8 Days Tanzania Southern Safari

8 Days Tanzania Southern Safari : Through game drives, walking safaris, and boat safaris, this 8-day travel package will take you to the Selous Game Reserve, Ruaha National Park, and Mikumi National Park. Despite having abundant wildlife, Selous Game Reserve and Ruaha National Park see very little tourism, giving them an unspoiled wilderness atmosphere.

 You will view the “big five” as well as many other Southern Tanzanian species on this tour, including zebras, impalas, lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, and zebras. This vacation package begins in Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam.

DETAILED ITINERARY: 8 DAYS TANZANIA SOUTHERN SAFARI

Day 1 Arrival in Tanzania (Welcome to Tanzania)

Your driver will meet you at the airport in Dar es Salaam (Julius Nyerere International Airport) and take you to your hotel in the city. Dinner and overnight lodging at your Dar es Salaam hotel

Day 2: Dar es Salaam to Selous Game Reserve

You will travel by car for around 6 hours in the morning from Dar es Salaam to Selous Game Reserve. After lunch is served when you arrive, you’ll go on a boat safari on the Rufiji River in the late afternoon. In Selous National Park, you can stay at a camp for dinner and the night.

 Day 3: Full day Selous Game Reserve

This day will be spent doing game drives inside the Selous Game Drive. Lunch will be served there, and after that, you’ll set out on further drives till the evening. On this day, you will encounter lions, elephants, giraffes, buffalo, zebras, birds, wild dogs, and many other Southern Tanzanian wild creatures. In Selous National Park, you can stay at a camp for dinner and the night.

8 Days Tanzania Southern Safari
Selous Game Reserve

Day 4: Selous Game Reserve to Mikumi National Park

After breakfast, your guide will take you on a five-hour trip to Mikumi National Park. After lunch is given, you will leave for a game drive inside Mikumi National Park. You will arrive in the afternoon. An overnight stay at a lodge in Mikumi, including dinner

Day 5: Full day Mikumi National Park

The best predators and big game in Africa will be visible to you today when you go on game drives inside Mikumi National Park. You will encounter zebras, hippos, giraffes, elephants, lions, leopards, and hyenas, in addition to the hartebeest, wildebeest, impala, warthog, and eland antelope. An overnight stay at a lodge in Mikumi, including dinner

Day 6: Mikumi National Park to Ruaha National Park

After breakfast, our guide will transport you from Mikumi National Park to Tanzania’s largest national park, Ruaha national park. You will arrive about lunchtime, lunch will be served, and then you will go on a game drive in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight accommodations in Ruaha at a lodge

Day 7: Full Day Ruaha National Park

You will be driven out of your lodge in the morning for a day of game viewing; you will encounter one of Tanzania’s highest concentrations of predators, including lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, wild dogs, bat-eared foxes, and jackals. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, Grant’s gazelles, greater and lesser kudus, sable and roan antelopes, waterbucks, and impalas are among the grazers to be seen. Dinner and overnight accommodations in Ruaha at a lodge

Day 8: Ruaha National Park to Dar es Salaam, Departure

You will be taken to Dar es Salaam on this day; the travel will take around 8 hours. If your trip back home or a connecting flight to another region of Tanzania departs this evening, we will drive you to the airport. Dinner and overnight accommodations at a hotel in Dar es Salaam

PRICE INCLUDES

  • Accommodation for the duration of the safari
  • Transport in a 4×4 safari vehicle with a pop-up viewing roof
  • Professional guide(driver)
  • Park fees, including taxes
  • Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
  • Bottled Water
  • Airport transfers (Julius Nyerere International Airport, DAR)

PRICE EXCLUDES

  • Expenses for optional activities
  • Expenses for personal spending, e.g., souvenir purchases, etc.
  • Drinks (alcoholic and soft drinks)
  • Visa fees
  • Tips or gratuities
  • Optional beach holidays or Kilimanjaro climbs
  • Travel insurance

Kindly get in touch with us to know the price for this tour and to make a booking. Either a private expedition or joining a group are options for this 8 Days Tanzania Southern Safari. If you want to be a part of a group, send us your inquiry, and we’ll help you join a group. The same goes for those interested in a private tour!