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Tarangire
National Park has some of the highest population density of elephants as
compared to anywhere in Tanzania, and its sparse vegetation, strewn with baobab
and acacia trees, makes it a beautiful and distinctive location to visit.
Located
just a few hours’ drive from the town of Arusha, Tarangire is a popular stop
for people travelling through the northern safari circuit on their way to
Ngorongoro and the Serengeti. The park extends into two game controlled areas
and the wildlife is allowed to move freely throughout.
Before
the rains, droves of gazelles, wildebeests, zebras, and giraffes migrate to
Tarangire National Park’s scrub plains where the last grazing land still
remains. Tarangire offers an unparalleled game viewing, and during the dry
season elephants abound. Families of the pachyderms play around the ancient
trunks of baobab trees and strip acacia bark from the thorn trees for their
afternoon meal. Breathtaking views of the Maasai Steppe and the mountains in
the south make a stopover at Tarangire a memorable experience.
Herds
of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while
migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland
crowd the shrinking lagoons. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife
outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one
place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx
and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.
During
the rainy season, the seasonal visitors scatter over a 20,000 sq km (12,500 sq
miles) range until they exhaust the green plains and the river calls once more.
But Tarangire’s mobs of elephant are easily encountered, wet or dry. The
swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the most
breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world.
On
drier ground you find the Kori bustard, the heaviest flying bird; the
stocking-thighed ostrich, the world’s largest bird; and small parties of ground
hornbills blustering like turkeys.
More
ardent bird-lovers might keep an eye open for screeching flocks of the
dazzlingly colorful yellow-collared lovebird, and the somewhat drabber
rufous-tailed weaver and ashy starling – all endemic to the dry savannah of
north-central Tanzania.
Disused
termite mounds are often frequented by colonies of the endearing dwarf
mongoose, and pairs of red-and-yellow barbet, which draw attention to
themselves by their loud, clockwork-like duetting.
Tarangire’s
pythons climb trees, as do its lions and leopards, lounging in the branches
where the fruit of the sausage tree disguises the twitch of a tail.
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