This safari will take place at Selous Game Reserve and Mikumi National Park, Tanzania.
Selous Game Reserve
The park is named after an Englishman, Frederick Courtney Selous, a conservationist, hunter, explorer, and author, whose adventure books on Africa became best sellers in Victorian England. The park varies from rolling grassy woodlands and plains to rocky outcrops cut by the Rufiji River, the lifeblood of the park, whose tributaries form a network of lakes, lagoons, and channels.
Volcanic hot springs even burst forth in places. The Rufiji offers a superb method of game viewing especially during the dry season when animals congregate.
Mikumi National Park
With the thriving big game and hundreds of bird species, Mikumi National Park offers a real safari experience as a day trip from Dar Es Salaam. Make the most of your time in Tanzania with a full-day, private tour for up to four people that includes morning and afternoon game drives, park entrance fees, lunch, and door-to-door transport.
This is Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park and the most accessible from Dar es Salaam. With almost guaranteed year-round wildlife sightings, Mikumi makes an ideal safari destination for those without much time. Within its 3230 square kilometers – set between the Uluguru Mountains to the northeast, the Rubeho Mountains to the northwest, and the Lumango Mountains to the southeast – Mikumi hosts buffaloes, wildebeests, giraffes, elephants, lions, zebras, leopards, crocodiles, and more, and chances are high that you’ll see a respectable sampling of these within a short time of entering the park.
The most reliable wildlife watching is around the Mkata floodplain, to the northwest of the main road, with the open vistas of the small but lovely Millennium ('Little Serengeti') area as highlight. This area is especially good for spotting buffaloes – often quite near the roadside – as well as giraffes, elephants, and zebras. Another attraction: the Hippo Pools, just northwest of the main entry gate, where you can watch hippos wallowing and snorting at close range, plus do some fine birding.
Mikumi is an important educational and research center. Among the various projects being carried out is an ongoing field study of yellow baboons, which is one of just a handful of such long-term primate studies on the continent.
