All Entries in the "Tanzania National Parks" Category
Saadani National Park
Saadani National Park is geographically the closest wildlife reserve to both Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar and is unique in that it is Tanzania’s only coastal wildlife reserve thus offering the chance to see big game and birdlife interacting with the coast. Saadani Game Reserve was gazetted in 1964, covering an area of some [...]
Ruaha National Park Information
Ruaha is one of the handpicked National Parks on the African continent as a year round destination and of course it has the most rewarding Tanzanian safari experience more especially when clients spend an overnight at one of the best park accommodation premises which are perfectly situated overlooking a sand river and prolific in wildlife. [...]
Mikumi National Park
This is the fourth largest national park in Tanzania, and is traversed through its middle by the Tanzam Highway that runs between Morogoro and Iringa. Mikumi National park is ore accessible compared to all in Tanzania’s parks since it’s just a few hours’ drive from Dar Es Salaam but it also tempers guests’ feelings of [...]
Mahale Mountains National Park
This park has several unusual characteristics and is very different from other national parks in Tanzania in that there are no roads or vehicles and it is covered in thick tropical forestland from Lake Tanganyika shoreline up to the mountain peaks which are often disappearing into the clouds. Besides, the park was named after the [...]
Gombe Stream National Park
This is the smallest park in Tanzania named after Gombe River covering an area of about 52 square Kilometers and found in a 24 kilometer distance from Kigoma town and Mahale forest National Park. Besides,the Park can only be accessed by boat though its close to the town because it lies on the eastern shore [...]
Mkomazi National Park
TANZANIA’S NEW PARK
The number of national parks managed by Tanzania National Parks has increased to fifteen with the recent additional of Mkomazi National Park.
Comprising 3,234sq km in northern Tanzania, Mkomazi is a spectacular wilderness of dry bush, ancient baobab tress, isolated rocky hills, open savannah, acacias and grassy valleys. To the northwest is Mount [...]
Lake Manyara National Park
Stretching for 50 km along the base of the 600 meter high escarpment of the African Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers visitors a microcosm of the Tanzania safari experience. Though it is not as big as the other renowned national parks of Tanzania, the park contains wide variety of animals per square kilometer. [...]
Selous Game Reserve
Covering an area of around 50,000sqkm, the Selous Game Reserve is the largest protected wildlife are in the world. Despite this great size, the reserve is as yet uninhabited by man and could therefore qualify as the world’s largest unspoiled wilderness. Because of the unique ecological importance of the reserve, it is a Worl Heritage [...]
