{"id":1263,"date":"2023-02-10T22:21:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/?page_id=1263"},"modified":"2023-02-10T22:21:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T22:21:54","slug":"ruaha-national-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/en\/ruaha-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruaha National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ruaha-national-park--300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ruaha national park | Crocodile \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-194 groenerondeborder\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ruaha-national-park--300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ruaha-national-park--400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ruaha-national-park--768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/ruaha-national-park-.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>The park&#8217;s name is derived from the Great Ruaha River, which flows along its southeastern margin is the focus for game- viewing. The park can be reached by car on a dirt road from Iringa, and there are two airstrips, Msembe airstrip at Msembe ( park headquarters ) and Jongomeru Airstrip, near the Jongomeru Ranger Post.<\/p>\n<p>Ruaha National Park is the largest national park in Tanzania. The Usangu Game Reserve and other important wetlands to the park in 2008 increased its size by about 20,226 square kilometers (7 809 sq mi), making it the largest park in Tanzania and East Africa.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruaha_National_Park\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Ruaha, you enter a wilderness almost as untrammeled as Katavi but much easier to reach. Ruaha national park is one of few\u2019s Tanzania\u2019s famous wilderness areas where one can have a rare experience of game viewing spiced up by the fascinating landscape. The park is rich in infants and animals such as Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros), which is unavailable on other national parks. The park boasts of her almost untouched and unexplored ecosystem, making visitors\u2019 safari experience very unique.<\/p>\n<p>However, like other rivers like Mwagusi, Jongomero, and Mzombe, the Great Ruaha River save as the park\u2019s lifeline. During the dry season, these rivers become mostly the primary source of water for wildlife. Few natural springs keep the same purpose. In the dry season, elephants obtain water from dry sand rivers using their front feet and trunks. The remaining water falls along the Great Ruaha River are essential for hippopotamus, fish, and crocodiles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ruaha_snake-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"Ruaha national park | Snake\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-195 groenerondeborder\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ruaha_snake-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ruaha_snake-400x229.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ruaha_snake-768x440.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ruaha_snake-1030x590.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ruaha_snake-1200x688.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Ruaha_snake.jpg 1885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Apart from large animals, the park also harbours a number of reptiles and amphibians such as crocodiles, poisonous and non-poisonous snakes, monitor lizards, agama lizards and frogs<\/p>\n<p>The park is characterized by semi-arid types of vegetation, baobab trees, Acacia, and other species. There are over 1,650 plant species that have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>Ruaha National Park has a bimodal pattern of rain forest; the short rainfall season begins November to February, while the long season is between March and April. The annual mean rainfall ranges between 500mm-800mm, with an average yearly temperature of about 280c. The park experiences its dry season between June and October when the temperature at Msembe headquarter reaches 350c.<\/p>\n<h2>What to do:<\/h2>\n<p>Game viewing, walking safaris and cultural tourism are conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact us today!<\/p>\n<p>Telephone number +31 36 737  05 99<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:info@endless-safaris.nl\">info@endless-safaris.nl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The park&#8217;s name is derived from the Great Ruaha River, which flows along its southeastern margin is the focus for game- viewing. The park can be reached by car on a dirt road from Iringa, and there are two airstrips, Msembe airstrip at Msembe ( park headquarters ) and Jongomeru Airstrip, near the Jongomeru Ranger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/en\/ruaha-national-park\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ruaha National Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1263","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.6 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ruaha National Park - Endless Safaris<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endless-safaris.nl\/en\/ruaha-national-park\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ruaha National Park\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The park&#8217;s name is derived from the Great Ruaha River, which flows along its southeastern margin is the focus for game- viewing. 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