Tanzania Safari Destinations

Arusha City

Arusha is the main economy city is the Northern Tanzania with its major source of economy from the tourism industry business because of it being the safari center for the majestic Northern Tanzania tourist destinations such as the Kilimanjaro, Serengeti and Ngorongoro. Arusha is on the Tanzania Northern highlands beneath the sister peaks of Kilimanjaro and Meru Mountains. Guests embarking on the popular northern safari circuit all stop in Arusha nicknamed as the Geneva of Africa to prepare for their journeys into the African adventures of safari and mountain climbing.

Arusha is an international diplomatic hub as it is the capital of East Africa Community, and since 1994, it has also hosted the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Arusha is the Multicultural society with different cultural background with the indigenous and the Indian & Arab- Tanzanians with a small number of Europeans. The big populations is dominated by the Christian, Muslims, Jewish and the Hindu. However, Arusha is a free and not religious city.

In the 1830s Arusha was a settlement for the Masai who were the agro-pastorals from the Arusha chini Social and the southern part of the Kilimanjaro Mountain practicing a butter trade system with the exchange of Milk, Meat, and Livestock with grains, honey, beer and tobacco which make Ausha to be the home for the Masai where you can see them throughout the city.

As your pre-holiday stop, in Arusha you can do shopping and nightlife such as the famous Nyama choma life (Barbeque) at the Murombo street, visiting the historical museums and monuments, Masai cultural tour and wildlife safari in Arusha National Park and the Northern Tanzania safari at large as you are the Safari center point.

Arusha National Park

With a drive of 32 kilometers from Arusha city is where you can find Arusha National Park, the nearby city national park with an area of 137 square kilometers. The park is among the Northern Tanzania safari destination and a part of the Arusha City recreational point for a day trip. Arusha National Park has the main four features point, Mount Meru, the Ngurudoto Crater, Momela Lake and the wildlife. The latitude of Mount Meru and the Momela Lake varies from 1,500 meters to more than 4,500 meters. The wild animals to see in the park includes the baboon, black and white colobus monkey, hippo, elephant, giraffe, hyena, buffalo, zebra leopard, and a wide range of antelope species and the reptiles include Agama and Monitor lizards, tortoises, geckos, and different kinds of snakes’ species.

As a part of your Northern Tanzania holiday destination, Arusha National Park can cater you for game viewing, hiking of the Mount Meru, an arranged camel safari, walking safari, and horse riding and with the clear weather you will see the stunning beauty of the Mount Kilimanjaro cones of Kibo and Mawenzi.

Lake Chala

Lake Chala is the unique Caldera Lake formed approximately 250,000 years ago located in the east of Mount Kilimanjaro Tanzania. The Lake is thought to be the deepest Inland water body in Africa fed by an underground spring of the Kilimanjaro Mountain. The water shows different colors on different time of the year ranges from deep blue to turquoise and green. Lake Chala is surrounded by the rim of 100 meter high. The lake is between the border of Kenya and Tanzania, Kilimanjaro, 8 kilometres north of Taveta, Kenya, and 55 kilometres east of Moshi, Kilimanjaro.

The Lake has good topography from the Lush Lake shore forest to the volcanic Savanna, from the riverbeds carves through ancient rocks to the thick open bush ‘Mbuga’, which makes a possible walking Magical stunning experience that put you in touch with the nature. With this topography the Lake has trees, grasses and other plants that support the habitat of butterflies and birds that you can find hundreds of butterflies and bird species like African Fish Eagle, Verreaux’s Eagle, Augur Buzzards and many other depending of the season of the year. Moreover, expect to see animals like Blue Monkeys, Colobus Monkeys, baboons, dik-dik, kudu and elephant. Lake Chala is the true natural place with undisturbed nature.

As your day holiday excusing destination, being I lake Chala you can do a walking safari, Bird and butterflies watching, Canoeing, Swimming and spot fishing, and you can contemplate as you are in true nature that gives you a special feeling to be in touch with nature.

Lake Eyasi

Lake Eyasi is the land of the Tanzania Bushmen, the Hadzabe (Hunters) people who lives in the jungle with the settled Datoga and Mbulu tribes who are pastoralist. With more than 126 tribes in Tanzania, the Hadzabe is one of the undisturbed and an authentic cultural tribe practice, regardless of the good number of the tourist flow to the Area it has not affected the authenticity of this true jungle men. Lake Eyasi is a seasonal shallow endorheic Salt Lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau. It is on the south of the Serengeti National Park and the southwest of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands. The lake is elongated, orientated southwest to northeast, and lies in the Eyasi-Wembere branch of the Great Rift Valley. Here it’s where you will find the Tanzania Bushmen, the Hadzabe in the village.

Being the hunters and reside in the jungle, while visiting the Hadzabe, you will learn the jungle survival skills, with hunting and fishing as they subsist entirely off the bush and by bow hunting with all of their tools being hand local made such as the bows which are strung with giraffe tendon and the arrows coated in lethal poison. Their language resembles that of Kalahari Bushmen tribe (who were featured in the 1980 film ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy’) with clicking noises used. This will take you in a reality show in a true theater of the village.

