Ruaha safari offers a range of different game viewing experiences include guided walking safaris, ordinary game drives and night game drives. The night game drives provide visitors great opportunity to see nocturnal animals such as African genet, bat eared foxes, bush babies, porcupines and many more which cannot be seen during day game drive.

Ruaha is the best destination for honeymoon safaris in Tanzania due to the fact that it is not congested with large number of tourist despites of the fact that it is extremely scenic with large number of game animals and predators. Presence of luxury accommodations also make it to be among the top spots for honeymoon in Tanzania competing with Selous game reserve and Ngorongoro Crater.

Ruaha national park is famous for its outstanding game sighting experiences. In addition to that the park receives less number of visitors in a year compared to parks such as Serengeti and Ngorongoro which makes it an amazing destination. Due to various researches it was found that the park hosts about 10% of the entire world’s lion population. To prove this during safari in Ruaha, visitors can happen to spot large prides of lions comprises of up 25 adults lions. Normally the pride of this size tends to hunt large game such as giraffe and buffalo.

When one visit ruaha national park can see largest herds of elephants since the park has the highest concentration of elephants in East Africa. Rare antelope species such as greater and lesser kudu, roan sable antelope can found here. lichtenstein’s hartebeest, topi, southern and bohor reedbuck are also found here.

Generally the common animals of Ruaha National park includes elephants, zebra, lion, giraffe, hunting dogs, greater and lesser kudu, gazelles, striped hyenas, sable and roan antelopes, ostrichs, crocodiles and hippos. There are also about 540 species of birds in Ruaha.

Ruaha national park is a huge park with a combination of vegetation zones which offer habitats to different and unique animal species which rarely found in other parks such as Sable and Roan antelopes. The park is also the best spot to see Greater and Lesser Kudu. Ruaha national park is recorded to have the largest population of elephants and huge pride of lions up to 30 individuals. It is quite possible to see one of the magnificent black-mane males that dominate some of the prides. If lucky you can also spot them stalking, chasing and killing their prey. These large prides are mostly prefer to kill buffaloes and giraffes for their dinner

When on Safari in Ruaha National Park you should expect to see common animals such as zebra, elephant, lion, hunting dogs, giraffe, grants gazelles, striped hyena, crocodile and hippos mainly in Ruaha River. The park has over 540 species of birds recorded which some are residents and others are migratory. Some resident birds of the Ruaha National Park includes the Dickinson’s kestrel, crested barbet, Pale-billed hornbill, Racket-tailed roller, Violet-crested turaco, Plovers, Hornbills, Kingfishers, Green-wood hoopoes, Bee-eaters, Sunbirds, and Egrets.

The best time to on Safari in Ruaha is during the long dry season which last from June to October. The dry season provides great opportunity for game viewing because most animals tend to gather to the remaining water sources and the grass is too short for them to hide.  For bird lovers can visit Ruaha from December to April is the best time to visit since several migratory bird species from Europe are in Ruaha national park?

In long rainy season which from March to May game sighting experience isn’t good due t o tall grass and accessibility to some areas of the park become impossible due to road condition. According to that the numbers of visitors become low which make also some lodges and camps to be closed until the beginning of the long dry season (June).

If you plan to go on safari in Ruaha national park the following ways can be used to reach there.

By Flight

For visitors from abroad can board flights to Dar es Salaam International Airport and connect a domestic flight to Nduli Airport in Iringa town where we will pick you and drive to Ruaha National park. There are also chartered and scheduled light air craft which operates between Ruaha national park and Dar es Salaam and other destinations within the country.

By Road

Visitors who prefer to go to Ruaha Safari by road; there is a paved road from Dar es Salaam to Iringa town which is the nearest town to Ruaha National Park. From Iringa will follow the dirty road for about 2 to 3 hours to Ruaha National park to make the total of 10 hours journey from Dar es Salaam.

To reduce the long driving distance for the Ruaha Safari it can then combined by Mikumi national park which is just along the way where the drive from Dar takes about 5 hours. 

The most common wildlife in Saadani include four of the Big Five, namely lions, African elephants, buffaloes and African leopards. Common waterbucks, blue wildebeest, bohor reedbucks, Masai giraffes, Lichtenstein’s hartebeest, warthogs, hippopotamus, red duikers and the rare sable antelope. A number of primates are also present in Saadani national park such as blue monkeys, vervet monkeys, blue monkeys, black-and white Colobus monkeys. Small mammals in Saadani national park include African civets, mongooses, genet cats and porcupines. Nile crodiles are also found in Wami River which flow across Saadani national park into the Indian Ocean.