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Why Visit Tarangire National Park

• High Concentration (Numbers) Of Animal And Bird Life.
Tarangire National Park has the highest number of elephants in the whole of the northern Tanzania parks, exceeding Lake Manyara and Serengeti. There have also been a 550 bird species recorded in the Tarangire National Park, making a sure pleaser for any bird lover. The park displays a diverse number of wildlife namely: elephant, lesser and great kudu, African buffalo, cheetah, fringe-eared Oryx, leopard, lion, Maasai giraffe, spotted hyena, common zebra, white-bearded wildebeest, warthog, eland, olive baboon, bat-eared fox, impala, common waterbuck, bushbuck, coke's hartebeest, gerenuk, and bohor reedbuck.

• Superb Landscape and Vegetation.
The landscape and vegetation at Tarangire combines a mix not found in Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater or Serengeti, common parks visited on the northern safari circuit in Tanzania, making it a worthwhile visit to experience something totally different.

• Excellent Accommodation Experiences.
Whether you want to sit from your chair on the tent deck to perform wildlife behavioral game viewing or from the elevated levels in a Baobab tree house, Tarangire delivers this superb experience like no other park on a northern Tanzania safari circuit.

• Eco-Tourism Approach.
Experience a personal touch with some of the owners of the land where wild animals run free. Let the owners of the land welcome you and take pride in being your porters, servers, night guardsmen as well as your entertainers. Stay at Kikoti Camp and experience this unrivalled magic.

• Multiple Adventure Activities.
An adventure seeker to the Tarangire can select three different activities in one single ecosystem: game driving which enables you track more biodiversity to add to your checklist, walking safaris that come close to nature as much as possible and night game driving to see animals not see during the day

BIRDS
The bird life is very varied with over 350 species having been recorded in the park. Many Eurasian migrants can be seen between October and April, which is the best time for bird viewing. Ostrich, various types of stork (white, abdims, saddle bill, open bill, marabou, yellow billed.) ibis (sacred-glossy) heron, (green backed, squacco, grey black headed, goliath, purple) are among the larger birds to be found here. In the park also a wide variety of birds of prey including types of kites, kestrels, harriers, buzzards, and eagles, along with a few species of vultures. Various species of kingfishers, (giant, pied, malachite, pygmy, striped, grey headed,) bee eaters (European, white-throated, little.) rollers, (European, lilac breasted, rufous-crowned, broad-billed) along with various species of hoopoes, hornbills, cuckoos, woodpeckers, shrikes, weavers, flycatchers, and sunbirds, are some of the many other birds that can be seen here.

Wildlife in the Park
Tarangire is perhaps best known for its large herds of elephants. The park is home to around 2500 elephants and herds of more than 200 have been viewed from the lodge veranda. With its varied habitats and permanent water in the Tarangire River the park is home to a large diversity of wildlife; 94 species of mammals, and over 500 bird species have been recorded in Tarangire.