Lake Eyasi has a good scenic differs dramatically compares to its neighbors of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Highlands which are downright tropical. Around the Lake, there are palm trees that inhabit several bird species such as Fischer’s lovebird, flamingoes, pied avocet, great while pelican, African spoonbill, yellow-billed stork and the gray headed gulls. Other than the palm trees, there are umbrella thorn acacia and sand paper bush that also supports birdlife. Being on the rift Valley the lake has an intense weather with the varying water levels between the rainy and dry season where the lake is virtually nonexistent and animals are forced to share what water is left on the dry season, then makes an easier wildlife viewing. However, the lake can get quite deep on the rainy season and it attracts hippos who like to cool off in its brackish waters.

Choosing lake Eyasi in your bucket list for the Northern Tanzania Holiday Destination expect to do the walking tours and day or half day hikes are highly recommended, hunting trip with the Hadzabe, Cultural tours among the three tribes, canoeing, spot fishing, camping and bird watching.

Lake Natron

The paradise of lesser flamingos, Lake Natron is a Soda Lake situated ate the base of an active Volcanic Mountain of Ol Donyo Lengai. Natron is on the southern Tanzania bordering Tanzania and Kenya in Arusha (Tanzania Side) and Magadi (Kenya side). It is an important breeding site of the lesser flamingoes in Africa where Africa has the ¾ of the World’s flamingo population of 1.5 to 2.5 million in number and a big record being hatched in Lake Natron. This is because of the food availability, nesting sites and the Isolation that make it being undisturbed.

Lake Natron has high evaporation rate that left the lake with high concentration of Alkalinity with the pH level to be greater than 12 to some point. The surrounding bedrock is composed of alkaline, sodium-dominated trachyte lavas that were laid down during the Pleistocene period. The lavas have significant amounts of carbonate but very low calcium and magnesium levels. This caused a concentration of caustic alkaline brine and makes it a Soda Lake.

Lake Natron is then a holiday destination for Ideal tour for Camping Safari, climbing the Ol Doinyo Lengai, walking Safari around the lake, streams and waterfalls along the nearby escarpment and the Birding Safari with the famous population of the Flamingoes and other birdlife. Moreover, you are in a Masai Land and a cultural tour is also possible.

 Mount Ol Doinyo Lengai

Lying on the Southern of Lake Natron is the certified Active Volcanic Mountain of Ol Doinyo Lengai. It is the Tanzania’s only officially certified active Volcano and World’s only carbonated with the recent eruption largest eruption which deposited up to 100 kilometers away in Loliondo on the Kenya border to the Northwest record in 1883. The name “Oldoinyo Lengai” means “The Mountain of God” in the Maasai language. The mountain is of 2962 meters above sea level, and on its peak, you can afford direct views into its caldera. Ol Doinyo Lengai is situated in the Ngorongoro highlands and the African Rift valley about 120 kilometers Northwest of Arusha. Being the Mountain of God by the Masai, it is their sacred site used by the Masai for prayers to their god known “Ngai”.

On the summit looking you can see the hot barren salt flats of Lake Natron on its north while on its south is the crater Highlands and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. On the other hand, the eastern horizons are dominated by the Kilimanjaro and to the west the forested escarpments and hills comprising the western slopes of the Rift Valley. In every seven years Lengai erupts and plumes of smoke billow out of the crater with the frequent minor eruptions and form cone like structures to its crater base. Hence all cautions are to be taken while hiking it.

The ascending of Ol Doinyo Lengai is demanding on account of the day time heat, lack of water, steep and unsuitable slopes of ash and crumbly rocks and considerable height gain. Normally you can start ascending to summit early in the morning and reach to summit at sunrise. Short and a warm jacket are suitable for ascents with long trousers are good as the summit before dawn can be cold. Access route from the North West allows an early descending to be made from the summit in the morning shadow.

Unlike the Kilimanjaro and Meru Mountains, it takes about six to seven hours to reach the summit crater of Ol Doinyo Lengai. Moreover, Lengai is also a place for a working safari escort by the Masai guides with weapons where you can see animals like olive baboon, velvet, monitor lizard, hyenas, lion, leopard, jackal, Grant’s gazelle, impala and zebra. And you can do a cultural tour as you are in the Masai land.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

The mixed land use World Heritage Site under UNESCO holding the wildlife and the home for the Masai People. It is on the northern Tanzania. Its beauty and wonder lie on a deep, volcanic crater, the largest un-flooded and unbroken caldera in the world of about 20kilometers across, 600 meters deep and 300 Kilometer squares in area. The crater is the home for a high-density African wildlife because of its different habitats of the lake Makat, Swamps, forest and the grassland. This makes an easier game drive in the crater to see the animals such as the African big five animals which are easily seen.

