Tanzania Game Reserves

Tanzania Game Reserves and travel attractions including Arusha National Park, Lake Manyara, Serengeti National Park, Mount Kilimanjaro, Ruaha National Park, Dar Es Salaam, Zanzibar island, Ngorongoro Crater Park with all their scenic grandeur and stunning wildlife.

Below is a selection of some of the most important Tanzania Game Reserves with all the information one needs when travelling in Tanzania.

The question has to be asked: why not Tanzania as a destination when looking to book your African safari?

Zanzibar Island

The beautiful, evergreen spice island of Zanzibar is known for its spectacular architecture, meandering lanes, luscious tropical fruits, aromatic spices and charming friendly people. No safari to Tanzania is complete without a few days on the island of Zanzibar.
Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world, with more than two million wildebeest, half a million Thomson's gazelle, and a quarter of a million zebra, it has the greatest concentration of plains game in Africa.
Selous Game Reserve

The Selous Game Reserve is the largest National Park in Africa. Four times the size of that Serengeti National Park and in total covers more than 5% of Tanzania's total area. The Reserve possesses diverse landscapes and spectacular wildlife and birdlife.
Ruaha National Park

Considered to be one of the great "undiscovered" wilderness areas of East Africa, Ruaha is one of Tanzania's least accessible parks, and as result, it is totally untouched and remains one of the most exciting game reserves.
Ngorongoro Crater

Home to the famous volcanic Ngorongoro crater which is the largest unbroken caldera in the world, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area covers a large amount of varied terrain between the Serengeti and Lake Manyara parks.
Mount Kilimanjaro

The highest mountain in Africa, located in Northeast Tanzania, near the Kenya border. Born of the catastrophic movements in the Earth's crust that created the Great Rift Valley that runs from the Red Sea through Tanzania to Southern Africa.
Lake Manyara National Park

Lake Manyara National Park is at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment and comprises of a diverse range of habitats ranging from the rift wall, ground water forest, acacia woodlands, open grasslands, the shore of the soda lake.
Dar Es Salaam

Meaning "Home of Peace" in Arabic, Dar Es Salaam is the largest city and the political and economic capital of Tanzania. The Sultan of Zanzibar set up a trading centre at a fishing village situated on a creek in 1862.
Arusha National Park

From the lush green swamps surrounded by thick forest in the Ngurdoto Crater, up through the scenic beauty of the Momela Lakes, each a startlingly different hue, through to the chilly alpine like tundra on Mount Meru, Arusha is a gem of a park.