Tanzania Destinations
Parks & Reserves
Discover The Top-Rated National Park With Wild Collections
Tanzania has a reputation for exceptional game viewing, the surreal Serengeti plains, opulent lodges, breathtaking beaches, the fabled Mount Kilimanjaro, and much more.
This eastern African gem is 1.5 times the size of Texas, measuring 364,900 sq miles, and is bordered by eight nations, including Kenya to the north and the lovely Indian Ocean on its eastern coastline. Over 32% of its land area is protected for conservation.
The dry season, which lasts from late June to early October, is the ideal time to visit Tanzania. Following seasonal rains through Tanzania and Kenya, the great wildebeest migration in the Serengeti begins in June and July, a 300-mile loop for over 2 million animals.
- Serengeti National Park: 5,700 sq miles of savannah teeming with migrations of wildebeests, gazelle and zebras making this one of the 7 Natural Wonders of Africa, a national treasure in the north of Tanzania.
- Ngorongoro Crater: The world’s largest inactive cauldron-like hollow volcano with a crater floor covering over 100 sq. miles and almost 0.4 miles deep. This crater in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area has over 7,000 wildebeest, 6,000 black spotted hyenas, 4,000 zebras, 300 Elephants and 55 Lions.
- Selous Game Reserve: Also known as Nyerere National Park, this is Tanzania’s largest national park at about 12,000 sq miles, set in southern Tanzania with majestic waterways, notably the Rufiji river and interconnected lakes attracting wildlife galore.
- Ruaha National Park: Tanzania’s second largest national park with excellent game viewing of predators including lions and the endangered wild dog and 500 bird species.
Gombe National Park: The second smallest of Tanzania’s national parks at just 20 sq miles, Gombe is characterised by steep valleys and the vegetation from grassland to woodland to tropical rainforest, a superb place for tracking chimpanzees. - Katavi National Park: A 1,700 sq mile park renowned for large concentrations of animals including 4,000 elephants.
Tarangire National Park: The Tarangire River provides water for the wildlife in this northern park including the rare tree-climbing lion, leopards, cheetahs, baobab trees, birds and the Masai people. - Arusha National Park: At the base of Mount Meru, visitors will find this 213 sq miles lesser visited park with large numbers of African elephants, Cape buffaloes, hippos, zebras and giraffes.
- Kitulo National Park: A protected area of montane grassland and montane forest on the Kitulo Plateau in the southern highlands of Tanzania.
