4 Days Safari to Nyerere and Mikumi National Parks

After breakfast drive to Nyerere National Park, with packed lunch en route. In the evening you will do boat safari then head to lodge for dinner and overnight. With an area of around 50,000sq km (5% of Tanzania’s land surface) Nyerere National Park is one of the large protected areas in the world.

Its size is stunning, bigger than Switzerland or Denmark, uninhabited and little touched by human interference. Visitors, therefore, find themselves in a pristine wilderness far away from the trodden tourist routes. Its wildlife (including some few remaining Black rhinos and Wild dogs) are very spectacular.

Today you will have a full day of game drive mixed with walking safari with a guide in Nyerere National Park, with picnic lunch (if interested can still enjoy the sunset Boat tour). In the late afternoon, you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

After early breakfast depart with picnic lunch and drive to Mikumi National park across the beautiful Uluguru Mountains, enjoying people and culture. Dinner and overnight will be at Mikumi. With an area of about 3230km (Tanzania’s 4th largest Park); Mikumi is one of the most popular parks for both tourists and local people.

The absence of Gazelles in this Park is curious – it seems their ecological niche is occupied by Impala. Mikumi and Nyerere National Parks are lying on the same ecosystem, which covers a large part of central & Southern Tanzania. (This ecosystem stretches to within 150 km of the Mozambique border, whose Niasa Game Reserve was formerly part of it). 

Predators which can be seen in Mikumi, include Lion, Leopards (more difficult to see), black-backed Jackal (can sometimes be seen in the evening), and the African Civet is the nocturnal visitor in most of the Camps. 

After breakfast drive back to Dar es Salam or fly to Zanzibar for your departure flight.