Game Viewing
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The main event on any safari, game drives, are particularly good in Tanzania in our opinion, due to the large and diverse numbers of animals and birds and the relatively small number of fellow tourists (if you pick the right area to visit). Many, although not all, of the lodges use open sided 4x4 vehicles with seating for either six or nine people, which means everyone gets great uninterrupted views of the scenery and wildlife.
Game drives are the main activity at most lodges in Tanzania, and you will normally do two per day at these lodges. The first sets out just after dawn and lasts for three and a half to four hours, arriving back at the lodge in time for lunch. Your second drive will typically set off an hour or two before sunset, although most are required to be back before sundown, ruling out the opportunity for Night Drives.
Game drives may be the main activity on safari and you will often spend more time on these than doing anything else but they are also THE reason most people go on safari, and with good reason - the thrill of your first lion or wild dog sighting is not to be underestimated!
Arusha National Park is perhaps best known for being the nearest location to both Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.
Tanzania's 'best kept secret', the remote and unspoilt Katavi National Park is a veritable throwback to nineteenth century Africa.
Lake Manyara National Park’s most famous attraction just has to be its remarkable and legendary tree-climbing lions.
Mahale Mountains National Park is widely regarded as one of the best places in Africa in which to observe the chimpanzee in its natural habitat
An interesting small game park, lying close to the mighty Selous Game Reserve, bizarrely bisected by the mighty Tanzam highway.
The largest intact caldera in the world, the Ngorongoro Crater is one of the few areas in Africa where the ‘Big Five’ can all be seen together.
One of the least well known National Parks in Tanzania, Ruaha is also one of its finest, with breathtaking scenery and an exceptionally high density of game.
One of Tanzania’s newest National Parks, Saadani offers the unique opportunity to combine game viewing with lazing on a superb beach
Tanzania's and Africa's largest game reserve. And, being a game reserve, rather than a National Park, with many fewer restrictions on activities.
The Serengeti is Tanzania’s oldest game park, famed for its wildebeest migration, and is known as "the place where the land moves on forever"
Probably the best place in Tanzania to view elephants, not to mention tree-climbing lions and black rhino.
