This 6-day safari in Selous Nyerere, Mikumi, and Udzungwa Mountain Safari, is probably the only classic safari to the southern circuit of Tanzania. Starting and ending at Dar es Salaam, this safari takes you to the greater Selous ecosystem and gives you the rare chance to experience real African wilderness in the few untouched areas of Tanzania. This safari allows you to be in the secluded middle of an African wilderness with the whole savannah almost for your own.
This 6-day safari in Selous Nyerere, Mikumi, and Udzungwa Mountain Safari, is probably the only classic safari to the southern circuit of Tanzania. Starting and ending at Dar es Salaam, this safari takes you to the greater Selous ecosystem and gives you the rare chance to experience real African wilderness in the few untouched areas of Tanzania. This safari allows you to be in the secluded middle of an African wilderness with the whole savannah almost for your own.
After breakfast at 8:30 am with your lunch packed, you will drive to Nyerere National Park former Selous Game Reserve, for a full day of wildlife viewing. The park is famous for its elephants, lions, wild dogs, buffaloes, bushbuck, impalas, elands, baboons, zebras and greater kudus. It was originally set aside as a hunting area where animals are abundant but more shy than in the Northern parks. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Mloka Safari Lodge.
Today after breakfast with lunch packed, you will have a full day of wildlife-viewing drives at Mikumi National Park. There is a rich variety of bird species and large numbers of giraffes, buffaloes, and elephants close to the waterholes, as well as lions, leopards, and hippos. Furthermore, you can also see zebras, lions, wild dogs, pythons, hartebeests, wildebeests, elephants, impalas, warthogs, eland, and other antelopes. Several observation towers enable you to look at the park in its entirety. Mikumi National Park is mostly miombo woodland with gently rolling hills. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the Mikumi Camp Bastian.
In the morning after breakfast at 7:00 am, with lunch packed, you will drive one and a half hours to Udzungwa to hike Mountain Udzungwa through Sanje waterfalls. You'll take 6 to 7 hours to reach the top and come down. Udzungwa Mountain is not very steep. It is vertical mountain trekking and there is a nice view and waterfalls. You can spend time there. At the same time, you may swim before you have lunch. Later, you will drive back to Mikumi Camp Bastian.
In the morning after breakfast at 7:30 am, you will drive back to Dar es Salaam. You'll have a packed lunch on the way arriving around 3:00 pm. You'll be dropped off at the hotel or airport.
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