Udzungwa Mountains National Park is part of Tanzania’s most exceptional, unspoiled paradise and exhilarating wilderness mountains forested with most altitudinal range of forest. The Udzungwa Mountains National Park occupies an area of 1990 sq. km is one of exceptional Eastern Arc Mountains, which occupy approximately 10,000 square kilometers and it rises at an altitude of 250m to 2576m above sea level at the highest peak known as Lohomero.
The park majors in walking safaris and there are identifiable trails that occupy the forests and mountain peaks within the park, and provides different levels of complexity for everyone from novices to practiced trekkers. There is difficulty in passing through the Undzungwa Mountains National Park, for this reason, hikers have the area all to themselves.
The Udzungwa Mountains gives tourists the chance to see various species of primates and dying out birds in a striking African rain forest.
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Serengeti National Park
Serengeti is Tanzania’s foremost and most renowned park and is well-known world over for its incomparable concentrations of wildlife and its huge endless grasslands. “Serengeti” is a Maasai tribe word signifying “endless plains” and refers to an area of 14,763 square km that harbor a variety of ungulates plus the annual wildebeest migration. Over a million wildebeest and zebras move south from the northern hills to the southern plains following the short rains every October and November, and afterwards proceed west and north after the long rains in April, May and June.
The vegetation in the Serengeti is made up of short and long grass plains in the south, the acacia savannah in the middle and the wooded grassland in the west near the Grumeti and Mara rivers.
Serengeti, mostly made up of the endless plains, acacia trees and perched by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and inaccessible Africa and is a habitat to an incredibly large number of wildlife. Animals found there include lions, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs.
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The Mahale Mountains, renowned for its huge chimpanzee numbers that is well related to humans, is positioned in western Tanzania on the spectacular shores of Lake Tanganyika. The forested slopes of the Mahale Mountains are irresistible and the park area of 1,613 square kms (1,005 square miles) stretches to the sandy beaches of Lake Tanganyika. Even if only reached by a light aircraft because of its distant position, the up close detection of the scarce chimpanzees of this park, in their natural homes, is a memorable adventure.
The habitat joins rain forest, grasslands, alpine bamboo and woodland and leaving out the chimps, also inhibits more species of primate, like black and white collobus, red collobus and red-tailed monkeys. You can participate in the following activities, tracking dying out chimpanzees and walking in the forest, swimming in the waterfalls and the lake and drifting on a dhow.
The best moment to tour is between May and October