Destination

Arusha National Park

The Park has a total area of 137 sq km. And are over 50 km of game viewing road/track in the Ngurdoto and Momella Section of the Park. The Major attractions of this park include the Momella Lakes, Ngurdoto Crater, Meru Crater, cone as well as the rare black and white Colombus Monkey. Many northern bird migrants can be seen between May and October.

Gombe

The park lies about 16Km. north of Kigoma in the north-west part of Tanzania. It is the smallest park in Tanzania with only 52 sq km.The Gombe stream national Park remains one of the few areas in Africa which harbours one of the most rare species of animals - Chimpanzee. Apart from Mahale Mountains, South kigoma, there is no where else in tanzania where Chimpanzee can be observed in the wild.

Lake Manyara

Lake Manyara, one of Tanzania's smallest and most diverse national parks, bordered by the dramatic Western Escarpment of the Great Rift Valley, Lake Manyara is notable for its abundant birdlife, diverse vegetation, tree-climbing lions, and hippos among others. Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. Located on the way to Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park is well worth a stop in its own right. Lake Manyara covers an area of 127 sq miles, of which up to 77 Sq miles is lake when water levels are high.

The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience. Its ground water forests, bush plains, baobab strewn cliffs, and algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds.

Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large water birds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks. Even reluctant bird-watchers will find something to watch and marvel at within the national park.

Contrasting with the intimacy of the forest is the grassy floodplain and its expansive views eastward, across the alkaline lake, to the jagged blue volcanic peaks that rise from the endless Maasai Steppes. Large buffalo, wildebeest and zebra herds congregate on these grassy plains, as do giraffes – some so dark in coloration that they appear to be black from a distance.

Lake Manyara’s famous legendary tree-climbing lions are another reason to pay this park a visit. The only kind of their species in the world, they make the ancient mahogany and elegant acacias their home during the rainy season, and are a well-known but rather rare feature of the northern park. In addition to the lions, the national park is also home to the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world -- a fact that makes for interesting game viewing of large families of the primates.

Mahale Mountains National Park

Mahale Mountain National Park is home to chimpanzees, located in Western Tanzania, bordering Africa's longest and deepest, Lake Tanganyika and covers an area of 623 miles. While not as well known as Jane Goodall's Gombe River Stream Park, Mahale is preferred because there are fewer human visitors.

Mahale Mountains, like its northerly neighbour Gombe Stream, is home to some of Africa’s last remaining wild chimpanzees: a population of roughly 800, habituated to human visitors by a Japanese research project founded in the 1965. Tracking the chimps of Mahale is a magical experience.

The area is also known as Nkungwe, after the park's largest mountain, held sacred by the local Tongwe people and at 8,069 ft the highest of the six prominent points that make up the Mahale Range.

And while chimpanzees are the star attraction, the slopes support a diverse forest fauna, including readily observed troops of red colobus, red-tailed and blue monkeys, and a kaleidoscopic array of colourful forest birds.