20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve by Shannon
Semliki is great for birding but lacks an abundance of other wildlife. We saw lots of birds, antelope, warthogs, monkeys and buffalo but not much else. There are a few elephants and chimpanzee but they are not always easy to find. The foothills of the Rwenzoris above the savanna was pretty gorgeous.
AR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Elephants paradise
It was the first of 8 parks we visited in Africa, and also the first Safari we've done. We didn't know what to expect, but we knew that we weren't going to find any lions or rinohs. As we were newbies we found really exciting meeting a lot of monkeys from a really short range, then we came across diferent groups of hervibors such as Impalas, Topis and some other horned ones. But the best thing of this park are by far the Elephants. We got to see a lot of diferent groups, playing in the small rivers, walking from the water to the shadows of the baobabs, they don't seem to care about the few vehicles in the roads, they were walking just beside us, it was really beatifull.
Ah, watch out with the tsetse fly, they bite quite hard.
BE
65+ years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Selous Game Reserve by Mieke Verschueren, Belgium
Because we were before in Serengenti, we had seen there everything, so Selous was for us rather poor
Review about Tarangire National Park by Vivek
Not too bad. But average when compared with Serengeti and Ngorungoru.
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Vivek
Thick vegetation makes it hard to see wildlife well. Only a few areas where lots of wild life can be seen.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by darian
We only had a relatively short time in the Park but certainly enjoyed both the scenery and all the elephants.
50-65 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
A Boutique Park
This was a great Park to start in, considering some slight jet lag we were dealing with. It’s a small park in comparison to most others, but hasn’t any of the main predators in it like lions, leopard and hyena BUT this means all the animals we did see were quite relaxed with our presence
Wildlife highlights here included the very beautiful black & white but shy Colobus monkeys with their long fluffy white tails. Around one of the lakes in the park was an abundance of Lesser Pink Flamingoes constantly feeding and also some of our favourite birds, the African Fish Eagle. There were numerous large and very confident ‘tribes’ of baboons, which would happily sit very close to our vehicle and the baby baboons kept us very amused with their playful antics. There are also quite shy Blue Monkeys and plenty of zebra, giraffe and buffalo.
Our accommodation outside the Park near Arusha was fabulous!
20-35 years of age | Experience level: over 5 safaris
Review about Chyulu Hills National Park by Felix Kamami Charles
Chyulu Hills National Park is small but beautiful. it has a smaller number of wildlife compared to other Parks in the country. but it has a beautiful scenery and beautiful mountains. its a perfect park for campers. am not sure about birding because am not a birder. but i have see several types of birds in there.
US
35-50 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Review about Lake Manyara National Park by Jeremy
Hard to see wildlife at the park. Known for flamingos but I have never seen them here.
Arusha NP was disappointing. The other parks in Tanzania were amazing!
Arusha National Park was the first National Park we visited. This was probably just as well as all the wildlife we saw was new and interesting to us. It was also relatively close to our Lake Duluti accommodations. As a photographer I did take a lot of images of Bush Bucks, Water Bucks, Cranes, flamingos, some giraffes and many baboons (who are everywhere). However, you will not see any large predators or for that many any of the Big Five. The park is surrounded by farmers who have hunted or at least cleared out all the large predators. Compared with the other parks it was a great disappointment. If I were to do the trip again, I would skip Arusha NP and spend an extra day at Ngorongoro Crater which was exceptional.