Tour Overview
Mikumi /Ruaha/ Udzungwa is design to full fill the tourist showing the interest in wildlife view. With this tour you will enjoy wonderful game drive and see a lots of animals. Recommend for every body with different age. Destination to destination are fairly far from each other.
Included/Exclude
Park fees (For non-residents)
All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
A professional driver/guide
All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
All Taxes/VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals (As specified)
Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
International flights (From/to home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fee
Tour Plan
Pick up from your hotel in Dar es Salaam or at Dar Es Salaam Airport by your guide and leave for Mikumi national park (transfer some 4-5 hours from Dar Es Salaam outskirts), being nestled between the Uluguru Mountains to the East and the Rift Valley Escarpments to the Southwest. As it is close to the Selous ecosystem and therefore part of it, it benefits from the highest game density of the entire conservation area. The Mikumi National Park obtains a good impression of the African animal world and is suitable very well for a short visit. After arrival at Mikumi National Park you go on game drives around the park.
After breakfast, depart for Ruaha National Park (long drive of some 7.8 hours via Mikumi town and Iringa). In the afternoon we reach the lodge constructed on and around a rocky kopje overlooking the woodland. The Lodge provide comfortable accommodation and good food while blending into its surroundings to enable visitors to feel themselves a part of the wild. Both the dining “Banda” and the bar, in elevated position above the river combine comfort and coolness together with the most spectacular views.
One full day game drives at Ruaha National Park with picnic lunch. Ruaha, with an area of 20,226sq km. Is the first largest park in Tanzania, and second largest elephant sanctuary in Tanzania. The great Ruaha River that flows along its entire eastern border, creating spectacular gorges and scenery, features a large number of hippos and crocodiles. The wide variety of animals include Greater and Lesser Kudu, roan and sable antelope. Bird life is rich, with over 370 species recorded.
After breakfast your depart for Udzungwa Mountain National Park (drive of some 7-8 hours), one of the most interesting bio-diversity and unique rainforest areas of East Africa, where many extremely rare plants and animal species have been identified (and indeed continue to be discovered). Among the six types of primates there are two endemic species found nowhere else in the world – the Udzungwa Colobus Monkey and the Sanje Crested Mangabey. You arrive at your camp late morning for a day of walking and bird-watching in the pristine rain forest, hiking towards the Sanje waterfalls for spectacular views of the wide Kilombero Valley. If you wish, you can bath and play around in the pools at the waterfalls.
Today your guide will take you to the Hidden Waterfall Trail taking you to Njokamoni Waterfall, right back into Hondo Hondo. It’s a long, steep walk that climbs to over 1000m, so you should plan to leave early. It is necessary to take a ranger on this hike as there are large mammals deep in the forest. You will certainly see plenty of wildlife on this trail. Once you’ve climbed the sometimes steep trail to the ridge, you walk through the flat grassy bottoms of some beautiful hidden valleys (hence our name for the trail) often frequented by elephants. Overnight at Udzungwa Falls Lodge.
After breakfast you drive back to Dar es Salaam (some 6-7 hours) with arrival in the late afternoon at the Airport or your hotel (or in time for the last flight to Zanzibar at 18:15 for extension ) This Tanzania Southern Circuit itinerary can be extended with a nice relaxing stay at Zanzibar. Please ask for further info. End of your Family Safari Tanzania South.
