6-Day Mikumi National & Ruaha National Park Safari

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park

You will be picked up from the agreed point in Dar es Salaam and transferred to Mikumi National Park. The drive will take about 6 hours, with a lunch stop at the restaurant in Morogoro Town. After lunch, proceed with afternoon game drives in the park, home to elephants, lions, wild dogs, zebras, hyenas, buffalos, wildebeests, eland, hartebeests, crocodiles, lizards and other resident animals. Over 300 species of birds have been observed in this park.

Main Destination:

Mikumi National Park

Best Time To Visit Late June to October (Animals are attracted to the waterholes)

High Season June to October

Best Weather June to October (Little to no rainfall)

Wildlife in Mikumi NP

ElephantCommon

GiraffeCommon

BuffaloCommon

ZebraCommon

WildebeestCommon

LionOccasional

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HippoOccasional

LeopardRare

HyenaRare

Wild DogRare

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

CheetahNone

Accommodation:

Camp Bastian Mikumi

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Mikumi NP

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Meals & Drinks:

• Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Enjoy the game drive at Mikumi Park

In the morning, after breakfast, go on a full-day game drive with a packed lunch in the park. Mikumi’s vegetation includes woodland, swamps, and grassland, with two waterholes, Mkata and Chamgore. Apart from the saddle-billed stork, hammerkop and malachite kingfisher, you will also find a monitor lizard and perhaps a python inhabiting the pools. After lunch, proceed with an afternoon game drive in the park, home to elephants, lions, wild dogs, zebras, hyenas, buffalos, wildebeests, eland, hartebeests, crocodiles, lizards and other residents.

Main Destination:

Mikumi National Park

Accommodation:

Camp Bastian Mikumi

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Mikumi NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Mikumi National Park to Ruaha National Park

Have an early breakfast at the hotel, then leave with your lunch box and drive to Ruaha National Park. The journey will take about 8 hours, with many exciting things on the road as you drive through Baobab Valley's colourful villages and the Southern Rift Valley Escarpment. Visit the Maasai community, where you will learn about the culture of this tribe and dance with them afterwards. Proceed with a drive to the park gate, where you will check in and drive to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Ruaha National Park

Best Time To Visit June to October (Best wildlife viewing)

High Season June to October (Ruaha is rarely crowded)

Best Weather June to October (Rains are very rare)

Wildlife in Ruaha NP

ElephantAbundant

GiraffeCommon

BuffaloCommon

ZebraCommon

HippoCommon

LionOccasional

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LeopardOccasional

HyenaOccasional

Wild DogOccasional

CheetahRare

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

WildebeestNone

Accommodation:

Ruaha Hilltop Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Ruaha NP

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Game drive and night game drive at Ruaha National Park

After breakfast, we will take you on a full-day game drive in Ruaha National Park with a picnic lunch. You will enjoy the unique experience of nature, wildlife patterns, and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas. You may spot rare animals, including the greater kudu, sable, and roan antelope.

Over 540 species of birds have been recorded in this park. The resident birds of the Ruaha National Park are the crested barbet, Dickinson's kestrel, pale-billed hornbill, violet-crested turaco, racket-tailed roller, plover, kingfisher, hornbill, green-wood hoopoe, sunbird, bee-eater and egret.

Return to your accommodation for dinner. Then, leave for a night game drive from 8:00 to 12:00 pm. During the night game drive, you will have a chance to see the different nocturnal species which can not be seen in the daytime. Return for overnight at your hotel in Ruaha.

Main Destination:

Ruaha National Park

Accommodation:

Ruaha Hilltop Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Ruaha NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

Wilderness walking safari and game drive at Ruaha Park

After breakfast, start a walking safari in the wilderness. An armed ranger will guide you on walking to get close to the animals, plants, footprints, and animals along the river for beautiful pictures. You will return to the hotel for a hot lunch. After lunch, leave for an afternoon game drive inside the park until sunset. Then, you will exit the park and drive to Iringa town for dinner and overnight.

Main Destination:

Iringa (City)

Accommodation:

Neema Crafts Guesthouse

• Budget guest house located in Iringa (City)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Non-alcoholic drinks

A visit to Isimila Stone Age to Dar es Salaam

Have breakfast at your hotel, then drive to Tosamaganga Village to visit the Isimila Stone Age. In the late 1950s, amid a dramatic landscape of eroded sandstone pillars, archaeologists unearthed one of the most significant Stone Age finds ever identified. Tools found at the site – hammerstones, axeheads, flints and scrapers – are estimated to be between 60,000 and 100,000 years old. There’s a museum with small, well-captioned displays highlighting some discoveries.

After this tour, drive back to Dar es Salaam, where you will stop for lunch at the Mikumi Park or Morogoro Restaurant. You can expect to arrive in Dar es Salaam late in the evening, where the tour will end at the agreed-upon point.

Main Destination:

Dar Es Salaam (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Non-alcoholic drinks

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.