The name ‘Tarangire’ comes from the Mbugwe language and appropriately means the ‘river of warthogs’, referencing the park's life-giving water source. With an area of 2,850 square kilometers, roughly as big as the state of Rhode Island, it lies between the rolling Maasai Steppe in the southeast and the lakes of the Great Rift Valley to the northwest. As such, it offers the most complex and elephant-dependent dry-season refuge ecosystem on earth.
Tarangire National Park is undoubtedly the most visually striking wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequaled for its ancient baobab trees and timeless landscape value. With more than three thousand elephants, thousands of migratory wildebeest, and a legendary population of apex predators, it has the greatest concentration of massive mammals in Tanzania outside the Serengeti.
Explore the Tarangire, a rugged and iconic wilderness that plays host to the great dry-season retreat, one of the most vital wildlife migrations of the natural world. Witness hundreds of elephants digging for subterranean water, fierce lions stalking quarry, and other magnificent species as they traverse the dusty plains and brave the shores of the Tarangire River.
When the seasonal rains scatter the herds Tarangire has the most spectacular bird and predator viewing in Africa, with tree-climbing pythons, nesting martial eagles, pairs of elegant fringe-eared oryx and thousands upon thousands of zebras, elands, buffaloes, impalas, gazelles, and specialty raptor varieties.
