Arusha National Park

Are you looking for a Walking Safari to Africa? Arusha National Park is the perfect place in Africa to get out and stretch your legs – with both walking safari and canoe safari.

This small but beautiful Tanzanian National Park is the closest national park to both the famous Arusha “safari town” (30 km) as well as the Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Home to the worlds’ largest population of giraffes, making it a great park to see these long-necked and beautiful animals. other animals include herbivores such as elephants, hippos, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, and many others

Arusha National Park in Tanzania is beautiful and lovely, some scenarios of this Park appear in the Hollywood World famous Movie “Hatari” by Hardy Kruger a German Actor.

The animal life in the park is abundant, but it is also one of the most beautiful and topographically varied parks in Tanzania. The park’s three most significant features include

1. Mount Meru (Tanzania’s second-highest peak at 4,566 meters above sea level),
2. The notably different colored Momela Lakes
3. The 3 km wide Ngurdoto Crater, which was formed about fifteen million years ago!

What to see in Arusha National Park

• Arusha Animals – Arusha National park has a habitat for a wide variety of mammals including bushbuck, buffalo, and elephants, zebras, monkeys, duiker, baboons. Waterbuck, hippo, and antelope. The birdlife is spectacular with over 450 species recorded in the park including Flamingos and other Eurasian migrants, which can be seen between October and April. Arusha National Park tour is throughout the year regardless of the rain season of April and May.
• Mountain – Mount Meru which is part of the Park with its 4566 m above sea level can be climbed in three to four days with an overnight stay at alpine huts of Miriakamba and Saddo on your way up and down. The Park covers an area of 137 sq. km, with very unique features that including the montane forest, Momela Lakes, Ngurdoto Crater, and the rocky Mount Meru.

Why we love Arusha National Park – Reasons to visit

• The spectacular game drive at the base of Mount Meru Mountain
• Paradise to different species of birds 
• The best walking and canoeing safaris
• The montane forest which is the home to Colobus Monkey
• The Momela lakes, where are different species of birds including flamingos