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Arusha National Park
The closest national park to Arusha town –
northern Tanzania’s safari capital – Arusha National Park is a
multi-faceted jewel, often overlooked by safarigoers, despite
offering the opportunity to explore a beguiling diversity of
habitats within a few hours...Cont.
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Kilimanjaro.
The name itself is a mystery
wreathed in clouds. It might mean Mountain of Light, Mountain of
Greatness or Mountain of Caravans. Or it might not. The local
people, the Wachagga, don't even have a name for the whole massif...Cont. |
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Saadani
Palm trees sway in a
cooling oceanic breeze. White sand and blue water sparkle alluringly
beneath the tropical sun. Traditional dhows sail slowly past,
propelled by billowing white sails, while Swahili fishermen cast
their nets below a ...Cont
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Gombe Stream National Park
An
excited whoop erupts from deep in the forest, boosted immediately by
a dozen other voices, rising in volume and tempo and pitch to a
frenzied shrieking crescendo. It is the famous ‘pant-hoot’ call: a
bonding ritual that allows the...Cont
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Katavi National Park
Isolated, untrammelled and seldom visited,
Katavi is a true wilderness, providing the few intrepid souls who
make it there with a thrilling taste of Africa as it must have been
a century ago.
Tanzania's third largest national park, it lies in the remote
southwest of the country, within a trunc...Cont
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Mikumi National Park
Swirls of opaque mist hide the advancing dawn.
The first shafts of sun colour the fluffy grass heads rippling
across the plain in a russet halo. A herd of zebras, confident in
their camouflage at this predatory hour, pose like ballerinas, heads
aligned and stripes merging in flowing motion.....Cont
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Tarangire National Park
Day after day of cloudless skies.
The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the
landscape, baking the earth a dusty red, the withered grass as
brittle as straw. The Tarangire River has shrivelled to a shadow of
its wet season self. But it is choked with wildlife. Thirsty nomads
have wandered hundreds of parched kilometres knowing that here,
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Proposed Kitulo National Park
Locals
refer to the Kitulo Plateau as Bustani ya Mungu - The Garden of God
– while botanists have dubbed it the Serengeti of Flowers, host to
‘one of the great floral spectacles of the world’. And Kitulo is
indeed a rare botanical marvel, home to a full 350 species of
vascular plants, including 45 varieties of terrestrial orchid...Cont
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Ruaha National Park
The game
viewing starts the moment the plane touches down. A giraffe races
beside the airstrip, all legs and neck, yet oddly elegant in its
awkwardness. A line of zebras parades across the runway in the
giraffe's..Cont |
Serengeti National Park
A
million wildebeest... each one driven by the same ancient rhythm,
fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a
frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating....Cont
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Lake Manyara National Park
Stretching for 50km along the base of the
rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a
scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the
loveliest I had seen in Africa”..Cont
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Mahale Mountains National Park
Set deep in the heart of the African interior,
inaccessible by road and only 100km (60 miles) south of where
Stanley uttered that immortal greeting “Doctor Livingstone, I
presume"...Cont
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Rubondo Island National Park
A pair
of fish eagles guards the gentle bay, their distinctive black, white
and chestnut feather pattern gleaming boldly in the morning sun.
Suddenly, the birds toss back their heads in a piercing, evocative
duet. On the sandbank below, a well-fed monster of a...Cont
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Udzungwa Mountains National Park
Brooding and primeval, the forests of Udzungwa
seem positively enchanted: a verdant refuge of sunshine-dappled
glades enclosed by 30-metre (100 foot) high trees, their buttresses
layered with fungi, lichens, mosses and ferns...Cont
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