Tarangire is a good sized national park located just to the south of lake Manyara in northern Tanzania, often visited in combination with Serengeti and Ngorongoro.
The main highlight is elephant, which mass here in enormous numbers during the dry season June to December. General game is also good, although predators tend to be quite difficult to find.
During the green season January to May, the park is beautiful, still has reasonable levels of game and very low visitor numbers, making for a very accessible yet apparently remote safari experience.
The park contains some of the best top-end camps in the region, the best of which is probably Oliver's Camp, particularly well known for its walking safari. In a similar price bracket is the pleasantly simple Lemala Tarangire Camp and the more conventionally comfortable Swala Camp.
But our most commonly used option here is the considerably lower cost Mawe Ninga Camp, intimate, simple and in a spectacular hilltop setting in the heart of the reserve.
The main highlight is elephant, which mass here in enormous numbers during the dry season June to December. General game is also good, although predators tend to be quite difficult to find.
During the green season January to May, the park is beautiful, still has reasonable levels of game and very low visitor numbers, making for a very accessible yet apparently remote safari experience.
The park contains some of the best top-end camps in the region, the best of which is probably Oliver's Camp, particularly well known for its walking safari. In a similar price bracket is the pleasantly simple Lemala Tarangire Camp and the more conventionally comfortable Swala Camp.
But our most commonly used option here is the considerably lower cost Mawe Ninga Camp, intimate, simple and in a spectacular hilltop setting in the heart of the reserve.
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