7 Days Exploring Southern Tanzania

Day 1 :Dar Es Salaam – Ruaha National Park:

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 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

Day 2: Ruaha National park:

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. Its 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 watercourses. Enjoy a picnic lunch at a perfect spot chosen by your guide at 12:30 pm. And then continue with game drive until the evening when you shall have your dinner and overnight at Tandala Tented Camp.

Day 3 : Mikumi:

You shall have breakfast at 7:00 am and with lunch-box, 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

Day 4: Mikumi National Park:

You shall have breakfast at 7:00 am and with lunch-box, at 8:00 am you shall go for a full-day game drive in Mikumi National Park, Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park. Get to see the spectacular concentration of a 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 the evening when you shall drive to your lodge Camp Bastian Mikumi for dinner and overnight

Day 5 : Selous Game Reserve:

You shall have your breakfast at 7:00 am, with lunch-box, 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 an 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.

Day 6 : Selous:

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.

Day 7 : Dar es Salaam:

Breakfast shall be at 7:00 am, and at 8:00 am, drive to Dar es Salaam with a stop at Morogoro town for lunch.