It is Tanzania’s largest national and covers more than 20,000km2. The settlers did not like to stay at Ruaha because it was infested by tsetse flies and the extreme dry weather was not conducive. This led to the park being well kept making it to have a unique experience for the tourists. It combines spectacular landscape with game viewing creating variety when it comes to the activities to be carried out. The park predominantly experience dry climate especially from June to October. The park has Ruaha River which rescues the wild animals from thirst. Most of the time the wild animals revolve around the river and hence this makes it easier for tourist to view most of the animals at a short span.
The park offers variety of game, birdlife and reptiles. There are buffalo, zebra, Defassa waterbuck, impala, bushbuck, giraffe, Lichtenstein’s hartebeest, greater kudu (some of the most handsomely horned males you’ll come across anywhere in Africa) also the more elusive roan and sable antelope. Grant’s gazelle and lesser kudu are also found here and are good examples of game that is more typically associated with areas further north. (It’s also one of the few places where you can see both greater and lesser kudu in the same area.) It is also home to the largest elephant population found in of any Tanzanian national parks, with some 12,000 elephants migrating through the greater Ruaha ecosystem each year.
It is also an excellent park for predators. Lions are not only numerous and much habituated to vehicles, but the prides tend to be unusually large, often numbering more than 20 individuals. Cheetah can often be seen hunting on the open plains; and the park has a particularly good reputation for leopard sightings. It is one of the last major strongholds for African wild dog populations with more than 100 found here. Black-backed jackal and spotted hyena are both very common and easily seen, and the rarer striped hyena, though seldom observed, also lives here.
The birdlife is magnificent and the park is known as Tanzania’s paradise. It has more than 571 species some believed to have migrated from Europe and Asia. There are both scheduled and chartered flights into the park mainly from Arusha, Dodoma, Kigoma and Dar-es-salaam. Park’s airstrips are located at Msembe and Jongomero
There are varieties of accommodations to choose, from tented camps to lodges.

Serengeti National Park is the oldest and the most famous park in Tanzania. It is a world heritage site and has recently been proclaimed as the seventh wonder of the world. It is famous for its annual migration of the wildebeest, zebras and Thomson gazelle in search for a fresh land to graze. There are variety of wildlife, pools of hippos and rivers flooded with crocodile. It is arguably the best park for game viewing in Africa.
The park is greatly known for the big five and Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat. There are also Great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
The park usually floods with tourist to view the famous great migration, when an estimated two million herbivores – mostly wildebeest – migrate from the Serengeti to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve. Hundreds of thousands of animals die along the way and the drama of this epic seasonal journey is a gripping, deeply moving experience and a wonderful photographic subject.
But there is more to Serengeti than large mammals. Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite koppies. A full 100 varieties of dung beetle have been recorded, as have 500-plus bird species, ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
There are many fun and great activities like hot air balloons, walking safaris, and picnicking, game drives, bush lunch or dinners can be arranged by the respective hotels, Maasai rock painting and musical rock. There is also fantastic bird watching, and its vast grassy plains and dotted by beautiful acacia trees. There is also a chance to visit the neighboring Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Ol Doinyo Lengai volcano and Lake Natron’s flamingos.
Tourists can get there through scheduled charter from Arusha, Lake Manyara and Mwanza. The accommodation in the park is easily accessible and it includes four lodges, six luxury tented camps and camp sites scattered through the park; one new lodge will be opened next season (Bilila Lodge); one luxury camp, a lodge and two tented camps just outside.

Katavi national park is the third largest National Park in Tanzania. It is located on the far west of the country and is a bit tricky to access and costly. In this park there are abundant of game and is surrounded by woodland and knee high golden glass.
The park usually comes to life during the dry season, the plains fill with thousands of zebra, topi and impala. Hartebeest, giraffe, and Defassa waterbuck are also very common, there’s a large population of resident elephants, and some impressive herds of buffalo. Katavi is a great park for watching lion-buffalo interactions. Spotted hyena are frequently seen, whilst leopard appear on the woodland fringes, but are more elusive. Wild dog do live here, but tend to stick to the escarpment and are rarely seen on the plains. During the dry season the Katuma and the Kappa River the only ones that are dry and due to this a lot of animals from miles flood around the area in order to access water.
The diversity of birdlife in this park is spectacular; it holds large flocks of open-billed and saddlebilled storks, spoonbills, crested cranes and pink-backed pelicans. Raptors are plentiful whilst the woodlands of the national park are home to species as diverse as African golden orioles, paradise fly-catchers and pennant-winged nightjars.
The most efficient to reach the place is through charter flights from Dar or Arusha. The tourist can also have a tough but spectacular day’s drive from Mbeya (550 km/340 miles) or in the dry season only from Kigoma (390 km/240 miles).
There are two seasonal luxury tented camps overlooking Lake Chad.

