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WESTERN CIRCUIT - TANZANIA

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Mahale National Park

Located in the remote western part of Tanzania, Mahale Mountains National Park is one of the most picturesque places in Tanzania.

The park borders Lake Tanganyika, one of the oldest and deepest lakes in the world. Getting to the park is an adventure as it is accessible only by air and boat. There are no roads in the park, only forest paths through the lush vegetation.

This park is a hiker’s paradise, but most importantly it is a chimpanzee paradise. Mahale is a haven for primates, with chimpanzee trekking one of the prime reasons for visits.

The park is teeming with life, rivers and waterfalls are everywhere and around the shoreline of the lake, are the most unspoilt white sandy beaches anyone could imagine.

Katavi National Park

Katavi is like travelling back in time, maybe to the Pleistocene era. Animals seem bigger and more bestial. As a human, for once, you don’t feel like you own the planet. It’s a thrilling experience. Survival here depends on fragile seasonal rivers, the Katuma, the Kavu and the Kapapa.

Between the rivers, huge herds of buffalo and other herbivores concentrate for the rich grass of four great floodplains, including (our own backyard) Chada. As months wear on, the grass dries gold and withers. By the end of the dry season, it’s all going a bit mad. As water becomes limited, so animals are drawn to the riverbanks.

Hippopotamus in their thousands cram dwindling pools, crocodiles dig riverbank caves. Buffalo and elephant compete for waterholes. Lion, hyenas and other predators know this and wildlife watching here becomes even more outstanding in this Western Circuit Destinations.

Gombe National Park

The smallest of Tanzania’s national parks, Gombe Stream National Park the most famous Western Circuit Destinations, is a narrow strip of chimpanzee habitat on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, located on the far western border of Tanzania and the Congo.

The park is world-famous for Jane Goodall, the resident primatologist who spent many years in its forests studying the behaviour of the endangered chimpanzees, contributing to the drive to combine the preservation of primate wildlife habitats with the development of eco-tourism and the beneficial involvement of indigenous human communities in Tanzania.

The park is rich in both human and natural history. The village of Ujiji is where historians think British researcher H.M. Stanley said the famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” in 1871 when he encountered fellow adventurer David Livingstone, who had been thought to have died. Though he was seriously ill, Livingstone convinced Stanley to join him on a search to find the source of the Nile — a quest which took them through the Gombe Valley.

SOUTHERN CIRCUIT - TANZANIA

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Selous Game Reserve

Selous Game Reserve, the now-called Nyerere National Park, is the biggest game reserve in Africa and one of the favorite game viewing areas in Southern Circuit Destination. Covering 50,000 square kilometers is amongst the largest protected areas in Africa and is relatively undisturbed by human impact.

The Largest National Park and one oldest reserve is one of its most scenic wildlife destinations; the Selous is utterly beautiful. The park's beauty is matched by the quality of a safari here; boating, walking, and fly camping complement classic game driving in thriving wildlife areas. This is a magnificent safari park and an essential component of any southern circuit itinerary.

The Selous is a superb safari destination for family safaris and African honeymoons, all the better for the ease of getting there and the lack of crowds. The park has the most diversity of safari activities in the country, offering boating safaris, standard game drives, walking safaris, and legendary fly camping trips.

Ruaha National Park

In 2008 Ruaha unified with Usangu Game Reserve and transformed into the Great Ruaha National Park, covering 20,000km². Despite the park's size, only a handful of camps are found here, which has built Ruaha's reputation as Tanzania's best-kept game-viewing secret.

Ruaha's wild and unrestrained feel sets it apart from other reserves, making it a popular choice for regular east African safari. In addition, Ruaha is well known for its varied dramatic scenery, which includes rolling hills; extensive open plains; groves of skeletal baobabs, and, along its southern border, the Great Ruaha River, from which the park gets its name.

This is by far the most dominant geographical feature of the national park, and, for the wildlife, it is the most important.

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi is Tanzania's fourth-largest national Park found in Southern Circuit Destination. The Park can easily be accessed from Dar es Salaam. Almost guaranteed wildlife sightings make it an ideal safari destination for those without much time.

After the accomplishment of the gravel road linking the park gate with Dare es Salaam, Mikumi National Park has been recorded to become a hotspot for travelers in Tanzania. Mikumi National Park, the fourth largest Park, is located between the Uluguru Mountains and the Lumango range and is only a few hours drive from Dar es Salaam the largest city in Tanzania. Mikumi has a wide variety of wildlife that can easily be spotted and acclimated to game viewing..

