During Tarangire's dry season, day after day of cloudless skies seem to suck all moisture from the landscape, turning the waving grasses to platinum blonde, brittle as straw, The Tarangire River is a mere shadow of itself, just a trickle of water choked with wildlife, thirsty antelope and elephants have wandered hundreds of parched kilometers to Tarangire's permanent water source.
Herds of elephants dig in the damp earth of the riverbed in search of underground springs, while wildebeest, zebras, buffalos, and gazelles mingle with rare species such as eland, oryx around each shrinking lagoon. Python climb into the shade of the trees that line Tarangire's massive southern swamps and hang there like giant malignant fruit. Coils are neatly arranged over the branches in a perfect sphere. Tarangire in the dry season enjoys the greatest concentration of wildlife out of the Serengeti ecosystem.
Tarangire's huge herds of elephants rival the park's gigantic, squat baobab trees as its most celebrated features ancient matriarchs, feisty young bulls, and tiny, stumbling calves are avered present to fascinate visitors with their grace, intelligence and majesty. The best time to visit Tarangire for a wildlife viewing or walking in the dry season is from June to October.
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