8 Days Safari to Mikumi NP, Ruaha NP and Nyerere NP + Isimila Stone Age Site

Pick up from the Airport, ferry or Hotel and drive to Mikumi National Park which is approximately 5 hours’ drive. You will have a short stop in Morogoro for hot lunch. After Lunch proceed to Mikumi NP for afternoon game drive. Enjoy late afternoon game drive with sunset view at hippo pool and see the animal’s coming to drink.

After breakfast, you will go out for half day game drive in Mikumi National Park until lunchtime. After lunch, you will drive to Iringa town for dinner and overnight.

After early breakfast drive to the Ruaha National Park gate which will take about two and a half hours from Iringa town. Start a full day game drive inside the park until sunset. A fine network of game-viewing roads follows the Great Ruaha and its seasonal tributaries, where, during the dry season, impala, waterbuck and other antelopes risk their lives for a sip of life-sustaining water. And the risk is considerable: not only from the prides of 10-plus lion that lord over the savannah, but also from the cheetahs that stalk the open grassland and the leopards that lurk in tangled riverine thickets. This impressive array of large predators is boosted by both striped and spotted hyena, as well as several conspicuous packs of the highly endangered African wild dog.

Wake up for early morning breakfast. After breakfast, you will drive to the park for full day game drive to explore the beauty of the park, with its full of rocky, kopjes and ancient baobab trees. Late evening you will drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, you will start driving to Isimila Stone Age Site via Iringa town. This tour will take about two hours then drive to Morogoro for dinner and overnight. The tour of the site begins at the little museum where a guide gives a brief introduction to the formation of the site and explains more about the fossils and tools that are displayed. The tour then continues into the canyon down a steep footpath. Once there the guide shows you some beds where the tools were found and explained how the rock towers were formed. The walk is very scenic, the earth has a warm reddish tint and it is also a good spot to see birds.

After visiting Isimila Stone Age you will drive to Iringa town for hot lunch then continue to Morogoro for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, you will start your journey to Selous GR. The journey is the most amazing and truly wild and untouched areas of Tanzania. The drive will take you up into the Uluguru Mountains across rivers and pass through small local villages and farms. The drive is tiring but possibly the most rewarding and adventures on the southern circuit. Arrive in Selous game reserve for afternoon game drive until sunset.

Wake up for early breakfast then you will go out for game drive. Today you will have half day game drive In Selous Game Reserve exploration of the Reserve by 4wd vehicle; will permit you to have good photographic opportunities and the chance to explore different sections of vast park. You will continue with game drive until 12:30hrs then drive back at the Lodge for lunch. After lunch, you will have a short nap until 16:00hrs then you will go for boat safari along the mighty Great Rufiji River until sunset. Boat safari brings you into close contact with hippo, crocodile and fantastic bird life. Crocodile glide into the water as your boat approaches and hippo appear in frightening proximity, grunting and blowing steam.

Wake up early in the morning and have a cup of coffee or tea, then go out for wilderness walking safari with guidance of an armed ranger which will take two to two and a half hours. Walking safari will give you a particularly intimate feel for African wild. You will get the chance to touch the nature, see the different foot print and droppings of different wild animals and small creatures that you can’t see them during the game drive.

After walking safari you will go back to the camp/ lodge for breakfast then pack your stuff and start drive back to Dar es Salaam with lunch pack. Drop off at your hotel or airport for your next destination. End of Safari