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Ruaha National Park

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1 review of Ruaha National Park

Largest national park in Tanzania

Ruaha is the largest national park in Tanzania. Only a small part of the park is visited as in some parts the bush is very dense and there are tsetse flies. The park is dotted with the iconic baobab trees and birds and animals lurk in every bush, often a pride of sleeping lions.

This is a great park to visit if you like elephants. In the evening they come down to the sand rivers in large numbers to drink by digging down to the water with their trunks. Watching the baby elephants trying to learn this trick from the adults is fascinating.

We enjoyed a number of close encounters with leopards.

On one game drive our guide spotted a leopard at the base of a baobab tree. We sat transfixed as the leopard crept towards a group of gazelle with young. We watched the twitching ears above the stems of the grass as a young gazelle came within a paws reach. Then the leopard walked off with leaving the gazelles to graze in safety. This seemed strange behavior until we looked up and spotted a headless aardvark on a branch in the baobab tree, presumably the leopards breakfast. Our guides were really excited as this was their first ever sighting of an aardvark. When we passed the spot later in the day the tree was full of vultures and maribou stalks on the ground finishing off the carcass.
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