11 Days 10 Nights Mikumi, Ruaha & Nyerere National Park Experience.
Day 1 - Dar es Salaam
Arrive in Dar es Salaam, meet and greet with our representative and transfer to the city center.
Accommodation: Dinner & Overnight at Colosseum Hotel.
Day 2 - Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park.
After breakfast, drive from Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park with packed lunch for a game drive. (240km 7-8 hrs) Mikumi is Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park. It’s also the most accessible from Dar es Salaam. With almost guaranteed wildlife sightings, the open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain, the popular center piece of Mikumi, draws frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti Plains.
Accommodation: Dinner & Overnight Atupele Resort.
Day 3 Mikumi National park full day.
You will have a full day game drive in Mikumi National Whilst on safari, you can see a rich variety of bird species, as well as large numbers of giraffes, buffalos, and elephants. If you are lucky, you may also be able to spot lions, and African wild dogs. Likely to be seen animals include zebras, hippos, hartebeests, wildebeests, impalas, warthogs, elands, and antelopes. Several observation hills enable you to overview the park in its entirety.
Accommodation: Dinner and Overnight Atupele Resort
Day 4 -MIkumi to Ruaha National Park
Today, we head to Ruaha National Park where we will have a game drive in the afternoon. (250km 6hrs) This is a more extensive ecosystem, which includes Rungwa Game Reserve, Usangu Game Reserve, and several other protected areas. The name of the park is derived from the Great Ruaha River, which flows along its South-Eastern margin and is the focus for game-viewing. Ruaha is believed to have a high concentration of elephants than any National Park in East Africa.
It is also a place where, magnificent mammals like Kudu, Sable and Roan antelopes can easily be spotted in Miombo woodland. The park is also a habitat for endangered wild dogs. Other animals in the park include lions, leopards, cheetah, giraffes, zebras, elands, impala, bat eared foxes and jackals.
Accommodation: Dinner & Overnight Ruaha Hill Top.
Day 5-6 - Ruaha National Park
After breakfast, you dedicate these days in Ruaha for morning and afternoon game drives. You will have all meals at your lodge. Ruaha National Park (10,300km²) is the most visited National Park in the southern part of Tanzania. Due to its size and the fact that the South of Tanzania is less visited than the northern parks, you still have ample of space and you will see hardly any safari vehicles. Ruaha National Park forms a border between Africa’s eastern and southern eco- system. Here you will find kudus, which you will find seldom further north and during the same time you can see grant gazelles which reach their southernmost breeding area. The source of life in the park is doubtless the Great Ruaha River with its huge numbers of crocodiles and hippos.
Accommodation: Dinner & Overnight Ruaha Hill Top.
Day 7 – Mikumi National Park
After breakfast, we head for a game drive en route back to Mikumi.
This is to make our way to the Nyerere National Park, the following day as Mikumi National Park is bordered to the south with the Nyerere National Park, the two areas forming a unique ecosystem.
Accommodation: Dinner & Overnight Atupele Resort.
Day 8 –Mikumi to Nyerere National Park.
After breakfast, we head towards Nyerere National Park through Matemwe gate. (350km 8-9hrs) After Morogoro, you will leave the tar road and drive along the Uluguru Mountains through remote villages. Depending on our time of arrival, Will have Optional Activities such as Boat Safari at the evening and Get rest for preparation of 2 full days of safari in this Nyerere National Park.
Accommodation: Dinner & Overnight Selous kinga Lodge.
Day 9-10 – Full day Nyerere National Park.
Nyerere National Park is the biggest wildlife conservation area in Africa and forms together with the bordering Mikumi and Udzungwa National Parks an area which is as big as Switzerland! Today, you drive through the northern part of the National Park which is open for photo safaris. On the way, you have plenty of time for unique wildlife encounters in this unspoiled environment. Besides the typical residents of the African bush, you can spot up to 400 different bird species. However, it is not always easy to see the animals and birds because of the dense vegetation. Will have a walking safari early morning on 9th Day before departing to another last Game drive.
Accommodation: Dinner & Overnight Selous kinga Lodge.
Day 11 - Dar Es Salaam
After breakfast, we drive towards the Indian Ocean through Mtemere Gate and at around noon you will reach Dar Es Salaam.
(300km8-9hrs) Transfer to airport or hotel at your own arrangement.
END OF SAFARI.
Price: USD 5,400 per person
Included:
- Park fees
- All accommodation as stated in the itinerary
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (SAFARI VEHICLE 4X4)
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- All Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking water on all days
- Boat Safari at Nyerere National Park
- Walking Safari at Nyerere National Park.
- Flying Doctor Insurance
Excluded:
- International flights (from/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (tipping guideline US$20.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Alcoholic drinks
- Accommodation on the last day of the Tour
