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6 days selous udzungwa mikumi luxury Safari

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6 days luxury Safari Overview

6 Days Selous Game Reserve and Mikumi National Park will offer you game drives, walking, and boat safari within one itinerary. This 6 days combines three national parks in the Southern Circuit; Mikumi National Park, Selous Game Reserve, and Udzungwa Mountains National Park. Southern Circuit is still unspoiled with more lions ever seen. This trip will take you over Mikumi National Park which borders Selous forming a huge ecosystem. This park is well known for its large buffalo. Then you will be heading to Udzungwa Mountains for trekking.

For this luxury safari in Southern Tanzania, you’ll stay at some of the finest luxury safari accommodations Tanzania has to offer including exclusive lodges like the ultra-private Beho Beho Luxury Camp where you’ll stay in a stone-built, palm-thatched cottages, and Siwandu Private Camp on the shores of Lake Nzerakera where you can watch the wildlife from your king size bed and star gaze while enjoying an open-air shower. At both Siwandu Camp and Vuma Hills Tented Camp you’ll experience the ultimate luxury tented safari where you can sleep under canvas while being pampered and staying in total comfort.

Day by day

Day 1. Dar es salaam to Selous (Nyerere National Park)

Just 200 kilometers west of the city of Dar es Salaam, there is the great Selous Game Reserve which is the biggest national park in Africa. It is 4 times the size of the Serengeti; occupying over five percent of Tanzania’s area as well as bigger than Switzerland. Fed by the waters of River Rufiji, this reserve is habitat to more than one million large animals as well as home to more than half of the elephant population in Tanzania. The Selous possesses more than 2,100 plant species, 350 bird species, 60,000 elephants, about 1,300 of the 4,000 remaining uncommon wild dogs in the world, and 108,000 buffalos enabling its guests to view all of these uncommon animals within an un-spoilt wilderness. When arriving in Selous you will go for a boat trip in the Rufiji River to explore Hippo and Crocodiles as well as enjoy the sunset.

Accommodation: Selous Jimbiza Camp

Day 2. Game Drive in Selous (Nyerere National Park)

Following breakfast, you will go for Game Drive with a lunch box. There are huge numbers of elephants within the park. Roughly, seventy percent which is 60,000 of the total elephant population live within this reserve. Other popular animals are the hippos about 40,000 around the river systems, decreased numbers of black rhinos, numerous buffalos – more than 160,000, wild dogs in addition to 5,000 lions. Also, the animals living here are cheetahs, Nyasaland gnu, leopards, brindled gnu, wildebeest, hartebeest, giraffe, greater kudu, zebras, sable antelope, warthog, eland, waterbuck, reedbuck, and the bushbuck. You will find more than 350 types of birds such as the southern ground hornbill, African snipe, geese, bateleur eagle, kingfishers, crested lark, herons, green-headed oriole, and knob-billed duck. Reptiles like crocodiles as well as other snakes plus lizards can also be seen.

Day 3. Game drive in Selous and depart to Mikumi

You will have an early morning game drive from 6.00 am to 10.00 am where you will be back to the Hotel for breakfast. After breakfast, drive for six to seven hours to Mikumi with packed lunch boxes, while crossing in the middle of the Selous Game Reserve. This once again provides you with a chance to enjoy the wildlife. You will arrive in Mikumi in the evening.

Accommodations: Mikumi Wildlife Camp

Day 4. Full day game drive in Mikumi

Today after breakfast you will go for a morning game drive until the afternoon when you will sit for lunch. Then you will proceed with a game drive till evening when you’ll go back to your hotel for dinner and cover the night.

Mikumi National Park is nestled between the Uluguru Mountains to the northeast and the Rubeho Mountains, Udzungwa Mountains, and Rift Valley escarpment to the southwest. As part of the Selous ecosystem, it benefits from the highest game density of the entire conservation area.

The landscape here is beautiful, and the wildlife is prolific. You can expect to see animals like elephants, giraffes, zebra, eland, kudu, wildebeest, antelope, leopards, wild dogs, jackals, and an amazing array of colorful birds.

Day 5. Trekking in Udzungwa Mountains

The morning after breakfast you will be heading to Udzungwa Mountains. After an early breakfast, go for a full-day game drive across the park while passing Mikumi’s most attractive point, The Mkata floodplain, until sunset. During the game drive, you can see over 400 species of birds as well as large numbers of giraffes, buffalo, and elephants. You may also be able to spot lions, leopards, and African wild dogs. Likely to be seen animals include zebras, hippos, hartebeest, wildebeest, impala, warthog, and antelope. The biodiversity of this park is by far one of Tanzania’s most special features.

Habitats include mountain forests, tropical rainforests, Miombo woodlands, grasslands, and steppe. The Udzungwa Mountains are part of the Eastern Arc Mountains which are found in Kenya and Tanzania and were formed some 200 million years ago. Today they hold a unique collection of flora and fauna and cover only 2% of Tanzania’s area but hold between 30-40% of the country’s plant and mammal species. The most popular trail is to the magnificent Sanje waterfalls, a 5km circuit with spectacular views across the plains and three wonderful waterfalls where you can swim and relax in the plunge pools and enjoy a picnic lunch. In the evening you will be back at Mikumi National Park and this time Camp Bastian will be your place to spend the night.

Accommodation: Tan Swiss

Day 6. Half Day game drive in Mikumi and depart to Dar es salaam

After breakfast, we’ll drive you back to Dar es Salaam where you’ll be transferred to
the airport for your flight back home. It’s been an amazing trip, and you’ll have some
incredible photos and stories to share with your friends and family back home. 

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