Ruaha National Park

For a genuinely rewarding safari experience, delve deep into the heart of Tanzania to uncover the wild and remote Ruaha National Park.

Ruaha is the same size of South Africa‘s Kruger National Park – making it the largest national park in Tanzania and East Africa – with same wildlife density and diversity of the Kruger, but only around 1% of the visitors, so you can imagine how untouched and pristine the area is.

Home to an abundance of varied dramatic landscapes, this mighty wilderness brims with vast open plains, rolling hills filled with baobabs and the park’s lifeline, the Great Ruaha River. Huge herds of zebra, giraffe, elephant and buffalo gather here by the water, making excellent game viewing, while their predators wait in the shadows, including a tenth of all the lions in Africa, the third largest population of wild dog, hyena, leopard and cheetah. Rarer antelope species found here include kudu, sable and roan, and the birding is spectacular between January and April.

Despite is variety of wildlife and large size, Ruaha is still only home to a few camps, giving it that untarnished feel of a true wilderness and the perfect adventurous safari setting.