Mbeya Region Website

Mbarali District covers large part of Ruaha National Park of about 10,000 km2 of the District area. The National Park premises are so close to the District, famous known as Ihefu wetland where wildlife resources like wild animals such as leopards, lions, cheater, elephants, buffalos, eland, crocodiles, snakes, tortoises, bushbuck, roan antelope, zebras, waterbucks, greater kudu, jackals, impalas, hippos and a variety of birds like ostrich and water ducks are found in the area.

 

There is also Mpanga Kipengele Game Reserve in the southern part where several animal species are found. Apart from the Ruaha National Park and Mpanga Kipengele Game Reserve, there is wildlife corridor where animals cross from the Park to the Reserve and vice versa. The corridor is managed as Wildlife Management Area (WMA) by the Community Institution called UMEMARUWA

Furthermore, in the District there is another Wildlife Management Area (Waga) which is a buffer zone adjacent to Ruaha National Park also managed by the Community.

 

Size: 10,300 sq km (3,980 sq miles), Tanzania's 2nd biggest park.

Location: Central Tanzania, 128km (80 miles) west of Iringa.

Scheduled and/or charter flights from Dar es Salaam, Selous, Serengeti, Arusha,

Iringa and Mbeya. Year-round road access through Iringa from Dar es Salaam 

(about 10 hours), via Mikumi or from Arusha via Dodoma.

Day walks or Hiking Safaris through untouched bush. 

Stone Age ruins at Isimila, near Iringa, 120 km (75 miles) away, one of Africa's most important historical sites.

 

For predators and large mammals, dry season (mid-May-December); 

bird-watching, lush scenery and wildflowers, wet season (January-April). 

The male greater kudu is most visible in June, the breeding season.

Riverside lodge; three dry season tented camps; self-catering bandas, two campsites; for more information visit: http://www.tanzaniaparks.com