Main Attraction:
Kitulo National Park has many attractions, these are the highlights you should not miss:
- Flora and Fauna
- Blooming Flowers
- Flora diversity
- Birdlife
- Beautiful scenery
- Mount Mtorwi
- Kitulo Plateau
Flora and Fauna:
Except for a few mountain reedbuck and eland, Kitulo is not big on large animals. However, plants, birds, and butterflies make up for the life in the park. The rare Denham’s bustard, blue swallow, zebra, the kipunji monkey, chameleon, lizards, frogs, spiders and other small insects all find their home within the park.
Blooming Flowers:
Best known for the vast number of flower species that bloom across the plateau, Kitulo is a unique botanical park. A myriad of aloes, proteas, geraniums, giant lobelias, lilies and aster daisies grow with the stunning orchids and pokers.
Flora diversity:
No less than 400 plant species and 45 different orchids and other different species are recorded as endemic to southern Tanzania. Walk in the park, off the Livingstone mountains, and in the forest, you'll be relieved of the weary and stress of an intense Tanzania safari experience.
Birdlife:
For a plateau of pleasant flowers, it only follows that it will be an important birding area. Endemic to the plateau are birds such as Denham Bustar, Blue swallow, lesser kestrel, Njembe cisticola, Kipengere seedeater, Pallid harrier and many others.
Beautiful scenery:
With birds and butterflies fleeting the colourful orchids and flowery grassland, the park’s scenery is as comparable to the Biblical Garden of Eden.
Mount Mtorwi:
On the top of Mount Mtorwi, you are on southern Tanzania’s highest peak and 1m higher than Mt Rungwe.
Kitulo Plateau:
Dubbed the Serengeti of Flowers by botanists, the plateau hosts one of the great floral spectacles of the world.
More About Popular Activities
Walking Safari
Open walking safaris through the grasslands to watch birds and wildflowers are available to tourists.
Hill Hiking
Go hiking on neighbouring ranges in the highlands northeast of Tukuyu during the day.
Driving
A drive around Kitulo Plateau’s unique floral/ orchid species, the Livingstone Forest, the Afroal pine grasslands and its wildlife will leave you spellbound.
Bird watching
This natural botanical garden is very alluring to bird watchers. Thrill to the sightings of rare Denham’s bustard, the endangered blue swallow, mountain marsh widow, Njombe cisticola and Kipengere seedeater.
Sightseeing
See the colors as they erupt across the plateau in the form of 350 species of vascular plants including 45 varieties of terrestrial orchid.
Waterfront viewing
See the fantastic views of Lake Nyasa and its beautiful Matema Beach down the mountains.
Floral viewing
Irises, aloes, geraniums and many more flowers carpeting its grassy expanses, the floristic visit that Kitulo offers will relieve you of the traditional wildlife photographic holidays.