The remote Katavi National Park is perhaps the least visited national park in Tanzania, despite being the third largest. This true wilderness is in the isolated southwest of Tanzania, and is mostly dense woodland. The Katuma River and its floodplains including the seasonal Lakes Katavi and Chada are the most […]
Mt Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and, rising elegantly out of the plains, is also the highest freestanding mountain in the world. Standing at 5,900 meters, Mt Kilimanjaro can be seen from much of both Kenya and Tanzania. Over 25,000 people try to reach the summit every year, […]
Originally called Saba Game Reserve by the German colonial authorities in 1910, the park was renamed Rungwa Game Reserve by the British in 1946. Now merged with Kizigo, Muhesi and Usangu Game Reserves, and the Mbomipa Wildlife Management Area, the whole area is known as Ruaha and is the largest […]
Mt Meru, sister mountain to the more famous Mt Kilimanjaro, rises from Arusha National Park. Standing at over 4,500 meters, Mt Meru is the second highest peak in Tanzania and the fifth highest in Africa. Hiking on Mt Meru, and climbing its peak, are both popular activities in the park. […]
Mikumi National Park is the fourth largest park in Tanzania and measures 3,230km2. Together with the huge Selous Game Reserve, with which it shares a border, the huge wilderness area and unique ecosystem are 75,000km2. In the centre of Mikumi, the Mkata floodplain has plentiful wildlife including lion, elephant, buffalo, […]
Lake Manyara National Park was described by The famous author Ernest Hemingway, as ‘the loveliest I had seen in Africa’. Lake Manyara National Park measures 330km2 of which around 200km2 comprises the lake, depending on the season and the water levels. Lake Manyara stretches for about 50km along the base […]
Selous Game Reserve is the second largest game reserve in the world and East Africa’s largest protected area which covers an area of 54,600km2. The reserve was named after Sir Frederick Selous, a renowned big game hunter who died in the area while fighting against the Germans during World War […]
Tarangire National Park is the sixth largest national park in Tanzania,has an area of about 2,800km2. The park is named for the Tarangiri River, the only source of water for the area’s animals during the dry season, which causes thousands of animals to migrate to the park from nearby wildlife […]
The Ngorongoro Crater is the sixth largest unbroken caldera in the world, formed when a volcano erupted then collapsed about three million years ago. The crater has an area of 260km2 and a depth of 610 meters; its base is covered by savannah plains, lakes, marshes and acacia woodlands. The […]
The Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park. Together with the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and the surrounding conservancies and group ranches, the Serengeti National Park forms the Serengeti Mara ecosystem, an area of about 40,000km2. This area of savannah plains, lush springs, roaring […]
