Here’s a roll call of Tanzania’s many fantastic national parks, including what each is most famous for and where to find them. We did the fun exercise of limiting ourselves to just one sentence per park, which isn’t easy given how we usually want to wax lyrical about them!

Park	What it’s known for	Location in the Country
Arusha National Park	Home to Mt Meru (4,565 m)	NE Tanzania, near the city of Arusha
Gombe Stream National Park	Home to chimpanzees	NW Tanzania, onshore of Lake Tanganyika
Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park	Home to Zanzibar red colobus	On the island of Zanzibar
Katavi National Park	Seasonal Lake Katavi and Lake Chada floodplains	Western Tanzania, very remote
Mt Kilimanjaro National Park	Home to Africa’s highest mountain, Mt Kilimanjaro!	NW Tanzania, near Kenyan border
Kitulo National Park	A great many flowering plants, incl. 45 varieties of orchids	South Tanzania, in the mountains
Lake Manyara National Park	The incredible density of elephants	North Tanzania, close to Arusha
Mahale Mountains National Park	Of the lake’s 193 fish species, 90% are endemic	Western Tanzania, onshore of Lake Tanganyika
Mikumi National Park	Home to baobabs and tree-climbing lions	Eastern Tanzania
Mkomazi National Park	Home to African wild dogs and black rhinos	NE Tanzania, near Kilimanjaro
Ruaha National Park	Largest protected area in East Africa	Central Tanzania
Rubondo Island National Park	Offers incredible bird-spotting	NW Tanzania, on an island in Lake Victoria
Saadani National Park	Can see wildlife lolling on the beach	Eastern Tanzania, on the coast
Saanane Island National Park	Smallest national park in East Africa	NW Tanzania, on an island in Lake Victoria
Serengeti National Park	An enormous park that’s home to the Great Migration	North Tanzania, touches Kenyan border
Tarangire National Park	Allows walking safaris	North Tanzania, very accessible
Udzungwa Mountains National Park	Boasts the second-largest biodiversity in Africa!	Central Tanzania