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Southern
Circuit
Kitulo National Park
Kitulo National Park is the first
park in Tropical Africa to be gazetted largely for its floristic
significance. Kitulo – a botanist and hiker’s paradise
- is also highly alluring to birdwatchers. Known locally as "Garden
of God" or "Serengeti of Flowers", Kitulo Plateau
has had over 350 species of plants documented to date. These include
45 species of Orchids, many of which are not found anywhere else
in the world, and also the stunning yellow-orange red-hot poker
and a variety of aloes, proteas, geraniums, giant lobelias, lilies
and aster daisies, of which more than 30 species are endemic to
southern Tanzania. Big game is sparsely represented, though a
few hardy mountain reedbuck and eland still roam the open grassland.
Location:
Accessible by road from Dar-es-salaam to Mbeya and chimala and
then by 4 wheel drives only.
Things to Do:
Bird watching, Walking Safaris, Hiking Trails.
Time to visit:
Wildflower displays peak between December and April. The sunnier
months of September to November are more comfortable for hiking
but less rewarding to botanists. Conditions are cold and foggy
from June to August.
Animals:
Birdlife including the endangered blue swallow, Denham's bustard,
mountain marsh widow, Njombe, Cisticola and Kipengere Seedeater.
Some of the World's rarest butterflies along with Chameleon, lizards,
frogs and a few hardy reedbuck and eland inhabit here.
For safari packages,
please visit Southern
Circuit Safaris section on Packages page
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