NYERERE/MIKUMI/UDZUNGWA 5 DAYS 4 NIGHTS

DAY1: ZANZIBAR/ DAR ES SALAAM, MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK.

Leave Zanzibar with the first Ferry (07:00am) to Dar es Salaam arriving around 08:30am for briefing and breakfast before driving to Mikumi National Park.

Hot lunch on the way. Animals viewing en-route.

Visit Maasai village if time allows.

Dinner and overnight in a selected hotel/campsite in Mikumi.

The park has a great variety of animals and most visitors come to this Park aiming to spot the ‘Big Five’ – cheetah, lion, elephant, buffalo and rhino. It’s a great place for a Tanzania vacation, you will definitely enjoy it. Hippos live in a pair of mud pools and are one of the highlights. These are situated 5 km north of the main entrance gate. They are supported by an ever-changing cast of water-birds. The Mkata Food plain is a wide area in the Park that is very good for wildlife viewing. Lions survey their grassy kingdom while the zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo herds migrate across it. Giraffes forage in the isolated acacia stands that fringe the Mkata River, islets of shade favored also by Mikumi’s elephants. MkataFoodplain is perhaps the most reliable place in Tanzania for sightings of the powerful eland, the world’s largest antelope. The equally impressive greater kudu and sable antelope haunt the miombo-covered foothills of the mountains that rise from Park’s borders.

DAY2: FULL DAY IN MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK.

Today we have a full day to explore Mikumi National park returning to the same lodge/camp for dinner and overnight.

 DAY3: UDZUNGWA MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK.

After breakfast we will drive to Udzungwa Mountain National Park with picnic lunches.

Udzungwa Mountains has a good variety of wildlife. They are home to many animals, including Abbott’s duiker, Kipunji and unusual animals such as the grey-faced sengi . Elephants are living in the forests along the southern escarpment. Also six registered primate species call Udzungwa national park their home. The Iringa red colobus and the Sanje crested mangabey live only in this area and nowhere else in the world! The latter, remarkably, remained undiscovered by biologists before 1979.

The Kihansi spray toad lives around a waterfall on the Kihansi River. It was briefly extinct in the wild in 2009 when an upstream dam altered its habitat. Scientists successfully managed to reintroduce them back after a successful captive breeding program.

Dinner and overnight at a camp/lodge.

DAY4: NYERERE NATIONAL PARK.

After breakfast drive to Nyerere National park for animals viewing till sunset.

Dinner and overnight in a selected campsite/lodge.

The park is home of a huge number of wildlife. Predators such as Lions, leopards, crocodiles and preys such as the antelopes and buffalos live in the park. You can spot endangered black rhinos and it is hard to find East African wild dogs as well as hyenas. Cape buffaloes, Maasai giraffes, wildebeests and zebras live here too, the latter two are known by the great migration, and of course it is home to impalas, large numbers of Lichtenstein’s hartebeests, waterbucks and sable antelope in addition to elands and bushbucks. It is much quieter here than in other parks, so you definitely have the chance of a unique experience during your Tanzania vacation. The park was previously home to a very large number of many African bush elephants.

DAY5: NYERERE/ZANZIBAR/DAR ES SALAAM

The last day will be a half day game drive at Nyerere national park and a boat safari cross cutting the dense park through river Rufiji, animals can be well spotted in the river and along the river bank.

In the afternoon driver to Dar es Salaam for dinner and overnight or last ferry/flight to Zanzibar.