Tarangire National Park

Studded with giant baobab trees and criss-crossed by seasonal and permanent rivers, the Tarangire National Park is home to huge herds of elephant, which migrate into the park during the dry season between June and October, making for unbeatable game viewing in the park’s northern areas, where herds gather to bathe in the mud pools at on the banks of the Tarangire River. During the dry season other herbivores congregate around the river, accompanied inevitably by predators such as lion, making this an excellent area in which to search out kills.

In the wet season, the animal population is more spread out, but the park’s lush green beauty and abundant bird life still make it well worth a visit at this time. Tarangire’s vast wilderness zone, a part of the park many visitors get to visit, is a prime site for walking safaris, as game vehicles are forbidden in the park’s southern region to preserve the intact environment. Visitors can explore the rivers, swamps and plains of this huge slice of wild Africa on foot, camping by night in small tents pitched under shady trees, observing insects, birds and small mammals close up and learning skills, such as tracking and stalking, that most of mankind has long forgotten.