Primate Colobus guereza
Long white capes and a leap that seems to hang in the air. Arusha National Park’s forest is full of them.
Few animals are as elegant as a colobus monkey jumping between trees, white mantle streaming behind it. They eat only leaves, so they stay high in the canopy and rarely come down.
Arusha National Park is the easiest place in Tanzania to see them, often from the road through the forest on the way to the Ngurdoto Crater. The forests of the Usambara Mountains hold them too, alongside blue monkeys.
The montane forest of Arusha National Park and the Usambara Mountains.
Guide’s tipListen for a deep, rolling roar at dawn. That is the males announcing their territory from the treetops.
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.
Montane forest, the Momella Lakes and Hartlaub’s Turaco, just 45 minutes from Arusha.
Quiet island park with forest birds, waterbirds and sitatunga.
Montane forest birding on the slopes of Africa’s highest mountain.
Ancient Eastern Arc forests holding Tanzania’s rarest endemic birds.
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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