Tarangire National Park
User Reviews (347)
Tanzania Parks
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Email Johannes Krieger | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
High concentration of animals in smaller Park. Worth visiting.
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Email Meg | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
By far, our favorite park we went to!
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Email Alain | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Step landscape with many isolated trees, many animals such as monkeys, lions, elephants, zebras, wildebeest, lions, gazel, elk, etc...
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Email Dimitrios Glarakis | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Same as Serengeti. Vast area with spectacular scenery. All wild animals in front of your foot.
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Email Monika Heinrichs | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
we had a most interesting time
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Email Giorgia Gambaro | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
January is not the best time to go to Tarangire
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Email Holly | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
This was an excellent opener to our week on Safari, and we enjoyed the unique animal behaviors we saw, including tree lions, a cheetah, and many others.
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Email Ana | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
The park and the animals were incredible! However I felt that the park is very crowded and the guides/drivers don't receive information or guidelines to keep a respectful distance from the animals. At some point we were 30 cars chasing a group of elephants, and some of these cars blocked their passage, dividing the group of elephants in 2 and making them scream and go through the cars. The security of the cars and those inside wasn't respected either, since the cars were blocking each other. If the elephants attacked, dozens of cars could not leave the area, since the only road was blocked.
It should be mandatory to respect the wildlife!
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Email Emily Randall | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lots of elephants and giraffes here!
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Email Joel | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
A nice safari introduction among the baobabs
We had a fantastic experience on the first day of our safari in Tarangire. In retrospect it didn't compare to Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Manyara, but I still think it was a good safari starting park. Here we spent a long time marveling at seeing our first giraffes, our first elephants, and our first lions, but they definitely aren't present here in quite the numbers as the other parks. A part of this could be because we came in green season in February; Tarangire is much more ideal in the dry season compared to the other parks which are good in all seasons.
That being said, Tarangire did have some things that the other parks didn't have. In terms of scenery, it has a ton of really impressive baobab trees! We saw a whole lion pride walking right past our car (in other parks the prides were sleeping and when we saw lions on the move it was usually just 1-2 of them). We saw ostriches up close while in other parks we only saw them far away. We also saw a lot of vervet monkeys, while in other parks it was usually one at a time. This is the only place we saw hyraxes and the northern red billed hornbill.
Overall, it's worth a visit, I assume especially if you go in the dry season, but it'd be okay to skip it if you're short on time.
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Tanzania: Private tour
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