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Julie and Stuart B
GB
Visited:
October 2025
Reviewed: Oct 28, 2025
Email Julie and Stuart B | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lovely tropical vegetation. Beautiful landscape.
We did a walking safari and we were very fortunate that our guide took us very very close to a family of giraffes.
The lake and surrounding area is picturesque.
It was a lovely way to start our safari travels.
Sabrina Stella Marchesin
IT
Visited:
October 2025
Reviewed: Dec 23, 2025
Email Sabrina Stella Marchesin | 20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
During our journey we did not visit the Arusha Nationa Park, but we are sure that it is wonderful too.
Peter Lickwar
US
Visited:
January 2026
Reviewed: Mar 6, 2026
Email Peter Lickwar | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Lori Potvin
CA
Visited:
February 2026
Reviewed: Mar 13, 2026
Email Lori Potvin | 35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
I saw so many animals the big 5 and more! Also lots of babies in the month of February. The Ngorongoro crater is breathtaking. Tarangire had an abundance of elephants, what a dream.
Tham Karuna
US
Visited:
May 2026
Reviewed: Jun 3, 2026
Email Tham Karuna | 65+ years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
We had a vey good experience with the Arusha National Park Safari. Abdulla went an extra mile to show us different animals and helped us moving the vehicle to enable us to get good view of the animals. He was able to explain various animals’ behavior and identified birds and explained their habitat in great detail. The picnic lunch was very good and a memorable one.
Quite different from other parks. Sligthly less frequent to see the big animals which can be more frequently seen in the other parks of northerm tanzania, but great vegetation, lush and green. Nice experience that of canoeing on one odf the many lakes in the park. Not many options for accomodation. Easily reachable from Arusha. I'd consider to include a short (e.g. 2 days) visit to this park when staying for a safari of at least 10 days.
ssilberman
US
Visited:
October 2015
Reviewed: Nov 26, 2015
Email ssilberman | 50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
This was our first park we visited. The animals were further away but it was that first amazing view of a giraffe in the wild.... The flow of its walk... This was one of the prettiest of all the parks we saw -- with the trees.
Enrico
Very quiet, lush, and green. Flamingos and giraffes highlight this park. Walking safaris available. In our walking safari - treks to waterfalls - we spent about half an hour walking literally meters away from a family of giraffes. As long as we stayed quiet, they let us accompany them before they broke off from us slowly. Surreally experience.
For a day trip, Arusha National Park is pretty special.
I only had one day to spend on seeing wildlife after a week of work in Arusha. Arusha National Park proved to be a very accessible location. It is easy to get to and has an abundance of wildlife if you're prepared to spend some time to look around. It may not have all the animals, but if you go with the proper expectations you will not be disappointed.
Joel
US
Visited:
September 2017
Reviewed: Oct 25, 2017
Email Joel | 65+ years of age | Experience level: first safari
Less Crowded but Plenty to See
Arusha National Park was our first destination on our two week Safari in Tanzania and Kenya. What we really liked about the park is it is smaller and less crowded than the other parks, but still had a good variety of wildlife. We were excited to see our first baboon, but then saw large groups that were fascinating to watch. We encountered our first elephants with 10 feet of the Land Cruiser. We say Colobus monkeys jumping from tree to tree and some very cute blue monkeys. We also saw a few giraffes. Didn't see any cats, but saw plenty at other locations. Arusha was fairly close to our lodge, so we got back in time to relax. We did not run into any bugs. We highly recommend Arusha.
