Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

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Ruaha is Tanzania's second largest park. Like the Selous this is also a very wild and remote area seeing very few visitors. It combines with the Selous to form a short southern circuit safari.

• Sarah Chatteris

Most people visiting Ruaha National Park spend their time around the Great Ruaha River. Large sections of the park are inaccessible, but it is that very fact which makes this one of the last unspoiled stretches of Africa.

The scenery here is spectacular with mature miombo forests and huge baobabs trees. The river is full of hippos and crocodiles and the rolling woodlands and plains are teeming with game. It has the greatest concentration of Lesser and Greater Kudus of any East African park and has a huge population of elephants - some 12000. Ruaha is an excellent park for predators. Lions are numerous and well used to vehicles. The park also has a good reputation for leopard sightings. Ruaha also has a significant wild dog population currently estimated at 100.

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