Dar-Mikumi-Ruaha-Iringa-Udzungwa-Selous-Dar 13 Days Tour

Day wise Itinerary

• Day 1 : Arrival

  Meet your driver guide on arrival and transfer to The Slipway Hotel and check-in on bed and breakfast.
  Moorish arches and palm trees vie with Victorian street lamps to create a convoluted kasbah-by-the-sea atmosphere at this small hotel-cum-shopping center. As a bit of a tourist enclave, complete with an interesting waterfront location (you can occasionally watch fishermen toiling over their vessels in the old boatyard) and its own boat jetty, the Slipway offers clean, comfortable rooms and access to myriad shops, several restaurants, and enough services to ensure that you never really need to leave the premises. The whole place is designed like an indoor-outdoor bazaar.

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• Day 2 : Mikumi National Park

  After breakfast depart to Mikumi National Park. Hot lunch at Morogoro. Afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at Camp Bastian Mikumi.
  Camp Bastian Mikumi is set in unique and natural surroundings. The Camp is located in the buffer zone of Mikumi National Park about 10km from the main gate and A7 Dar es Salaam-Zambia/Malawi Highway. Cottages has private verandah, and is decorates with locally made furniture and fabrics to keep an authentic atmosphere in the rooms, each cottages have private bathroom attached. You will find everything you need during your stay, complimentary bottled water, towels and mosquito netting, hot water and electricity 24hrs.

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• Day 3 : Mikumi National Park

  After breakfast, you will have a full day game drive with packed lunch in the park. In this day you will encounter wildlife in this quiet national park that includes elephant, giraffe, buffalo, Burchell’s zebra, sable, eland, Liechtenstein’s hartebeest, lion, leopard, spotted hyena, and jackal. You can also find yellow baboons near Kiboga, at the southern end of the park. Return to the Camp for dinner and overnight at Camp Bastian
  Mikumi National Park abuts the northern border of Africa's biggest game reserve - the Selous – and is transected by the surfaced road between Dar es Salaam and Iringa. It is thus the most accessible part of a 75,000 square km (47,000 square mile) tract of wilderness that stretches east almost as far as the Indian Ocean. The open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain, the popular centre piece of Mikumi, draw frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti Plains.

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• Day 4 : Iringa

  After breakfast depart to Iringa. Hot lunch in Iringa and visit Neema Craft Project. Continue to Ruaha and check in at Ruaha Hilltop for dinner and overnight.
  This day they can drive slowly and will see villages and people with their daily activities.
  Ruaha Hilltop is situated 110 km from Iringa Town, 5 km from Tungamalenga Village and near the boundary of Ruaha National Park. The lodge is built high on a hill with a wonderful panoramic view. There are many different types of birds and trees that can be seen near the lodge. Dining and bar is all under one roof with a special place to enjoy the sunrise and sunset.

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• Day 5 : Ruaha National park

  Two full day game drives in Ruaha National park with picnic lunches. Predators lions, leopards and cheetah are common. Other animals spotted here are giraffes, impala, zebras, bat eared foxes, elands, and Jackals. Ruaha National Park also amuses the visitors with more than 571 species. Dinner and overnight at Ruaha Hill Top covering a conservation area of 10,300 square km in the south-west of the country, Ruaha National Park sprawls within and along the Great Rift Valley, covering a unique transition zone where the eastern and southern species of both fauna and flora meet against a dramatic topographical backdrop. This is also one of the few Tanzanian parks where sightings of the rarer antelopes, such as the Sable, the Roan and both lesser & Greater Kudu, are a probability rather than a possibility. The proliferation of plains game in the park also ensures that the larger predators - leopard and large prides of lion - are unusually active. The bird life, too, is unparalleled with some 530 species recorded.

