13Days Discover Southern Tanzania Parks

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.

After breakfast depart to Mikumi National Park. Hot lunch at Morogoro.  Afternoon game drive.  Dinner and overnight at Camp Bastian Mikumi.

After breakfast set for full day game drive with picnic lunches.  Dinner and overnight at Camp Bastian Mikumi.
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.

After breakfast depart to Iringa. Hot lunch in Iringa. Continue to Ruaha National Park 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.

Two full day game drives in Ruaha National park with picnic lunches.  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.

Bush breakfast in the park & visit of Massai or Hehe Tribe
After breakfast proceed to Iringa and check-in at Mount Royal Villa on bed and breakfast. Afternoon sightseeing in Iringa town, visit church and market.

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. 

After breakfast continue to a half day hiking with picnic lunches. Afternoon visit of sugar can & rice plantation (different locations). Dinner and overnight at Udzungwa Falls Lodge.

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

After breakfast set for full day game drive with picnic lunches. Dinner and overnight at Selous Kulinda Camp

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.

Morning walk , After breakfast return to Dar .