RUAHA NATIONAL PARK - (12,950 Sq Km):

The Ruaha is the second largest National Park in Tanzania. It offers the thrill of unraveling the secrets of the wilderness. It has a large concentration of Elephants, numbering over 20, 000.

It's due to its neutrality, virtually unchanged or unaffected by the ravages of mankind, that made this park to be predicted to become the E. African park of the future.

The Ruaha River flows through the park's Eastern borders creating spectacular gorges that deposited into the river thus offering stunning vistas.

Ruaha's unspoiled wilderness is not a romantic exaggeration phrase, it remains essentially true. It's not impossible to drive around the park for two days without seeing another vehicle.

The area presently developed for tourism is not larger than one third of the park's 12, 950 sq Km and the ecosystem of which Ruaha is a part is larger than Denmark.

The park features some of Africa's most imposing antelopes, among them eland, roan, great and lesser Kudus, with Sable and Liechtenstein's hartebeests appearing where their natural habitat, the Miombo woodlands (deciduous woodland superficially reminiscent of northern hemisphere broad - leaved forests).

Buffalos, Waterbucks and Reedbucks venture to the river edges to drink water thus attracting the attention of large predators while the rare Striped Hyena, wild dogs and civet cats thrive in the grasslands.