Arusha National Park

Arusha National Park is one of the mysterious national parks located in the Northern Tanzania, Northeast of Arusha city. It is famous for being a home to the Tanzania’s second highest mountain, Mount Meru and the world’s largest population of giraffes. 

It covers 552 square kilometers. It is 25 kilometers east of Arusha, 58 kilometers from Moshi and 35 kilometers from Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA). 

It harbors incredible wildlife species that can be viewed including vegetation types like the lush rainforest, savannah, alpine vegetation,  animals like buffaloes, bushbucks, warthogs, zebras, red duikers, elephants, giraffes, leopards, hippos, primates like black and white colobus monkeys, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, bird species like grey crowned crane, flamingos, African fish eagle, hartlaubs turaco, secretary birds among others. It takes about 40 minutes’ drive to reach Arusha National Park from KIA. 

This park is highly preferred because it offers both single day visits and multi day visits to visitors from Arusha city. Arusha national park is composed a very scenic landscape with three distinct areas that are the Meru crater funneling the Jekukumia river in the west , Ngurdoto crater in the south-East and the shallow alkaline Momella lakes with varying algae colors in the north east. For the park having small area make it possible for clients to participate in all activities in the park and return bark to Arusha town for overnight.