Four Most Popular Tanzania Safari Parks & Travel Destinations
- Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park is one of the most popular national parks, not only in Tanzania but also across the world, renowned for the spectacular Wildebeests migration.
The park is home to over 2 million ungulates, 4,000 lions, 550 cheetahs, 1,000 leopards, over 500 species of birds, and much more.
Serengeti National Park covers an area of 14,763 square kilometers.
The largest annual animal migration in the world occurs here, where millions of wildebeests, zebras, and other antelopes, followed by predators like lions, leopards, and hyenas, cross to the neighboring Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya in search of fresh pasture and water.
- Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Manyara National Park is mostly known for its tree-climbing lions, not found elsewhere in the world apart from Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.
The park is named after the soda ash Lake Manyara found within the park that attracts thousands of flamingos.
The park also hosts some very numerous elephant populations in Tanzania.
- Mount Kilimanjaro National Park
Mount Kilimanjaro National Park attracts over 50,000 tourists annually.
It covers an area of 1,688 square kilometers, mainly dominated by Africa’s highest mountain, from which the park derives its name when it was established in 1973 to protect Mount Kilimanjaro and the surrounding areas.
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Ngorongoro Conservation Area is not a national park but one of the most visited conservation areas in Tanzania.
It was established in 1959, covering an area of 8,292 square kilometers.
Ngorongoro receives about 500,000 tourists from all over the world annually.
It was also considered a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.
Ngorongoro is home to over 25,000 large animals living in its crater from which the name is derived.
It’s neighboring the great Serengeti National Park.
