Tour Overview
This 8 day tour package will take you to Selous Game Reserve, Ruaha National Park and Mikumi National Park; you will go on game drives, walking safaris and boat safaris. Selous Game Reserve and Ruaha national park are rich in wildlife but they receive very few visitors which gives them an unspoiled wilderness feel.
On this tour you will see the big five and many other Southern Tanzania species; you will see lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, zebras, impalas, and many other wild animals of southern Tanzania. This tour packages starts from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival to Tanzania (Welcome to Tanzania)
On arrival at Dar es Salaam Airport(Julius Nyerere International Airport) you will be picked up by our driver who will drive you to your hotel in Dar es Salaam.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at your hotel in Dar es Salaam.
Day 2: Dar es Salaam – Selous Game Reserve
In the morning, you will be driven from Dar es Salaam to Selous Game Reserve; the drive takes approximately 6 hours. On arrival, lunch will be served and then in the afternoon, you will go for a boat safari on the Rufiji River.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at a camp in Selous National Park.
Day 3: Selous Game Reserve
You will spend this day doing game drives inside Selous Game Drive, lunch will be served inside the reserve and then you will head go on another game drive until late in the evening. On this day, you will see lions, elephant, giraffe, buffalo, zebra, birds, wild dogs and many other wild animals of Southern Tanzania.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at a camp in Selous National Park.
Day 4: Selous Game Reserve – Mikumi National Park
After breakfast, our guide will drive you to Mikumi National Park; the drive takes about 5 hours. You will arrive in the afternoon and then lunch will be served; after lunch, you will head out for a game drive inside Mikumi National Park.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at a lodge in Mikumi.
Day 5: Mikumi National Park
This day will be spent doing game drives inside Mikumi National park; today, you will see Africa’s finest predators and big game. You will see zebras, hippos, hartebeest, wildebeest, impala, warthog, eland antelope, giraffe, buffalo, elephants, lions, leopards and hyenas
Dinner and overnight accommodation at a lodge in Mikumi.
Day 6: Mikumi National Park – Ruaha National Park
After breakfast, our guide will drive you from Mikumi National Park to Ruaha National Park – Tanzania’s largest national park. You will arrive around lunchtime, lunch will be served and then in the afternoon, you will head out for a game drive.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at a lodge in Ruaha.
Day 7: Ruaha National Park
In the morning, you will be driven out of your lodge for a day of game viewing; you will see one of the largest concentrations of predators in Tanzania; lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyena, wild dogs, bat-eared foxes, and jackals roam freely here. Grazers such as elephants, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, Grant’s gazelles, greater and lesser kudus, sable and roan antelopes, waterbucks, and impalas will also be seen.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at a lodge in Ruaha.
Day 8: Ruaha National Park – Dar es Salaam – Departure
On this day, you will be driven to Dar es Salaam; the drives takes about 8 hours. If your flight back home or a connecting flight to a different part of Tanzania leaves this night, we will drive you to the airport to catch the flight.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at a hotel in Dar es Salaam.