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Discover the most beautiful national parks of Tanzania! You'll of course find well-known parks like the Serengeti and Ngorongoro, but also lesser-known parks like Burigi-Chato National Park and Mikumi National Park. We're happy to help you plan a safari or tour in Tanzania and build a custom itinerary around the parks you want to explore.

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Northern Parks

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

The Serengeti is Tanzania's most famous national park — its name comes from the Maasai word "siringet," meaning endless plains. Each year, over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra move in a conti...

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Northern Parks

NGORONGORO CRATER

Ngorongoro Crater is the world's largest inactive, intact volcanic caldera — a natural amphitheater roughly 260 square kilometers across, ringed by walls up to 600 meters high. Inside, an estimated 25,000 large animal...

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Northern Parks

TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK

Tarangire National Park is known for its towering baobab trees and some of the largest elephant herds in Tanzania — groups of several hundred aren't unusual during the dry season, when wildlife concentrates along the ...

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Northern Parks

LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK

Lake Manyara National Park sits beneath the dramatic wall of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, with a landscape that shifts from groundwater forest to open grassland to the alkaline lake itself. It's best known for it...

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Northern Parks

MOUNT KILIMANJARO

At 5,895 meters, Mount Kilimanjaro's Uhuru Peak is the highest point in Africa and the world's tallest free-standing mountain — meaning it isn't part of a mountain range. No technical climbing skills are required on a...

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ZANZIBAR

Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous archipelago off Tanzania's coast in the Indian Ocean, long known as the "Spice Island" for its clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon plantations. Stone Town, its historic capital, is a UNESCO World...

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Western Parks

BURIGI-CHATO NATIONAL PARK

Burigi-Chato National Park was officially gazetted in 2019, formed from the Burigi and Biharamulo game reserves near Lake Victoria, close to the Rwandan border. At roughly 4,707 square kilometers, it's Tanzania's fift...

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UGANDA

Uganda is home to roughly half of the world's remaining mountain gorilla population, most trekked from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park or Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in the country's southwest. Trekking involves ...

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Southern Parks

MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK

Mikumi National Park is part of a larger ecosystem connected to Nyerere National Park (formerly the Selous Game Reserve), and its open Mkata floodplain is often compared to the Serengeti for its wide grass plains and ...

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MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

The Masai Mara National Reserve sits just across the border in Kenya, forming a single connected ecosystem with the Serengeti. It's the stage for the most dramatic chapter of the Great Migration — the Mara River cross...

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RWANDA

Rwanda has earned a reputation as one of Africa's best-run and most scenic countries, nicknamed the "Land of a Thousand Hills" for its dramatic, terraced landscape. Volcanoes National Park, home to mountain gorillas a...

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Northern Parks

LAKE EYASI

Lake Eyasi, at the base of the Great Rift Valley near Ngorongoro, is home to the Hadzabe (Hadza) people — one of the last true hunter-gatherer communities in Africa, whose language uses distinctive click consonants an...

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MATERUNI WATERFALL

Materuni is a Chagga village on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro, best known for a roughly 90-meter waterfall reached via a short guided hike through farmland and forest. Most visits combine the waterfall walk with a s...

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Western Parks

GOMBE STREAM NATIONAL PARK

Gombe Stream National Park, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, is where Jane Goodall began her pioneering chimpanzee research in 1960 — work that reshaped how science understands the relationship bet...

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Northern Parks

ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK

Arusha National Park sits in the shadow of Mount Meru, Tanzania's second-highest peak, and packs a striking variety of landscapes into a relatively small area — montane forest, the alkaline Momella Lakes, and open gra...

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