Places To Visit In The Northern Circuit of Tanzania

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park offers the classic African safari setting. The migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra takes place in Tanzania in an endless cycle year-round. The vast expanse of grasslands makes the Serengeti a fantastic spot to potentially witness a lion or cheetah kill because you can see the whole spectacle clearly. The best time to go is between July and October, but you can’t really go wrong any time of the year. A hot-air balloon ride at dawn is a truly magnificent experience.

Tarangire National Park

During dry season Tarangire has one of Tanzania’s highest concentrations of wildlife. It's an excellent location for those who love watching elephants, zebra, giraffe, impala, and wildebeest. Tarangire is also a good place to enjoy walking safaris and an excellent birding destination. Be ready to swat tsetse flies here, at certain times of the year they can get annoying.

Lake Manyara

This national park is located in both theA rusha and Manyara regions of Tanzania. It’s known as an excellent place to spot wildlife, especially flamingos. If you visit during the wet season you’ll get to see around 300 different species of birds but when the lake waters turn into mudfl-ats during the dry season you can also see elephants, hippos and giraffe.

Ngorongoro Crater and Conservation Area

The Ngorongoro Conservation area borders the Serengeti and includes the world’s largest intact caldera which contains almost every species of wildlife found in East Africa, including the extremely rare black rhino. Here you’ll witness some of the densest population of wildlife in the world and it’s an amazing place to take memorable photos. The Maasai still live within the conservation area, and it’s also home to Oldupai where some of the man’s earliest remains have been found.

Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5.895m (19,336 ft) the tallest freestandnig mountain in the world, is actually a dormant volcano with three volcanic cones (Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira). tI’s also a beautiful and imposing place where you’ll get to see many diverse levels of flora and faunaT. here are agricultural fields at the base of the mountain followed by rainforests, fresh meadows, desert and when you finally reach the top, you have chance of seeing snow.