Tanzania has numerous animals; Africa Wild Dog, Baboon, Buffalo, Bushbuck, Cheetah, Chimpanzee, Elephant, Mountain Gorilla, Grant’s Gazelle, Hartebeest , Hippo, Hyena, Rock Hyrax , Impala, Jackal , Kudu, Leopard, Lion, Oryx, Rhino, Sable Antelope, Thomson’s Gazelle, Topi, Vervet Monkey, Warthog, Waterbuck, Wildebeest and Zebra.
Birds
Hoopoe , Parrot, Bee-eater, and fish eagles, Crowned crane, Secretary birds, Ostrich, Marabou stork, scoops owl, sun bird white eyed, green pigeon, lilac breasted roller, white pelican, different kinds of doves and many other bird species are found in
Tanzania.
Game park info
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai, more accurately called Oldupai after the wild sisal in the area, is the site of some of the most important fossil hominid finds of all time- “Nutcracker Man” or Australopithecus boisei who lived 1.75 million years ago- by Leaky.
There’s a small informative museum located at the visitor centre. The gorge is a treasure trove of archeological sites filled with fossils, settlement remains and stone artifacts. Lecture tours are offered.
Take a 3-4 day journey to the world’s heritage site of volcanic rolling hills-Ngorongoro crater and see the great migration of wildebeest across Serengeti . Every year, over one million wildebeest, joined by tens of thousands of other grazing animals–zebra and gazelles–cross the vast plains of the Serengeti in search of good grazing. The entire journey is dictated by the seasons and the rainfall, needed to create suitable pasture.
Lake Manyara National Park
The park, stretching 500 Kilometres along the base of the 600 metre high encampment of the African Rift Valley, has been a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve since 1981. Hemingway describes Lake Manyara National Park’s magnificent hunting country in “The Green Hills of Africa” Mahogany, sausage tree and crotons are alive with blue monkeys and velvets. Elephants feed off fallen fruit while bushbuck, waterbuck, baboons, aardvark, civet, the shy pangolin and leopard as well as the black rhino, all make their home in the forest.
Manyara is sanctuary to elusive buffalo and hippo, giraffe, impala, zebra and the famous residents- tree climbing lions.
Serengeti National Park
This is the Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th world wide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
Mount Kilimanjaro
Climb the 5896m (19,344 feet) Kilimanjaro mountain, Africa’s highest peak and one of the continent’s magnificent sights. It’s also one of the highest volcanoes and among the highest freestanding mountains in the world that can be reached by walking, without hand-over-hand climbing, rising from cultivated farmlands on the lower levels, through lush rainforest to alpine meadows, and finally across a barren lunar landscape to the twin summits of Kibo and Mawenzi. The lower rainforest is home to many animals, including buffaloes, leopards and monkeys, and elands are occasionally seen in the saddle area between Kibo and Mawenzi peaks.
A trek up Kili lures hundreds of trekkers each year, in part because it’s possible to walk to the summit without ropes or technical climbing experience. Yet, the climb is a serious (and expensive) undertaking, and only worth doing with the right preparation. There are also plenty of excellent options for exploring the mountain’s lower slopes and learning about the Maasai and the Chagga, the main tribes in the area. The mountain which is just three degrees South of the Equator is covered by snow caps and ice all year round..
Mt. Meru
This is an active stratovolcano located in Arusha National Park about 70 kilometres (44 miles) west of Mount Kilimanjaro; hight: 4,566 metres (14,980 ft).
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