Tarangire Ecosystem.
Tarangire National Park is 1020 square miles (2,642 square kilometers) and has got 4 game control areas, which are; Mkungenero in the South, the Mto wa mbu in the North, Lolkisale and Simanjiro in the East and Kwakuchinja in the West. The first time, visitors may easily fail to notice the existance of these control areas, but common visitors to the park often notice the migration of large herds of elephants coming from the South entering the park to drink form the main water artery; Tarangire River.

Tarangire National Park allows guests who want a discerning experience to visit the area in an uncommon approach, because of the fact that the park’s ecosystem extends over 10 times the size of the park. Not many lodges and camps have taken this approach, which is a good experience due to the fact that is allows a mix of guests to see two parts of the Tarangire, stay at accommodations that support the Maasai people who are the direct beneficiaries of the visits that guests make, and they also take part in activities, for example walking safaris and night game driving, all while making certain that the environment is conserved.

There are three different experiences through which wildlife spotting can be done and these include; walking safaris with Oliver’s Camp, Day game driving in Tarangire National Park and night game driving in the Tarangire Conservation Area. Walking safari and night driving are not allowed in the park. Due to the wildlife management reasons, the park is divided into different areas in four different zones, with 75% of the park being sanctioned for visiting guests while the other remaining 25% has no road networks.
When entering the park, you enter the area called Leniyon, which has got a lot of bird activity and herds of antelopes and zebras.

When you cross a few hundred meters, you will be led to a point where guests is staying at the Tarangire Safari Lodge can spot the reed bucks, wildebeests, leopards, and elephants adorn the panoramic landscape. When you go on to the Tarangire Sopa Lodge, you will then cross over the Engelhard bridge, a point where African Mecca guests can spot a variety of bird species on the stream, that include the Pelicans, Saddle Bill stork, and Marabou storks crossing over the firm soils of the water waiting for the occasional fish, tadpoles as well as other organisms. Going further to the heart of the Tarangire leads one to spot massive herds like the buffalos, elephants, Eland, waterbucks and zebra.

In a s far as botanical experience is concerned, Tarangire National Park has got mixed vegetation which aids many creatures there, for example; the lions use the plains grass to lie low, the pythons move around the branch of a tree, and the elephants are basically known for having a field day in the swamps at Gursi and Silale. The vegetation in Tarangire include; plain grasslands, yellow Fever Fig, Tamarind trees, Baobab, Acacia, Sausage and Candelabra.

For Geologists, Tarangire offers a good sample of what happened around the borders of the Great Rift Valley many years back. This is shown in the existance of 3 main forms of rock formations that include; the very well known Black cotton soil, red alluvial deposits and the pre-Cambrian rocks. The Black cotton soil can be realised during the rain days, when precipitation makes the soil keep the water like a slithering and flexible clay pot than can twist and twin without causing a decline in the level of the water; the red soils can be spotted at the bottom and banks of the rivers which carries the deposit to the lower level of the areas’ wile the pre-Cambrian rocks are the hills sighted in the distance. As the climate continues to change, these hills get reduced to smaller mounds, which serve as a birds eye for the predators for example lions to land and stay on.