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Travel Blogs from Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Tanzania
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Elephants
This is a top pick! ... is the last stop on safari. I'm a little sad to see it end. But it's been a fantastic experience. Tarangire is a national park known for its many species of birds. For some reason, I saw very few. Mostly elephants and ...
Zebra's, wildebeests, elephants, waterbuck and ...
This is a top pick! Tarangire National Park is SE of Lake Manyara and wraps around the Tarangire River. Due to the river, Tarangire has a very large population of animals during the dry season. This makes it nice, as you do not have to follow the herds. We spotted Zebra's ( ...
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park was our first park in Tanzania and the 6th largest park in the country. Tarangire is teeming with an amazing diversity of exotic flora and fauna including elephant, lion, leopard and buffalo. The park ...
Tarangire- Land of the elephants
Loved the hundreds of elephants and amazing boabab trees Transformations: The girls learned how to pee over a hole in the ground really well. In fact- Jesse prefers it. We had a bathroom that had both options- the "hole in the ground" version and the ...
Safari dag 2
... till låren för att komma till sina hus och skräp flöt runt i vattnet. Så vi fick ändra planerna och åka till Tarangire National park istället som ligger på rätt sida av dalen. Det är en mycket mindre park än Serengeti men man kan se samma ...
On safari
... over80 kms away. We saw the general area where our driver's family had their boma. We finally arrived at the Tarangire National Park. While waiting for our driver's to pay for admission, we could see some very large birds in the distance. They ...
The Safari starts with Tarangire and Manyara
The safari trekking across 4 national parks of Tanzania starts with entry into the Tarangire National Park. With anticipation of spotting countless herds of elephants, zebras, etc, Greg and I headed out with East Africa Safari and Tours Co from ...
Elephant Encounter
... at the base camp of Tropical Trails, our safari operator. A couple of hours drive today brought us to Tarangire National Park, and it seems we have the place mostly to ourselves. There are no other groups camping here, so it's ...
Camping with the Animals
... returning from the area we are now in. They indicated the Taragiri NP had a high concentration of animals around what is left of the Tarangire River (end of the dry season). So again off we went with no real idea of what to expect.. enough time had lapsed ...
Happiest B-day on Safari
... start, but the car seemed seamed substantially older and the windshield was cracked. It took us about 2 hours to get to the first national park, opened up the roof of the car, and almost immediately we saw elephants in the not so far distance. Fred (the ...
Tarangire - The Park Of Chocolate Elephants
The first real stop of this trip (for pleasure rather than for necessity) was Tarangire National Park...our travel companions Brian and Vicki - who flew different airline and arrived as scheduled - were already there, so we ...
Lazy leopard and lions at lunch
... ahead of us. In the car we meet Richard, the driver, and Boka, our cook for the week. The drive from Moshi to Tarangire National Park takes about 3 hours, but I'm not bored for a minute. I could look out of a car window for days on end! First, we ...
Kirurumu and crater
Well this blog entry is also a journal entry from ngorogoro. At kirurumu we saw cheetah, lion (male and female) vervet monkeys, baboons, giraffe, crocs, Hippos, and many other animals. It was a tented camp by Nduto. There at kirurumu there were ...
Kanga Campsite, Tarangire National Park.
... beer was put in the fridge so that they would be nice and cool by the time we reached our campsite. The route to Tarangire National Park was pretty straightforward and it was good to have the on board GPS to make sure we were not straying off ...
Second Night at Kanga
... the fact that the flora and fauna is so very different.The area is very flat except for numerous kopjes. The highest point is Tarangire Hill which is 1600 metres high. We made our way back to the campsite and made dinner. Unfortunately we were joined by ...
Day 30 (Tarangire National Park)
... queues of up to 30 people, I eventually get cash, I would recommend the airport when you arrive First park, Tarangire National Park - a full afternoon game drive We spot a couple of elephant families, in fact loads of elephant sighting, ...
Up in the Tree Tops
... Tanzania. They worked diligently while we were photographing them, but, predictably, they 'rested' when we 'weren't looking'! Tarangire National Park is home to hundreds, maybe thousands, of elephants, and I think we must have seen most of them! ...
Goodbye, Safari! We had the best time!
... we saw had a smile! I must admit, I did have some doubts beforehand, and definitely some fears, about travelling in Kenya and Tanzania, but we were treated so well by all we encountered that any worries were unfounded. Hakuna Matata. ...
Tarangire
This is a top pick! ... visible at a distance but none of the roads in the park led up to it. The lake is outside the park boundary. Tarangire, like Lake Manyara, is very organized and professional. The information boards are original and show much initiative. They ...
The River Runs Through It
The last day of our safari was spent at Tarangire National Park, named after the river that runs through it by the same name. It's a popular safari sight because it has the most water and plant life for the animals during the dry season. And ...
OUT OF AFRICA
Day Two of Safari: Tarangire National Park I peacefully watched the sunrise with the new light filtering down over the valley and river and where a family of elephants was drinking, all from my front verandah. Simply magnificent. I was half expecting ...
MY NEW FOUND PASSION
Day One of Safari: Arusha to Tarangire National Park Courteous Sam [driver], Dana & David [gorgeous couple from Chicago] and I headed off to Shoprite as that appears to be where everyone goes before heading bush. We've got a troupe with a pop up roof, ...
Tarangire National Park, Tanzania
My first day of safari started out with a bang! The number of Elephants in Tarangire National Park is absolutely amazing. I don't know what my expectations were for a safari, but I was completely blown away with the amount of wildlife and the ...
Day 210 - The Best Laid African Plans
... tire. With the Israeli guy’s eagerly assisting, the change was both fast and funny. First stop was Tarangire National Park. This savannah had longer grass and very interesting Balboa trees. These trees had very wide trunks which ...
3rd and last day of Safari
... picnic area. There were lots of Hippos lazing in the water. After a nice lunch and some sunshine it was time to head out of the park saw more animals on the way. We left through a wooded area, very nice after the very bleak look of the plains. We were ...
safari Day 2
... 't very warm and finally a close encounter with a couple of lions who decided to cross the road in front of our car. We left the park around 2pm backtracked some of the way turned, East on one of the best roads I have seen for a long time. Built by the ...
My first day on Safari
... season. After Egypt we were rather pleased with the cooler weather. From Arusha there was still around 100km to the Tarangire National Park. We passed many small Maasai villages with their round thatched huts and saw many small boys herding goats or ...
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