Tourist activities in Tarangire National Park
Game drive safari
Game drive safari in Tarangire National Park is so interesting as the Tarangire is with the second-highest concentration of wildlife during the dry season, Tarangire has incredible game viewing opportunities, with huge herds of elephant (up to 3,000 come to the park in the peak months) and loads of lions.
Here, you’re sure to see plenty of impala, elephants, warthogs, waterbuck, zebra, wildebeest, and giraffe. Look out for tiny dik-dik in the underbrush and dwarf mongoose in abandoned termite mounds. Look up to find baboon, monkey, and, if you’re lucky, tree-climbing lion. When the rains come in November, Tarangire National Park empties out when many of the animals migrate to the grazing grounds of the Great Rift Valley.
Bird watching
Bird watching in Tarangire National Park is one of tourist activity in this national park that is known as one of the top birding spots in Tanzania with over 500 species. Owing to its varied habitats, the range of species is just as diverse. Marshy areas provide breeding grounds for a wide array of waterbirds, including pelicans, storks, and spoonbills. On drier land, Kori bustards, ostriches and noisy ground hornbills share their space with beautiful, brightly-coloured lovebirds, barbets, and weavers. It’s a cacophony of bird calls and a birder’s delight, gunner blacksmiths, African huppe, various martins, ombrettes, ostriches, outardes outardes, serpentaires, jabirus, African tantales, marabouts, vultures, eagles, bateleurs and abductors…
Hot air balloon safari
Tarangire hot air balloon safaris provide daily departures from Tarangire Sopa Lodge, Tarangire Safari Lodge, Tarangire Treetops, Swala Camp, Oliver’s/Little Oliver’s Camp, Tarangire Balloon Camp, Maramboi, Chem Chem, Manyara Ranch and special campsites.
The Tarangire hot air balloon safaris take off leads to a spectacular view of the sunrise and float in whichever direction the winds of the morning take us. Your pilot can precisely control the altitude of your balloon: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great photographic opportunities of the wildlife below. At other times our pilot may ascend to 1000 ft or more to see the enormity and wonderful panorama of the Serengeti. From time to time the pilot must put more heat into the balloon with the powerful whisper burners. In between these burns, there is silence apart from the natural sounds below. Tarangire hot air balloon safaris are a good choice when you decide to visit Tarangire National Park since it offers the great opportunity to view the wildlife from a comfortable distance that will leave you with an unforgettable experience of the hot air balloon safaris. This one of the unique tourist activities in Tarangire National Park.
Night Game drive
Night Game drive-in Tarangire National park is one of the things you do not have to miss when planning your trip to Tarangire, you have to pass overnight in or around the Tarangire, your night game drive the safari starts at 19h30 it is really interesting and can offer a different perspective on wildlife nothing like seeing a leopard at night. The smaller cats-genet and African wild cat not to mention the off chance of seeing a lion hunting, Nightjars and other birds are also of interest, Bat-eared foxes, spring hares and many antelopes can finish off the picture.
Going with a blanket sitting in an open vehicle under an African sky looking for that elusive, if only for a fleeting moment, the animal can be memorable.