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The 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 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 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 ...
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