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Please select the National Park or Game Reserve from the list below:
Coastal Circuit
Saadani National Park
The newly gazetted Saadani National
Park, Tanzania's first coastal wildlife sanctuary, is a perfect
union of bush and beach. The Park is Tanzania's 13th National
Park. Tourists can view animals basking along the Indian Ocean
shores. It has an area of 1100 square km and was established in
2005 from an a game reserve which had existed from 1969.
Location:
It is located on the Indian ocean coast some 45 km north of Bagamoyo
and directly west of Zanzibar. About a 4 hours drive (roughly
230 km) from Dar-es-salaam via Chalinze or by 20 minutes chartered
flight from Dar-es-salaam or Zanzibar.
Things to Do:
Game drives, guided walks, Boat trips and relax at beach.
Time to visit:
Generally accessible all-year round, but the access roads are
sometimes impassable during April and May. The best game-viewing
is in January and February and from June to August.
Animals:
A wide range of grazers and primates is seen on game drives and
walks, among them giraffe, buffalo, warthog, common waterbuck,
reedbuck, hartebeest, wildebeest, red duiker, greater kudu, eland,
sable antelope, yellow baboon and vervet monkey.
Herds of up to 30 elephants are encountered with increasing frequency,
and several lion prides are resident, together with leopard, spotted
hyena and black-backed jackal.
Boat trips on the mangrove-lined Wami River come with a high chance
of sighting hippos, crocodiles and a selection of marine and riverine
birds, including the mangrove kingfisher and lesser flamingo,
while the beaches form one of the last major green turtle breeding
sites on mainland Tanzania.
For safari packages,
please visit Southern
Circuit Safaris section on Packages page
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