Tourist Attractions in Ruaha National Park
Tourist Attractions in Ruaha National Park are excitingly diverse and remarkably on a wide range because of the national park’s thrilling atmosphere emanating from its unrestricted wilderness which has a great combination of untouched vegetation and fascinating landscapes characterized by different species from the East and the South that supports the animal’s reliability.
Ruaha National Park though it is among the least visited National Parks due to its relative inaccessibility, unique Tourist Attractions in Ruaha National Park feature numerous plants of over 1,650 plant species, prolific birdlife and mammal species from both Southern and Eastern Africa inhabiting the National Park simultaneously.
Wildlife
Wildlife Animals are the major Tourist Attraction in Ruaha National Park, there is an exciting high Predator concentration of Lions, Cheetahs, Leopards, striped hyenas, the National Park is home to 10% of the world’s lion population contains one of four cheetah populations in East Africa and has the largest population of African wild dogs in the world usually accompanied by herds of elephants, buffaloes, and a cross-over of prolific game. Also, Ruaha National Park is believed to have the highest concentration of herds of Elephants in East Africa.
Ruaha National Park is also a place which inhabits magnificent mammals such as the greater and lesser kudu, grant gazelle, impalas, elands, sable and roan antelopes, defassa waterbucks, ostrich, giraffes, black-backed jackals, bat-eared foxes and hartebeests, as well as hippos and crocodiles, usually seen from the great Ruaha River. Apart from large mammals, the park also harbors a number of reptiles and amphibians such as poisonous and non-poisonous Snakes, Monitor Lizards, Agama Lizards, and Frogs.
Birdlife
The Birdlife in Ruaha National Park is prolific, whopping 580 bird species have been recorded with an abundance of Raptors, Vultures and Hornbills and numerous water birds as well as migrating species from Europe, Asia, Australian rim and Madagascar that comes to the river especially the sooty falcon from the Sahara desert and rare Eleanora’s falcon from the Mediterranean have been recorded in the park, other Species of interest that tourists usually don’t miss out include Ruaha red-billed hornbill which is dominant in the area, goliath herons, saddle-billed storks, white-headed plovers, white-backed night heron plus many others. The recently annexed wetland, the Usangu basin is one of the country’s important bird area (IBA) as recognized by Birdlife International. Birds in Ruaha National Park can be seen all the year-round but the best time for Bird Watching is during the wet season especially in March.
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