NYERERE NATIONAL PARK

DAY 1 & 2

NYERERE NATIONAL PARK.

Early pick up from your hotel at 06:00 am to the airport for Nyerere National Park which is one of the southern national parks in Tanzania. Departure is at 07:00am. The first day you will be accessing the game drive to various places of the park and the second day you will do a game drive and a village tour. The park is home of a huge number of wildlife animals you can find when on safari. 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. Unfortunately numbers have greatly reduced because of excessive poaching that has been happening in the park.

The park is also home to thousands of birds. Scientists have recorded over 445 different birds’ species that live in the various habitats within the park. The giant kingfishers, the pink backed pelican as well as the African skimmer live for instance near the lake areas. Along the sandbanks you will see the white-fronted bee-eater, fish eagle, carmine, ibises and palmnut vultures. The purple-crested turaco, yellow-billed stork, trumpeter hornbill, white-crowned spur-winged plovers, malachite kingfishers and various small waders are among other species of water birds that you can observe in the park, as well migrant species.

DAY 3.

The last day will be a half day game drive 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. Departure will be at 4 pm back to Zanzibar.

NB: sleep over will be at the Africa safari lodge