Nyerere National Park
The Nyerere National Park, formerly part of The Selous Game Reserve is enormous, wild and remote. And it has great wildlife – big game, cape hunting dogs, sable, roan, greater and lesser kudu, raptors, ostrich, crocs, hippos etc. But the main point is that this wildlife can be enjoyed in such a variety of interesting […]
Mikumi National Park
Mikumi was made a National Park in 1,964 and is 3,230 sq. km (1,250 sq. miles) in size. This enormous area links the Julius Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous) with the forested abundance of the eastern arc mountains, and so is an important part of a huge ecosystem of rivers, wood plains, forests and woodlands. […]
Udzungwa National Park
In a broad arc running 500 miles down the eastern side of Tanzania are seven ancient mountain ranges. This Eastern Arc, as it is known, is the first barrier in East Africa to the moist trade winds of the Indian Ocean. From the rising air fall torrents of warm rain in thunderous storms and lightning […]
Ruaha National Park
Ruaha National Park is vast, and was upgraded to a National Park in 1964 and was further enlarged in 2008 to its current size of 20,226 sq. km., making it Tanzania’s second largest National Park. This makes it about the size of New Jersey in the United States, or of the whole country of Wales […]