The Serengeti area includes the Serengeti National Park, which with its 14,763 square kilometers is one of the largest and certainly the best-known national parks in the world and has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and the 23,051 km² biosphere reserve since 1981. To the southwest of the national park is the 2,200 km² Mazwa game reserve, located at 1,000 to 1,500 meters above sea level, and to the north of the corridor is the Grumeti reserve with around 2,000 to 3,000 km². In addition, the 3000 km² Ikorongo Conservation Area borders the Serengeti. Between the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the state border lies the Loliondo Conservation Area; the northern end of the Serengeti ecosystem is in the Maasai Mara Reserve. This park is also home to the "Big Five", the elephants, leopards, lions, rhinos and buffalo. In addition, countless other animal species live in the Serengeti, for example more than 500 different species of birds.

Tarangire National Park is a national park in northern Tanzania. It is 2850 km² in size and is located southwest of Arusha near Lake Manyara at an altitude of 1000 to 1500 m above sea level. The annual rainfall is 600 mm. Tarangire National Park was founded in 1970. Among other things, Tarangire National Park is home to plains zebras, wildebeests, impalas, waterbucks, lesser kudus, African buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, warthogs, lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, African wild dogs, mongooses, anubis baboons, southern vervet monkeys and 300 species of birds. The black rhinoceros, once found in large numbers, has become extinct. The number of elephants was 3,000 from 1977 to 1987; in Tarangire National Park, including the Simanjiro area, over 5,000 elephants were counted in May 1988 and over 6,000 elephants in the dry season. Another count showed 6,110 individuals in 1987. During the rainy season, the majority of the animals migrate far beyond the boundaries of the national park - until the green plains are bare and returned to the banks of the Tarangire River. However, the approximately 4,000 elephants remain behind, so that Tarangire in northern Tanzania is also widely known as the “Elephant Park”.

Arusha National Park is the closest national park to the city of Arusha, the northern safari capital of Tanzania. It is a multi-faceted gem that is often overlooked by safari drivers, despite the opportunity to explore a tantalizing variety of habitats within a few hours. The entrance gate leads into the shady mountain forest inhabited by curious blue monkeys and colorful turacos and trogons - the only place on the northern safari circuit where the acrobatic black-and-white colobus monkey can be easily seen. In the middle of the forest is the spectacular Ngurdoto Crater, whose steep, rocky cliffs enclose a wide swampy floor with herds of buffalo and warthogs. Further north, rolling grassy mountains surround the tranquil beauty of the Momela Lakes, each a different shade of green or blue. Its shallows sometimes turn pink with thousands of flamingos, the lakes are home to a rich array of local and migrant waterfowl, and shaggy waterbucks display their large lyre-shaped horns at the watery edges. Giraffes glide over the grassy hills between grazing herds of zebra, while pairs of dik-dik dart into the bush like overgrown rabbits on spindly legs. Although elephants are not uncommon in Arusha National Park and lions are entirely absent, leopards and spotted hyenas can be seen prowling around in the early morning and late afternoon. It is also at dusk and dawn that the veil of clouds on the eastern horizon is most likely to lift, revealing the majestic snow-capped peaks of Kilimanjaro, just 50 km away. But it is Kilimanjaro's humble cousin, Mount Meru - the fifth highest in Africa at 4,566 meters - that dominates the park's horizon. With its peaks and eastern slopes protected in the national park, Meru offers unparalleled views of its famous neighbor while also being a worthwhile hiking destination. The climb from Meru first passes through wooded savannahs where buffalo and giraffes are common, into forests burning red-hot pokers and dripping Spanish moss. Everlasting flowers cling to the alpine desert while delicately hoofed klipspringers mark the migration's progress. On the jagged peak, Kilimanjaro stands exposed, blushing in the sunrise.

Lake Manyara National Park takes its name from a plant called Euphorbia tirucalli, known as Emanyara in the Maasai language. The Maasai use this plant to protect their boma (hedge). The park was declared a national park in 1960 and declared a human and biosphere reserve in 1981. The park has an area of 648.7 km2, of which 262.7 km2 is covered by lake and 386 km2 (240 sq mi) is dry land. The park's rainfall pattern is bimodal with short rains from November to December and long rains from February to May. The dry season lasts from late June to October. The annual mean temperature is 26.5 °C, the average temperature is 11.3 °C and the relative humidity is between 20 and 40 °C of 45%-85%.

Mikumi National Park is located north of the famous Selous Game Reserve. It was published in 1964 on an area of 1070 km2 and expanded to the current area of 3,230 km2 in 1975. The park is the fifth largest national park in Tanzania. It is called “Mikumi” and is connected to the village just beyond the western border of the Dar es Salaam - Iringa highway, which crosses the park for 50 km. The small town, in turn, takes its name from the palm tree (Borassus spp.), which once grew there in abundance, but no trunk can be seen in the village anymore.

Gombe, designated as a game reserve in 1943, was converted into a national park in 1968. The park is located 16 km north of the city of Kigoma on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in western Tanzania. It covers an area of 56 square kilometers and is a sensitive habitat for chimpanzees. Gombe gained its popularity after the research of Dr. Jane Goodall, considered the world's longest-running study of primates.