Ngorongoro is the habitat for mammals like the wildebeest, jackals, hyena, hunting dogs, gazelles, Impalas, zebra, and of kind. The open grassland that covers most of the crater floor feeds the herbivores. The crater has abundant yellow barked acacia trees to its Lerai forest making a home to Elephants, baboon, bushbucks, waterbucks and velvet monkey and the like and being a multiple land use, Ngorongoro Conservation area is also home for the Masai

As your Northern Tanzania holiday destination Ngorongoro can cater you for game drive in the crater, Walking tours, bird watching cultural and the historical tours of the Olduvai George (history for the evolution of man).

Olduvai Gorge & Laetoli

Holding an important history of the evolution of man with the evidence of the earliest human existence, Olduvai Gorge is the Historical site place found the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the Great Rift Valley, between the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. It is 30 miles from Laetoli, another fossil-rich area. Olduvai Gorge was formed about 30,000 years ago, the result of aggressive geological activity and streams. The paleoanthropologist found hundreds of fossilized bones and stone tools which dated back for millions of years ago that leads them to conclude the evolution of the first man to be in Africa.  Over the last thirty years or so, it has become increasingly apparent that Africa is probably the “Cradle of Mankind as the remains of the earliest humans were found in Oldupai Gorge. Olduvai is a misspelling of Oldupai, a Masai word for a wild sisal plant that grows in the area.

On the West of Ngorongoro is Laetoli where the hominid footprints are preserved in volcanic rock 3.6 million years old that represent some of the earliest signs of mankind in the world. Three separate tracks of a small-brained upright walking early hominid. Australopithecus afarensis, a creature about 1.2 to 1.4 meters high, were found. Imprints of these are displayed in the Oldupai museum which as among the evidences for the human evolution. Moreover, he advanced descendants of Laetoli’s hominids were found further north, buried in the layers of the 100 meters deep Oldupai Gorge. Excavations, mainly by the archaeologist Louis and Mary Leakey, yielded four different kinds of hominid, showing gradual increases in brain size and in the complexity of their stone tools. The first skull of Zinjanthropus, commonly known as ‘Nutcracker Man’ who lived about 1.75 million years ago, was found here. The most important find includes Homo habilis, Zinjathropus and the Laetoli footprints.

Choosing Ngorongoro for your holiday you can opt for this historical tour other than the cultural and the crater wildlife tour.

Mkomazi National Park

Mkomazi means the “scoop of water” referring to little water, a name with the from the Pare tribe of the Kilimanjaro Region With an area of 3,245 square kilometers, Mkomazi national Park lies on the slope of the Usambara Mountains. The park borders with Tsavo National Park of Kenya on its west. Mkomazi National Park is untouched and an amazing beauty with an exceptional natural treasure famous for a good number of Rhino than any park in Tanzania.

Being on the slope of the Eastern Arc Mountain of Usamabara, Mkomazi is a habitat for over 400 bird species some being endemic species like the Colbat-chested guinea fowl. Other bird populations are secretary birds, ostrich, ground hornbill, Kori bustard and the migratory birds including the Eurasian roller, the park also a habitat for several dry country specialist species such as the fringe eared-oryx, and the spiral-horned lesser kudu. Oddest of all is the gerenuk, a gazelle distinguished by its slender neck, bizarre alien- like head, and habit of standing tall on its hind legs stretch for acacia leaves that other browser cannot reach. Mkomazi is vital refuge for two highly endangered species of the charismatic black rhino and sociable African wild dog, both of which were successfully reintroduced in the 1990s.

As you Tanzania holiday destination, Mkomazi National Park is the best for Wildlife safari (Rhino being the added value to the safari), Camping safaris, bird watching and walking tour.

Lake Manyara National Park

With an area of 648.7 square kilometers (262.7km2 of lake, 368km2 water) between Tarangire National Park and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area is Lake Manyara National Park, famous for the tree climbing lion. The Park derived its name from a plant called Euphorbia tirucalli, known as Emanyara in Maasai language. Addition to that, the Mto-wa-Mbu village (Mosquito village) a selected Cultural tourism village and the East Africa Rift Valley escarpment add the boundaries of the park.

The jewelry of Lake Manyara National Park is the tree climbing lions, and the rose feathered flamingoes along the Lake and other birdlife such as the prey vulture ayre’s hawk eagles. Topography of Lake Manyara National Park is from the wetland forest with Mahogany and fig trees, the open land, savannah, marshes and acacia woodland which makes a good habitat for several species of wild animals such as waterbuck, zebras, herds of buffaloes and elephants, Eland, impala, hyena, giraffes, Gazelles, bushbuck, Cheetah, wildebeest, klipspringer, leopards Lion and the like and a large number of hippos in the pool.

Moreover, Lake Manyara National Park has minor and major hot springs known as “Maji Moto” a Swahili word means (Hot water) on the north and some River like Chem chem, Ndala, Bosayo Rivers.

Lake Manyara National Park Makes a holiday destination for, Walking safaris, Day and Night Game drive, canoeing, canopy tour, bird watching and hot bush meals and the cultural and cyclic tours in the Mto wa Mbu Village.

