Saadani National Park.
Palm trees swing in a cooling oceanic breeze. White sand and blue water sparkle attractively beneath the tropical sun. Traditional dhows move slowly past, moved by billowing white soils, while Swahili fishermen put their nets beneath a brilliant red sunrise.

Travel Information
The beach meets the bush at Saadani. The sole wildlife area in East Africa to boast an Indian beach front, it has all the attributes that make Tanzania’s tropical coastline and islands so famous with European sun-worshipers. Yet it is also the sole area where those idle hours of sun bathing might be interrupted by an elephant strolling past, or a lion coming to drink at the neighboring waterhole.

Preserved as a game reserve since the 1960s, in 2002, it was enlarged to occupy twice its previous size. The reserve was greatly affected by poaching before the late 1990s, but current years have shown a marked turn around, because of the concerted sudden policy of being very strict on poachers, based on integrating nearby villages into the conservation drive.

Wildlife Safaris
Currently, a surprising wide range of grazers and primates is viewed on game drives and walks, among them are; giraffe, warthog, common water buck, reed buck, haite beest, red duiker, greater kudu, eland, sable antelope, yellow baboon and vervet monkey.

Groups amounting to 30 elephants are encountered with increasing frequency, and many lion prides are inhabitants, plus leopard, spotted hyena and black-backed jackal. Boat trips on the mangrove-lined Wami River come with a great opportunity of viewing hippopotamus, crocodiles plus a selection of marine and riverine birds, involving the mangrove king fisher and lesser flamingo, while the beaches form one of the last main green turtle breeding sites on main land Tanzania.

Accommodation
Tent with a view-luxury lodge.

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