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TIN TIN TOURSRESPONSIBLE TOURISM IN A GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Safaris
The Northern Circuit
Arusha National Park
Tarangire National Park
Lake Manyara National Park
Ngorongoro National Park
Oldupai Gorge
Serengeti National Park
The Northern Circuit
Safaris to Tanzania offer you the northern parks of Tanzania, amongst the most famousin the world. Tin Tin Tours can bring you to the home of the most dense concentrationof wildlife of its kind in the world, destinations such as Ngorongoro and the Serengetihave unparalleled reputations for game viewing. The Serengeti alone attracts thousandsof tourists and researchers per year.
Arusha National Park
Arusha National Park is located only 100km southwest of Moshi, making it a viable day-trip.With a total area of 137km2, there are over 50km of game viewing roads/tracks in theNgurdoto and Momella sections of the park. To protect the Ngurdoto crater from the wearand tear of heavy traffic, the 3km crater is void of roads but several viewing spots on the rimoffer spectacular game-viewing perches.
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park is located 180km from Moshi and covers 2600km2, making it the sixthlargest park in Tanzania. Visitors to Tarangire are frequently entertained by encounters withbrowsing elephants which inhabit Tarangire in large herds. In the park you will also find othergame such as buffalo, eland, warthog, the fringe-eared oryx and a large number of impala.Enormous baobab trees whose roots have drawn from the soil for thousands of years add to thescenic splendor of this unique national park.
Lake Manyara National Park
Lake Manyara National Park's closest town is Karatu, located about 200km west of Moshi. This325km2 park is located below the massive escarpment of the Great Rift Valley and consists of fivedistinct vegetation zones hosting a large range of flora. The park is famous for its tree-climbing lionsthat laze on the branches of acacia trees during the day. Lake Manyara is home to over 350 speciesof birds, the most abundant of which being the flamingo; during certain seasons, flamingoes coverthe surface of Lake Manyara with a pink blanket for kilometers. Finally, the national park is home togreat numbers of buffalo, elephant, giraffe, hippo, impala and baboons.
Ngorongoro National Park
The Ngorongoro Crater, at 2286 meters above sea level, is the largest, unbroken caldera inthe world. Surrounded by steep walls rising 610 meters from the crater floor, this naturalamphitheater has a total area of 259km2. In drier times, thousands of animals descend thecrater wall to drink from the lakes at the crater floor. It is not rare to get a rhinocerous, zebra,hippo, buffalo and impala all in the same picture. Ngorongoro Crater is located about 250kmwest of Moshi.
Oldupai Gorge
The great wildlife sanctuaries of Ngorongoro and the Serengeti lies Oldupai Gorge. The 'cradle ofmankind,' as this stone-age site is popularly known, is where the skull of zinjathropus bisei wasunearthed by Professor Louis Leakey in 1959; archaeological work continues there today. To the northof the gorge is Oldonyo Lengai, a living volcano. Around these sites of man's origin teem millions ofwild animals. Elephant, buffalo, zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, rhino, cheetah, hyenas and the black-maned lions can be observed at close quarters in their natural habitats. More than a hundred speciesof birds not found in the Serengeti have been spotted at Oldupai Gorge.
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park is undoubtedly the most well known wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequaled inits natural beauty and scientific value. Within its boundaries are more than 3 million large mammals livingin undisturbed freedom on the 'endless plains,' as 'Serengeti' means in the Maasai language. About 35species of plain animals can be observed, including the 'big five': elephant, rhino, lion, leopard andbuffalo. Large herds of wildebeest, gazelle and zebra begin their spectacular migration from the centralplains to the permanent water in the northwest of the park around the beginning of June.
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