7 Days Southern Tanzania safari to Mikumi & Ruaha

Distance: 6 hours

Today very early in the morning, you will be met and picked up by one of our representatives from African masterclass tour (who will be your driver and guide on this Safari). Your 7-day safari in Southern Tanzania will begin the drive southwest to Mikumi National Park. You will arrive in the afternoon, with lunch taken on your way to Mikumi at a local restaurant, and start your first safari game drives right away after registering at the gate.

The afternoon will be spent doing afternoon game drives in the plains of Mikumi until late afternoon when you will be driven to your lodge for check-in. You will take your time to freshen up before having a sumptuous dinner at the lodge/camp’s restaurant.

On this day you will have a chance to start early after breakfast, with a picnic lunch being taken at one of the picnic sites inside the park. Immediately after breakfast, you will set out for a game drive in the unspoiled wilderness of Mikumi National Park. You will search the park to see the early risers as well as nocturnal animals returning to their hideouts. This entire day is dedicated to game viewing and your guide who is very knowledgeable about the animals in this park will drive you to areas that will offer you the best game views. The pop-up roof on your car will give you undisrupted opportunities for photography covers an area of 3230 square kilometers which makes it one of the largest national parks in Tanzania. As you explore its wilderness, some of the animals you will see include elephants, hartebeests, buffalos, kudus, zebras, elands, wildebeests, and impalas.  Hyenas, baboons, lions, wild dogs, giraffes, warthogs, and hippos are the other animals you can always look out for.

In addition, more than three hundred (300) different types of birds have been recorded within this national park, a thing that will give you great opportunities to see them. Some of the bird species found within this park include Boehm’s bee-eaters, African fish eagles, lilac-breasted rollers, starlings, yellow-throated longclaws, Bateleur eagles, Dickinson’s kestrels, and straw-tailed whydahs.

You will explore the varied wildlife habitats which include the seasonal floodplains, the grasslands which are scattered with giant baobab trees and thorny trees (these are very similar to those in the Serengeti), Miombo woodlands, swamps, riverine forests, and low hills.

Later in the evening, you will head back to your accommodation and there you will have your dinner and spend the night.

Distance: 6 hours

On day 3, you will depart from Mikumi National Park and head west on a drive that will cover approximately 320 kilometers. This five-hour drive will finally get you to the less remote Ruaha National Park.

Over the following four days, you will explore the amazing landscapes within this national park that serve as varied habitats for the birds and animals found here. Because of its distant location, this park is less visited and normally ignored by mainly tourists although it offers a genuine undisturbed Africa wilderness safari experience.

You can choose to do full-day game drives with a picnic lunch in between,  or go for half-day game drives with a few hours break to return to your accommodation to freshen up and have a nice hot lunch and some rest, before setting out for the afternoon game drive.

There are also a number of optional activities such as night game drives and the exciting and very rewarding hot air balloon safaris which will cost you an extra bucks (not included in this safari cost).

Ruaha National Park is that it has one of the largest buffalo populations in East Africa, approximately 10,000 elephants, and an outstandingly big number of predators within its boundaries. It’s alleged that the second largest population of lions in the world is found in Ruaha. A large number of Cheetahs, leopards, and the endangered African wild dogs are also found within this park. So believe me not there is a lot to see within Ruaha a reason why we have dedicated all these days to Game viewing and photography.

Birders, well get ready to be impressed as Ruaha has a record of more than 570 different bird species so you can never fail to identify quite a number of them during your adventure drives. Because the park is seated within the transitional zone where the southern and eastern ecosystems overlap, it supports a remarkably diverse blend of habitats that support very big numbers of bird, animal, and plant species.

Because the park is less visited, chances are that you complete your stay here without encountering any other tourists a thing that will give you a totally private safari experience.

Distance; 10 hours

This is the final day of our 7 Days Safari. Early in the morning, you will have a hearty breakfast, before your safari guide drives you back to Dar es Salaam where this amazing safari started.