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Tanzania Northern Parks The most developed, but unspoilt, Tanzanian tourist route is the Northern circuit which encompasses many of the parks and reserves in Northern Tanzania. The circuit includes many famous national parks and landmarks: • Serengeti National Park • Ngorongoro Conservation Area • Mount Kilimanjaro Africa's highest mountain. Other famous parks include: • Tarangire National Park • Lake Manyara National Park • Arusha National Park !-- Probably the most important consideration for any visitor to Tanzania is the time of year. Broadly speaking the rains fall in East Africa between April and May, and November. See climate for more. --> Southern Parks In the south of Tanzania lie some of the most untouched game reserves in Africa: • Selous Game Reserve Remote and wild, the Selous is the largest game reserve in Africa. The Rufiji River flows through the reserve attracting great herds of Tanzania elephant and allowing the visitor to experience the reserve by boat. The reserve has the largest number of elephants out of all the reserved wildlife areas in the country. It also has a wide variety of other animals including lion, wild dog and crocodiles. • Ruaha National Park Due to its relative inaccessibility Ruaha is Africa as it once was yet with all the comforts that today's traveller expects. The name derives from the great Ruaha River which flows along its entire border creating spectacular gorges. The Ruaha protects a wide variety of habitats including evergreen forest and swamp and contains the largest elephant population of Tanzania. Western Parks In Western Tanzania, on the banks of Lake Tanganyika, lie two parks that are famous for their wild chimpanzees and the research that goes on into animal behaviour. • Mahale Mountains National Park • Gombe Stream National Park
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