Kitulo National Park - "The Serengeti of flowers"

If you in between your wildlife adventures like to have a change of scenery, then Kitulo is indeed a rare botanical marvel, home to a full 350 species of vascular plants, including 45 varieties of terrestrial orchid, which erupt into a riotous wildflower display of breathtaking scale and diversity during the main rainy season of late November to April.



If you come here you find is a hiker's and nature lovers paradise, but the place would appeal to anyone who wants to get away from the beaten tracks and experience remote mountain life with stunning and varied scenery. Like the green, cool mountain area of Usambara, it would make a great getaway spot in the summer months for those living on the coast to escape the heat in December to March. This also happens to be the best time on Kitulo for the spectacular flower bloom season that make the local people of the area refer to the Kitulo Plateau as “Bustani ya Mungu” - The Garden of God – while botanists have dubbed it the Serengeti of Flowers, host to ‘one of the great floral spectacles of the world’.

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