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Ruaha National Park is Tanzania's
largest, a vast wilderness in the south-west of the country visited by
only a handful of travellers each year. At the park's heart is the
aptly-named Great Ruaha River, a massive watercourse that dwindles to
only a few pools in the dry season, but bursts its banks and roars over
boulders at the height of the rains.
Converging with the Great
Ruaha are hundreds of sand rivers, natural game corridors when dry and
sparklingly clear streams when wet. Waterbuck, impala and the world's
most southerly Grant's gazelle risk their lives for a sip of water - the
shores of the Ruaha are a permanent hunting ground for lion, leopard,
cheetah, jackal, hyena and the rare and endangered African wild dog.
Ruaha's elephants are recovering strongly from ivory poaching in the
1980's and remain the largest population in East Africa. Ruaha
represents a transition zone where eastern and southern species of flora
and fauna overlap - lesser and greater kudu co-exist with northern
species such as Grant's gazelle.
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