Serengeti National Park This is the most visited park in Tanzania, and many people  will recognize the name Serengeti from numerous nature films shown on TV. The park covers 5700 square miles of savannah grassland, and continues into Kenya where it is known as Maasai Mara. More than 3 million wild animals live here in one of the oldest ecosystems in the world. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have changed little in the past million years. Serengeti, meaning endless plains in the Maasai language, is considered to be the jewel in the crown of Tanzania's national parks.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area This park is a magnificent site containing active volcanoes, archaeological sites, bush land, sandy plains, Ngorongoro Crater and Olduvai Gorge. The crater is a major tourist attraction in the country and was shaped millions of years ago, when a huge volcanic mountain collapsed inwards and created the world’s largest calderas. The crater is 610 meters deep and covers an area of 260 square kilometres. The crater’s floor hosts a great variety of wild life.

 

Olduvai Gorge is situated within Ngorongoro, a steep sided ravine about 50 km long and 91m deep. In the slopes of this crater Dr. Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey discovered stone tools, building sites and bones of early hominids. In 1959 the famous Zinjanthropus cranium was found, which proved that the first human appeared here some two million years ago.  Olduvai Gorge is often visited by archaeologists, anthropologists and students. Bird watchers and nature lovers also find the site rewarding.

Lake Manyara National Park is considered to be a beautiful park with great variations in nature and wild life. Animals that can be seen: impala, buffalo, hyena, baboon, giraffe, hippo, wild beast, gazelle and climbing lions and flamingo colonies.