OLDONYO LENGAI.
This is Maasai name for the still active volcano. It means the mountain of God. Adventurous visitors sometimes struggle up its steep slopes to visit the steaming, bubbling crater but others prefer viewing its symmetrical cone from a distance. This mountain is on way to Lake Natron, which is a soda lake rich in thousands of flamingos, which have been a major
attraction to most tourists.

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK.

The world-famous Serengeti National Park is the second largest in Tanzania, occupying about 14,763 sq km. This park contains the most spectacular wildlife sight in the annual migration of the wildebeast from the north to the south. Serengeti is famous for the black maned lion, of which there are over 2000, and other predators such as cheetah, hyena, and wild dogs.
The park's name Serengeti means endless plains derived from the Maasai word 'Siringiti'.
The Park lies in a high plateau between the Ngorongoro highlands and the Kenya/Tanzania border, and extends almost to Lake Victoria. The most famous features of the Serengeti ecosystem are the spectacular concentration of animals found nowhere else in
the world and the annual wildebeest migration. This spectacle sees more than 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebras and 300,000 Thompson's gazelles trekking to new grazing lands. The brief population explosion of wildebeest produces over 8,000 calves a day before the migration starts. The park encompasses the main part of the Serengeti ecosystem.

TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK.

It is the most southern accessible parks of northern Tanzania. Named after river Tarangire, the park covers an area of 2,600 sq. km. Much of the park is open grassy savannah, dotted with splendid specimens of Baobab trees, but there are also areas of swamp in the south. The Park is the only place in Tanzania where you can view fringe - eared Oryx easily, and during the dry season the river attracts a large concentration of ungulates. It is also spectacular in dry season when many of the migratory wildlife species come back to the permanent waters of the river until the onset of the rains
when they migrate again for the better pastures.

The park is located in a wooded steppe within an Arid Acacia savannah species. The most important vegetation type include: Riparian wood land, Acacia tortilis parkland, Wetlands and seasonal floodplains, Acacia-Cammiphora woodland, River grassland, Combretum Dalbergiawoodland, Acacia dreponolobium woodland, Deepp gully vegetation and Grasslands with scattered baobab trees.

Birdlife:
Bird watchers have a wide selection to see in this park which has more than 550 recorded species, the most breeding species in one habitat in the world, the ostrich, the heaviest bird which can fly and the Kori bustard.

Wildlife:
The dry season is the best period for game watching as much of the park wildlife is concentrated in the vicinity of the Tarangire River. The Park has the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem. Among other species to be seen at Tarangire are buffalo, herds of up to 300 elephants, lion, warthog, eland, the fringe eared Oryx, lesser
and greater kudu, gerenuk and large numbers of impala. The park is also famous for tree climbing pythons and abundant birdlife.