Showing posts with label Tanzania safari. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tanzania safari. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Tarangire National Park in Tanzania: Tarangire Safari, Tarangire Sopa Lodge

Tarangire National Park in Tanzania:

For quite a while of cloudless skies, the savage sun sucks the dampness from the scene, preparing the earth a dusty red, the shriveled grass as fragile as straw. The Tarangire River has wilted to a sorry excuse for its wet season self. In any case, it is stifled with natural life. Parched migrants have meandered many dried kilometers realizing that here, there is dependably water. Groups of up to 300 Elephants scratch the dry waterway bed for underground streams while transient wildebeest, Zebra, Buffalo, Gazelle, Hartebeest, Eland and Oryx swarm the contracting tidal ponds. It's a buffet for Predators – the best grouping of untamed life outside the Serengeti environment.

The downpour dissipate the occasional guests over a 20,000 square kilometer extent until they debilitate the green fields and the stream calls yet again. In any case, Tarangire's swarms of Elephant are effortlessly experienced, wet or dry. The bogs, tinged green year round, are the center for 550 feathered creature assortments, the most reproducing species in one territory anyplace on the planet. On drier ground you discover Kori bustards, the heaviest flying winged creature; the stocking thighed ostrich, the world's biggest fowl; and ground hornbills that rant like turkeys. Tarangire's pythons climb trees, as do its Lions and Leopards, relaxing in the branches where the product of the frankfurter trees camouflages the jerk of a tail.

Size 2600 sq km (around 1600 sq miles)
Area 118 kms southwest of Arusha Town.

Captivating beauty at Tarangire National Park
Arriving
Simple drive from Arusha or Lake Manyara; can proceed to Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. No Schedule flights, yet can orchestrate Charter flights from Arusha and the Serengeti.

Tarangire National Park distances:
Tarangire National Park to Lake Manyara 95km
Tarangire to Namanga Boarder 235km
Arusha Town to Tarangire National Park 130km
Tarangire to Ngorongoro Crater 185km
Tarangire to Ndutu 245km
Tarangire to Olduvai Gorge 245km
Tarangire to Serengeti Western Corridor 380km
Tarangire to Serengeti National Park 325km

What To Do Guided strolling safaris; day outing to the Barabaig tribe's antiquated Kolo rock artworks, Game review, Best place to see Elephants.

Best Time
Year round however dry season (June - Feb) for sheer quantities of Animals.

Swala Luxury Tented Camp - 5 Star
Tarangire Sopa Lodge – 4 Star
Tarangire Tented Safari Camp - 4 Star
Luxury  Mobile Tented Camp
Different Budget Camping locales.

Tarangire National Park for safari, outdoors, winged creatures watching, amusement drive in Tarangire National Park

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, East Africa Safari: Ngorongoro Safari


Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, East Africa Safari:
Size: 8292 sq Kms ( 3239 sq miles).
Location: 190Kms West of Arusha it is 4 hours drive or 1 hour Charter flight. From lake Manyara is 60 Kms just a 2 hours drive.bounded by Lake Eyasi in the southwest and the Gol-Mountains in the north.

The famous Ngorongoro Crater is among the world’s natural wonders, the Ngorongoro Crater is located in the Great Rift Valley gigantic fracture of the earth’s Crust.Volcanoes, mountains, plains, lake, forest and Archaeological sites from this magnificent land escape.

At 2,286 Mts above sea level, is the largest unbroken caldera in the world. Surrounded by very steep walls rising 610 meters from the crater floor, it cover an area of about 260sq km(100sq miles), and is home to up 30,000 animals in an area naturally enclosed by the slopes of the volcano it is the eighth wonder of the world.

Olduvai Gorge: The earliest signs of mankind in the conservation area are at La-etoli, where hominid footprints have been preserved in volcanic rock for the past 3,600,000 years. The story continues at oldupai (Olduvai) Gorge, a river Canyon cut 100mts deep through the volcanic soil of the Serengeti Plains.(Located within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, it is 180 km from Arusha.)

Activities:
A trip to the Olduvai Gorge (visit the paleontology museum) where the Australopithecus Boise’s skeleton was discovered. A walking Safari to Maasai Country with donkeys.

Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania safari, East Africa Safari: Ngorongoro Safari, Ngorongoro Lodge safari, Ngorongoro Camping, Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area with Mount Kenya Climbing Expeditions.com