visit is between May and October

Gombe Stream National Park

Chimp in Gombe Stream Park

Gombe Stream National Park, located on the western border of Tanzania and the Congo, is most famous for Jane Goodall, the resident primatologist who spent many years in its forests studying the behaviour of the endangered chimpanzees. Situated on the wild shores of Lake Tanganyika, Gombe Stream is an untamed place of lush forests and clear lake views. Hiking and swimming are also popular activities here, once the day's expedition to see the chimpanzees is over.

Gombe Stream's main attraction is obviously the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park's boundaries. Guided walks are available that take visitors deep into the forest to observe and sit with the extraordinary primates for an entire morning - an incredible experience and one that is the highlight of many a visitors trip to Africa. Aside from chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream's tropical forests. Velvet and colobus monkeys, baboons, forest pigs and small antelope inhabit the dense forest, in addition to a wide variety of tropical birdlife.

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