Zurura Africa Safaris

Arusha National Park is a popular destination for Tanzania safari 1 day tour trips. It is the closest national park to Arusha town. Arusha National Park is an amazing park , often overlooked by safari goers, despite offering the opportunity to explore a beguiling diversity of habitats within a few hours. The small national park includes the slopes, summit, and ash cone of Mt. Meru, the Momela Lakes, Ngurdoto Crater, and the lush highland forests that blanket its lower slopes. Game viewing around the Momela Lakes is at a laid-back and quiet pace, and while passing through the forest many visitors stop to search for troupes of rare colobus monkeys playing in the canopy.

 

The entrance gate leads into shadowy montane forest inhabited by inquisitive blue monkeys and colourful. Turacos and trogons – the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black and white colobus monkey is easily seen. In the midst of the forest stands the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep rocky cliffs enclose a wide marshy floor dotted with herds of buffalo and warthog this will be the end of Tanzania safari day trips to Arusha National Park.

 

ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK

 

Non game-viewing travel time: 1 hour

 

Distance: 67 km from Moshi Town.

 

 After breakfast you will met by our tour guide/driver, who will deliver a short safari briefing before the departure. Upon your arrival to Arusha National Park you can have number of activities to be done. These includes, walking safari accompanied with an armed ranger, game drive with the national park, bird watching to Momella lakes, hiking a little bit to Mount Meru which is located within the park and the second highest mountain in Tanzania after the Mount Kilimanjaro standing at 4566 m and have picnic lunch to the beautiful waterfalls of Meru.

Arusha National Park is one of the few parks offering a ranger guided walking safari. Enjoy varieties of wildlife including capped African buffalos, elephants, hippos, giraffe, warthogs, antelopes, zebras, blue monkeys, velvet monkey, colobus monkey and varieties of retiles. At the Momella lakes you will see numerous numbers of birdlife which includes the resident and migratory once. Common species include the pink flamingos and pelicans but there are other 450 species of birds have been recorded to the park.

Late afternoon we depart for Moshi / Arusha..

 

 

Arusha National Park covers Mount Meru, a prominent volcano with an elevation of 4566 m, in the Arusha Region of north eastern Tanzania. The park is small but varied with spectacular landscapes in three distinct areas. In the west, the Meru Crater funnels the Jekukumia River; the peak of Mount Meru lies on its rim. Ngurdoto Crater in the south-east is grassland. The shallow alkaline Momella Lakes in the north-east have varying algal colours and are known for their wading birds.

Mount Meru is the second highest peak in Tanzania after Mount Kilimanjaro, which is just 60 km away and forms a backdrop to views from the park to the east. Arusha National Park lies on a 300-kilometre axis of Africa's most famous national parks, running from Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater in the west to Kilimanjaro National Park in the east.

The park is just a few kilometres north east of Arusha, though the main gate is 25 km east of the city. It is also 58 km from Moshi and 35 km from Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA).