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Tanzania Safaris

Follow Tanzania's northern grasslands, southern river and forest country, or the remote western route through Katavi and the chimpanzee forests of Lake Tanganyika.

Explore Tanzania through the map See the parks, gateway towns, and Safari Circuits that shape travel through Tanzania.

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Parks and wild places

Explore each park with its gateway town, nearby geography, wildlife, seasonality, and access information close at hand.

Safari Place Gombe Stream National Park Gombe is a small, steep forest park on Lake Tanganyika, reached only by boat and explored on foot with park guides. Gateway: Kigoma
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Safari Place Katavi National Park Katavi is the large-game wilderness anchor of western Tanzania, with seasonal lakes and floodplains organized around the Katuma River system. Gateway: Mpanda
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Safari Place Lake Manyara National Park Lake Manyara is the water-and-forest counterpoint in the Northern Tanzania Circuit, entered near Mto wa Mbu below the Rift escarpment. Gateway: Arusha
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Safari Place Mahale Mountains National Park Mahale brings forested mountains, Lake Tanganyika, and wild chimpanzees together in a park reached primarily by air and boat. Gateway: Kigoma
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Safari Place Mikumi National Park Mikumi's accessible northern visitor area opens onto the Mkata floodplain, framed by the Uluguru, Rubeho, and Udzungwa ranges. Gateway: Dar es Salaam
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Safari Place Ngorongoro Conservation Area A highland conservation landscape where crater ecology, Maasai pastoral life, migration, and deep human history occupy the same map. Gateway: Arusha
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Safari Place Nyerere National Park Nyerere's accessible northern sector follows the Rufiji River through floodplains, oxbow lakes, palm-fringed water, savanna, and woodland. Gateway: Dar es Salaam
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Safari Place Ruaha National Park Ruaha is the Circuit's remote inland culmination, centered for many visitors on Msembe and the Great Ruaha River. Gateway: Iringa
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Safari Place Serengeti National Park A vast savannah at the center of a cross-border ecosystem whose annual wildlife movement follows water and fresh grazing. Gateway: Arusha
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Safari Place Tarangire National Park Baobab woodland and river country where dry-season wildlife movement converges on the Tarangire River. Gateway: Arusha
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Safari Place Udzungwa Mountains National Park Udzungwa is the forest-and-mountain stage of the Southern Circuit, explored on foot from the Mang'ula side rather than by conventional game drive. Gateway: Dar es Salaam
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Gateway Home Bases

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Related Safari Circuits

Follow connected Safari geography as an ordered route through parks, gateways, and realistic transfers.