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Arrival
Day 1
Drive to Nyerere National Park (Part of Selous Game Reserve)
Drive to Nyerere National Park (Part of Selous Game Reserve)
You will meet your driver guide on arrival and depart to Nyerere National Park (Part of Selous Game Reserve) takes 5hrs with lunch boxes. In the afternoon, you will enjoy a boat trip, and check in at Rufiji River Camp on a full-board basis
Rufiji River camp, situated in the heart of the reserve, is environmentally friendly and each tent is equipped with private bathroom and a veranda facing the river. There is a constant flow of animals coming down to drink at the river offering a permanent show to visitors of the camp. The water is usually full of hundreds of hippos as well as groups of crocodiles that laze in the sun on the sandbanks in the river. This is one of UNESCO World Heritage site that give an opportunities for foot safaris and game walks, boat explorations and the classic 4WD safari in open vehicles add a further unique element to the Selous safari and ensure its reputation for pure bush adventure remains untarnished by volume.
- Main Destination:
- Nyerere National Park
- Accommodation:
- Rufiji River Camp
Wildlife in Nyerere NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Game Drives in Nyerere National Park
Game Drives in Nyerere National Park
After breakfast, you will set for a full-day game drive in the park with picnic lunches. All meals and overnight stays will be at Rufiji River Camp.
Few other safaris in Tanzania evoke the romance, mystique, and spiritual delight of the African bush as one in the Nyerere National Park. Embracing 54,000 sq km of southwestern Tanzania, it is one of the largest protected wilderness reserves on the continent, three times larger than the Serengeti and twice the size of Belgium. Named after the legendary 19th-century explorer and hunter Frederick Courtney Selous, the reserve was founded by the German colonial administration in 1905. It was later expanded to include traditional elephant migration routes and accommodate the vast herds of buffalo that roam this remote, untouched corner of Africa. You will be able to spot animals most especially predators such as lions, leopards, and African wild dogs among others.
- Main Destination:
- Nyerere National Park
- Accommodation:
- Rufiji River Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Game Drives in Nyerere National Park
Game Drives in Nyerere National Park
You will have an early morning walk safari with armed ranger, return for breakfast, and explore the Nyerere National Park (part of Selous) on a second full-day game drive, the perfect opportunity to try to find any wildlife that wasn’t spotted on the previous day! Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Rufiji River Camp.
- Main Destination:
- Nyerere National Park
- Accommodation:
- Rufiji River Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Depart to Mikumi National Park
Depart to Mikumi National Park
After breakfast, you will proceed to Mikumi National Park takes 7hrs. You will check in at Vuma Hill Tented Camp on full board accommodation.
Vuma Hill Tented Camp is set in the hillside of Mikumi National Park, overlooking the Mkata plains and surrounding mountains. Each tent is designed to give you privacy and the comfort you desire with private bathrooms and hot water showers inside each tent along with custom-made furniture.
Lions survey their kingdom and the zebras, wildebeests, impalas, and buffalo herds that migrate across it – from the flattened tops of termite mounds, or sometimes, during the rains, from perches high in the trees. Giraffes forage in the acacia stands that fringe the Mkata River, islets of shade favored also by Mikumi's elephants. More than 400 bird species have been recorded, with such colorful common residents as the lilac-breasted roller, yellow-throated longclaw, and bateleur eagle joined by a host of European migrants during the rainy season.
- Main Destination:
- Mikumi National Park
- Accommodation:
- Vuma Hills Tented Camp
Wildlife in Mikumi NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5-7
Depart to Ruaha National Park
Depart to Ruaha National Park
After breakfast, you will proceed to Iringa with lunch boxes to Ruaha National Park takes 8 hours. You will check-in at Ruaha River Lodge on full board accommodation.
Overlooking the Great Ruaha River, the lodge offers accommodation in bandas built from local stone and thatch. From the seclusion of your veranda, you can watch wild animals as they descend from the hills. The dining bandas and bars at the Ruaha River Lodge are in elevated positions above the river, combining comfort and coolness with unrivaled panoramic views.
- Main Destination:
- Ruaha National Park
- Accommodation:
- Ruaha River Lodge
Wildlife in Ruaha NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Depart to Mbeya
Depart to Mbeya
After breakfast, you will proceed to Mbeya with lunch boxes. This is the tough day it will takes more than 12hrs driving. Arrival for dinner, and an overnight stay at Utengule Coffee Lodge.
Utengule Coffee Lodge offers guests an oasis of calm on the slopes of the mighty Mbeya range in Southern Tanzania, with spectacular views across the East African Rift Valley. In terraced gardens on an estate famous for its gourmet coffee. ‘The Lodge on the Coffee Estate’ has 16 rooms with en-suite facilities, the most luxurious have open glass frontages and large balconies overlooking the pool and the Rift Valley beyond.
You can expect a personal touch with home cooking using locally-grown ingredients and exceptional hospitality offered with a smile. You can swim, play squash or tennis, walk, take a guided trek, tour the coffee farm, read a book, or simply watch the variety of birdlife in the gardens and marvel at the gorgeous sunsets.
- Main Destination:
- Mbeya (City)
- Accommodation:
- Utengule Coffee Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9-11
Trip to Kipili Lake Tanganyika
Trip to Kipili Lake Tanganyika
In the morning, you will proceed to Kipili takes 8hrs with a picnic lunch. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Lake Shore Lodge.
Lake Shore Lodge lies on the banks of this beautiful Lake with a 400m private beach looking onto the nearby islands.
Lake Tanganyika is situated in western Tanzania and boasts crystal water, wild otters, and more than 250 species of cichlid fish found nowhere else on our planet. It is also the world's longest Lake, the world's second deep lake, and holds almost 18% of the world's fresh water.
Lake Shore Lodge offers various adventure activities including diving, snorkeling, fishing, kayaking, quad biking, mountain biking, walks to one of the oldest churches in Tanzania, birding along the river, and waterskiing. But this is also the perfect place to just relax in a hammock, watch the local fishermen and the slow changes of the lake, and do absolutely nothing!
- Main Destination:
- Lake Tanganyika
- Accommodation:
- Lake Shore Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 12-14
Depart to Katavi National Park
Depart to Katavi National Park
After breakfast, you will proceed to Katavi National Park takes 4hrs with lunch boxes and check in at Katavi Wildlife Camp on full board accommodation.
Katavi Wildlife Camp is very exclusive and located in the best game area so that you can watch the daily movements of the game between food and water and witness the dramas unfold before you. The tents, luxurious in size and furnishings, are cunningly set back in amongst the trees that line the floodplain, providing both shade and camouflage in the prime game viewing area of the park, where the wildlife is unaware of your presence.
- Main Destination:
- Katavi National Park
- Accommodation:
- Katavi Wildlife Camp
Wildlife in Katavi NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 15
Fly back to Dar es Salaam
Fly back to Dar es Salaam
After breakfast, you will drive Katavi airstrip and depart with Safari Airlink back to Dar es Salaam, where you will meet your driver to transfer you to the hotel or International Airport for your departure back home.
- Main Destination:
- Dar Es Salaam (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