Tarangire National Park

Well knows as the Elephant Paradise due to the big herds of the giant elephants in the park, Tarangire National Park is located on the eastern of Lake Manyara in the southern of the Masai Land with an area of 2,600 square kilometer, fourth largest national park in Tanzania. Tarangire has been the first safari stop destination for the multiday travelers in the northern Tanzania before heading to either the Ngorongoro or Serengeti. The park is a reasonable destination for a day trip safari.

The Park’s name comes from the name of the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The jewelry of Tarangire National Park is the big Herds giant African Elephant which makes Tarangire to the Elephant Paradise, the oldest big baobab trees and the famous tree-climbing Pythons. The Park’s topography is of an open acacia woodland, open bush, swamps, rivers, plains with scattered baobab trees. The trees grow in arid, semi-arid and sub-humid tropical climates. This makes a good habitat for animals like, lesser kudu, African buffalo, eland, Masai giraffe, bushbuck, Grant’s gazelle, impala, Cheetah, Leopard, hyena, Lion, and of kind. Moreover, the Tarangire River is the habitat for over 300 bird species including the Masai ostrich, white pelican, pink-backed pelican, white stork, Marabou, sacred ibis, Egyptian goose and crowned crane few to mention. On addition Tarangire is also popular with its disused termite mounds that are often by colonies of the dwarf mongoose, and pairs of red-and-yellow barbet, which draw attention to themselves by their loud, clockwork-like duet ting. The park has a lot to feed the visitor’s eyes.

Tarangire National Park is the holiday destination for day and night game drive, walking safari and the balloon safari, though it is an ideal destination for a day tour, but a multiday tour is possible too.

Serengeti National Park

Covering the area of 17,473 squires Kilometer, Serengeti National Park is the third largest national park in Tanzania, the heritage site under UNESCO and one of the seven African Natural wonders. The park’s jewelry lies of the Great Wildebeest Migration, the remained animal Migearion in the World. Serengeti National Park is in Mara Region. The park’s name comes from the Masai word “Siringiti” meaning an endless plain. The Masai were the indigenous in the Serengeti. An endless plain of the Serengeti can be witnessed around the central Serengeti, at Seronera or when one climbs the Naabi hills at the Serengeti entrance gate from Ngorongoro.

Serengeti is the center point and the origin of the Great wildebeest migration because other than the migration being in a cycle of the Serengeti ecosystem to the Masai Mara of Kenya but the life begins in the Serengeti where the bulls give birth in the plan grass of the Serengeti on February to March.  During the dry season of June through July, the Migrants start their journey to Masai Mara Game Reserve and the Ngorongoro for the green pasture. The main migrants are wildebeest and Zebras while other antelopes escort the migrants but they do not cycle the whole migration. Other than the migrants and the escorts, the Serengeti vegetation accommodate mammals like Thomson and Grant Gazelles, Buffalo, Eland, hartebeest, Impala, Klipspringer, common waterbuck, African Elephant, Bush Baby, Warthogs and the like, and the African wild cat, Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, hyena, Jackal and the like. Moreover, on its western corridor, Serengeti has the Gurumeti River with good number of the Nile crocodile and other reptiles.

As the legendary safari holiday destination, a traveler can do the following in the Serengeti National Park, which are general wildlife game drive safari, Wildebeest Migration Safari and the Balloon Safari where a traveler can spend a number of days in the Serengeti and keep enjoying day to day.

Mwanza City

Well known as Rock City due to the goo number or rock hills all around the city, and the popular city Rock Logo of the Bismarck Rock in the shore of Lake Victoria. Mwanza region has 5 districts and the city itself is of two districts of Nyamagana (main) and Ilemaela districts. Mwanza is the major Tanzanian port on Lake Victoria and the major Lake Zone at large economic center with the Lake Victoria bordering, with Uganda and Kenya on its northwest and northeast respectively. Though it is a major business center on Lake Zone and portrays the Multicultural society, but the city is dominated by the Largest Tanzania tribe of the Sukuma people as they were the first inhabitant to in the region.

The core source of the City Economy is from the export and transport. However, the region is the agricultural land and agriculture is the tradition for the Sukuma tribe (both crop cultivation and pastoralism) which makes a productive city in agriculture products. Tea, cotton and coffee produce large volumes of cash crops that pass-through Mwanza on their way to market. The town’s industrial harbor and busy streets make it a prosperous and busy place to explore. Where you can also visit outside the city to see how local farmers do agriculture in a traditional way.

The city is the center point to the Rubondo Island and Saanane Island National Parks which are in the wildlife Island parks in the Lake Victoria. More to that Mwanza is the shortest drive to reach the Legendary Serengeti National Park for even a day trip than Arusha via the Ndabaka Gate the western of Serengeti. The city is also the home for the Sukuma tribe where you can visit the Bujora Sukuma Museum and have a deep understanding of the Sukuma culture especially the Kingship culture which is one of the interesting stories and enjoy their traditional dances. Nevertheless, as the home of the Tilapia and Nile perch, you will also enjoy the tasty fresh fish from the lake. The city is the destination for a city walking tour, Cultural tour, boat safari, wildlife safari, Museum tour and traditional agricultural tour.

