Ruaha National Park

The Ruaha National Park lies between two large rivers of Great Ruaha River and Njombe with its vast area covers 12,950 sq km and still comparatively unexplored bird and game sanctuary. It’s the second largest National park after Serengeti with the largest Elephants sanctuary in the country.

The topography of Ruaha is lush plains, open grasslands, thickets, flood plains and woodland. Also the park is bordered by mountains with altitude of 1,600 meters to its massif Ngalambulwa.

The common wild animals that inhabit the Ruaha National Park are herds of Giraffe, Buffalo, Greater Kudu and Impala during the dry season of June through November.

Others include roan and sable antelope, lesser kudu, hartebeest, hippos, common zebras, and warthog among other herbivores. The carnivores such as hunting dogs, lion, spotted hyena, fox, leopard, cheetah and crocodile resting to the river banks.

Along the Ruaha river and the surrounding generally noted the richness of the birdlife others not found elsewhere in East Africa. These include rare raptorial eleonora’s falcon, migrating flocks. Others are marabou stork, dickinson ‘s kestrel, bat hawk, European hobby, red necked falcon among the list.