Ruaha National Park’s very remoteness is perhaps its greatest charm. It remains untouched and after the Serengeti is Tanzania’s second largest park. The Great Ruaha River nourishes the landscape, even in the dry season. The park is also known for the unique behaviour of its lions. Without wildebeest, their favourite prey, Ruaha’s lions take on larger animals like buffalo.

Ruaha remains the Africa of your imagination as there are very few tourists and even fewer cars. The solitude and sheer beauty of the park is breathtaking. In the wet season the park’s open areas of grassland take on an emerald green hue with a stunning backdrop provided by the  blue rolling hills that recede into the horizon.

The Great Ruaha River, which winds for 160kms along the parks southeastern boundary is fringed by tall acacia, tamarind and wild fig trees. Grotesque, yet simultaneously magnificent, baobab trees are common in the north of the park.

Ruaha boasts a high diversity of plants and animals including a high population of elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, and some rare and endangered species of wild dog.