Walking Safari

Arusha Safari Park is a must for birdwatchers and for those interested in spectacular volcanic scenery. Mt Meru towers up from the park and the surrounding forests, lakes and craters are home to a multitude of different bird, plant and animal species.

Karatu village is just outside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It has many hotels and lodges, offering a base for safaris to the Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara National Park.

Mikumi Safari Park in southern Tanzania offers superb big game and birding. With far fewer visitors than the north and a heavy concentration of game, a safari to Mikumi is always rewarding.

Mt. Meru is part of the Arusha National Park located 45 km from Arusha town. The Park contains the 4556m high mountain (5th highest in Africa), Ngurdoto Crater, the Momella soda lakes, as well as thick cloud and montane forests, acacia woodlands and grasslands. Home to elephants, large herds of buffalo, bushbuck, giraffe and duiker, the park is the also a good place to observe the interesting black-and-white colobus monkeys.

Ngorongoro Crater is a spectacular game viewing destination. It is the largest intac caldera in the world and has a high density of big game living on the crater floor.

<p>Saadani National Park is Tanzanias newest park, (gazetted in 2003) and the only wildlife sanctuary in East Africa with an Indian Ocean beach front. Inland of it's 20km coastline Saadani features a park-like cover of open grassland with stands of acacia trees and pockets of coastal thicket. The park supports a wide variety of large mammals, with game densities highest around January and February. Saadani harbours a small population of Roosevelts Sable (also found in Selous) and the red duiker is often seen. A myriad of birdlife is to be observed on a boat safari up the Wami River, as well as hippo and crocodile. </p>