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LOCATED
in Longido District on the Basin land of the western foothills of Mount
Kilimanjaro, Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (WMA) was established in 2003
with land allocated by nine villages covering an area of 1,282 kilometers.
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The
Small Garden of Eden, home to biggest elephants in East Africa.
LOCATED in Longido District on the Basin land of the western foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (WMA) was established in 2003 with land allocated by nine villages covering an area of 1,282 kilometers.
LOCATED in Longido District on the Basin land of the western foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Enduimet Wildlife Management Area (WMA) was established in 2003 with land allocated by nine villages covering an area of 1,282 kilometers.
The
Enduimet WMA shares its border with Kilimanjaro National Park to the southeast,
Engarusai Open Area to the west and the Kenyan border to the north.
Enduimet
WMA sets a good example of a community based conservation area where local
Maasai pastoralists are benefiting from tourism and conservation initiatives.
The
conserved area occupies the Ol Molog and Tinga Tinga wards in Longido district
in Arusha region and is occupied wholly by Maasai pastoral communities. Its
operation office is located at Ol Molog ward in on the closer slopes of Mount
Kilimanjaro.
Engasurai
Open Area is the main attractive geographical feature within Enduimet WMA where
animals frequently move to in search for water and hunting ground for
predators.
Photographic
safaris are the most and well established tourist activity in Enduimet and
where tourists from various parts of the world flock to view wild animals. The
Kitendeni Corridor is located within the WMA and is a migration route for
animals roving between Tsavo West, Mkomazi, Kilimanjaro and Amboseli National
parks in Tanzania and Kenya.
Enduimet WMA is divided into three zones of Olkunonoi-Kitendeni
Wildlife Corridor Zone, the Engasurai Tourist Hunting Zone and the Sinya Photographic Safari Zone. It comprises as well, the northern portion of the larger Kitendeni Wildlife Corridor, which is critical to the survival of both Kilimanjaro and Amboseli National Parks. The corridor serves as an important seasonal migration route and dispersal area for wildebeest, zebras and elephants moving between the two national parks.
Enduimet WMA is divided into three zones of Olkunonoi-Kitendeni
Wildlife Corridor Zone, the Engasurai Tourist Hunting Zone and the Sinya Photographic Safari Zone. It comprises as well, the northern portion of the larger Kitendeni Wildlife Corridor, which is critical to the survival of both Kilimanjaro and Amboseli National Parks. The corridor serves as an important seasonal migration route and dispersal area for wildebeest, zebras and elephants moving between the two national parks.
The
Zones are currently running photographic safaris since no tourist hunting
taking place in the whole of Enduimet WMA’s conserved land. With a purpose to
conserve Enduimet WMA as a part of the Kilimanjaro and Amboseli ecosystem, no
trophy hunting business taking place in this area.
The conserved Area has a very unique and extensive plains ecosystem that is home to an abundance of wildlife and is the only WMA that protects a transboundary corridor between Kilimanjaro and Amboseli National Parks.
The conserved Area has a very unique and extensive plains ecosystem that is home to an abundance of wildlife and is the only WMA that protects a transboundary corridor between Kilimanjaro and Amboseli National Parks.
Ecologically,
the WMA provides connectivity between the Mkomazi, Arusha, Amboseli and
Kilimanjaro National Parks and the Greater Tsavo Ecosystem in Kenya.
Enduiment
Wildlife Management is endowed with numerous tourist attractions.
Wildlife including giraffes, Thomson gazelles, zebras, and wildebeest, some
concentrated at Engasurai plain and which looks like Ngorongoro Crater,
commonly referred as “The Small Garden of Eden”.
Elephants,
Oryx, Zebras, Giraffes, Lions, Buffaloes, Leopards, Elands, Wildebeests, Hyenas
and other African big mammals can easily been seen in the WMA and Sinya, a
private concession of about 600 square km, bordering Kenya in Amboseli National
Park, offering spectacular landscapes with magnificent views of Kilimanjaro,
Mount Meru, Ol Doinyo Longido and Ol Doinyo Orok. Enduimet is a home to
biggest elephants in East Africa.
Other
tourist attractions including the “Seven Hill Sisters”: These are small hills
located within the Enduimet WMA, each with different heights, but standing together,
looking like sisters from one parent, born at different dates.
Cultural
Tourism is another tourist activity in Enduimet WMA. Maasai Bomas provide
cultural entertainment through traditional Maasai songs and ways of life among
the Maasai communities like meat roasting (Nyama Choma), milking cows and
folklores. Tourist walking safaris and bush camping safaris can be arranged as
well.
Tourist
accommodation and recreational services are offered at different lodges and
camps established inside Enduimet WMA. These are Elerai Tented Lodge, Shuma’ta
Camp, Tembo Camp and Chui Campsite.
Best
time to visit Enduimet WMA is in November when the entire area is full green,
but visitors can book and visit there all the year round. Foreign
visitors are charged dollars 10 (US$ 10) as fees to enter and spend a day
inside the WMA. Local tourists are charged Sh. 1,000 per day for adults and Sh
500 for children.
Access to Enduimet WMA is easy and possible all the year, except during rainy seasons when some roads and tourist tracks inside the WMA are not passable.
Enduimet
WMA is connected by a rough road from Longido District Headquarters. The
distance from Arusha City to Longido District Headquarters is 77 kilometers;
while from Longido to Enduimet WMA gate is 25 kilometers.
From
Enduimet to Arusha via Sanya Juu and Bomang’ombe is 120 kilometers and takes up
to 3 hours by bus or a car. Tourists travelling from Arusha, Nairobi and Moshi
could either use this road to connect from the Arusha to Nairobi highway.
The WMA can also be reached using a gravel road from Bomang’ombe through Sanya Juu and Engare Nairobi or the rough road from Arusha to Namanga road through Longido village to Sinya, Ngereiyani and Tingatinga.
Going there by a passenger bus, a visitor can board a mini-bus from Arusha to
Bomang’ombe, then Bomang’ombe to Sanya Juu then and Ol Molog where the WMA’s
operations office is located.
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