Udzungwa Mountains National Park

   

Sanje waterfall in Udzungwa Mountains National Park

 Udzungwa Mountains National Park

Is among of National Parks found in Tanzania, Udzungwa Mountains National Park is the most outstanding, pristine, paradise and unique exciting wilderness mountains forested with greatest altitudinal range of forest. It is one of thirty-four “World Biodiversity Hotspot” and one of 200 WWF Ecoregion of global critical importance.

Udzungwa Mountains National Park is part of the Eastern Arc Mountains, which is a series of mountains ranging from Taita Hills in Southern Kenya to the Makambako Gap in Southern central of Tanzania. 

Uniqueness of Udzungwa Mountain National Park 

 The park has second highest birds diversity in Africa behind only the Ituri forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Park also has unique as the only national park in Tanzania having close canopy and unbroken forest from lowland rainforest at 250m asl rising to highland forest 2576m asl the highest peak in the park. The park has plants from small plants like Saint paullia to big tree over 30m high like Sterculia appendiculata and Antiaris toxicaria. Sanje waterfall is the highest waterfall found in the park

 

Tourist Attractions
The major attraction is biologically diverse plants, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds , butterfly, and insects of which some of species are found nowhere else in the world. Udzungwa Mountains National Park is the only known National Park in Tanzania with a culturally important natural cave and has survived destruction before gazettement due to traditional taboos and beliefs.

Things to do in Udzungwa Mountain

Climbing, hiking and bird watching and camping Safari are the major activity in the park,Mountain climbing and Hiking being the major activity, currently there are ten tourists’ trails in the eastern and western part of the park.

Eastern trailsMwanihana and Lumemo trails for hiking to Mwanihana peak the second highest peak 2500masl, Sanje trails for hiking to Sanje waterfall, Prince Bernhard trail for hiking to Prince Bernhard and Njokamoni waterfall, Sonjo trail hiking to Sonjo waterfall and Njokamoni Mwaya waterfalls trail.

Western trailsMbatwa trails for hiking to Mwanaluvele cave, Ibito valley and Ng’ung’umbi swamp.

Tourist climbing Udzungwa Mountains National Park