8-Days the Pride of Southern Circuit

You'll be picked up from the airport, ferry, or hotel and drive to Mikumi National Park which is approximately a 5-hour drive. You will have a short stop in Morogoro for a hot lunch. After lunch, you'll proceed to Mikumi National Park for an afternoongame drive. You'll enjoy a late afternoon game drive with a sunset view at the Hippo Pool and see the animals coming to drink.

Accommodation: Bastian Camp
Meals Plan: Lunch and dinner.

Main Destination:
Mikumi National Park

Meals & Drinks:

• Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, you'll start the journey to Ruaha National Park with a stopover in Iringa Town
for a hot lunch. You'll arrive for afternoon game drives in the park looking for hippos, crocodiles, waterbucks, reedbucks, and buffaloes and venture to the river’s edge to drink, attracting the attention of lions, leopards, hyenas, wild dogs, and jackals. There are many birds in the park including Eurasia migrants that come to visit the park twice a year.

Main Destination:
Ruaha National Park

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

You'll wake up for an early morning game drive which will take about two hours then drive back to the cottage for breakfast. After breakfast, you will proceed with a full-day game drive to explore the beautiful park full of rocky kopjes, and ancient baobab trees. Later in the evening, you will drive back to the bandas for dinner and an overnight stay. A fine network of game-viewing roads follows the Great Ruaha River and its seasonal tributaries, where during the dry season impalas, waterbucks and other antelopes risk their life for a sip of life-sustaining water. The risk is considerable not only from the pride of the 10-plus lions that lord over the savannah but also from the cheetahs that stalk the open grassland.

Main Destination:
Ruaha National Park

Accommodation:
TANAPA Ruaha Bandas

• Budget banda located inside Ruaha NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, you will start driving to the Isimila Stone Age Site via Iringa town. This tour will take about two hours then you will drive to Mikumi Bastian camp for dinner and an overnight stay. The tour of the site begins at the little museum where a guide gives a brief introduction to the formation of the site and explains more about the fossils and tools that are displayed. The tour then continues into the canyon down a steep footpath. Once there the guide shows you some of the beds where the tools were found and explains how the rock towers were formed. The walk is very scenic, the earth has a warm reddish tint and it is also a good spot to see birds.

Main Destination:
Iringa (City)

Accommodation:
Camp Bastian Mikumi

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Mikumi NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

You'll wake up for an early breakfast in the camp. After breakfast, you will go for a full-day game drive in Mikumi National Park with the option of packed lunch boxes or a hot lunch in one of the lodges inside the park. After a long day game drive, in the afternoon, you will drive back to Morogoro Arc Hotel for dinner and an overnight stay. Animals commonly found in this park include lions, elands, hartebeests, buffalos, wildebeests, giraffes, zebras, elephants, and many more. Wild dogs can come and go in this park. The open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain. Over 300 species of birds have been observed in this park.

Main Destination:
Mikumi National Park

Accommodation:
Arc Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located in Morogoro (City)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, you will start your journey to Nyerere National Park. The journey is the most amazing and truly wild and untouched area of Tanzania. The drive will take you along the Uluguru Mountains across rivers and pass through small local villages and farms. The drive is tiring but possibly the most rewarding adventure on the southern circuit. You'll arrive in Nyerere National Park for an afternoon boat safari from 4:00 pm until sunset. The boat safari brings you into close contact with hippos, crocodiles, and fantastic bird life. Crocodiles glide into the water as your boat approaches and hippos appear in frightening proximity, grunting and blowing steam.

Main Destination:
Selous Game Reserve

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

You'll wake up for an early breakfast then you will go out for a game drive. Today you will have a full-day game drive In Selous Game Reserve exploration of the reserve by 4WD vehicle. This will permit you to have good photographic opportunities and the chance to explore different sections of this vast park. You will continue with the game drive until sunset.

Main Destination:
Nyerere National Park

Accommodation:
Mloka Safari Lodge

• Budget lodge located less than 1hr drive from Nyerere NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

You'll wake up early in the morning and have a cup of coffee or tea, then go out for a wilderness walking safari with the guidance of an armed ranger which will take two to two and a half hours. A walking safari will give you a particularly intimate feel for the African wild. You will get the chance to touch nature and see the different foot prints and droppings of different wild animals and small creatures that you can’t see during the game drive. After the walking safari, you will go back to the camp/ lodge for breakfast then pack your stuff, and start driving back to Dar es Salaam with a lunch pack. You'll be dropped off at your hotel or airport for your next destination.

Main Destination:
Dar Es Salaam (City)

Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
• included)

End of tour

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.