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• Day 6 : Ruaha National park

  Two full day game drives in Ruaha National park with picnic lunches. Predators lions, leopards and cheetah are common. Other animals spotted here are giraffes, impala, zebras, bat eared foxes, elands, and Jackals. Ruaha National Park also amuses the visitors with more than 571 species. Dinner and overnight at Ruaha Hill Top covering a conservation area of 10,300 square km in the south-west of the country, Ruaha National Park sprawls within and along the Great Rift Valley, covering a unique transition zone where the eastern and southern species of both fauna and flora meet against a dramatic topographical backdrop. This is also one of the few Tanzanian parks where sightings of the rarer antelopes, such as the Sable, the Roan and both lesser & Greater Kudu, are a probability rather than a possibility. The proliferation of plains game in the park also ensures that the larger predators - leopard and large prides of lion - are unusually active. The bird life, too, is unparalleled with some 530 species recorded.

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• Day 7 : Massai

  Bush breakfast in the park & visit of Massai or Hehe Tribe
  After breakfast proceed to Iringa and check-in at Neema Craft Guest House on bed and breakfast. Afternoon sightseeing in Iringa town, visit church and market.
  Neema Crafts, in partnership with the Mother's Union (UMAKI) of the Diocese of Ruaha, has built the first disabled staffed guest house in Africa. It provides ten en-suite rooms, ranging from large family rooms, with beautiful views over the surrounding hills, to smaller double and twin rooms.
  The guest house provides training and employment for deaf and disabled trainees. Profits are put towards the running costs of the Neema Therapy centre for disabled children, and will also help to make Neema's work with people with disabilities even more sustainable.

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• Day 8 : Udzungwa Mountains National Park

  After breakfast visit Isimila (visit of Stone Age site and museum and proceed to Udzungwa Mountains National Park. Hot lunch at Kitonga (local restaurant). Dinner and overnight at Udzungwa Falls Lodge.

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• Day 9 : Isimila

  Hiking the Mountain and swimming at waterfall
  After breakfast, hiking the mountain with picnic lunch, Sanje Waterfall Trail 6km, 4-5h, height gain 450m The most popular trail in Udzungwa is Sanje Waterfall. This 180m waterfall is very impressive, surrounded by rainforest with excellent views over the Kilombero floodplain. At the top, you can swim in the refreshing plunge pool of the top waterfall (around 40m high) surrounded by thick rainforest. Sanje can be walked at any time of day, but it is best in the morning with the sun on the waterfalls, and is very hot at midday.
  Then hike down back to the vehicle. Option, Afternoon visit of sugar can & rice plantation (different locations). Dinner and overnight at Udzungwa Falls Lodge.

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• Day 10 : Nyerere National Park

  After breakfast depart to Nyerere National Park with picnic lunches. Short walking at Kiponza Forest before reach Sable Mountain Lodge. Check-in for dinner and overnight.

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• Day 11 : Nyerere National Park

  After breakfast set for full day game drive with picnic lunches. this vast park is part of the legendary Selous Game Reserve. Wildlife-viewing experiences in the Nyerere National Park are superb - there are so many giraffes, that the park is known affectionately as “giraffic park”. Among many other safari animals, large numbers of Hippo, Crocodile, Impala and Elephant can be seen, as well as the world's largest population of the endangered African Wild Dog. Dinner and overnight at Selous Kulinda Camp.

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• Day 12 : Selous

  After breakfast short game drive. Hot lunch at the camp. Afternoon boat trip. Dinner and overnight at Selous Kulinda Camp.
  Few other safaris in Tanzania evoke the romance, mystique and spiritual delight of the African bush as one in the Selous Game Reserve. Embracing 54,000 square km of south-western Tanzania, it is one of the largest protected wilderness reserve on the continent, three times larger than the Serengeti and twice the size of Belgium. Named after the legendary 19th century explorer and hunter Frederick Courtney Selous, the reserve was founded by the German colonial administration in 1905. It was later expanded to include traditional elephant migration routes and accommodate the vast herds of buffalo that roam this remote, untouched corner of Africa.

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• Day 13 : Back to Dar

  Morning walk , After breakfast return to Dar with packed lunch.

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Inclusions

• CP (Room + Breakfast)

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• Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, Africa

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