Arusha-Nationalpark

At the entrance of the Arusha National Park, in the background Mount Meru

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The Arusha National Park is one of eleven national parks in Tanzania. It is located in the northeast of the country, near the Kenyan border, north of Arusha, between Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro and is accessible via the Kilimanjaro International Airport to Arusha.

History

The park was established in 1960 as Ngurdoto Crater National Park; Mount Meru in 1967 part of the park. The Hungarian Count Teleki visited 1876 as the first European to the area of the present park. He described a large number of hippos and rhinos.

Landscape

The Arusha National Park mainly comprises the 4562 -meter high Mount Meru, an extinct volcano, with the little Mount Meru ( 3801 m ) and the Ash cone ( cinder cones ) and the Ngurdoto Crater, with its humid, partly swampy ground and the small Serengeti. Is the field of Momella lakes, which is characterized by swamps, grasslands and mountain forests between Mount Meru and the Ngurdoto crater. The mountain slopes are covered by tropical (mountain) rainforest and cloud forest. The park is 137 km ² and is located at 36 ° 50 ' and 03 ° 15' S. The altitude varies from 1500 m to 4562 m at the entrance at the summit of Meru. The annual rainfall is in the deep layers of 600-1300 mm in the higher up to 2400 mm.

Visit opportunities

The Arusha National Park is not included and you need a permit, which you get at the inputs. The roads in the park are unpaved and only easy to drive off-road vehicle. Near the Ngurdoto crater there is a small museum, where among other things, stuffed birds on display.

Wildlife

Among others, the following animal species live in the park:

  • Giraffe
  • African Buffalo
  • African Elephant
  • Plains Zebra
  • Kirk 's Dik-dik
  • Hippopotamus
  • Leopard
  • Waterbuck
  • Bushbuck
  • Warthog
  • Mongoose
  • Blue Monkey
  • Olive Baboon
  • 400 species of birds

The last rhino was shot in 1987. In the mountain forests colobus monkeys, for example, coat monkeys and bush pigs live. There are numerous water birds, sometimes tens of thousands of flamingos congregate on the lakes. The number of elephants decreases. 1977 lived in the territory of the Arusha National Park, including its surrounding 16,600 of these animals, 1987, there were 2146 and 1990, only 900

Giraffes in Arusha National Park

The small Serengeti with giraffes and zebras

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