Covering one of the twelve mountains that rise majestically from the coastal plain in eastern Tanzania, Udzungwa Mountains National Park is the country's highest and most biodiverse forested area. Known as the Eastern Arc Mountains, this archipelago of isolated massifs has also been nicknamed “Africa's Galápagos” for its wealth of endemic animals and plants, the most familiar of which is the African violet.
The park is also unique in Tanzania in that its forest extends unbroken from 250 metres up to 2,000 metres in altitude. Lush and primeval, this forest feels truly enchanted: a verdant refuge dotted with sun-dappled clearings, with trees over 30 metres tall whose trunks are covered in fungi, lichens, mosses and ferns.
