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Ruaha
National Park is
the 2nd largest in
Tanzania,
covering an area of more than 13,000 square kilometers in the Iringa
Region. Many who visited this park at the right season, rate it as
favorite anywhere in the continent. The name Ruaha owes to Great Ruaha
river which flows along the eastern border.
The Friends of Ruaha Society,
a British bilateral aid program is funding a project on
community based wildlife, a management plan for Ruaha ecosystem and a
project to direct the benefits of tourism to the people who live
around the park.
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Ruaha
National Park is is extremely interesting as it presents the transition
zone where southern African and eastern African Species of flora and
fauna overlap, therefore, it has unique variety of animals, birds and
vegetation.
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Main Vegetation in Ruaha National
Park are Miombo woodland, acacia grassland and baobab trees. However, the
park is very rich in big games. it is well-recognizable for the
large herds of Elephant, Giraffe, Buffalo and Impala, and numerous
Greater lesser Kudu as well as wild dogs, lions and leopard are also
common. The Great Ruaha River, that border the park in the east, provide
habitation for hippopotamus and crocodiles. Birds can be watched along
the river banks too (the park has recorded more than 540 species of bird,
which is one of the highest bird species diversity in East Africa).
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INFO:
African
elephants are highly aggressive and, cannot be tamed. They are the main
hazard in the Ruaha National Park.
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The National Park is also
accessible by schedule & charter planes from Dar, Zanzibar, Lake Manyara,
Serengeti, Selous and Iringa
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West of Iringa
Town there is the famous Acheulean site of ISIMILA,
Stone age sites in
East Africa, where numerous
bifacial tools, other stone artifacts and bones were eroded out of
lacustrine (lake) deposits. It was once a shallow lake and now is a dried
up riverbed, covered by pillars of limestone with great structures
For
Safari
Booking/Inquiry
Tel.
+255 22 2 772782
Fax. +255
22 2 773409
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