Lake Victoria

With a surface area of 68,000 square kilometers and a basin area 238,900 square kilometers, Lake Victoria is the African largest Lake, the largest World tropical Lake and the second largest fresh water lake in the World’s after the North American’s Lake. It is an irregular quadrilateral shaped lake with an indented deepest shore on its west. Lake Victoria’s waters fill a shallow depression in the center of the great plateau that stretches between the Western and Eastern Rift Valleys with many archipelagos in it with numerous reefs just below the surface of the clear waters. Lake Victoria is the habitat for more than 200 fish species.

Kagera River the most important and largest affluent of the Lake flows from the western of Lake north of 1° S latitude. Being the great lift valley lakes, its outflow river is Nile, which exits from the northern coast. The Lake has several Islands with the two being the Tanzania National Park, Saanane and Rubondo Islands and the popular Ukerewe cultural city.

The sight of the Lake was led by the British Explorer John Hanning Speke in 1858, who was in the search of the source of the river Nile. Formerly known to the Arabs as Ukerewe (the name given to one of the Island in the Lake), the lake was named by Speke after the England Queen Victoria. Then a detailed survey of the lake was done by, Sir Willian Garstin in 1901. Plans for gradually raising the level of the lake’s waters were completed in 1954 with the construction of the Owen Falls Dam (now the Nalubaale Dam) on the Victoria Nile at Jinja, Uganda. The dam provides hydroelectric power on a large scale and made the lake a vast reservoir. A second dam, Kiira, was later constructed1 km from Nalubaale and completed in 1999 and on the 2000 the hydroelectric power production started.

Choosing Lake Victoria for your holiday you will enjoy the clean beaches, Boat safari and fishing with cultural tourism, wildlife safaris on its Islands National Park of Saanane and Rubondo.

Lake Tanganyika

Bordering between Tanzania and Congo with and area of 32,900 km2 Lake Tanganyika is the World’s second oldest freshwater Lake, second longest by volume and the second deepest after Lake Baikal of Serbia, it is an African Great Lake. The Lake occupies the southern end of the Western Rift Valley. The lake’s water tends to be blackish, but due to the feeding from numerous rivers make if fresh water. The largest discharging rivers of the lake is Malagarasi, Ruzizi and Kalambo that has the highest waterfall in the Word of 704 feet and its outlet being Lukuga River that flows into Lualaba River. Tanganyika is the habitat for an exceptional number of endemic species of fish including 98% of over 250 species of cichlids which are the popular aquarium fish due to their bright color thank makes the diving and snorkeling spot of the Lake.

The Lake is on the dividing line of the floral regions of eastern and western Africa, and oil palms, which are characteristic of the flora of western Africa, grow along the lake’s shores. Rice and subsistence crops are grown along the shores, and fishing is of some significance. Hippopotamuses and crocodiles abound, and the bird life is varied, that make the lake to be wildlife destination too.

The lake is predominantly habituated by the Bantu speaking population living on the lake’s eastern border tracing their origins to areas in the Congo River basin. The lake was first visited by Europeans in 1858, when the British explorers Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke reached Ujiji, the lake’s eastern shore, in their quest for the source of the Nile River. In 1871 Henry (later Sir Henry) Morton Stanley “found” David Livingstone at Ujiji. Important ports situated along Lake Tanganyika are Bujumbura (Burundi), Kalemi (Congo), and Ujiji and Kigoma (Tanzania).

Lake Tanganyika as a holiday destination is a good place for, beaching, canoeing, boat safaris, spot fishing and chimpanzee trekking in the Gombe and Mahale Mountains National Park in Kigoma region.

Saanane Island National Park

Situated in Mwanza Region in the Great Rift Valley Lake Victoria, is the Rocky Island of Saanane National Park named after its former owner, the late Mzee (Old man) Saanane Chawandi, a farmer and fisherman. The Island was firstly established as the first Tanzanian Zoo in 1964, with the objective of creating wildlife conservation education interest and provide recreational place to Mwanza people. Between 1964 and 1968, the Island was used as a holding ground of an array of wild animals, many of which were introduced into Rubondo Island National Park in Lake Victoria west of Mwanza rock city and on 16^th July in 2013 the Zoo was officially a national park with an area of 218 square Kilometers including the water part, making the smallest National Park in Tanzania.

Rubondo Island National Park is of two smaller islets; “Chankende Kubwa” and “Chankende Ndogo”, lying in the south. Accessing Saanane Island is just a distance 2 Kilometers from the city canter of Mwanza (Rock City). The destination is for the following tour activities, rock hiking, Wildlife and scenic viewing, Picnicking, Lake Excursion, Public Camping, Jumping boat safari and spot fishing.

