Baobabs, elephants, and timeless safari landscapes.

The Park covers a large area of 2600 square kilometres, but lies at the heart of an ecosystem which is around ten times that size. The Tarangire ecosystem covers an area of approximately 20,000 square kilometres and stretches from the Tanzania-Kenya border in the north to the Masai Steppe in the south towards Arusha, whilst the west is bordered by the eastern Rift Escarpment. The greater ecosystem also includes Lake Manyara National Park. Tarangire National Park itself is critical to this ecosystem because it contains a number of permanent year-round water sources. The most significant of these is the Tarangire River, which arises at the foot of the nearby rift escarpment, flows out into the park and then evaporates from its terminus at Lake Burunge on the western border of the reserve.

The landscape and vegetation of Tarangire is different to the other 3 parks in the circuit, populated by undulating hills, with the Tarangire river flowing the northern section of the park. It is home to baobab trees, which are a special sight and make for awesome photographic opportunities.

Tarangire is as rich in game as the more famous cousins, with large numbers of elephants, wildebeest, giraffes, zebras, lions and important populations of Wild Dog, Fringe-eared Oryx found in the park. It also provides the last remaining stronghold of the Blue Wildebeest subspecies (Connochaetes taurinus albojubatus). ​