8 Days Wildlife Tanzania Safari

Overview

Our 8 days wildlife safari Tanzania is the best package you can engage in if you want to get a taste of the true wilderness adventure away from home. This is a perfect safari package for someone coming in for their second safari or someone who would like to explore the untouched wildlife safari spot of southern Tanzania as a first timer but, you would like to go the over populated parks by tourists in the north especially if you are coming in the park safari season.

The safari starts and ends in Dar es salaam, as well you can consider it alone on as an extension safari after visiting north Tanzania. As well you can consider starting from Zanzibar Island. The best time for this 8 days wildlife safari in Tanzania is during the day season better know the rainy season is between April and May. The best time is during day season between January and March and in July to September. However other cooler months such as June and between October and December are also good times to travel and with the beautiful landscape you are sure to have a stunning safari tour in south of Tanzania. The 8 days wildlife Tanzania safari includes a tour to Selous game reserve for the game drives, boat safaris and walking safaris, visit Mikumi National Park and Ruaha National Park. You expect to encounter huge herds of elephants, impalas, topis, wild beasts, zebras, and rare species like the kudus, and the African wild dogs.

Tour Highlights

• Day 1; depart to Selous Game Reserve
• Day 2; excursion at safari Selous game reserve
• Day 3; community tour and transfer to Mikumi township
• Day 4; game drive and transfer to Ruaha National Park
• Day 5; full day Ruaha National Park
• Day 6; transfer to Mikumi National Park
• Day 7; whole day safari Mikumi National Park
• Day 8; transfer to Dar es

Itinerary in details

DAY 1: Depart to Selous Game Reserve

After breakfast, pick up from the hotel for drive to Selous game reserve (drive for 5-7 hours) (flight is also possible from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar). After mid-day you reach your luxury tented camp located right at the banks of the Rufigi River. After lunch and setting in, your activities start with boat ride at the legendary Rufigi River at Selous for a sun set boat safari you expect to enjoy great scenery as well as aquatic and non-aquatic birds as they fly by. Dinner and overnight at the lodge by the bank of Rufigi River.

DAY 2: Excursion at safari Selous Game Reserve.

This full day of game drives was spent at Selous game reserve which was named after the British former military and explorer Fredrick Selous. The Selous Game Reserve in the southern Tanzania safari circuit is the largest protected wild reserve. The game reserve is also a UNESCO world heritage site and a pristine uninhabited area spreading vast plains and woodlands measuring larger than the entire country of Switzerland. The beautiful topography of the park varies from rolling Savannah woodlands, grassland palins and rocky outcrops which were cut by the legendary Rufigi and its various tributes. Selous has the world’s largest number of big game elephants, buffaloes, and rare black rhinos. The Selous is also home to wild beasts, elands, giraffe, waterbucks, zebra, impala, hippo, leopard, and lion, but more notably the wild dogs which can be seen easily in this game reserve than anywhere else in a natural habitat in Tanzania. There are 350 bird species.

DAY 3: Community Tour and transfer to Mikumi Township

After breakfast at the lodge, you will be taken on a walking safari which may entail a village with a local guide and your driver then thereafter traversing across the Selous Game Reserve with a game drive on your to Mikumi Township. Arriving in the afternoon at your camp just outside the Mikumi National Park, you will check in for relaxation, dinner and overnight.

DAY 4: Game drive and transfer to Ruaha National Park.

After breakfast, depart for Ruaha National Park via Iringa. We arrive in time for picnic lunch and an afternoon game drive follows until later at 6:00 pm when you will be driven back to your lodge just near the park for dinner and overnight. Just like the Selous, you expect to see a lot of big game in the Ruaha National Park but contrary to the Northern Park, animals in the Ruaha are still truly wild and therefore quit timid. It takes patience and great anticipation and when you spot the animal, its only you and the animals in what is the real African safari setting.

DAY 5: Whole day Ruaha National Park. Full day.

After breakfast, you enter the park again a full day game drives at Ruaha National Park with a picnic lunch. Ruaha with an area of 20,226km² is currently the largest park in Tanzania after the addition of the Usangu game reserve and the other important wetlands that surrounded the park to the gazettement into a park of the great Ruaha. Ruaha is also prominently 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 hippos and crocodiles. The wide variety of animals include greater and lesser kudu, roan, and sable antelope, and many other rare animal that can only be found in this real wilderness. Birdlife is rich in Ruaha as well as with over 370 species recorded.

DAY 6: Transfer to Mikumi National Park.

Pick up by your safari driver from Ruaha, you will start on your drive to Mikumi National Park via Iringa town again. The park is beautifully nestled between the Ulunguru Mountains of Ancient Eastern Arc Mountains to the east and the Great Rift Valley escarpments to the parks south west. Not very far from Ruaha and on a good tarmac road, the transfer from Ruaha to Mikumi takes about 4 hours. You will arrive around noon and go straight for game drives around the park with the packed lunch at a picnic site. Later in the afternoon, we drive to camp or to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY 7: Whole day safari Mikumi National Park.

Spend a full day with game drives around the Mikumi National Park with a packed lunch or do morning and afternoon drives with a lunch and break at the lodge. Mikumi Park at part of the larger Selous Eco-system together with the Selous game reserve and harbors remarkable number of bird species and animals. Among the animals that can be spotted at Mikumi include giraffes, elephants, buffaloes, hippos, impalas, warthogs, zebras, wild beasts, elands, and many other antelopes. Apart from game drives in the park, you can also go for guided walking safari by an armed ranger (at extra cost).

DAY 8: Transfer to Dar es Salaam.

After breakfast, we can go on a game drive again if you wish until time to check out of the park around noon and after lunch drive back to Dar es Salaam where the safari ends. You will be dropped at the ferry or the airport depending on your plans. We can easily customize 8 Days southern Tanzania safari package with some mid-range lodges and tented camps or standard luxury lodging in case you want to stay in more luxurious lodging.