Udzungwa Mountains National Park is a good destination where one can choose to travel to while on their adventurous safari in Tanzania because it is home to large numbers of wildlife species which include; elephants, leopards, duikers, bushbucks, palm civets, buffalos, hunting dogs, lions, African wild dogs and some of the primate species such as; sanje mangabey, Iringa red colobus monkeys, crested mangabey monkeys and many others.
Udzungwa Mountains National Park is located in the central region of Tanzania a and it was established as a national park in 1992 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands who is known as the founder of worldwide fund covering a total surface of about 1,990 square kilometers. Udzungwa Mountains National Park is a wildlife sanctuary, which is situated between Iringa and Morogoro regions within the eastern Arc Mountains, and it is found in about 60 kilometers from the south of Mikumi National Park along the Mikumi ifakara road. More so, this national park is known to have been named after Wasungwa which is kihehe word that means people who stay along the sides of the mountains and it is dominated by a good vegetation cover which consists of Miombo woodland, tropical rain forests, savannah grasslands, mountain forests which all act as good natural habitat to many wildlife species.
Udzungwa Mountains national park harbours around 400 bird species hence making it a favorite destination for bird lovers to visit due to the fact that they will be able to sight see at many birds like; marabou stork, green headed oriole, woodland king fisher, crowned eagle, ruppells vultures, silvery checked hornbill, crowned eagle, African hobby, white tailed cisticola, black and white shrike flycatcher, livingstone turaco, palm nut vulture, ulunguru violet backed sunbird, kilombero weaver, trumpeter hornbill, fork-tailed drongo, grey cuckoo shrike, green-backed woodpecker, dark baked weaver, retz helmet shrike among others.
Activities done in Udzungwa Mountains National Park.
Hiking.
Hiking is one of the commonly done activity within Udzungwa mountains national park because there are no roads where tourists can go for game drives, therefore hiking is seen as the best option because there are various trails that individuals can go through. However, before the hiking tourists are always encouraged to arrive at the park headquarters where they are given short briefings about what rules to follow and how they should handle themselves. More so, they are assigned too with an armed park ranger whose role is to lead through different trails and ensure the safety of both individuals and the animals. In addition, some of the hiking trails include the following below; Sonje waterfalls trail, Sonjo waterfall trail, Hidden valleys trail, Prince Bernhard’s waterfall, Mwanihana peek trail and Njonkamoni waterfalls trail
Other activities tourists can do while they tour around the park include; mountain climbing, cycling, trekking, guided nature walks where individuals will walk around the park on foot while they get a good experience as they discover more of and many others.
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