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for Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro and Serengeti are still needed! Send a list
of your top 7 wonders in Tanzania (the 3 above and any four from
TANAPA) to vote@sevennaturalwonders.o rg, writing TANZANIA on the subject field! http:// sevennaturalwonders.org/ tanzania/
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
WELCOME MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK
Mikumi National Park
covers an area of 3,230 square kilometers, 283 kilometers from Dar es
Salaam city along the Morogoro–Iringa main road and makes the third
largest Park in southern Tanzania in Morogoro region.
Mikumi National Park
hosts carnivores like lions, leopards, wild dogs, and a large population
of herbivores grazing in the vast Mkata flood plain grasses including
zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, impalas, elephants, Greater kudu and sable
antelopes.
Other mammals and reptiles include eland, waterbuck, wildebeests, crocodiles and baboons. The park also offers a nice view of
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birdlife and hippos to the close range on the north part of the park.
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The park
accommodates other numerous wild animals include roan and sable
antelopes, African buffaloes, lions, greater and lesser Kudus, gazelles,
wild dogs, cheetahs,
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shelter for
a number of rare endemic and endangered species of flora and fauna
including the two diurnal primate species that are found no where else
in the world namely the Iringa and the Sanje mangabey colobus monkeys.
The park is attractive for
its waterfalls to the Mwanihama peak which can be climbed for three
days. Hiking to Udzungwa requires a high level of fitness as it is a
very steep climb.
The north western side has
deciduous trees dominated by acacia while in eastern side of the park
has evergreen moist forest of both lowland and montane forest. Walk
safari takes you through ordinary woodland, Miombo woodland
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then montane
rain forest while sighting red, black and white colobus monkeys,
different colors of butterflies likely to sight buffaloes, leopards and
elephants escorted with armed ranges.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Serengeti National Park TANZANIA
A million wildebeest… each one driven by the same ancient rhythm,
fulfilling its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life: a
frenzied three-week bout of territorial conquests and mating; survival
of the fittest as 40km (25 mile) long columns plunge through
crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north; replenishing the
species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000
calves daily before the 1,000 km (600 mile) pilgrimage begins again.
Tanzania’s oldest and most popular national park, also a world
heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th world wide wonder, the
Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million
hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000
Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even
when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most
scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller
groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland,
topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
The spectacle of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest
park. Golden-maned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers.
Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River,
while a high density of cheetahs prowls the southeastern plains. Almost
uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the
spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from
the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat.
Friday, October 19, 2012
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