Ruaha was founded as a game reserve in 1910 and became a national park in 1964. With an area of 20,226 square kilometers, the park is the largest in Tanzania and the second largest in Africa. Ruaha is located 125 km west of Iringa town

Saadani is the only nature reserve in Tanzania that borders the Indian Ocean. Planned in 2005, the wildlife reserve covers a well-preserved ecosystem including the former Saadani Game Reserve, the former Mkwaja Ranch area, the Wami River and the Zaraninge Forest. Many villages are scattered around the park's boundaries. The village of Saadani itself was once an important port city and slave trading center in East Africa. Nowadays it is a small Swahili village with around 800 inhabitants whose livelihood consists mainly of fishing. Bird watchers are treated to rare migratory birds that love the shore. The coastal vegetation zones extend from a palm-rich shoreline to the tidal mangrove forest, which forms a buffer between sea and land, to the banks of the Wami River, home to the giant sycamore fig. The semi-open forests closely resemble the Selous Game Reserve, while the sprawling grassy area near the tourist office is named “Serengeti Ndogo” (Little Serengeti) and lives up to expectations. Saadani is a unique paradise where beach life meets wilderness. This not only gives you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the Indian Ocean straight after your safari, but also to immerse yourself in a unique display of marine and land flora and fauna in a naturally fascinating setting. Sadaani National Park is located on the north coast about 100 km northwest of Dar es Salaam and a similar distance southwest of the port of Tanga.

The park was formerly a game reserve and was founded in 1974. It is located 40 km south of Mpanda and is the third largest national park in Tanzania after Ruaha and Serengeti. It covers an area of 4,471 square kilometers.

Rubondo National Park, which covers an area of 457 square kilometers, became a game reserve in 1965 to provide a sanctuary for animals. It lies on the southwest corner of Lake Victoria and was declared a national park in 1977.

Mahale Mountains National Park is home to some of Africa's last wild chimpanzees. It is estimated that more than 800 live here. Some of them are used to people. This area was traditionally inhabited by the Batongwe and Holoholo people. Tongwe is a small Bantu ethnic group, so this park is located in the center of Tongwe country, which is south of the Kigoma region and north of the Katavi region. People were very attuned to the natural environment and lived without any visible impact on the ecology. The park was officially declared a national park in 1985. Deep in the heart of the African interior, in a roadless park located approximately 80 miles south of Stanley, which bears this immortal salute to Dr. Livingstone said, I assume. It is a scene reminiscent of an idyllic beach on the islands of the Indian Ocean. Silky white bays line the sapphire waters of Lake Tanganyika, overlooked by a chain of wild, jungle-covered peaks that rise nearly 2km above the shore. the remote, untouched and mysterious Mahale Mountains.

The Udzungwa Mountains National Park is a 1,900 km² nature reserve in central Tanzania south of the Ruaha and west of the Kilombero. The Udzungwa Mountains are the largest mountain massif in the chain of the geologically very old (around 200 million years) Eastern Arc Mountains. They are among the most species-rich regions on earth and are home to a high proportion of endemic species.

The Kitulo Plateau is an alpine grassland in the southern highlands of Tanzania, most of which is protected by Kitulo National Park. Intensive agriculture (mainly dairy cows) is still practiced around the state-owned Kitulo farm in the south-eastern part of the plateau. It lies over 2,000 m high between the alpine high mountain ranges of the Poroto Mountains in the north, the Kipengere Mountains with the 2,961 m high Mount Mtorwi in the east and the Livingstone Mountains with the 2,960 m high Mount Rungwe in the west. The plateau is known for its variety of flowers. It is easily accessible on foot from Mbeya town, but requires a few days, really rainproof clothing, full camping gear, a very warm sleeping bag (at night the temperature can drop to minus 7 degrees), a compass and a GPS receiver. A local guide with at least one mule is strongly recommended here, as is a stable circulation. There is no gastronomy of any kind on the plateau. Towards the mountains the terrain is rugged and very difficult. The plateau itself is open grassland and somewhat simpler geographically. If you want to descend to Lake Malawi, you need complete high-alpine mountaineering equipment. For the longest stretches, the rock walls first fall vertically into the valley and then vertically towards the lake. If you want to hike through the highlands to Ruhuhu, you should plan a good three weeks for these 200 km and get precise information about which road and in which villages you can pick up provisions. Because only the valleys are populated, and only the lower elevations.

The Selous (pronounced: Səlu:) game reserve extends over 50,000 square kilometers across several regions of Tanzania and therefore covers around five percent of the entire national territory. Its altitude is 200 to 500 m, in places up to 1200 m above sea level; precipitation amounts to 750 to 1000 mm. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982 and is the largest controlled game reserve in Africa. It has been on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger since 2014 due to organized poaching that endangers wildlife. The Selous Game Reserve was named after the big game hunter Sir Frederick Selous, who died fighting the Germans in the First World War in his area of Beho Beho in 1917. It is located 490 km southwest of Dar Es Salaam. Many animals such as wild dogs, sables, elands and elephants are found in the Selous Game Reserve. As do leopards, cheetahs and lions. The lions of the Selous Game Reserve are famous for their punk-like manes of hair, which make them look very different from other African lions. Rhinos are also present in the Selous Game Reserve, but their numbers have steadily declined in recent years.