7 Days, 6 Nights Mangabey Walking Adventure

Day 2: Dar es Salaam to Mikumi National Park.

After breakfast drive to Mikumi national park. This is a 4 hours drive and upon arrival you will do your first game drive in the park with lunch boxes.

Mikumi’s open horizons  with Wildlife corridor to Nyerere National Park( Selous game reserve). The park has a great variety of animals and birds having great chance to  spot the ‘Big Five’ – Leopard, lion, elephant, buffalo and rhino.

Accommodation at the Public Campsite

Breakfast, Luch and Dinner

Day 3: Mikumi National Park

Today you have the entire day to explore more of Mikumi national park on a full day game drive.

The Mkata Floodplain is a wide area in Mikumi National Park that 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, Not mentioning African Elephants feeding on acacia trees.Mikumi National park perhaps is 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 Mikumi National Park’s borders.

Hippos live in a pair of mud pools and are one of the highlights.  supported by an ever-changing cast of water-birds.

Accommodation at the public Campsite

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 4:Mikumi National Park to  Udzungwa Mountains National Park.

After breakfast you will have a short drive to Udzungwa national park. It has various habitats such as  Mountain ,tropical rainforest, miombo forest, grassland and steppe. There are over 390 species of birds, thousands species of plants and six species of monkeys – including the rare Iringa red colobus and the Sanje crested mangabey.Other animals including Abbott’s duiker,Kipunji and rare species such as the grey-faced sengi  can be spoted during hiking,

Besides bird and monkey watching, Udzungwa is a magnet for hikers. Udzungwa national park has no paved roads and is only accessible on foot. An excellent network of forest trails includes the popular half-day hike to the Sanje Waterfall, which tumbles 170 meters through a misty spray into the wooded valley below. It is one of the larger waterfalls in Tanzania and lays hidden from the rest of the world in dense rain forest.

Accommodation at the public Campsite

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 5,6: Udzungwa Mountain to  Ruaha National Park.

After breakfast drive to  Ruaha national park.This is a long day of driving. It is Tanzania’s second largest park and 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 parks in East Africa!

Ruaha National Park 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 include leopards, cheetahs, giraffes. Many zebras, elands, impala, bat eared foxes and jackals live in the park.

It has nearly 10% of Africa’s lion population and with a bit of luck, you may also see the endangered wild dogs(Hunting dogs) in Ruaha national park!

Accommodation at the public Campsite

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 7: Ruaha national park – airport.

In the morning you can make another game drive, depending on your accommodation and flight schedule. Then your driver transfers you to the airstrip for your flight to Dar Es Salaam for your home bound flight  or *option *extend to a beach holiday in Zanzibar.