The short distance from Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park and the massive number of brisk wildlife within the borders makes Mikumi a suitable option for weekend and business visitors who don't have to consume a long time on an extended safari itinerary.

Most tourists come to Mikumi National Park focusing on spotting the "Big Five" (Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Rhino, and Cheetah), and they are always not upset. Hippo pools cater access to the mud-loving beasts, and watching birds along the waterways is exceptionally rewarding.

Udzungwa National Park

Udzungwa is the largest and with the most biodiversity and a chain of a dozen sizeable protected forest mountains that advance majestically from the extended coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania. Known generally as the Eastern Arc Mountains, this archipelago of hidden massifs has also been titled the African Galapagos for its wealth of endemic plants and animals, most familiarly being the rare African violet.

Brooding and pristine, the forests of Udzungwa seem enchanted: a lush refuge of sunshine-dappled dale enclosed by 30-meter (100-foot) high trees, their stanchion layered with fungi, lichens, mosses, and ferns.

Udzungwa, alone among the ancient ranges of the Eastern Arc, has been accorded national park status. It is also unique within Tanzania in that its closed-canopy forest spans altitudes of 250 meters (820 feet) to above 2,000 meters (6,560 ft) without interruption.

Although not a conventional game viewing destination, Udzungwa is a magnet for hikers in Southern Circuit Destination. An excellent network of forest trails includes the popular half-day ramble to Sanje Waterfall, which plunges 170 meters (550 feet) through a misty spray into the forested valley below.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT - TANZANIA

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Arusha National Park

Arusha National Park has a rich variety of wildlife, but visitors shouldn’t expect the same game-viewing experience they find in other national parks of Tanzania’s northern circuit. It is a great place for walking; one can enjoy natural forest in comfort because of the cool climate.

The walking activity has to be arranged in advance and must be accompanied by armed ranger. Canoeing on a small Momela lake is also available by prior arrangements withbushbuck, Buffalo, Giraffe and hippos often seen during this excursion.

Tarangire National Park

Tarangire National Park,The open grasslands, acacia trees and the Tarangire River paint the wild landscape.The main activities are game drives, walking safari with armed guides (rangers) and night game drives.

During game drives, you will spend yourdays on searching of eland, oryx, wildebeests, zebras and a large elephant population. Keep your eyes trained for hartebeests, gazelles and exotic birds like the bateleur and martial eagle.

Lake Manyara National Park

Lake ManyaraNational Park lies up against the steep western wall of rift valley. It is directly en route to Ngorongoro from Arusha and Tarangire therefore this makes it very popular for either day trip or overnight.

Most of the characteristic east African mammals are found in Manyara including cheetahs, leopard, buffalo, hippos, elephants, giraffe, thousands flamingos that feed along the edge of the lake in the wet season and the largest baboon troops in Africa.

It is in Manyara where some lions opted to rest up in the trees during the heat of midday, giving rise to the mistaken belief that the Manyara lions are somehow different .Lions in many part of Africa spend time in the lower broad limbed branches of trees probably to escape flies.

Ngorongoro Crater

Another most popular Northern Circuit Destinations is the area named after Ngorongoro Crater, a large volcanic caldera within the area. The Ngorongoro crater formed when a large volcano exploded and collapsed two to three million years ago. The volcanic eruptions like that of Ngorongoro, which resulted in the formation of Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, were very common.Similar collapses occurred in the case of Olmoti and Empakaai, but they were much smaller in magnitude and impact.

Main activity is game drives in the Ngorongoro Crater floor, a vast expanse where animal activity is common place Approximately 25,000 large animals, mostly ungulates, live in the crater. Wildlife in the crater include the black rhino, buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, the common eland, Grant’s, Thomson’s gazelles, Waterbucks, lions, hippos, crocodiles.

Serengeti National Park

The Serengeti National Park is the most popular Northern Circuit destinations , in Serengeti ecosystem in the Mara and Simiyu regions. It is now both a world biosphere reserve and a world heritage site. The Park if famous for its annual wildebeest migration .

The migratory – and some resident – wildebeest, which number over 1.5 million individuals, constitute the largest population of big mammals that still roam the planet.

They are joined in their journey through the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem by 200,000 plains zebras, 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle sand Grant’s gazelle, and tens of thousands of topi and Coke’s hartebeest. Masai giraffe, waterbuck, impala, common warthogs and hippopotamus are also abundant.

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