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Tarangire is our fourth largest national park,
situated in the Rift Valley, southwest of Arusha town. The average altitude is 3,600 feet
and the park consists mainly of rolling park-like acacia woodlands with occasional rocky
outcrops, interspersed with grassy plains and many massive baobab trees.
The park is named after the river that
flows through it providing the only water available to the wildlife for many miles around.
In the dry season some 2,500 elephants gather in the park, often in large groups of families.
The rare fringe-eared oryx is also accessible only in this park, and just under 400
species of birds have been recorded here. Leopard are often seen as are lion and sometimes cheetah.
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