This trip take you from Dar es Salaam to Selous Game reserve. A 5 – 6 hours’ drive in to the wild bush, colored with the clear blue water in the mighty Rufiji River. The park is bushy with lots of small lakes and some open areas. After 3 days, you move onwards, over the Uluguru Mountains to the farming town called Morogoro and then onwards to a walking safari in Udzungwa Mountains National Park and more game drive in the open steps of Mikumi National Park. Mikumi – also known as “little Serengeti” is a park with lots of animals, well developed roads and the open flood plains give you a great view of the animals.
Recommendation:
If you are continuing your trip to Zanzibar we advise to fly over to Zanzibar.
We pick you at your house/hotel in Dar es Salaam and head out of time by daybreak. A five hours’ drive will take you to Selous Game Reserve, Africa’s largest protected wildlife area. As you arrive the mighty Rufiji River we will park the cars by the river bank and place your luggage in the boat for the transfer over to the other side of the river. Lunch will be prepared, but you may want to check in first before you can relax with a tasty lunch overlooking the river. In the afternoon, we take you for a boat safari, up the river to find the hippopotamus, crocodiles, birds and nests in the river wall. You may also see the local fishermen swimming in the river, or the ladies doing laundry while the children are taking a bath. The boat safari has been called; romantic, exciting, relaxing and even amazing as the hippopotamus is very photogenic and the sunset is painting the skies in the brightest romantic colors.
Destination: Selous Game Reserve
Accommodation: Selous Wilderness Camp
Today you enjoy a full day of safari in Selous Game Reserve, the land of the elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, antelopes as well as lions and other predators. This area is more than 50 km2, that is larger than Belgium. A UNESCO world heritage site, Selous gives you extraordinary possibilities for wildlife experiences. Since Selous is a game reserve (not a national park), we have the options of following the herds of animals outside the roads, into their natural habitats which give you the best chance for getting you the “million dollars” picture. You will return to the lodge before the sun sets. At the lodge, you can enjoy some snack around the fire as you watch the sun setting over the mighty Rufiji River. You will be served a delicious dinner before you go back to your tent/bungalow.
You start in the morning after a delicious breakfast and head out in the bush with your packed lunch. In the evening, you can cool down in the pool, or just enjoy the sun setting on the other side of the river while enjoying the safari stories around the fire, or you can just relax in the cozy sitting area before you enjoy a tasty dinner.
Destination: Selous Game Reserve
Accommodation: Selous Wilderness Camp
Before breakfast you take some tea or coffee and some fruits before heading in to the woods by foot. Together with a guide and an armed ranger you will explore the nature and the smaller habitants in the bush of Selous. This exciting morning, you will be working up an appetite and as you return to the lodge they will have prepared a solid breakfast for you to enjoy. Today you will enjoy a full day game drive in Selous Game Reserve.
Destination: Selous Game Reserve
Accommodation: Selous Wilderness Camp
Today you will check out of the lodge and start your drive to Morogoro, a village at the foot of the intriguing Uluguru Mountains. On the way, you will drive through Selous Game Reserve, passing a lot of agriculture villages before you start an adventurous climb up in the mountain, through the rain forest and down to Morogoro and onwards to Udzungwa Mountains National Park. In the afternoon, you can enjoy the surroundings and the fresh air or go for a nice walk in the village.
Destination: Udzungwa Mountains National Park
Accommodation: Hondo Hondo
You have relaxing morning but at 9 or 10 you need to head towards Iringa Town and Ruaha National Park. If convenient you may stop in Iringa town for a cultural lunch before heading to Ruaha – one of the most untouched national parks in Tanzania.
Interesting fact: yearly Ruaha has as many visitors as Serengeti National Park have on an average daily basis.
Destination: Ruaha National Park
Accommodation: Ruaha River Lodge
These days you enjoy full day game drives. Ruaha’s unusually high diversity of antelope is due to their liking of the acacia savannah of East Africa and the miombo woodland belt. Grant’s gazelle and lesser kudu occur here at the very south of their range, alongside the miombo-associated sable and roan antelope, and one of East Africa’s largest populations of greater kudu, the park emblem, distinguished by the male’s magnificent corkscrew horns.
This is the gems of Ruaha: For predators and large mammals are very easily seen during the dry season (mid May to December) while during the wet season (January to April) the park is best for the bird-watchers, lush scenery and wildflowers. The male greater kudu is most visible in June, the breeding season.
Destination: Ruaha National Park
Accommodation: Ruaha River Lodge
This morning you are leaving Ruaha Driving back towards Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park. The park which always share its abundant wildlife with the visitors. The savannah inside the park allow your eyes to spot wildlife from a great distance, giving you wonderful pictures either for your camera, or forever embedded in your memory. Many of Mikumi’s animals are used to visitors on two legs or four tires, so here you’ll have the opportunity to meet species like elephant, giraffe, wildebeest, and antelopes and if lucky, predators like lion and leopard.
Destination: Mikumi National Park
Accommodation: Mikumi Wilderness Camp
A full day game drive in the park which always share its abundant wildlife with the visitors. The savannah inside the park allow your eyes to spot wildlife from a great distance, giving you wonderful pictures either for your camera, or forever embedded in your memory. Many of Mikumi’s animals are used to visitors on two legs or four tires, so here you’ll have the opportunity to meet species like elephant, giraffe, wildebeest, and antelopes and if lucky, predators like lion and leopard.
Destination: Mikumi National Park
Accommodation: Mikumi Wilderness Camp
This day you start early in the morning with some fruits, biscuits and some coffee or tea before you head back into the wild before even the birds wake up. This is the best chance to find the nocturnal animals, and some people may be lucky enough to find them “in action” hunting or eating at these hours. Around eight or nine you go back to the lodge for breakfast (if you did not bring it with you). After breakfast, you go back into the wild for a couple of hours before you head back to Dar es Salaam. You must leave Mikumi National Park at midday to be back in Dar es Salaam before dark.
Price per person sharing:
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4 people |
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6 people |
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$4 855 |
$3 605 |
$3 100 |
$2 848 |
$2 716 |
$2 615 |
