Tree Adansonia digitata
The upside-down tree, some over a thousand years old. Tarangire and Ruaha are the great baobab landscapes of Tanzania.
No tree says Tanzania like the baobab. It stores water in its swollen trunk, which is why elephants gouge the bark in the dry season, and why some trunks are hollow enough to shelter a small herd.
Tarangire is the baobab park of the north, with ancient trees standing above the river. Ruaha has even more, scattered across the hills, and hornbills, rollers and owls all nest in them.
Throughout Tarangire and Ruaha; look for elephant damage on the trunks.
Guide’s tipBaobabs flower at night and are pollinated by bats. Look for the big white flowers on the ground in the morning.
Sightings are never guaranteed: these are wild animals in wild places. What we can promise is a guide who knows where to look.
Destinations
The parks and reserves where our guides look for it, each with its own best season and safaris.
Seasonal soda lake with flamingos, waterbirds and quiet dry bush.
Huge elephant herds, ancient baobabs and Tanzania’s endemic birds.
Tanzania’s largest park: big predators, baobab plains and 570+ bird species.
Keep exploring
Loxodonta africana
Tarangire’s big herds are the classic sight: families drifting between baobabs to the river in the dry season.
Panthera leo
The Serengeti holds one of the largest lion populations left in Africa. Prides of twenty are not unusual.
Panthera pardus
Secretive and beautiful. The Seronera valley’s sausage trees are the best place in Africa to find one by day.
Acinonyx jubatus
Built for the short grass plains. Watch one scan from a termite mound in the southern Serengeti.
Diceros bicornis
Critically endangered and closely guarded. The Ngorongoro Crater is the most reliable place in Tanzania to see one.
Syncerus caffer
The Big Five’s heavyweight. Herds of several hundred are a daily sight in Arusha National Park and the crater.
Giraffa tippelskirchi
Tanzania’s national animal, with jagged star-shaped patches. Common almost everywhere except inside the crater.
Equus quagga
The migration’s other half. Hundreds of thousands of zebra move with the wildebeest across the Serengeti.
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