At Same, an unpretentious town on the Moshi-Dar road, the sign for Mkomazi National Park pops up.
The gates of Zange at Mkomazi that has one of the smartest gates to any national park … flanked by a Fringe-eared oryx and a Black rhino.
The 3,245-square kilometre national park was by 1989 overrun by poachers, hunters and cattle, and was left without a single rhino and only a few elephants.
Mkomazi became Tanzania’s first rhino sanctuary in a country that had lost 90 per cent of its herd to poachers.
In 2006, Mkomazi was elevated from reserve to national park status.
