From famous names like the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater to hidden gems such as Burigi-Chato National Park and Mikumi National Park, explore the parks we know best. Our Arusha team has been planning trips here for more than 13 years and will build your itinerary around the places you most want to see.
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Nyerere National Park, formerly the Selous Game Reserve, is Tanzania's largest national park and one of the biggest protected wild areas in Africa. It stretches along the Rufiji River in the south of the country and r...
View National ParkRuaha National Park is one of Tanzania's largest parks and one of its wildest. It is known for big elephant herds and some of the country's largest lion prides, and it sees only a fraction of the vehicles found in the...
View National ParkLake Nakuru National Park in Kenya is one of the most reliable places in East Africa to see both black and white rhino in a single park. Rothschild's giraffe and abundant birdlife are other highlights, and in some sea...
View National ParkThe Serengeti is Tanzania's best-known park, and its name comes from the Maasai word "siringet", meaning the place where the land runs on forever. Every year more than 1.5 million wildebeest, together with hundreds of...
View National ParkThe Ngorongoro Crater is the largest unbroken, inactive volcanic caldera in the world. Its floor covers about 260 square kilometers and is enclosed by walls rising up to 600 meters. Around 25,000 large animals live o...
View National ParkTarangire National Park is famous for its huge baobab trees and some of the biggest elephant herds in Tanzania. In the dry season, herds of several hundred are common, as animals gather along the Tarangire River, one ...
View National ParkLake Manyara National Park lies at the foot of the steep Rift Valley escarpment. In a short drive you pass from groundwater forest to open grassland and down to the shores of a soda lake. The park is known for its li...
View National ParkUhuru Peak on Mount Kilimanjaro rises to 5,895 meters, making it the highest point in Africa and the tallest mountain in the world that stands alone rather than as part of a range. None of the main routes (Marangu, M...
View National ParkZanzibar is a semi-autonomous group of islands in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Tanzania. It has long been called the "Spice Island" thanks to its plantations of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Stone Town, the old ...
View National ParkBurigi-Chato National Park became a national park in 2019, created from former game reserves close to Lake Victoria and near the Rwandan border. Covering about 4,707 square kilometers, it is among the largest national...
View National ParkUganda is home to about half of the world's remaining mountain gorillas. Most treks start in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park or Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in the southwest of the country. With a ranger team, yo...
View National ParkMikumi National Park is linked to the much larger Nyerere National Park (the former Selous Game Reserve). Its open Mkata floodplain, with wide grassy plains and easy-to-see wildlife, is often compared to the Serengeti...
View National ParkThe Masai Mara National Reserve lies just over the border in Kenya and forms one continuous ecosystem with the Serengeti. It hosts the most dramatic part of the Great Migration: the Mara River crossings, when wildebee...
View National ParkRwanda is known as one of Africa's best-organized and most beautiful countries. Its nickname, the "Land of a Thousand Hills", comes from its green, terraced slopes. Most visitors come for Volcanoes National Park, hom...
View National ParkLake Eyasi lies at the foot of the Rift Valley wall, south of the Ngorongoro highlands. It is home to the Hadzabe (Hadza), one of the last hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, whose click language and way of life have c...
View National ParkMateruni is a Chagga village on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro, known for its waterfall, around 90 meters high. You reach it on a short guided walk through farms and forest. Most visits also include a stop at a fami...
View National ParkGombe Stream National Park lies on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in far western Tanzania. It is where Jane Goodall began her famous chimpanzee research in 1960, work that changed how we see the link between humans and ...
View National ParkArusha National Park sits below Mount Meru and fits a remarkable range of scenery into a small area: mountain forest, the alkaline Momella Lakes and open grassland. It is one of the few parks where you can go on a wa...
View National ParkAt 4,566 meters, Mount Meru is the second-highest mountain in Tanzania and the fifth-highest in Africa. Around 250,000 years ago a huge eruption blew away its eastern side, leaving the horseshoe-shaped crater and ash ...
View National ParkThe Grumeti River runs through the Serengeti's Western Corridor. Most people have heard of the Mara River crossings further north, but far fewer know about the Grumeti, and that is exactly why it is worth a visit. The...
View National ParkThe Maasai Mara is the Kenyan part of the same ecosystem as the Serengeti. The herds and predators are the same; only an international border, which the animals ignore, separates them. The Mara is the northernmost poi...
View National ParkIf you have watched a documentary about the Great Migration, the scenes you remember were almost certainly filmed here. The Mara River is the crossing that the whole migration story builds towards: huge herds of wilde...
View National ParkNdutu is not on most lists of Tanzania's famous parks. It actually lies inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, just south of the Serengeti boundary. But for a few weeks each year it hosts one of the most concentrate...
View National ParkMost of a safari is about wildlife, which makes Olduvai Gorge a refreshing change. This 48-kilometer ravine is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. Here Louis and Mary Leakey found some of the ...
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