Rubondo Island National Park

Located in Geita Region Lake zone, a distance of 150 kilometers from Mwanza is Rubondo Island National Park in the Lake Victoria which was officially a national park in the 1977 with a total area of 457.8 square kilometers of both dry and water area of 238.7km2 and 220km2 respectively.  The aquatic area of Rubondo Island comprises of 11 small islets of different sizes. The Island is on the southwestern corner of Lake Victoria.

The Island is an important breeding site for both migratory bird and fish species especially Tilapia and Nile perch. About 80% of the park’s land is covered by a dense forest providing variety of habitats for indigenous wildlife such as Sitatunga, hippos, bush bucks, velvet monkeys, genet cats, crocodiles, bush pigs and other animals sharing the ecological niches with the introduced species such as chimpanzees, elephants, giraffes, black and white colobus monkeys, suni and African grey parrots. With nine smaller islands under its wing, Rubondo protects precious fish breeding grounds that make it more protected and conserved.

It being a holiday destination, it is an Ideal place for game drive, sport fishing, boat excursion, Walking safari, Chimp’s habituation experience, spot fishing and canoeing. Moreover, as you are in the Lake Victoria Zone, expect the tasty tilapia form the staple diet of the yellow-spotted otters that frolic in the island’s rocky coves, while rapacious Nile perch, some weighing more than 100kg, tempt recreational game fishermen seeking world record catches with the popular and common fish the Nile perch and tilapia. This makes a lot to enjoy in the Island.

Mahale Mountains National Park

With its boundary of the shore of the Great Rift Valley Lake of Lake Tanganyika and an area of 1,613 square Kilometers, Mahale Mountains National Park contains the world’s largest protected population of the eastern subspecies of Chimpanzee with and approximate of 700 to 1000 in numbers. The Park can be reached via boat from Kigoma Town via Lake Tanganyika. The uniqueness of Mahale Mountain National Park is the wide variety of habitat types from an overlapping rainforest, woodland, bamboo forest, Montane Forest and mountain grasslands, which can support a unique mix of flora and fauna.

Mahale is of at least 337 bird species, many of which are rare and endemic to the Albertine Rift such as the Pel’s fishing owl. The park is of 8 (Possibly 9) primates in addition to chimpanzee, these are yellow baboons, blue monkeys, red colobus, pied colobus, and vervet monkeys two or three species of Galago. Lake Tanganyika is also a park of the Mahale Mountains National Park, Hence Mahale Mountains National Park is holiday destination for Chimpanzee trekking and viewing, Bird watching, canoeing, boat safari/Cruising, walking tours, Kayaking, sport fishing, scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, beaching and Hiking.

Katavi National Park

Covering an area of 4,471 saquare kilometers, Katavi is the third fourth largest national park in Tanzania located on the western part of Tanzania in Katavi Region 40 kilometers on the southwest of Mpanda. The main features of Katavi National Parks are the Lake Katavi, with its vast floodplains, the palm fringed Lake Chala and the Katuma River. Katavi National Park is of unspoiled/untouched nature.

Moreover, the park is noted for the Miombo woodland and scattered acacia trees scenery which makes a good habitat for zebras, sable and roan antelope, eland, leopard, elephant, buffalo and lion and the abundance of waterfowl. More of that Lake Chala and Katuma River are known for the number of hippos and crocodiles and the richness in bird life with more than 400 recorded species.

For your holiday in Katavi National Park you will enjoy the Nature Walking Safaris (Short and long Walking Safaris), Picnicking, Filming, Camping, Bush meals, Day and Night Game Drive, Game Viewing, Hiking and bird watching.

Gombe Stream National Park

Gombe Stream National Park is the western Tanzania National Park located on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in Kigoma Region with the area of 152 square kilometers making the second smallest National Park in Tanzania. The park is one of the true wildernesses in Tanzania.  Dr. Jane Goodall is a renowned successor of Gombe stream National Park with her love in the Chimps. In 1960 she does research that is believed to be the longest study of primates in the world when Gombe was a game reserve, Gombe gained its conservation status and being upgraded to a national park in the 1968 and opened for tourism in 1978 after chimpanzee habituated to human visitor.

Gombe stream national park is the slopes of the Great Rift Valley with the evergreen forests standing on the bottom of the local valley support a wonderful diversity of wildlife, and habitat for chimpanzee. The park offers rare chance of observing the chimpanzee communities to the visitors. A number of monkey species can also be seen, red colobus, baboons, vervet, and red-tail and blue monkeys. Other primates are bush pigs and bushbucks that can be spotted. With the dense forest of the park is not suitable for the carnivores which make a safe walking safari.

For your holiday in the Gombe stream National Park you will do bird watching, walking safari, mountain hiking, chimpanzee trekking, butterfly gazing, filming and the lake related activities such as beaching, swimming, spot fishing, snorkeling, kayaking and canoeing.

Burigi-Chato National Park

Burigi-Chato National Park is located in Kagera region in the western Tanzania on the closer border to Rwanda and the closer border of the Lake Victoria. The park is surrounded by the wondrous waters of the kagera River and Lake Burigi.

