What are the top 5 National Parks in Tanzania?
Tanzania is known to have about 22 national parks that are open for visits, making it a highly suggested place for an exciting East African safari. Furthermore, the distinctive feature of these game parks is that they all offer a variety of attractions and activities to partake in while visiting, ensuring a successful Tanzania safari. Nonetheless, certain national parks are regarded as being larger than others, and some of these are listed below:
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park also encompasses all types of ecosystems that make it possible to accommodate numerous flora and animals. We do tell the tourists coming to Serengeti National Park that instead of just (Big Five, they should look at Serengeti National Park as being well endowed with many animals of the plains, mostly gazelles and zebras, and it is the only place in Africa where vast land animals’ migration still exists.
Serengeti National Park animals
Among the savannah variety are the long-neck giraffes and several other species of hoofs like eland, zebra, Topi, kongoni, impala and the Grant gazelles, which are common in the park.
When to visit the Serengeti National Park
In essence, the dry season that runs between late June and October is more convenient in terms of enabling the traveller to participate in a Tanzania safari in the Serengeti National Park. The majority of the lodges are open in the wet season, and the rains transform the arid earth into a green paradise.
Nyerere National Park
With an overall surface size of over 30,893 square kilometres, Nyerere National Park is regarded as the largest national park in the nation. The Selous Conservation Area, another name for this well-known park, is well-known for being home to several elephants and a sizable population of wild dogs. Situated in the country’s southeast, Nyerere National Park is regarded as one of the top safari destinations due to its abundance of wildlife, which includes giraffes, zebras, rhinos, leopards, hyenas, waterbucks, crocodiles, and wildebeests, among many others.
Selous Game Reserve
Selous Wildlife Reserve can be considered the largest wildlife-protected reserve, with a surface area of 54,600 square kilometres, located in the southern part of the country. This game park is surrounded by savannah grasslands, lakes, and forests which offer good natural habitats to a rich variety of species of wild life such as lions, leopards, impalas, hyenas, giraffes, waterbucks, antelopes, elands, and many varieties of birds which can be found in the north and the south of this park.
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park boasts itself as one of the amazing bird destinations, and it is also renowned for holding big game, especially during the dry season, when the only available water within the vicinity is the Tarangire River.
When to visit Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park is a great place to observe wildlife, and this is best done from late June to October. Other thimals leave the park in the wet season.
Tarangire National Park activities
Birding. More than 550 species of birds use swarms that are found throughout the park. The tour talkers who have been talking for quite a long time, this gives Tarangire fame to be your favourite safari place.
Elephant Population. The time from June to October incurs a massive influx of elephants. Following the Maasai Mara migration, it follows the river.
Walking safari. The dry season provides you with the ideal conditions for watching large amounts of wildlife because it takes place during June and September; therefore, the most appropriate time to visit Tarangire National Park.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro is recorded as the largest inactive and whole volcano caldera in the world. This region is particularly renowned to be the cradle of mankind following the finding of the earliest sample of the Hominidae, such as the Paranthropus.
When to go to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro can most conveniently be visited between April and May, said to be the rainy season, since there will be no queue of tourists and the crater is green and great without much dust, unlike during those areas when it is dry.
Animals at Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Ngorongoro Conservation Area abounds in several animals, both in the smaller and larger scales, together with the (Big Five) of Africa, and these are: Lions, Leopards, Buffalos, Rhinos and elephants.
Other National Parks in Tanzania
Lake Manyara Park
One activity that has proven to amaze a traveller of Lake Manyara National Park is the view of the rift valley escarpment that can be viewed during the various activities that one gets involved in when visiting the park. It has an enormous population of baboons, and its colored landscape sustains an astonishing population of other game species found in its vicinity, such as hippo, buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, flamingo, giraffe, waterbuck, warthog, and impala. This is the most preferred period of animal watching, which occurs during the dry season between June and October. However, and consequently, the very scenic park is the most beautiful during the rainy period, meaning in November and through May.
Lake Manyara National Park activities
Canoeing
The park consists of the great lake Manyara, where boat rides and canoeing are done. Lake Manyara gives you an experience of the park with the most scenic beauty of the park with its animals like the pink flamingo and giraffes thronging the shores of the lake.
Game drives
Lake Manyara National Park is extensively known as an excellent place for many animals that thrive in the Savannah lands of the park due to the large number of animals in the park.
Bird watching
Lake Manyara National Park has more than 400 birds, including the resident birds as well as the migratory birds. And some of the birds in the park that the travellers will be able to observe are migrant birds, raptors and acacia birds among many others.
Arusha National Park
The Arusha National Park is the only beautiful park in Tanzania that is endowed with a tremendous variation of wildlife, together with a very beautiful landscape. It is the park where the white and black colobus monkeys are located and found and the largest population of giraffes in the world is located and found in Tanzania. The best time to travel to Arusha National Park is around the time of June to September, and even between December to March when it is dry.
Animals that are common and known in the park are: the blue monkeys, elephants, flamingos, bushbuck, black and white colobus monkeys, cape buffalo, zebra, warthog, among others that are found in Arusha National Park.
Katavi National Park
The national park has elephants, lions, hippopotamuses, elands, giraffes, zebras, buffalos and numerous species of wildlife. More than 400 bird species inhabit the Katavi National Park. Katavi National Park is composed of grassland and forests and is reachable during safaris by means of diverse transport avenues such as scheduled flights and even chartered aircraft.
Conclusion.
Tanzania is not just a tourist destination. Your amazement is put to the test. In addition to the wildlife, these national parks, whether it is the expanse of Nyerere and Ruaha, or the famous Serengeti, provide outlooks, peace and amazement.
