iSafiri

• Day 1

  Ruaha National Park

  You will be greeted at Dar Es Salaam airport and then drive to Ruaha National Park. Immediately after arrival, you will begin a late evening game drive inside the park. After an all evening game drive, dinner and overnight will be at Ruaha hill top lodge.

• Day 2

  Ruaha National Park

  In the morning after breakfast, you will be picked up for a half day walking safari with rangers. After lunch you will be starting an evening game drive. Ruaha National Park covers an area of 12950 sq kms, and is Tanzanias second largest National Park. It forms the core of a much larger 45000 sq kms ecosystem including Rungwa and Kisigo Game Reserves; although it was established in 1910, as part of the Saba Game Reserve, its present boundaries were demarcated as recently as 1964. Ruaha represents a transition zone where eastern and southern species of flora and fauna overlap and some 1650 plant species and over 450 bird species have been recorded within the park itself. Ruaha is known for its large elephant and buffalo herds and one of its principal attractions lies in being able to see greater and lesser kudu as well as the majestic sable and roan antelope within the same area.

• Day 3

  Mikumi National Park

  In the morning after breakfast, you will be picked up for Mikumi National Park. Immediately after arrival, check in and start the walking safari to Uluguru Mountain where we will be experiencing Masai life and cultures, looking at the Uluguru Mountain, and visiting local farms to see how they grow strawberry and other plants. Mikumi National Park is a relatively small (3230 sq km) national park that lies 300 km west of Dar es Salaam and is the closest park to the capital. It is nestled between the Uruguru Mountains to the east and the Rift Valley escarpments to the southwest. Although less spectacular regarding flora and fauna, there is a rich variety of bird species as well as large numbers of giraffes, buffaloes, and elephants and close to the water holes also lions, leopards, and hippos. Furthermore you can see zebras, lions, wild dogs, pythons, hartebeest, wildebeests, elephants, impala, warthog, eland, and antelope.

• Day 4

  Mikumi National Park

  Early in the morning you will be picked up for a full day game drive in Mikumi National Park. Overnight is at Tan Swiss. Mikumi National Park is a relatively small (3230 sq km) national park that lies 300 km west of Dar es Salaam and is the closest park to the capital. It is nestled between the Uruguru Mountains to the east and the Rift Valley escarpments to the southwest. Although less spectacular regarding flora and fauna, there is a rich variety of bird species as well as large numbers of giraffes, buffaloes, and elephants and close to the water holes also lions, leopards, and hippos. You can also see zebras, lions, wild dogs, pythons, hartebeest, wildebeest, elephants, impala, warthog, eland, and antelope.

• Day 5

  Selous Game Reserve

  Depart from Mikumi National Park early in the morning for Selous National Park. This will be a 4 hours drive with a stop over for lunch. On arrival you will have an immediate transfer to the park for the late afternoon game drive. Only 200 km west of Dar es Salaam lies the mighty Selous Game Reserve, one of Africas least known yet wildest conservation areas. At an unbelievable 55000 sq km, Selous is almost twice the size of Belgium and four times larger than the famous Serengeti in the north, covering 5% of Tanzanias land area. The Selous ecosystem as a whole is made up of a few conservation areas, namely Mikumi in the north and the Kilombero game controlled area in the west, covering in total over 90,000 sq km of pristine wilderness devoid of human influence. Fed by the mighty Rufiji River, the largest river in East Africa, which drains most of South Western Tanzanias water, this reserve is home to over 1,000,000 large animals and is home to over half of Tanzania.

• Day 6

  Selous Game Reserve

  In the morning after breakfast, you will be picked up for a half day game drive. After the game drive, break for a take away lunch and then start a boat safari to watch animals. You will make a stop over for hot springs in Selous Game Reserve. Overnight is at an African Safari Camp.

• Day 7

  Kilwa

  In the morning after breakfast, you will be taken directly from Selous Game Reserve to Kilwa Masoko for 2 nights at Kilwa Seaview Resort. Soon after check in, you will be starting your historical Kilwa Masoko Tour that will last for 2 to 3 hours. The town of Kilwa as such is divided into three different towns. Kilwa Kivinje, Kilwa Masoko, and Kilwa Kisiwani with Songo Mnara and Sanje Ya Kiti. Kilwa Masoko is the least interesting history wise, but it is the most modern town right now and the centre of operations. The others are the places to go for historical interests.

• Day 8

  Kilwa

  Today you have a full day Tour at Kilwa Kisiwani and Kilwa Kivinje Tour. Kilwa Kivinje, was in the 19th Century an Arabian slave and ivory trading town where caravans started off into the interior. With the end of the Arab time at the end of the 19th century, the German colonial government built a fort and extended the town. From German times one can still find a Market Hall, the big Fort with a canon from the 1st World war, and two pillars one for the tribal dead of the Maji Maji War fought between the local tribes of Southern Tanzania and the German Colonial government and the other for two German traders also killed during the same Maji Maji War. Kilwa Kisiwani is where one will find the greatest collection of ruins. Directly on the Northern shore, one will find the old Omani Fort which is built on the foundations of the old Portuguese fort in the early 19th Century, and where still an old wooden door remains.

• Day 9

  Songo Mnara Island Tour

  Go for a half day Tour to Songo Mnara and then transfer to Dar es Salaam for your flight. The large complex of walls in the west of the island is called Makutani in the great wall. In the middle is a palace from the 18th Century, south of it, another Sultanas palace, with a mosque from the 15th Century. All the way to the east of the island there are the ground walls of the Husuni Kubwa, once the largest building in tropical Africa. Songo Mnara is another island with houses and mosques from 14th to 15th century. Some of which still show high walls and even parts of their roofs.

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