Tarangire National Park

amazing for birds and elephants!

less animals then serengetti .. so if you are doing northern circuit serengetti is a better option .. but here huge herds of elephants ( we spotted a group of about 40) are spotted which i doubt is spotted anywhere else.. giraffes leopards can also be seen .. it can be a prelude to serengetti and ngorongoro but ceratinly not worth after it

When we were there, the flies were worse than anywhere else on the Safari. We have lots of bugs back home in Canada, but because we had not experienced this before, it threw us off a bit. Otherwise, it was a beautiful place to see wildlife, especially the elephants.

Close to Arusha and we were lucky to see leopard here though many of the plains animals had left the park for the season

Elephants paradise

It was the first of 8 parks we visited in Africa, and also the first Safari we've done. We didn't know what to expect, but we knew that we weren't going to find any lions or rinohs. As we were newbies we found really exciting meeting a lot of monkeys from a really short range, then we came across diferent groups of hervibors such as Impalas, Topis and some other horned ones. But the best thing of this park are by far the Elephants. We got to see a lot of diferent groups, playing in the small rivers, walking from the water to the shadows of the baobabs, they don't seem to care about the few vehicles in the roads, they were walking just beside us, it was really beatifull.

Ah, watch out with the tsetse fly, they bite quite hard.

Not too bad. But average when compared with Serengeti and Ngorungoru.

I know that I did visit but cannot rember anything with real clarity or detail. This probably reflects the fact that it was the last stop on a long and exhausting itinerary with me as the only driver on a 2,000 mile trip.

This is usually thrown in as a package for ngorongoro- manyara- Tarangire, quick safari that can be done in a day! I wouldnt do it alone!

More of a stopover than a destination.

Had to rush through, got bitten by Tse Tses (tzetze); late in the afternoon; not much wildlife.