Dubbed “the Royal Castle of Kilimanjaro”, this national park located in Maasai country, is with a difference in that it is home to various wildlife variety including huge herds of free-ranging African elephants (with some of the biggest tusks in Africa), waterbuck, bushbuck, big/small antelopes, giraffe, buffalo, big cats (lion, leopard, serval, cheetah…) and resident wildebeest among other animals, all these against a backdrop of the Majestic and snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro “custodian of the African skies” and the world’s highest free-standing mountain at a height of 5,895m. The landscape is a rapturous variety of habitats, from gently rolling savannah plains to dust-bowls, seasonal lakes (e.g. Empusel), riverine, swamps laden with wildlife in the heat of the day, rivers from Kilimanjaro’s underground marine network, hills (e.g. the famous Observation Hill)…etc…
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