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Tanzania, known for it's vastness and for it's remote southern national parks, is also home to Mt.Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Tanzanian parks are known for their scenic beauty as well as their wildlife.
From a tourist point of view, Tanzania is divided into the Northern Circuit, consisting of National Parks located in the North of the country, and the Southern Circuit, consisting of parks located in the remoter South of Tanzania.

Olduvai Gorge

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NORTHERN CIRCUIT

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti is Masai for "endless plains", which is exactly what this park is- most African savannah which is home to numerous species of wild animals.

Serengeti and Maasai Mara in Kenya are essentially one ecosystems and both share the spectacular animal phenomenom of the wildebeest migration.
Serengeti is a must for wildlife lovers visiting Tanzania.

Elephants at the Serengeti

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Tarangire National Park

Located South East of Lake Manyara, and about 120kms from Arusha, lies Tarangire Park, known for it's dense wildlife population, especially between June and December. The park is also famous for the huge tree climbing pythons and the abundant birdlife.

Fringe Eared Oryx at Tarangire

Lake Manyara National Park

Known especially for it's magnificent scenery, this park consists of a lake at the base of the Great Rift Valley, surrounded by plains littered with wildlife. The vegetation is rich and varied, from water forest, to woodlands, grassland and swamp. The lake itself attracts flamingoes and is home to 350 species of birds, ranging from pelicans and sacred ibis to grebe.

The park is also famous for the unique tree - climbing lionswhich scale the Acacia trees upto heights of 25 feet.

A tree Lion at Lake Manyara

Ngorongoro Crater

At 2286 metres above sea level, Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unbroken caldera in the world.
With a crater floor measuring about 16-20 kms across, and an area of 259 square kilometers, with steep surrounding walls, Ngorongoro is a captivating sight, which forms a natural enclosure for hundreds of thousands of wild animals and hundreds of bird species.

Arusha National Park

This smaller park essentially consists of 3 spectacular features, the Ngurdoto and Meru craters and the Momella Lakes. The park's lush forest are inhabitated by black and white colobus monkey, and numerous bird species. The usual game including predators and the 'big five' also be found here. This park can be visited in a day.

Rhinos

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SOUTHERN CIRCUIT

Ruaha National Park

At 13000 square kilometers, this massive and relatively new
park is one of Tanzania's largest elephant sanctuaries. The
wildlife is rich and varied but interestingly lacks in certain
plains game such as Thomson's gazelle.
The Great Ruaha River flows along the eastern part of the
park and supports river wildlife such as crocodile, hippo and
fish.

Thomsons Gazelle under a thorn tree

Mikumi National Park

Mikumi National Park is located 300kms South West
of Dar-es-Salaam, and offers sighting of a wide
variety of game within it's 3200 square kilometers,
including baboon, buffalo, hunting dogs, leopard,
lion and greater kudu.
Excursions from Dar-es-Salaam are routinely
available to the park.

A buffalo with a bird on its nose

Selous Game Reserve

Selous is the largest game reserve in Africa, with an enormous land area of 55000 square kilometers. This park is remote, undisturbed and unturned. Positively flooded during the rainy season, by the Rufiji River, Selous remains largely undeveloped. However, the reserve is home to vast numbers of game including the largest single population of elephants. Selous is best visited between June and October.

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Climate

Though Tanzania lies within the tropics, temperatures aree mainly governed by altitude varying from hot and humid on the coast to warm and dry in the central plateaus. The main rain season is from February to May, the hottest months being from October to February.

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