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Serengeti
National Park:
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 park is flourishing with magnificent wildlife.
An estimated 3 million large animals roam the plains
Major
Attractions:The Serengeti wildebeest migrations
as well as lions, kopjes and the open plains. COMMON:
The Serengeti boasts large herds of antelope including Patterson's
eland, Klipspringer, Dikdik, Zebra, gazelles, lion, impala, leopard,
cheetah, hyena and other larger mammals like the rhino, giraffe,
elephant and hippopotamus.
Tarangire National Park:
It is 120 km from Arusha, bordered with Tarangire
Wildlife conservation area to the northeast
Major
Attractions: Baobab trees, Silale Plains, Accacia
tortilis parkland, tree climbing pythorns,heards of elephants,
Tarangire river, landscapes and swamps. COMMON:
wildebeest, elephants, zebras, and hartebeest. Not all animals
are migratory though, other animals such as giraffes, Impala,
Eland, lesser kudu, waterbuck, gazelle and sometimes rhinos or
leopards can be seen throughout the year. More people are attracted
by the giant pythons and large herds of elephants,is also famous
for migrant birds.
Lake Manyara National Park:
The park is situated between the 600 m high escarpment
of the Great Rift Valley and Lake Manyara and is 130 km from Arusha.
Thus, it can be visited on a day excursion from this centre.
Major Attractions: Tree climbing Lions,
Elephants, birds, groundwater forest, hot springs and rift wall.
COMMON: Nestling at the base of the Great Rift
Valley escarpment, the park is recognized for its incredible beauty.
Wildlife at Lake Manyara is not restricted to birdlife only. Many
game animals such as Buffalo, Elephant, Giraffe, Impala, hippo
and a great variety of smaller animals also inhabit the park,
is also renown for its tree-climbing lions which spend most of
the day spread out along the branches of acacia trees six to seven
metres above the ground.
Ngorongoro Conservation:
Nearly three million years ago Ngorongoro towered
alongside Mount Kilimanjaro as one of the highest peaks in Africa.
Forged during the tumultuous birth of the Rift Valley, its volcanic
top erupted at the time that ancient man first walked the plains.
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) covers some 8,300 square
kilometres. It boasts the finest blend of landscapes, wildlife,
people and archaeological sites in Africa.
Major
Attractions: The Ngorongoro Crater, the Empakai
Crater, the Ol Donyo Lengai Mountain, the Olduvai gorge and the
Montane forest. COMMON: zebra, gazelles, buffalo,
eland and kongoni (Coke's hartebeest),warthogs, hippos, some of
Tanzania's last remaining black rhinos, giant-tusked elephants,
waterbucks, reedbucks and bushbucks, baboons and vervets. The
steep inner slopes provide a habitat for dikdiks and the rare
mountain reedbuck and Lion and Leopard, scavengers such as Hyena
and Jackals.
Arusha National Park:
Arusha National Park is covering 137 sq. kilometres
and lies between the peaks of Mountain Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru
and ascends from 1500 metres at Momella to 4566 metres at the
summit of Mount Meru. Established in 1960 the park had contained
Ngurdoto Crater and Momella lakes, until 1967 when Mt. Meru was
made part of the Park.
Major
Attractions: The Momela lakes, Ngurdoto Crater,
Meru Crater and Cone, forest and water falls population of herbivores,
primates and predators including black and white colobus monkeys,
baboons, elephants, giraffes, buffalos, hippos, leopards, hyenas,
waterbucks, wart hogs and a wide range of antelope species also
the park is famous for its 400 species of bird life, both migrant
and resident such as red sharks, hamerkops, spur winged gooses,
herons, woodpeckers, grey parrots, secretary birds and many more
If you wish to walk on the Mount MERU (4566 m) sector of the park
through a variety of landscapes, plains, forest moorlands, and
a lava desert.
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