5 Days Tanzania Wilderness Safari Mikumi & Ruaha

Itinerary

Day 0: Arrival in Tanzania- Dar es Salaam (Optional)

If you have chosen to be picked-up by us from Julius Kambarage Nyerere International Airport, you will be picked up from the airport by a Kilele Climb representative and conveyed to your accommodation in Dar es Salaam where you will overnight, relax, and prepare in anticipation of the adventures to come, restore and enjoy your first taste of Africa.

Day 1: Drive from Dar es salaam to Mikumi National park

• Distance & Drive time: Dar es Salaam to Mikumi takes about 6 to 6.5 hours (303 km/188mi)

After breakfast, your Drive guide will pick you up at your hotel/Airport and you will drive to Mikumi national park. This is a 6 hours’ drive and upon arrival, you do your first evening game drive in the park until Sunset. Mikumi’s open horizons and abundant wildlife draw frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti Plains. The park has a great variety of animals and most visitors come to Mikumi national park aiming to spot the ‘Big Five’ – Leopard, lion, elephant, buffalo, and rhino. The chance that you will encounter lions climbing up trees is here higher than in other parks! Dinners and overnight at your lodge.

• Meals plan: Lunch & Dinner included

Day 2: Full day game drive in Mikumi National Park

• Distance & Drive time: Full Day Game Drive

Today you have the entire day to explore more of Mikumi national park on a full-day game drive, a hot lunch will be served in the park around midday, followed by some leisure time before you go on another game drive until sunset. Mikumi national park is excellent for wildlife viewing. Lions survey their grassy kingdom and the zebra, wildebeest, impala, and buffalo herds that migrate across it, from the flattened tops of termite mounds, or sometimes during the rains, from perches high in the trees. Giraffes forage in the isolated acacia stands that fringe the Mkata River, islets of shade favored also by Mikumi’s elephants.

Mkata flood plain is perhaps the most reliable in Tanzania for sighting the powerful eland, the world’s largest antelope. The equally impressive greater kudu and sable antelope haunt the miombo at your lodge.

• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 3: Mikumi to Ruaha National Park & Afternoon game drive

• Distance & Drive time: Dar es Salaam to Mikumi takes about 5.5 to 6 hours (320 km/200mi)

After breakfast, you will leave Mikumi national park to drive to Ruaha national park. This is 5 hours’ drive and upon arrival, you will do an afternoon game drive to explore Tanzania’s second-largest national park!

The great Ruaha River flows through Ruaha national park and is the most important river in the park. Since it has a huge population of African elephants, chances are very good to spot large groups of them roaming around. It is probably home to more elephants than any other park in East Africa and it has nearly 10% of Africa’s lion population.

• Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 4: Full day game drive in Ruaha National Park

• Distance & Drive time: Full Day Game Drive

On today’s game drive through Ruaha national park you will probably notice the big variety of plants and trees. It is mainly characterized by its acacias and the many baobab trees. There are over 1,650 plant species that have been identified in total.

Besides Ruaha’s huge population of African elephants, it is also home to great mammals like Kudu, sable, and roan antelopes which cannot be found in any other national park. Other animals to spot here include leopards, cheetahs, and giraffes. Many zebras, elands, impala, bat-eared foxes, and jackals live in the park.

With a bit of luck, you may also see the endangered wild dogs in Ruaha national park!

•  Meals plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner included

Day 5: Ruaha National Park – Airport

In the early morning, you can make the sunrise game drive in Ruaha National Park then you will be back to your lodge for breakfast, after breakfast you will do a game drive till the afternoon, depending on your accommodation and flight schedule. Then your driver transfers you to the airstrip for your departure flight to Dar es Salaam or Zanzibar.

This is the last leg of your safari, with a 1hr drive left to where your safari will end. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you say goodbye to your safari crew.

• Meals plan Breakfast and lunch. As today is the end of the safari, please note that Accommodation and dinner tonight is not included in the tour.