... where the river flows between the Baobab trees. It is the most southern of the northern Tanzania's accessible parks.
It is named after the river Tarangire, which has its sources in the Kondoa Mountain in the centre of the country. It covers an area of 2600 km² and lies at an altitude of 1100m above sea level.
The river is a refuge for wildlife during the dry season, when the park looks most spectacular with many migratory species coming to Tarangire river, and stay until the onset of the rains when they migrate again for the better pastures. This phenomenon takes place from June to September.
Nine different areas of vegetation characterize the park and in places there's a large predominance of baobab trees. There are also plenty of flat-topped acacia trees which provide ideal grazing for impalas, giraffes, waterbuck coke's hartebeest and cape elands – some of the largest species of African antelope.
As well as the mountainous regions with Mt. Tarangire in the centre, the park also consists of swamps and rocky plains, in these rocks klipspringers and hyraxes can be seen.
There are also buffaloes, herds of elephants, lions, warthogs, oryx, lesser and greater kudus, gerenuks etc.
The park is also famous for the tree climbing pythons and there are also more than 550 species of birds.