10 Days Family Safari Holiday in Tanzania
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Day 1: ARRIVAL Overnight at Holiday Inn. Dinner included. |
Day 2: Dar Es Salaam-Selous Game Reserve
After breakfast, pick up from the hotel for your drive to Selous Game Reserve (driving some 5-7 hours). You arrive at your lodge in the afternoon in time for a late lunch at your lodge, taking your time to absorb the wild African surroundings.
After lunch and some rest you explore the area around your lodge a little on a guided walking tour along the river banks of Rufiji River. You walk between shrubs and old mahogany trees, watching playful monkeys in the canopy and hippos grunting and socialising in the water. Return to your lodge in time for a cold sundowner drink.
Overnight at Selous Great Water Lodge. All meals included.
Day 3: Selous Game Reserve
Full day of game drives at Selous Game Reserve, named after famous explorer Frederick Selous. The Selous Game Reserve a vast protected wildlife reserve - a UN World Heritage site and a pristine uninhabited area larger than Switzerland. The topography of the park varies from rolling savannah woodland, grassland plain and rocky outcrops cut by the Rufiji River and its tributaries. Activities are game drives, a thrilling and educational walking safari and a boat trip at Rufiji River.
Overnight at Selous Great Water Lodge. All meals included.
Day 4: Selous Game Reserve
Today you take some cultural excursions to a nearby village. See the local daily life of rural Tanzania in the remote countryside and enjoy some insights into local culture as well as encounters with the friendly villagers. This is a great chance to try out some rudimentary Swahili!
Overnight at Selous Great Water Lodge. All meals included.
Day 5: Selous - Mikumi
After breakfast you will proceed to the next exciting stop of your safari circuit. First you cross a vast and remote part of Northern Selous on some bumpy and partly dusty roads towards Morogoro Town and onwards to Mikumi National Park, where you reach your camp in the afternoon. Vuma Hills Tented Camp is perched above the trees stretching over the seemingly endless wilderness south west of Mikumi National Park, an ideal place to evoke the true spirit of Africa.
Overnight at Vuma Hill Tented Camp. All meals included.
Day 6: Mikumi National Park
Today you explore Mikumi further on a full day safari. A day at Mikumi National Park provides a good impression of African safari wildlife and is very well suited for a short visit. There is a rich variety of bird species as well as large numbers of buffaloes and elephants, and a great many giraffe which can be seen traversing the plains with their unique ambling gait. Close to the water holes lions, leopards and hippos can also be found.
Other species residing here include zebras, wild dogs, pythons, hartebeest, wildebeest, elephants, impala, warthog, eland and other antelopes. Several observation towers enable you to overview the rolling miombo woodland and wide open plains of Mikumi in its entirety – an amazing view. Together with an armed ranger you will also go for a walking safari to the bush while your guide shows you shrubs, footprints and animal tracks.
Overnight at Vuma Hill Tented Camp. All meals included.
Day 7: Udzungwa Mountain National Park
After breakfast your depart for Udzungwa Mountain National Park (drive of some 2 hours), one of the most interesting bio-diversity and unique rainforest areas of East Africa, where many extremely rare plants and animal species have been identified (and indeed continue to be discovered). Among the six types of primates there are two endemic species found nowhere else in the world – the Udzungwa Colobus Monkey and the Sanje Crested Mangabey. You arrive at your camp late morning for a day of walking and bird-watching in the pristine rain forest, hiking towards the Sanje waterfalls for spectacular views of the wide Kilombero Valley. If you wish, you can bath and play around in the pools at the waterfalls.
For the next 3 nights you stay at the unique Udzungwa Forest Camp, set on spacious lush green grounds on the border of the pristine rainforest. Children can roam free around the camp, running on the grass, taking in the magical views of the forest canopy, relaxing at the regular campfires in the night, or even spending some time bug-watching!
Overnight at Udzungwa Forest Camp (Accommodation in a en suite luxury tent). All meals included.
Days 8-9: Udzungwa Mountain National Park
Early morning game driving/safari activities as per your wishes and specific schedule. Depart Manyara Ranch after breakfast and transfer to Arusha Airport or Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward journey.
2 x Overnight in the Udzungwa Forest Camp (Accommodation in a en suite luxury tent). All meals included.
Day 10: Udzungwa-Dar Es Salaam
After breakfast you return by road to Dar es Salaam (some 6-7 hours) for departure, or a fun-packed beach holiday on the Island of Zanzibar. Breakfast and lunch included.