12 Days Tanzania Southern Adventure & Zanzibar Spice Tour
12 Days Tanzania Southern Adventure & Zanzibar Spice Tour
Take an early morning flight from Dar es Salaam to Ruaha National Park that departs from Dar es Salaam International Airport at 10:30 am and land at Msembe airstrip in Ruaha National Park at 1:30 pm. You will be picked up by your driver guide with a 4X4 pop-up roof safari vehicle at Msembe airstrip, and be transferred to your lodge for your lunch. Relax at lodge and discuss with your guide about your next day program or opt to go for a short day game drive. In the evening have your dinner and overnight at Tandala Tented Camp. Meal plan (L,D)
You shall have your breakfast at 7:00 am, and at 8:00 am, with picnic lunch, you shall go for a full-day game drive and get to explore Tanzania largest national park, home to huge elephant and buffalo herds and a crossover of game from Southern and Eastern Africa. It’s the location of the Great Ruaha River flowing along its eastern border creating spectacular gorges. The Ruaha National park is home to hippo and crocodile, waterbuck, reedbuck, buffaloes, lions, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, jackals and many elephants. Best time to visit is the dry season from May to December where animals are concentrated around the shrinking water courses. Enjoy a picnic lunch at a perfect spot chosen by your guide at 12:30 pm. And then continue with game drive until evening when you shall have your dinner and overnight at Tandala Tented Camp. Meal plan (B, L,D)
You shall have breakfast at 7:00 am and with lunchbox, at 8:00 am, you shall depart from Ruaha National Park and drive to Mikumi for your dinner and overnight. You shall reach Mikumi in the early evening and have your dinner at 7:30 pm then overnight at Camp Bastian Mikumi. Meal plan (B,L,D)
You shall have breakfast at 7:00 am and with lunch-box, at 8:00 am you shall go for full-day game drive in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania’s fourth largest national park. Get to see the spectacular concentration of variety of animals at Mkata flood plain including four of the big five, elephant, buffalo, Lion and Leopard. Other game including the worlds’ largest Antelope – Eland, Greater Kudu, Sable Antelopes, Defassa waterbuck and African hunting dogs. Your guide shall choose a perfect spot where you can have your lunch as you view animals. After your lunch continue with game drive until evening when you shall drive to your lodge Camp Bastian Mikumi for dinner and overnight. Meal plan (B,L,D)
You shall have your breakfast at 7:00 am, with lunchbox, depart from Mikumi at 8:00 am and drive to Selous Game Reserve. Arrive at Selous in time for lunch, after your lunch, go for a afternoon boat safari along river Rufiji and get to see elephants on the riverbed, snorting hippos in the comfort of your boat. In the evening you shall enjoy a bush dinner at 7:30 pm then overnight at Africa Safari Camp. Meal plan (B,L,D)
You shall have breakfast at 7:00 am and with lunch-box, at 8:00 am you shall go for full-day game drive in Selous which is famous for having large numbers of elephants, black rhinoceroses, cheetahs, giraffes, hippopotamuses and crocodiles live in this immense sanctuary, which measures 50,000 km2 and is relatively undisturbed by human impact. After your lunch at 12:30 pm, you shall continue with game drive until evening where you shall have your dinner at 7:30 pm then overnight at Africa Safari Camp at Selous. Meal plan (B, L,D)
Breakfast shall be at 7:00 am, and at 8:00 am you shall be transferred to Mtemere airstrip to board your flight to Zanzibar. You shall be picked up at Zanzibar airport and be transferred at your hotel the luxurious Palms Zanzibar. Spend your day at leisure. In the evening its dinner and overnight. Meal plan (B,L)
Have your breakfast at 7:00 am, and at 8:00 am go for a tour of Stone Town. Get to discover Zanzibar old city and get an opportunity to see the former slave market, House of Wonder, Oldest Anglican Church built by bishop Steers in 1873 on the site where slaves were being auctioned. You will also see the local people going about their daily activities walking through narrow streets of Stone Town. In the afternoon we shall go have our lunch at the hotel. After your lunch spend your day at leisure at the Palms Zanzibar.
After your breakfast, you shall go for a spice tour. You shall be taken through a profusion of greenery in the countryside while seeing, smelling and tasting a variety of mouth watering tropical seasonal fruits like jack fruit, pineapple, banana, green coconut (dafu), durian, love apple (tufaa), litchi (shoki-shoki), sour soup (mabungo) and many more. A full tour involves much more than spices and you will also get a chance to see the iodine plant, henna bush, ylang-ylang, the lipstick tree, cocoa and coffee trees. In the evening you shall return to your hotel The Palms Zanzibar for dinner and overnight.
You shall have your breakfast at 7:00 am after breakfast have your day at leisure or enjoy beach excursions and in the evening its dinner and overnight at the Palms Zanzibar hotel.
You shall have your breakfast at 7:00 am, after breakfast go for some beach activities and get to enjoy the picture perfect white powdery sands, turquoise waters and shady palm trees of Zanzibar beach. Enjoy your dinner and overnight at the Palms Zanzibar.