Serengeti National Park
Serengeti is Africa’s most famous national park. It covers 5700 square miles in northwestern Tanzania stretching all the way to the Kenya border. Its vast grassland plains are the heart of the annual Great Migration where over a million wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra and impala move throughout the year in search of fresh grazing.
Ngorongoro Crater
The Ngorongoro Crater is a 100 square mile natural amphitheatre in northern Tanzania created 2 million years ago when a volcano imploded leaving a 12 mile wide crater surrounded by an unbroken 2,000-foot high rim. Although tourist traffic is heavy, it is home to 30,000 wild animals and provides outstanding game viewing in every season in a spectacular natural setting.
Selous Game Reserve
For sheer size and wildness, no other protected area in Africa compares to southern Tanzania’s Selous. It covers over 21,000 square miles (larger than Switzerland) and contains 70,000 elephants, 120,000 buffalo, 40,000 hippo, 4,000 lions and the list goes on. Limited safari facilities make only a small part accessible to the public, but if it’s big, wild and remote you seek, the Selous is your destination.
Katavi National Park
Katavi is said to have the highest bio-density of any national park in Africa. Located in an extremely remote area of southwestern Tanzania not far from Lake Tanganyika, the park’s swampy grasslands draw enormous numbers of game and predators during the June to January dry season. The park is especially noted for its huge concentrations of buffalo and hippo.