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Kitulo National Park
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Kitulo, which has recently become a fully protected national park, is locatedted on the Kitulo Plateau.The plateau forms part of Tanzania\'s southern highlands. The area, which is known locally as the (Garden of God- Bustani ya Mungu in swahili) provides a home for a wide variety of wildflowers such as balsams, bellflowers, honey-peas, irises, lilies and orchids. Botanists have found much of interest as ‘one of the great floral spectacles of the world’. Kitulo is full of hundreds species of vascular plants, 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.
It watersheds for the Great Ruaha River, rich game is sparsely represented, though a few hardy mountain reedbuck and eland still roam the open grassland.
Perched between the rugged peaks of the Kipengere, Poroto and Livingstone Mountains, the well-watered volcanic soils of Kitulo support the largest and most important montane grassland community in Tanzania.
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