Optional Activities

Night Game drives

Canoeing

Walking Safari

Mountain biking

Balloon Safaris

By Road -7 day southern parks - Dar -Mikumi - Ruaha

Day 1 Dar Es Salaam-Iringa
Pick you up from the hotel  by road  to the Old Farmhouse in Iringa.
The farmhouse is a working farm offering superb accommodation. (8-9- hrs drive ). Overnight at Old Farmhouse full board

Day 2 Iringa-Ruaha
After breakfast drive to Tandala Tented Camp on the boundary of Ruaha National Park which has recently been combined with the Usanga Game Reserve making the largest National Park in Africa covering over 15,000 sq km. The new park itself is at the heart of a  larger ecosystem covering over 40,000 sq km.
Overnight at Tandala Tented Camp. Full board

Day 3 - 4 Ruaha National Park
Two full day game drives at Ruaha National Park with picnic lunch.
Ruaha, with an area of 10,300sq.km. Is the  second largest elephant sanctuary in Tanzania. The great Ruaha River that flows along its entire eastern border, creating spectacular gorges and scenery, features a large number of and hippos crocodiles. The variety of animals include Greater and Lesser Kudu, roan and sable antelope. Bird life is rich, with over 370 species recorded.
2 x overnight at Tandala Tented Camp. Full board

Day 5 - 6 Mikumi National Park
After breakfast drive  to Mikumi National Park nestled between the Uruguru Mountains to the East and the Rift Valley Escarpments to the Southwest. As it is close to the Selous ecosystem and therefore part of it, it benefits from the highest game density of the entire conservation area. The Mikumi National Park obtains a good impression of the African animal world and is suitable very well for a short visit. There is a rich variety bird species as well as large numbers of giraffes, buffaloes and elephants and close to the water holes also lions, leopards and hippos. Furthermore you can see zebras, lions, wild dogs, pythons, hartebeest, wildebeest, elephants, impala, warthog, eland and other antelopes. Several observation towers enable you to overview the park in its entirety. Mikumi National Park is mostly miombo woodland with gently rolling hills. Activities are game drives and a walking safari
2 x overnight at Vuma Hill Tented Camp

Day 7 Mikumi-Dar es Salaam
Depending on your schedule you go on a early morning game drive. After breakfast you return to Dar es Salaam by road (some 8-9 hours drive). Your guide will take you to Dar es Salaam Airport for your flight to home  or to another safari destination . Breakfast and lunchbox included.