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User Reviews of Ruaha National Park (66 Reviews)

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Male avatar icon Allan United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: July 2026 Reviewed: Jul 22, 2026

Email Allan  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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This park is surrounded by miles of bush, giving the whole area a more authentic feel. It's a big park with fewer tourists than in somewhere like Serengeti but the price you pay for this is fewer views of the more interesting wildlife.

Male avatar icon Paul Warren Malta flag MT       Visited: April 2025 Reviewed: May 16, 2025

Email Paul Warren  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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Seventh safari. Best after Masai Mara.

Male avatar icon N Nagaraj United States flag US       Visited: November 2023 Reviewed: Dec 13, 2023

Email N Nagaraj  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Great experience !

Male avatar icon Dr Douglas Ansley United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: September 2022 Reviewed: Nov 5, 2022

Email Dr Douglas Ansley  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Even better than Nyerere but no more stars available!

Male avatar icon Edeus Tanzania flag TZ       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Oct 21, 2019

Email Edeus  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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We enjoyed seeing most of the big five. But we enjoyed most the hippos in a pool

Female avatar icon Gai Wright Australia flag AU       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Sep 7, 2019

Email Gai Wright  |  65+ years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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Ruaha is spectacular but game is sparse.

Male avatar icon Mr. Algwaiz Saudi Arabia flag SA       Visited: August 2019 Reviewed: Sep 7, 2019

Email Mr. Algwaiz  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Ruaha had more Animals.But, it dose not compare with Serengeti.

Male avatar icon Markus Stephan Germany flag DE       Visited: July 2019 Reviewed: Aug 1, 2019

Email Markus Stephan  |  20-35 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

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Ruaha NP is very big and it changes his look. Mountains, grass, trees and ... , you get every scene you have in your mind how a NP can Look like.
Amazing nature with great count of animals!
Defently a Tessin to come back to Tansania!

Female avatar icon Sam Nicholls United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: January 2019 Reviewed: Mar 16, 2019

Email Sam Nicholls  |  50-65 years of age  |  Experience level: over 5 safaris

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Excellent birding in a beautiful National Park with very varied scenery.
Wonderful wildlife, particularly of large numbers of elephants. We had 2 very good leopard sightings and numerous other mammals. Lions were heard but not seen other than in the far distance.

Female avatar icon nordiclady United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: July 2018 Reviewed: Nov 14, 2018

Email nordiclady  |  35-50 years of age  |  Experience level: 2-5 safaris

Great safari with a wealth of animals to see, especially elephants, giraffes and buffalos.

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Ruaha National park is a beautiful park, full of scenery and stunning views even without animals. Plenty of baobap trees and other trees and bushes to see.
The weather was good, warm and mainly sunny which is nice on a jeep where you can pop open the roof. Our accommodation was in Bandas. They are stunning and had really nice beds but unfortunately our bathroom first had a broken shower and later on also a broken toilet. This got fixed but the shower never worked well. Despite that we had a good stay and heard lions roaring nearby during the night.
Dinner and breakfast was nearby but we went on an early morning safari before breakfast which was great as we saw a python.
Our guide was fab, very knowledgable and he showed us a lot of stuff, picked up baobap fruit, elephant poo etc and explained everything so well.
A great safari with lots of animals to see.
You can see my photos here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/24817323@N06/albums/72157695410485532