Tanzania Mikumi & Ruah Safari

5 DAYS: MIKUMI AND WONDERING RUAHA ADVENTURE

$2400-2600 USD

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Safari summary

This safari tour allows travelers to experience the best of Southern Tanzania Parks. Kick off your tour in Ruaha National Park a wandering nature , the best place to see lions in the whole of Africa , before venturing off to the Mikumi National Park where you can discover the mysterious Mkata Plains. Enjoy exclusive game viewing with safari jeeps, foot and boat for up-close of hippos, elephants, crocodiles and water birds.

Tour Highlights

Excellent for big game viewing buffalo, giraffe, elephants, and big cats
Get up-close to the hippos and elephants in Mikumi on a boat safari
Excellent sighting of lions in Ruaha National Park.
Keep your eyes peeled for the prolific birdlife of Tanzania
Game drives in the company of some of the best guides


About this tour

Tour type Custom, tailor-made, private
Main focus Game drives
Activity level Easy activity
Best months January, February, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
Countries
Parks

Fine details

Safari highlights
  • Bird watching—with professional guide
  • Wildlife sanctuaries
What’s included?
  • Accommodation
  • Airport transfers
  • Meals
  • Park fees
  • Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • All drinks
  • Hot air balloons
  • Internal flights
  • International flights
  • Laundry
  • Premium alcoholic beverages
  • Spa treatments
  • Tips and gratuities
  • Visas

Itinerary

Day 1: Dar Es Salaam — Mikumi Park

Mikumi

You leave your accommodation after breakfast with a picnic lunch packed safely away, the landscape drifts past as your guide heads for Mikumi National Park, arrive late afternoon enjoy a game drive inside Mikumi park. The park is home to a wide variety of bird species, zebras, hippos, hartebeest, wildebeest, impala, warthog, eland antelope, giraffe, buffalo, and elephants in the late evening procced to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Mikumi wildlife Camp

Day Full-Day Mikumi Park

Mikumi

Full day exploring the park at your own pace enjoying morning and afternoon game drive tracing the great sighting of buffaloes, lions, hippos, zebra, birds and giraffe the park is known for, and in the late evening return to your accommodation – Mikumi wildlife camp- which lies in the heart of the wilderness of the Mikumi National Park, a stay in the Camp will guarantee you a memorable and magical safari experience that you will not forget for the rest of your life.

Accommodation: Mikumi wildlife Camp

Day 3 Mikumi -Ruah Park

Mikumi | Ruaha

After early morning (2 hours) game drive at Mikumi return back to lodge for a late breakfast, then proceed towards Ruaha National park. It’s about a 5 hour’s journey. Ruaha is Tanzania’s largest National Park, It is at the center of an ecosystem that covers 12,950 sq. km and is home to the country’s largest elephant population (estimated at some 10,000). In the late evening transfer to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Ruah River Lodge

Day 4: Full-Ruah Park

Ruaha

Ruah has a mood of its own-a rugged, remote, almost spiritual quality embodied by bulbous silhouettes of ancient’s baobabs that haunt its semi-arid plains and rocky slopes. This vast and magnificent plateau, at mainly 900m – 1,100m high, is also home to kudus, gazelles, ostriches, cheetahs, lions, buffaloes, leopard and roan and sable antelopes – while the banks of the great Ruaha River to the east provide a perfect habitat for crocodiles, hippos and a wide array of birdlife.

Accommodation: Ruah River Lodge

Day 5: Ruaha Park - Dar Es Salaam

Ruaha

After breakfast in the lodge you will have a game drive en route to the gate looking for the farewell committee’s and drive back to Dar es Salaam arriving in the late evening. You will be dropped at your hotel or airport.

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