Tarangire National Park is a lovely, quiet park in Northern Tanzania, most famous for its elephant migration, birding and authentic safari atmosphere with an exceptional concentration of game from July through to October and a fraction of the visitors found in other northern parks.  Elephants are the main attraction, with up to 3,000 in the park during the peak months, as well as good numbers of wildebeest and zebra as well as giraffe, buffalo, Thompson’s gazelle, greater and lesser kudu, eland, leopard and cheetah.

The real prizes in the park are dwarf mongoose, oryx and generuk – but viewings are very rare. Tarangire is one of Tanzania’s finest birding destinations.