Nyerere Np
March 27, 2025
Welcome to Nyerere National Park
This is the Africa’s Largest National Park! The Park with staggering size of 30,893km2 host one of the world’s largest concentration of wildlife. The collection of wildlife both in diversity and abundance is just remarquable! Visitors to this vast sanctuary will be able to see astounding volume of wildlife both rare and common species.
The park host the famous ‘’Big Five’’ and some rare species of antelopes like Roan Antelope, Brindled Gnu, Lichtenstein hartebeest, roan, and sable antelopes, Kudu etc.!
Climate
The park experiences a bimodal rainfall season, with short rains in November and December, followed by a partial drying out in January and February. The long rains then follow, ending in early May.
It is located at an altitude between 100 and 400 meters, with an annual average rainfall ranging from 800 to 1,200 mm.
Getting there
The Park can be accessed by road or air
Road: From Dar es salaam to Nyerere National Park is about 250km via Kibiti
Air: There are regular flights from Dar es salaam,Kilimanjaro and Arusha to a number of small airstrips in the Park.
Attractions
Nyerere National Park has numerous attractions that visitors to the place can enjoy. Some of the best attractions in the Park include the ability to see the big Five, Large concentrations of elephants and Hippos. The Rufiji River full of abundant wildlife, Largest population of African wild dogs to mention but a few. The Park is also endowed with beautiful and scenic landscapes that add to the beauty of this majestic place.
The Rufiji River,Myriad oxbows, delta and Lakes
The Rufiji is East Africa’s largest river. It flows through the northern part of the Park, and this river which is slow moving and wide, has created a number of oxbow lakes in its northern flood plains, and they create a beautiful landscape of plains and woodlands interspersed with expanses of water.
The might Rufiji with its renown population of hippo and crocodile flows to Indian ocean. The river has been designated as a photographic zone and is a popular for tourists.
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