Tanzania's largest park after Nyerere, where the East African and southern African species overlap — so you get greater and lesser kudu, sable and roan in the same place as the usual plains game. Lion prides here run large, and the Great Ruaha river draws everything in during the dry months.
Every one of these is something we run here, not a stock list.
We do not have a scheduled itinerary for Ruaha National Park on the site right now, which does not mean we cannot take you. We build private trips to order across Tanzania — tell us your dates and we will put a route and a price together.
Plan a trip to Ruaha National ParkRuaha National Park, located in central Tanzania, is the country's largest national park, spanning over 20,000 square kilometers. It is famous for its rugged landscapes, including vast savannahs, acacia woodlands, and the Great Ruaha River, which attracts diverse wildlife. The park is home to large populations of elephants, lions, leopards, and a variety of antelope species, including the rare sable and roan antelopes. Ruaha also boasts a rich birdlife with over 570 species recorded. Its remote location offers visitors an authentic wilderness experience with fewer crowds than other parks.
Most safaris here combine two or three of these.
Fourteen thousand square kilometres of plains, and the stage for the whole wildebeest migration — which is not an event but a year-round circuit the herds never stop walking. Where they are depends on the month, so the Serengeti rewards planning more than any other park in East Africa.
A collapsed volcano twenty kilometres across with twenty-five thousand animals living on the floor of it, walled in by a six-hundred-metre rim. It is the one place in East Africa where seeing all of the Big Five in a single morning is an ordinary outcome rather than a lucky one.
Tarangire has the baobabs and the elephants. In the dry season the river is the only water for miles and the herds concentrate on it — three and four hundred elephant in a day is not unusual, which beats anything the Serengeti offers. It is two hours from Arusha and usually the first stop on a northern circuit.
A narrow strip of forest, lake and floodplain under the Rift Valley escarpment, famous for lions that sleep in the acacia branches. It is small enough to see in half a day and sits directly on the road between Arusha and the Ngorongoro Crater, so it costs an itinerary almost nothing.
Tell us roughly when you can travel and how long you have. We will tell you honestly whether Ruaha National Park is the right call for those dates — and what it costs.