The park a unique feature of largest antelopes of the World, the statuesque Cape eland. The topography of Burigi-Chato National Park is e typical grasslands of the African Savannah with other ecosystem of Rwanda Akagera National Park and Uganda’s Kikati game reserve, rangeland is to the north of the Katungo River and the lake Mburo National Park. This National Park is set among the pictorial beauty of the lakes and the riverside which is a delight for the eyes of any tourist for enjoying their Holiday.

The Park has a good number of wildlife and some of them are elephant, buffaloes, antelopes, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, chimpanzees, gorillas and chimpanzees, with some rare species of birds including the fish eagles, papyrus ganolek, and bizarre shoebill stork. This is the holiday destination for wildlife safari holiday, including both game drive and walking safaris with camping adventures.

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi is the fifth largest Tanzania national park with an area of 3230 Square Kilometers, the park is located in Morogoro region along the Dar es Salaam–Iringa main road this make the park to be approached from the three region of Dar-es-Salaam, Iringa and Morogoro itself. The topographical nature of Mikumi National Park is covered by the flood of the Mtaka River, Grassland and Woodland. On the other site, the national park is bordered with the Lumango and Uluguru Mountains that supports its topography nature.

Mikumi national park shares an ecosystem with Selous game reserve, this makes a shot migration of the animals like Zebra, buffalos and elephants who move from the southern part of the Selous game reserve to Mikumi national park. During the game drive in Mikumi National Park you will have a game view of animals like lions, buffalos, wildebeest, warthogs, Masai giraffe, zebra, Leopard, baboons, impalas, waterbucks, elephants, sable antelopes, hartebeest and many more and you can visit the pool that hold crocodile and hippos. The national park is also with a good number of bird species which some are endemic such as the violet-crested Turaco, brown-necked parrot, white-backed night heron, green pigeon, and white-headed black chat and the like which makes a destination for birding too.

Mikumi national park is the holiday destination for, game drive safari Day and Night game viewing), bird watching, camping safaris, long and short walking safaris, bush meals, filming and photographing, cultural tourism, sunrise and sunset view, snake park visit in the Mikumi Village. With cultural tour there are Masai people who you can visit ad enjoy the local BBQ. The national park can be for a day trip or multiday visit which makes it an ideal destination for both travelers with short and long holiday.

Nyerere National Park

The park named for the honor of the Late Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Tanzania first president. The park has replaced the position of Ruaha and has become the first National Park in size followed by Ruaha then the Serengeti National Park and make it the first African Largest National Park with and area of 30,000 square kilometers. It has taken a portion of the Selous game reserve and was officially gazette as the National Park in the 2019.

Other than just being the largest national park in Africa, the park’s hold undisturbed wild nature ecologically and biologically. Having the nature of the Selous Game reserve, Nyerere National Park holds a significant diverse of wildlife with a complete ecosystem relationship of the prey-predator. In the Nyerere National Park you will find the Rufiji River flow to the Indian Ocean, an inhabitant of the hippos and make a photogenic spot for many travelers who visit the park.

Nyerere National Park holds the Selous animal populations of Lions, buffaloes, elephants and the endangered Wild dogs. This makes the park an Ideal destination for visitors to do game drive, boat safari via the Rufiji River and camping safari.

Ruaha National Park

Covering the area of 20,226 square Kilometers, Ruaha National Park makes the second largest National Park in Tanzania. The park is located in Iringa region on the south-central Tanzania, with its size and positions Ruaha National Park is among the park undisturbed/untouched ecosystem. Ruaha is famous for holding large Elephant sanctuary than even the elephant paradise of Tarangire which make it the park with the largest Elephant sanctuary in Tanzania. Ruaha National Park is in between the Great Ruaha River and Njombe.

Having this river is the best direction for game viewing as during the dry season animals are drawn to the Great Ruaha River and other water sources such as the Mwagusi and Mdonya Rivers with underground water which is known by the Elephants where you can often see then digging to obtain water and can be used by other animals too.

The topography of the Ruaha National Park is the lush plains, open grasslands, thickets, flood plains and woodland which makes a habitat for wild animals like the Elephants, Impalas, Zebra, Giraffes, warthogs, buffalo, gazelles, roan and sable antelope, lesser and great kudu, hartebeest and hippos and the predators including the Lions, Leopard, Cheetah, fox, hunting dogs and the spotted hyenas and the Crocodiles in the rivers. More to that Ruaha National Park is the birding site with some endemic East African species of the rare raptorial eleonora’s falcon and the migrating flocks, and the marabou stork, dickinson’s kestrel, bat hawk, European hobby, red necked falcon. Hence visiting Ruaha National Park you will do a day and night game viewing, bird watching, Walking Safaris, Star gazing, picnicking, camping, bush meals and cultural tours.

Saadani National Park

Located in the north coast of the Indian Ocean in Tanga region, Saadani National Park is the only National Park in Tanzania where the beach meets the bush. Having this feature, the park is the opportunity to relax on the beach just prior after the jungle and being submerged in a unique display of both marine and mainland flora and fauna which makes a naturally fascinating setting.

