Discover the most beautiful national parks of Tanzania! You'll of course find well-known parks like the Serengeti and Ngorongoro, but also lesser-known parks like Burigi-Chato National Park and Mikumi National Park. We're happy to help you plan a safari or tour in Tanzania and build a custom itinerary around the parks you want to explore.
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Nyerere National Park (formerly Selous Game Reserve) is one of the largest protected wilderness areas in Africa, on the banks of the Rufiji River in southern Tanzania.
View National ParkRuaha National Park is Tanzania's largest national park, known for large elephant herds and one of the country's healthiest lion populations, with far less vehicle traffic than the Northern Circuit.
View National ParkLake Nakuru National Park in Kenya is known for rhino sightings and, seasonally, large flocks of flamingos along the lake shore.
View National ParkThe Serengeti is Tanzania's most famous national park — its name comes from the Maasai word "siringet," meaning endless plains. Each year, over 1.5 million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra move in a conti...
View National ParkNgorongoro Crater is the world's largest inactive, intact volcanic caldera — a natural amphitheater roughly 260 square kilometers across, ringed by walls up to 600 meters high. Inside, an estimated 25,000 large animal...
View National ParkTarangire National Park is known for its towering baobab trees and some of the largest elephant herds in Tanzania — groups of several hundred aren't unusual during the dry season, when wildlife concentrates along the ...
View National ParkLake Manyara National Park sits beneath the dramatic wall of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, with a landscape that shifts from groundwater forest to open grassland to the alkaline lake itself. It's best known for it...
View National ParkAt 5,895 meters, Mount Kilimanjaro's Uhuru Peak is the highest point in Africa and the world's tallest free-standing mountain — meaning it isn't part of a mountain range. No technical climbing skills are required on a...
View National ParkZanzibar is a semi-autonomous archipelago off Tanzania's coast in the Indian Ocean, long known as the "Spice Island" for its clove, nutmeg, and cinnamon plantations. Stone Town, its historic capital, is a UNESCO World...
View National ParkBurigi-Chato National Park was officially gazetted in 2019, formed from the Burigi and Biharamulo game reserves near Lake Victoria, close to the Rwandan border. At roughly 4,707 square kilometers, it's Tanzania's fift...
View National ParkUganda is home to roughly half of the world's remaining mountain gorilla population, most trekked from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park or Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in the country's southwest. Trekking involves ...
View National ParkMikumi National Park is part of a larger ecosystem connected to Nyerere National Park (formerly the Selous Game Reserve), and its open Mkata floodplain is often compared to the Serengeti for its wide grass plains and ...
View National ParkThe Masai Mara National Reserve sits just across the border in Kenya, forming a single connected ecosystem with the Serengeti. It's the stage for the most dramatic chapter of the Great Migration — the Mara River cross...
View National ParkRwanda has earned a reputation as one of Africa's best-run and most scenic countries, nicknamed the "Land of a Thousand Hills" for its dramatic, terraced landscape. Volcanoes National Park, home to mountain gorillas a...
View National ParkLake Eyasi, at the base of the Great Rift Valley near Ngorongoro, is home to the Hadzabe (Hadza) people — one of the last true hunter-gatherer communities in Africa, whose language uses distinctive click consonants an...
View National ParkMateruni is a Chagga village on the lower slopes of Kilimanjaro, best known for a roughly 90-meter waterfall reached via a short guided hike through farmland and forest. Most visits combine the waterfall walk with a s...
View National ParkGombe Stream National Park, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania, is where Jane Goodall began her pioneering chimpanzee research in 1960 — work that reshaped how science understands the relationship bet...
View National ParkArusha National Park sits in the shadow of Mount Meru, Tanzania's second-highest peak, and packs a striking variety of landscapes into a relatively small area — montane forest, the alkaline Momella Lakes, and open gra...
View National ParkWith its 4566m, Mount Meru is the fifth highest mountain on the African continent and the second highest in Tanzania. About 250,000 years ago, a massive volcanic explosion wiped out the entire eastern flank of the mou...
View National ParkThe Grumeti River cuts through the Serengeti's western corridor, and if you've only heard of one river crossing in the Great Migration story, it's probably not this one — most of the attention goes to the Mara River f...
View National ParkThe Maasai Mara is the Kenyan half of the same ecosystem as Tanzania's Serengeti — the same wildebeest herds, the same predators following them, just on the other side of an international border that the animals thems...
View National ParkIf you've ever watched a wildlife documentary about the Great Migration, the footage that stayed with you afterward was almost certainly filmed here. The Mara River is the crossing point every migration story eventual...
View National ParkNdutu doesn't appear on most people's list of Tanzania's famous parks — technically, it sits inside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area rather than the Serengeti itself — but for a few weeks each year, it hosts one of th...
View National ParkMost of a Tanzania safari is built around wildlife, so Olduvai Gorge stands out as something genuinely different — a 48-kilometer ravine that happens to be one of the most significant archaeological sites on the plane...
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