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NGORONGORO
One of the world's largest craters containing prolific wildlife. It is
a 20-km wide volcanic crater with 600m
walls, packed with just about every species of wildlife to be found in
East Africa. The crater floor has been compared to Noah's Ark and the
Garden of Eden. Animals seen are: lion, Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo, Wildebeest,
Thomson gazelle, Zebra, Reedbuck and Flamingos in Lake Magadi - the Soda
Lake on the floor of the crater. This is a favored spot for wildlife and
the local Masai tribespeople because there is permanent water and grassland
on the crater floor. You can visit Ngorongoro crater any time of the year,
though the months of April and May are extremely wet.
SERENGETI
NATIONAL PARK
This is Tanzania's most famous Game Park, covering 14763 sq. km, where
wildebeest migrate across vast plains and landscape in search of precious
grassland. Nowhere else on earth will you see wildebeest, zebra, and antelope
in such enormous and mind boggling numbers. The gently rolling
Savannah (flat grassland), with bushes and trees only in cluster
along riverbanks makes spotting wildlife easy. Other animals seen are
lion, hyena, Thomson's gazelle, impala, buffalo, topi, eland, giraffe,
elephants, cheeter, rhino, and crocodiles on riverbanks. The hoofed animals
are constantly on the move in search of grassland, and are watched and
pursued by the predators, which feed off them. This is one of the most
incredible sights you will see and the numbers are simply overwhelming.
Also seen are the Masai tribespeople grazing cattle in their age-old tradition.
Serengeti National Park is also the only Tanzanian Park where you can
take HOT
AIR BALOON
flight similar
to those available in Masai Mara in Kenya.
LAKE
MANYARA NATIONAL PARK. 
Lake Manyara is a fresh Water Lake in the Rift valley part of Tanzania.
This park is generallyvisited as the first stop of safari, which covers
among this park, Ngorongoro and Serengeti. Animals seen are hippos, elephant,
and birds such as the greater and lesser flamingos, wildebeest, giraffe,
baboon, and the famous tree-climbing lions. A village market also exist
selling mainly fabrics and crafts.
TARANGIRE
NATIONAL PARK.
This is a large park south east of Lake Manyara along the course of the
Tarangire River and the swamplands and floodplains which field it from
the east. The park fills with herds of zebra, Lions, wildebeest, kongoni,
eland, lesser kudu, buffalo, giraffe, waterbuck, elephant, leopard and
rhino.
ARUSHA
NATIONAL PARK.
Arusha National Park is one of the most beautiful and spectacular parks
in Tanzania and one of the few you're allowed to walk in (accompanied
by a ranger). It has all the features of Ngorongoro crater, Serengeti
and Mt. Kilimanjaro and supports a wide range of flora and fauna. Main
features are;Ngurdoto crater (inhabited by herds of zebra). The Mamelo
lakes- shallow and alkaline inhabited
by a variety of wader birds; particularly flamingos. Mt. Meru, is 4556m,
snow capped and rivals Kilimanjaro. It is a mixture of lush forest and
bare rocks and has a spectacular crater. On its eastern side is a sheer
cliff face, which rises over 1500m and is one of the tallest of its kind
in the world. Animals seen are zebra, waterbuck, Reedbuck, buffalo, hippopotamus,
elephants, rhinos, hyena, mangoose, dik-dik, warthog, baboon, velvet colobus
monkey and leopard.
Tanzania National Parks
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