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Ruaha National Park

“Tourists’ Dream of AFRICA”

Ruaha National Park is the second wildlife protection area in Africa. Ruaha is the Tanzania’s biggest elephant sanctuary.  The awesome scenery of Ruaha National Park consists of rolling plains interrupted by gentle hills and smooth rocky outcrops, all framed by mighty baobabs. All five great predators, both species of kudu, antelope and both horse like antelopes are part of the widely diverse fauna of Ruaha ecosystem. Rauha has become a tourist’s dream of Africa as nowhere else you can find an astonishing concentration of wildlife within one river basin around the shrinking water courses. Eurasian migrants flock to Ruaha twice a year.

The game viewing starts the moment the plane touches down. Ruaha giraffe races beside the airstrip, all legs and neck, yet oddly elegant in its awkwardness. A line of Ruaha zebras parades across the runway in the giraffe’s wake.

In the distance, beneath a bulbous baobab tree, a few representatives of Ruaha’s 10,000 elephants – the largest population of any East African national park, form a protective huddle around their young.

Ruaha National Park is Second only to Katavi in its aura of untrammelled wilderness, but far more accessible, Ruaha protects a vast tract of the rugged, semi-arid bush country that characterises central Tanzania. Its lifeblood is the Great Ruaha River, which courses along the eastern boundary in a flooded torrent during the height of the rains, but dwindling thereafter to a scattering of precious pools surrounded by a blinding sweep of sand and rock.

A fine network of game-viewing roads follows the Great Ruaha and its seasonal tributaries, where , during the dry season, impala, waterbuck and other antelopes risk their life for a sip of life-sustaining water. And the risk is considerable: not only from the prides of 20-plus lion that lord over the savannah, but also from the cheetahs that stalk the open grassland and the leopards that lurk in tangled riverine thickets. This impressive array of large predators is boosted by both striped and spotted hyena, as well as several conspicuous packs of the highly endangered African wild dog.

Ruaha’s unusually high diversity of antelope is a function of its location, which is transitional to the acacia savannah of East Africa and the miombo woodland belt of Southern Africa. Grant’s gazelle and lesser kudu occur here at the very south of their range, alongside the miombo-associated sable and roan antelope, and one of East AfricaÆs largest populations of greater kudu, the park emblem, distinguished by the male’s magnificent corkscrew horns.

A similar duality is noted in the checklist of 450 birds: the likes of crested barbet, an attractive yellow-and-black bird whose persistent trilling is a characteristic sound of the southern bush, occur in Ruaha alongside central Tanzanian endemics such as the yellow-collared lovebird and ashy starling.

About Ruaha National Park
Size:

10,300 sq km (3,980 sq miles), Tanzania’s 2nd biggest park.

Location:

Central Tanzania, 128km (80 miles) west of Iringa.

Getting there
By Air: Scheduled charter flights from Dar es Salaam, Selous, Serengeti, Arusha, Iringa and Mbeya.
By Road: Year-round road access through Iringa from Dar es Salaam (about 10 hours) via Mikumi or from Arusha via Dodoma.

What to do

  • Day walks or hiking safaris through untouched bush with aguide
  • Game drives – around Msembe though it’s a sparse in the parts of the park

Why and when to visit

  • Stone age ruins at Isimila, near Iringa, 120 km (75 miles) away, one of Africa’s most important historical sites .
  • For predators and large mammals, dry season (mid-May-December);
  • Bird-watching, lush scenery and wildflowers, wet season (January-April).
  • The male greater kudu is most visible in June, the breeding season.

AccommodationLodges just outside the park;

  • Three dry season tented camps;
  • Self-catering bandas, two campsites;

 

 

 

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