NYERERE/MIKUMI
5 DAYS 4 NIGHTS
DAY 1, 2 & 3
MIKUMI NATIONAL PARK.
Early pick up from your hotel at 06:00 am to the airport for Mikumi National Park which is one of the southern national parks in Tanzania. Departure is at 07:00am. The first two days, you will do full day game drive to various places of the park and the third day you will do a half game drive and a tour to the Maasai boma. The parks open horizons and abundant wildlife draws frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti Plains. The park borders the Nyerere national park to the south and the two areas form a unique ecosystem. The chance that you will encounter lions climbing trees here is greater than in other parks.
The park has a great variety of animals and most visitors come to this Park aiming to spot the ‘Big Five’ – leopard, lion, elephant, buffalo and rhino. It’s a great place for a Tanzania vacation, you will definitely enjoy it. Hippos live in a pair of mud pools and are one of the highlights. These are situated 5 km north of the main entrance gate. They are supported by an ever-changing cast of water-birds. The Mkata Food plain is a wide area in the Park that is very good for wildlife viewing. Lions survey their grassy kingdom while the zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo herds migrate across it. Giraffes forage in the isolated acacia stands that fringe the Mkata River, islets of shade favored also by Mikumi’s elephants. Mkata Foodplain is perhaps the most reliable place in Tanzania for sightings of the powerful eland, the world’s largest antelope. The equally impressive greater kudu and sable antelope haunt the miombo-covered foothills of the mountains that rise from Park’s borders.
The park is a good place for bird lovers as it is also home to more than 400 different species of birds. The Mkata River offers majestic views of fishing Open-billed Storks. Marabou stork, Red-billed woodpeckers, Black-bellied bustard, Francolin, Cattle egret, Guinea-fowls, Hornbill and Malachite Kingfisher are common birds in Mikumi National Park. The most colorful species are the Yellow-throated long claw, the Lilac-breasted roller and the Bateleur eagle and other European migrants birds are common in the Park during the rainy season.
NB: sleep over will be at the Mikumi resort lodge.
DAY 4.
NYERERE NATIONAL PARK.
Early morning you will be picked up for a Transfer to Nyerere national park. The drive will take around 6 hours whereby you will get to see various traditions and lifestyle along the way before you get to Nyerere national park and the remaining time you will do a game drive and sightseeing at the park. The park is home of a huge number of wildlife animals you can find when on safari. Predators such as Lions, leopards, crocodiles and preys such as the antelopes and buffalos live in the park. You can spot endangered black rhinos and it is hard to find East African wild dogs as well as hyenas. Cape buffaloes, Maasai giraffes, wildebeests and zebras live here too, the latter two are known by the great migration, and of course it is home to impalas, large numbers of Lichtenstein’s hartebeests, waterbucks and sable antelope in addition to elands and bushbucks. It is much quieter here than in other parks, so you definitely have the chance of a unique experience during your Tanzania vacation. The park was previously home to a very large number of many African bush elephants. Unfortunately numbers have greatly reduced because of excessive poaching that has been happening in the park.
The park is also home to thousands of birds. Scientists have recorded over 445 different birds’ species that live in the various habitats within the park. The giant kingfishers, the pink backed pelican as well as the African skimmer live for instance near the lake areas. Along the sandbanks you will see the white-fronted bee-eater, fish eagle, carmine, ibises and palmnut vultures. The purple-crested turaco, yellow-billed stork, trumpeter hornbill, white-crowned spur-winged plovers, malachite kingfishers and various small waders are among other species of water birds that you can observe in the park, as well migrant species.
NB: sleep over will be at the Africa safari lodge.
Day 5.
The last day will be a half day game drive at Nyerere national park and a boat safari cross cutting the dense park through river Rufiji, animals can be well spotted in the river and along the river bank. Departure will be at 4 pm back to Zanzibar.
INCLUSIVES.
- Food & water
- Game drive
- Park fees
- Accommodation
EXCLUSIVES
- Round trip Charter flight