Arusha National Park is a small park that is only 40km from Arusha town which covers mount Meru in Tanzania. The park has magnificent landscape in three distinct areas. Its main features are Ngurdoto crater, the Momela Lake to the east and to the west mount Meru which is the second highest mountain in Tanzania. The park offers magnificent landscape with breath taking views.
The common animals found in this destination are giraffes, buffalos, zebras, warthog, the black and white colobus monkey, blue monkeys, and Flamingos are particularly found in Momela. Canoe safaris offer a unique opportunity to view the spectacular landscape with ease. Walking safaris offer the chance to experience the African bush on foot safe in the knowledge of an experienced guide. You can observe the wildlife at a very close range undisturbed by vehicles and away from roads. This is the most natural way to go on a safari.
The gates are opened from six in the morning to six in the evening. The main park entrance is at Ngongongare Gate, about 10km from the main road, while park headquarters – the main contact for making camp site or rest house reservations and for arranging guides and porters to climb Mt Meru – are about 14km further in near Momela Gate. There is another entrance at Ngurdoto Gate, on the southeastern edge of the park. Walking is permitted on the Mt Meru side of the park, and there is also a walking trail along part of the Ngurdoto Crater rim (though it’s not permitted to descend either on foot or in a vehicle to the crater floor).
All the attractions in Arusha Park can be visited in only half a day. The best time to climb Mt Meru is June-February although it may rain in November and for the best views of Kilimanjaro December-February.
Accommodation in the park are easily accessible in variety, there are two lodges, two rest houses, camp sites, two mountain huts inside the park; more lodges at Usa River outside the park and many hotels and hostels in Arusha town.

Tanzania Flights

Tanzania National Parks

Arusha National Park
Gombe Stream National Park
Katavi National Park
Kitulo Plateau National Park
Mikumi National Park
Mount Kilimanjaro
Lake Manyara National Park
Mahale Mountains National Park
Mkomazi National Park
Ruaha National Park
Rubondo Island National Park
Serengeti National Park
Saadani National Park
Tarangire National Park
Udzungwa Mountain National Park

The Mount Elgon Park is on the border of Uganda and Kenya with the extinct volcano being its significant feature. Mt. Elgon
Mount Elgon is an extinct volcano with the biggest surface field in the world at about {50km by 80km} and a caldera with a diameter of almost 8 km. The highest apex is Wagagai that stands at 4.321 m.
Mount Elgon lies sizably with each country, Uganda and Kenya claiming a good portion of the cake. The mountain which is in itself the park used to be called ‘Masaba’ by the local Bagisu community. Consequently “Elgon” is brought up after the Anglicisation of the Maasai “El Kony”. The best time to tour Mount Elgon is May and September, November and December.
Activities
There is a very adventurous Trekking around Mount Elgon that is full of fascinating feature and natural formation, Sasa, Sipi and Piswa trials are the most adventurous.
The full trekking circuit to the peaks takes about 6 days to complete. On your nature walk, you will experience various flora and, the enormous caves, gorges and hot springs. Particularly fascinating is the less laborious hike from Sipi trading centre to the Sipi Falls, a series of 4 waterfalls culminating in a 99m drop at an altitude of 1.775 m, along the river Sipi coming from mount Elgon.

The Murchison falls national park is in the Murchison conservation area which is about 5 .02 kilometres and it combined with Bugungu wildlife reserve, Karuma and Budongo forest in the southern part.
The Murchison conservation area in itself rounds up as the largest protected region in Uganda. The area has an elevation range which stretch from 619m at the delta on Lake Albert and at 1.292m at Rabongo hill. In the area, River Nile runs across from Lake Victoria and connects Lake Kyoga with Albert.
As in goes by name the Murchison national park is indeed a fully stocked game park. The park is identified after the miraculous falls on the river, which meets a constringe cleft in the Rift Valley Escarpment, then it is transmuted into a froth of thunderous whitewater, with no equivalence to any other site in East Africa.
The flora is defined by savanna, riverine forest and woodland.
Species: Murchison national park is rich with 76 mammal species. There a number of big animals like elephants, lions, leopard giraffes, spotted hyenas, kobs, bushbuck, waterbuck, oribi, and jackal. The list of birds counts 450 species.
Activities:
The park is convenient for to trips to viewing game. Starting from Paraa by the Nile up to the Murchison Falls (17 km), you are able to spot elephants, buffaloes, waterbuck, hippos, crocodiles, water birds similar cormorants, pelicans, herons, fish eagle, shoebill stork. Hike to “top of the falls”, to see closer from the top the charging and spectacular Murchison Falls.
Game drives north of river Nile and at Lake Albert Delta (Buligi, Albert and Queen’s tracks).
Sport fishing (Nile Perch and tiger fish), in the river Uganda National Parks Nile above and down the falls.
There is “Chimpanzee trekking” and birding in Budongo Forest and Kanyiyo Pabidi Forest Reserve.

Kibale Forest National Park is home to more than 335 bird species. There are a number of nature trails that one can take to ensure the gets most of the bird watching. Kanyanchu Visitor Centre allows is one of them that allows you to search some of the birds within its vicinity. Species such as scaly francolin, Yellow-spotted Barbet, Hairy-breasted Barbet, Yellow-billed Barbet, Western Nicator, marsh tchagara, the scarce grey-headed olive-back, fawn breasted black crowned wax-bills and green-backed twin spot, among others, can easily be spotted
Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary, located just outside the park, is another excellent place to see some of the special birds endemic to this habitat such as papyrus gonolek, white-winged warbler and papyrus canary among others

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park offers some of the finest montane forest birding in Africa. The park is home to a variety of birds; more than 350 species of birds have been recorded. It is Easy to see are the African Emerald Cuckoo, Common Bulbul, African Blue and White-tailed Blue Flycatchers and Red-headed Bluebill.
For lovers of birds, this park will really amaze them. Birding takes place along the main trail, the Buhoma Waterfall Trail and along the bamboo zone and Mubwindi Swamp trail in Ruhija.
Enjoy bird watching in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park