Ruaha National Park

Ruaha is the largest national park in Tanzania. Only a small part of the park is visited as in some parts the bush is very dense and there are tsetse flies. The park is dotted with the iconic baobab trees and birds and animals lurk in every bush, often a pride of sleeping lions.

This is a great park to visit if you like elephants. In the evening they come down to the sand rivers in large numbers to drink by digging down to the water with their trunks. Watching the baby elephants trying to learn this trick from the adults is fascinating.

We enjoyed a number of close encounters with leopards.