Tarangire National Park, Tanzania: A Comprehensive Guide

A Comprehensive Guide to Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. Tarangire national park is one of the most famous national parks on the northern circuit in Tanzania. It is noted for its big herds of enormous elephants and its huge, ancient baobab trees. In fact Tarangire boasts some of the largest elephants in the world.

Tarangire National Park is commonly combined with Serengeti or Ngorongoro. Tarangire, in contrast, is relatively near Arusha and is also the only national park in the region where you may find a wide range of animals, including numerous predators. That also makes Tarangire the perfect national park for a daytrip.

It is also a very large national park, covering around 2,850 square kilometres (1,100 square miles). The park is named after the long serving river that runs across the park in the middle called the ‘Tarangire River’. The river is the main source of water for the park’s fauna and this is one of the reasons for the park’s diversified environment.

You may see good quantities of wildebeest and zebra in the park as well as giraffe, buffalo, Thompson’s gazelle, greater and lesser kudu, eland, leopard and cheetah. It is the only area in Tanzania where oryx and gerenuk are routinely observed

Tarangire is also home to about 500 kinds of birds. Among them, the most notable are the yellow-collared lovebirds, the Kori bustard, the stocking-thighed ostrich, and the shy starlings, which are abundant and ubiquitous in Tanzania.