6-Day Mikumi, Iringa, Ruaha and Udzungwa National Park

Duration

6 Days 5 Nights

Tour Type

Adventure
Mountain Climbing
Safaris

Group Size

8 Person

Tour Guide

2 Mentor

Dar es Salaam, Mikumi, Udzungwa Mt

6-Day Mikumi, Iringa, Ruaha and Udzungwa National Park

Join this fantastic safari of 7 days from Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park where you will enjoy beautiful game drives. You will have a chance to visit Iringa Town where you will visit the Ismila Stone Age Museum, Ruaha National Park, and the Udzungwa Mountains to do some hiking.

Details

You will meet your driver guide in your hotel at 8:00 a.m. then drive to Mikumi National Park, a 5-6 hour drive, arriving around 3:00 p.m. You will enjoy a game drive on the way to the hotel. In the evening after a short rest, you will walk to Maasai village for Maasai activities. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Mikumi Bastian Camp.

Early in the morning at 6:30 am, you will have breakfast, then leave the hotel with a lunch box to Mikumi National Park. It takes 15 minutes from the hotel to the park. You will have a full-day game drive looking at the animals until 5:00 p.m. This is a good time for you to drive inside the park looking at a lot of animals like elephants, hippos, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, etc. If lucky even lions and leopards. You will have dinner and an overnight stay.

Main Destination:

Mikumi National Park

Accommodation:

Camp Bastian Mikumi

Mid-range lodge located just outside Mikumi NP

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, you will drive to Ruaha National Park and arrive in time for a hot lunch. This will be followed by game viewing in the park, which is known to be one of the more natural, unspoiled as well as one of the largest parks of Africa. Ruaha National Park is one of Tanzania’s famous wilderness areas where one can have a rare experience of game viewing spiced up by the fascinating landscape. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ruaha Bandas.

In the morning after breakfast, you will have a full day of game viewing in the park. The exciting Great Ruaha River features large numbers of hippos and crocodiles and attracts lions, leopards, hunting dogs, and other species such as waterbucks, impalas, giraffes, warthogs, elands, zebras, and elephants. Grant’s gazelles, ostriches, and cheetahs may be seen on the plains.

Main Destination:

Ruaha National Park

Accommodation:

TANAPA Ruaha Bandas

Budget banda located inside Ruaha NP

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, you will drive to Udzungwa National Park. You will arrive there late afternoon. Udzungwa is the largest and with the most biodiversity and a chain of a dozen large forest-swathed mountains that rise majestically from the flat coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania. Your overnight stay will be at the Twiga Hotel.

Main Destination:

Udzungwa Mountains National Park

Accommodation:

Udzungwa Twiga Hotel

Budget hotel located inside Udzungwa Mountains

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

In the morning after breakfast at 6:30 am, you will transfer to Udzungwa Mountain to trek the mountain through Sanje Waterfalls. It takes 6 to 7 hours to climb to the top and come down. There are nice views from the top and at the same time you can swim. You will have lunch there, and drive back to Dar es Salaam, where you will arrive in the evening.