Udzungwa Mountains National Park is one of Tanzania’s most outstanding, paradise and unique exciting wilderness mountains forested with greatest altitudinal range of forest. It is one of thirty-four “World Biodiversity Hotspot” and one of the 200 WWF Ecoregions of global critical importance.

The park is home of primate and known from the treasure of high biodiversity of plants and animals. It has a high density of endemism species with some plants and animals that can only be found in these mountains.

Udzungwa Mountains National Park is part of the Eastern Arc Mountains, which is a series of mountains ranging from Taita Hills in Southern Kenya to the Makambako Gap in Southern central of Tanzania.

The mountain range is sometimes called “The Galapagos Islands of Africa”: the eastern Arc Mountains are small and fragmented mountains, each block having a patch of remaining dance tropical rain forests with high rainfall which seems as Islands in the sea of arid savannah vegetation

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