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Destination:-Tarangire National Park

Days of cloudless skies.
During this period, the fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, thereby baking the earth a dusty red and the grass itself becomes so miserable, while the Tarangira River shrivels to a shadow of its wet season self, however, it is filled with animal life. Normally, many animal keepers trek to lot of kilometers to this place looking for water, as they assume that there is always water in this place.

Tarangire Wildlife Safari
Large herds of about 300 elephants scratch the riverbed for underground streams, which at this moment are so dry, while migratory wildebeest, impala, gazelle, zebras...

...eland, hartbeest as well as buffalo gather around the shrinking lagoons. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem-a smorgasbord for predators-and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope for example the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are often spoted.

The seasonal visitors scatter over a distance of 20,000 sq. km (12,500 sq. miles) range during the rainy season, and here they consume the green plains until they get them exhausted while the river calls once more.

The most breeding species in one habitat anywhere in the world normally crowd the swamps, which are believed to have an added green colour throughout the year. Infact, these swamps are said to shelter about 550 bird varieties.

Some birds however, like crowding the drier ground and these include; the heaviest flying bird, the stocking-thighed ostrich, the small parties of ground hornbills blustering such as turkeys, kori bustard, as well as the world’s largest bird.

There are also colonies of the endearing dwarf mongoose, and pairs of red-and yellow barbet, which draw attention to themselves by their clockwork-like duetting that they make loudly, and these are believed to normally frequent the termite mounds, which are no longer used.

Still, there are species that prefer climbing trees. For example, Tarangire’s pythons climb trees, as do its lions and leopards, lounging in the branches where the fruit to the sausage tree disguises the twitch of a tail.

Noting more about Tarangire National Park, it is basically of 2,600 sq. km (1,005 sq. miles) and it is located 118 km (75 miles) South West of Arusha. Getting to Tarangire National Park requires one to mainly use two means of transport that is to say, Charter flights from Arusha and the Serengeti, or just an easy drive from Arusha or Lake Manyara following a surfaced road to within 7 km (four miles) off the main entrance gate; and here you can even continue to Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti.

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