With the Location of the park, it makes an adventure as your sunbathing might be interrupted with the wild animals seeking for water. However, the palm trees on this coast make a nice and cooling breeze. Traditional dhows sail slowly past, propelled by billowing white sails, while Swahili fishermen cast their nets below a brilliant red sunrise; this is the bush to beach with one entrance. Animals to be spotted during your game drive in Saadani are both preys and predators such as giraffe, buffalo, warthog, common waterbuck, reedbuck, hartebeest, wildebeest, red duiker, greater kudu, eland, sable antelope, yellow baboon and velvet monkeys, black-backed jackals, leopard, spotted hyenas and Lions which makes a complete ecosystem.

Saadani National Park includes the s the destination for, walking and Game drive, the boat trips on the mangrove-lined Wami River, birding with some species like the mangrove kingfisher and lesser flamingo. More to that you can enjoy the clean white sand beach with major green turtle breeding sites on mainland Tanzania, the last one. Moreover, cultural tour can be done visiting the villages and explore the Swahili culture of the people around the coastal, as the Tanzania coastal area is with an authentic Swahili culture.

The Selous Game Reserve

Covering an area 50,000-kilometer squares Selous Game Reserve is the largest and it is relatively human impacts undisturbed nature. The name Selous is the name of Mr. Frederick Courtney Selous who was a hunter-explorer killed by Elephant during the WWW in the early of 1990’s. Selous Game reserve is under the protection of the UNESCO as the World Heritage site for the nature conservation.

Selous game reserve is an inhabitant of the significant concentration of the black rhinos, Cheetah, Giraffes, Elephants, Zebras, hippos, crocodile, impalas, cheetah, bush backs, leopard, greater kudu, lion, antelopes and wild dogs. The topography of the Selous is of rolling savannah woodland, grassland plains and rocky outcrops cut by the Rufiji River and its tributaries, the Kilombero and Luwegu, which together cover the greatest catchments area in East Africa with the variety of habitats including the Miombo woodlands, open grasslands, riverine forests and swamps, making it a valuable laboratory for on-going ecological and biological processes.

The safari to the Selous Game Reserve can be for game drive and walking safari, hunting (Special Permit), camping safari and boat safari.

Udzungwa Mountains National Park

Lies in between Morogoro and Iringa Regions are the Udzungwa Mountains with an area of 1,990 square kilometers borders with the Kilombero Valleys, the Mikumi Village and the Selous game reserve. The Mountains are on the Eastern Arc Mountains with the fascinating diversity of the endemic species of both plants and animals and make it one of the World’s biodiversity hotspots. Udzungwa Mountains National Park varies in landscapes as it has the rolling hills, valleys, waterfall and the Mountains.

The Number of waterfalls is the most decorating factor of the Udzungwa Mountains National Park with the popular waterfall on the Mwanihama peak (3 days climb to reach the peak). Hiking to the Udzungwa requires a good of fitness level due to its steepness. On its north western side, it has deciduous trees dominated by acacia while on its eastern side is evergreen moist forest of both lowland and montane forest. The forest habitat for a number of endemic species of both animals and plants including the two diurnal primates’ species the Sanje Mangabey Colobus and the Iringa which endemic only the Udzungwa mountains National Park Worldwide.

As your Holiday destination, being in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park you can do a walking safari in the forest sighting of the Red, white and black colobus Monkeys and butterflies and Hiking the Mountains viewing the number of waterfalls such as a dsy hike to see the 170-meter Sanje Water falls. More luckily you can see the elephants, leopards, buffaloes being escorted by the park rangers to either Mikumi or Selous.

Lake Ngosi

Located on the Ngosi Peak of Utopoto Mountain on the Southern Tanzania Highland of Rungwe district a distance of 38 Kilometers from Mbeya City is the Lake Ngosi, the African second largest Crater Lake. Being located at the Ngosi Peak of Utopoto Mountains it makes the Part of the Eastern Arc Mountains. The lake is the leading tourist inflow destination. The lake is 2,600 Matres above the sea level in the thick natural forest of Uporoto Nature Reserves. It can be reached via a drive up to the Uporoto nature reserve and takes a 2hrs walking from the foothill to its ridge. The walk makes and exciting adventure of walking through the dense montane forest to the crater rim where you can see monkeys and birds and the Chameleon and the Montane Wild banana trees which are endemic to the area.

The Climb must be organized by an experienced guide who is familiar with the climbing and walking routes which is of cascades, horrific gorges and valleys which are risky and where, once someone falls there are no rescues. However, despite the risks, it is a safe t trek to view magnificent Lake Ngosi a sight for an outstanding natural beauty and enjoy a green shimmering lake walled by the collapsed caldera of the extinct Ngosi Volcano which you can see on your walk. Moreover, according to the local believes, the waters of the lake Ngosi are believed to have magical medicinal powers.