Archive : national-parks

The Arabuko-Sokoke Forest is East Africa’s largest surviving, dry coastal forest, situated only 7 km inland from Watamu and 18 km southwest from Malindi on the Kenya Coast. The Forest covers an area of approximately 400 square km and is composed of three distinctly different forest habitats: mixed lowland forest, open Brachystegia woodland and dense Cynometra forest, providing a unique and important [...]

MARANGU CLIMB (SF6MAR) 7 days / 6 nights (5 day / 4 night hike) The busiest pathway up & down Africa’s highest mountain, this is a well defined and ‘climber friendly’ route and there are huts along the way. TRAVELLERS COMMENTS This is surely how it feels to be on top of the world! I will admit it was very hard work and we did think at times we would give in but the guides encouraged us gently [...]

More National Parks of Kenya ARAWALE NATIONAL RESERVE: Arawale national reserve is found in the North Eastern province, in Ganisa district, 5Km from the left ground at the edge of river Tana. Arawale was gazetted in the year 1973, occupying an area of 533Km2 and the main aim of preserving a  Kenya Safari scarce antelope species which is found only in this area, th e Hirola or hunter’s hantebeest. [...]

SAADANI NATIONAL PARK SAFARI TANZANIA Saadani National Park is the perfect union of beach and bush. Located just 70 km north of Bagamoyo and easily accessible by paved road from Dar es Salaam, Saadani is a wonderful day-trip from the beach resorts scattered along Tanzania’s northern coast. The only wildlife sanctuary in East Africa to boast an Indian Ocean beachfront, it possesses all the attributes [...]

Udzungwa is the largest and most biodiverse chain of a dozen large forest mountains that rise majestically from the flat coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania, known collectively as the Eastern Arc Mountains. Secret bank account of genetic stock It is a hot-house nurturing species found nowhere else on earth, a secret bank account of precious genetic stock. Of its six types of primate, two are endemic [...]

RUAHA NATIONAL PARK Ruaha protects a vast tract of the rugged, semi-arid bush country that characterises central Tanzania. The moment the plane touches the ground the game viewing starts. A giraffe races beside the airstrip, all legs and neck yet oddly elegant in its awkwardness. A line of zebras and in the distance, beneath a bulbous baobab tree a few representatives of Ruaha’s ten thousand elephants [...]

MKOMAZI GAME RESERVE Located in Tanzania’s very north close to the Pare Mountains, Mkomazi Game Reserve is the focus of an intensive breeding program to save the endangered black rhinos.Tourist facilities in this remote area are very sparse, so not many ‘Mzungus’ – as white people are called around here – will bother to visit Mkomazi. It’s a place reserved for truly interested visitors. Black [...]

KITULO PLATEAU NATIONAL PARK Locals refer to the Kitulo Plateu as ‘Bustani ya Mungu’ – The Garden of God – while botanists have dubbed it the Serengeti of Flowers. Perched at around 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) between the rugged peaks of the Kipengere, Poroto and Livingstone Mountains, the well-watered volcanic soils of Kitulo support the largest and most important montane grassland community [...]

MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK Forming the northern borders of Africa’s biggest game reserve – the vast Selous – Mikumi is one of the most popular of Tanzania`s National Parks, the most accessible part of a 75,000 square kilometre wilderness. Mikumi flood plain The main feature of the park is the Mikumi flood plain, along with the mountain ranges that border the park on two sides. Open grasslands [...]

KATAVI NATIONAL PARK Isolated, untrammelled and seldom visited, Katavi is a true wilderness, providing the few intrepid souls who make it there with a thrilling taste of Africa as it must have been a century ago. It is situated in Southwest Tanzania, east of Lake Tanganyika. Focus on Hippos and crocodiles The main area for game viewing within the park is the Katuma River and associated floodplains [...]

GOMBE STREAM NATIONAL PARK The smallest of Tanzania’s national parks is situated on the north eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Gombe Stream park is very famous for its chimpanzees. It’s here where Jane Goodall founded a behavioural research program in 1960 that now stands in the longest-running study of its kind in the world. The chimpanzees are habituated to human visitors. ‘Panthood’ call An [...]

TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS & GAME RESERVES Tanzania, with its magnificient wildlife reserves, is East Africa at its best. The famous Endless Plains as Serengeti translates from Maasai language, and the magic crater of Ngorongoro offer some of the best safaris on the continent. And there are so many other less known parks deserving a visit. Don’t be in a rush when you visit Tanzania. Tanzanian Wildlife View [...]