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Locals
refer to the Kitulo Plateau as Bustani ya Mungu – The Garden of God – whereas
botanists have dubbed it the Serengeti of Flowers, host to ‘one of the great
floral spectacles of the world’.
Kitulo
is indeed a rare botanical marvel, home to a full 350 species of vascular
plants, including 45 varieties of terrestrial orchids, which erupt into a
riotous wildflower display of breathtaking scale and diversity during the main
rainy season of late November to April.
Perched
at around 2,600 metres (8,500 ft) between the rugged peaks of the Kipengere,
Poroto and Livingstone Mountains, the well-watered volcanic soils of Kitulo
support the largest and the most important montane grassland community in
Tanzania.
Having
its unique flower species remained wild, with birds singing and migrating to
the highland forests, Kitulo Plateau National Park is latest and a new comer to
Tanzania’s tourist attractive sites.
Bustani
ya Mungu (God’s Garden) is the visitors name given to this new park, the only
of its kind in Africa where wild flowers, birds and harmonious grass eating
mammals are dominating.
Kitulo
Plateau is perched between the rugged peaks of the Kipengere, Livingstone and
Poroto Mountains in Southern Highlands of Tanzania. It is the site of one of
the world’s great floral spectacles.
The
eminently hike-able park is carpeted in wildflowers for six months of the year,
from November to April. There is a documented 350 species of wild flowers
including lilies and fields of daisies.
Although
sparse in big game, this natural botanical garden is highly alluring to bird
watchers who thrill to sightings of rare Denham’s bustard, the endangered blue
swallow, mountain marsh widow, Njombe cisticola and Kipengere seedeater.
Endemic
species of butterfly, chameleon, lizard and frog further enhance the biological
wealth of God’s Garden. Unique and the only of its kind in Africa for natural
orchids and birds, this park has been gazette last year set for tourists.
Kitulo
National Park stands alone, boasting of being the only tourist attractive site
in the continent offering floristic visits than the traditional wildlife
photographic holidays which most tourists to Tanzania are used to experience.
Tourists from all corners of the world are now exposed to this park, and are
expected to book their itineraries to this new park.
There
are about 400 plant species, most of them are wild flowers and other such
attractive, natural plants, which no doubt at all, will attract visitors to go
there. Recorded 45 endemic orchid species are found only in the park than any
other part of the world.
The
park covers 413 kilometers of forest-land, dominated with plants and few wild
animals which together form a natural habitat that is tourist attractive by
itself. The park’s scenery is as comparable to the Biblical Garden of Eden, as
most visitors there say.
Added
to its natural attractions and uniqueness, Kitulo Plateau is the natural
resting site for intercontinental migrating birds during periods of the year on
their way to Europe.
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