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The closest national park to Arusha town –
northern Tanzania’s safari capital – Arusha National Park is
a multi-faceted jewel, often overlooked by safari goers,
despite offering the opportunity to explore a beguiling
diversity of habitats within a
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Tarangire National Park
Day
after day of cloudless skies. The fierce sun sucks the
moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red,
the withered grass as brittle as straw. The Tarangire River
has shriveled to a shadow of its wet season self. But it
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Mount Kilimanjaro National
Park
Kilimanjaro. The name itself is a mystery wreathed in
clouds. It might mean Mountain of Light, Mountain of
Greatness or Mountain of Caravans. Or it might not. The
local people, the Wachagga, don't even have a name for the
whole
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Lake Manyara National Park
Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold
600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a
scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as
“the loveliest I had seen in Africa”.The
compact game-viewing
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Serengeti National Park
A
million wildebeest... each one driven by the same ancient
rhythm, fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable
cycle of life: a frenzied three-week bout of territorial
conquests and mating; survival of the fittest as 40km (25
mile) long
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Udzungwa Mountains National Park
Brooding and primeval, the forests of Udzungwa seem
positively enchanted: a verdant refuge of sunshine-dappled
glades enclosed by 30-metre (100 foot) high trees, their
buttresses layered with fungi, lichens, mosses and ferns.
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Katavi National Park
Isolated, untrammeled and seldom visited, Katavi is a true wilderness, providing the few intrepid souls who make it
there with a thrilling taste of Africa as it must have been
a century ago. Tanzania's third largest national park
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Mahale Mountains National Park
Set
deep in the heart of the African interior, inaccessible by
road and only 100km (60 miles) south of where Stanley
uttered that immortal greeting “Doctor Livingstone, I
presume”, is a scene reminiscent of an Indian Ocean island
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Mikumi National Park
Swirls of opaque mist hide the advancing dawn. The first
shafts of sun colour the fluffy grass heads rippling across
the plain in a russet halo. A herd of zebras, confident in
their camouflage at this predatory hour, pose like
ballerinas
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SELOUS GAME RESERVE
The reserve is the largest
protected Wildlife area in Africa, and is a United Nation world
Heritage Site, located 8-9 hours drive South of Dar es Salaam and
covers.This Pristine, Uninhabited area is
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NGORONGORO CRATER
The
Ngorongoro Crater, 2,286 m. above sea level, is the
largest unbroken calderas in the world. Surrounded by
very steep walls rising 610 metres from the crater
floor, this natural amphitheatre covers an area of about
260 sq km- that’s 100 sq miles- and is home to up to
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