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Favorite thing: The landscape of Tarangire is dominated by large numbers of baobob trees - indeed a baobob greets you at the park entrance, and a lovely one shaded our tent at the Safari Lodge. These striking trees, also known as bottle trees or upside-down trees, store water inside their swollen trunks to endure the harsh drought conditions of this region. They can reach heights of between 5 to 30 metres and the trunk has a diameter of 7 to 11 metres. It can store up to 120,000 litres of water.
The leaves can be eaten as a leaf vegetable, and the highly nutirtious fruit (known colloquially as "sour gourd" or "monkey's bread") is eaten directly or mixed into porridge.
The name of "upside-down tree" comes from an African myth, which tells how each of the animals was given a tree to plant. The hyena, being short on intelligence, planted the baobab upside-down.
Updated Apr 7, 2009
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The landscape of Tarangire is dominated by large numbers of baobob trees - indeed a baobob greets you at the park entrance, and a lovely one shaded our tent at...
Q: Could someone please tell us about their stay at the Tarangire Safari Lodge? We have heard very different reports about it. Is it...
A: Tarangire Safari lodge is situated on a large ridge in the Tarangire Park. The lodge is very old and looks a bit run down when you enter. We have featured it purely...
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Elephants, elephants, elephants!
We stayed a couple of days in a tented lodge here which sits on an escarpment with fantastic views over the park below. The highlight of our time here was the large number of elephants who love in...
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Tarangire - place of the giants
Not only they have these big trees here, the Baobabs, they do also have a lot of elefants. Two giants of flora and fauna united... The Tarangir Ntl Park is named after the Tarngire river that has...
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Tarangire in June is very quiet. There are not many other tourists there, and infact, over the 36 hours I spent in the park I only saw two other landrovers in the park. This quietness means that it...
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We were lucky to see lions on the trees in Tarangire. Usually lions do not climb, but this tree with low branches is lovely home for this pride. Young male (bottommost lion on the picture) and three...
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