The elephant’s paradise. Tarangire National Park is Tanzania’s sixth largest national park following Ruaha, Nyerere National park Serengeti, Mikumi, and Katavi. The national park is located in Manyara Region. The park is named after the largest Tarangire River that crosses through it, the river sustains the life of thousands of wildlife in the national park, being the only reliable source of water for wild animals during dry seasons. During the dry season, thousands of animals migrate to the Tarangire National Park from Manyara National Park in search of water.
The Tarangire River has wrinkled to a shadow of its wet season self. But it is choked with wildlife. Thirsty nomads have walked hundreds of parched kilometers knowing that here, always, water is available.The herds of more than 300 elephants strike out the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, different species of gazelle, and eland crowd the shrinking water ponds.
