Budget Safari to Mikumi & Ruaha National Parks
Mikumi & Ruaha National Parks Budget Safari
Maasai family visit – Mikumi & Ruaha Budget Safari
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Enjoy your safari to Mikumi and Ruaha National park the home of big four.
The safari is budget safari where you will sleep in Tanapa bandas. Private room with a bathroom. We will provide you with a private chef to prepare your meals.
Activities: Culture visits Maasai Community, Game drive, Night game drive & Wilderness Walking safari
Days: 6 Nights: 5
Early morning pick up from your hotel in Dar es Salaam and depart to Mikumi National Park, where you will arrive in time for lunch; after lunch and a short break at the bandas, a trip to a Maasai village, where you can learn about the customs and traditions of the Maasai. The Maasai are a colourful tribe from Tanzania with a nomadic, traditional lifestyle.
- Meal plan:
- lunch
- dinner
- Accommodation:
- Budget: Tanapa Bandas
The morning after breakfast, with packed lunch and full-day games, drive in the park. Mikumi’s vegetation includes woodland, swamps, and grassland, with two water holes, Mkata and Chamgore. Apart from the saddle-bill stork, hammer kop and malachite kingfisher, you will also find a monitor lizard and perhaps a python inhabiting the pools. After lunch, proceed with afternoon game drives in the park home to Elephant, Lion, Wild Dog, Zebras, Hyena, Buffalo, Wildebeest, Eland Hartebeest, Crocodile, Lizard and other residents. Come back for dinner after sunset. Then, after dinner, you will leave for a night game drive from 7:00 to 11:30 pm.
- Meal plan:
- breakfast
- lunch
- dinner
- Accommodation:
- Budget: Mikumi Tanapa Bandas
In the morning, after breakfast, depart for Ruaha National Park. Expect to arrive at Ruaha in the evening. Game on route to the bandas for dinner and overnight
- Meal plan:
- breakfast
- lunch
- dinner
- Accommodation:
- Budget: Ruaha Tanapa Bandas
After breakfast, collect your packed lunch and leave for a full-day game drive. Depending on the time of the year, the driver may drive far southern of the park to Usangu marsh, where you can sport the Roan and Sable antelopes. The game drive around that area is so exciting as you will be able to see many wild animals. In the evening, come back to the accommodation for dinner and overnight.
- Meal plan:
- breakfast
- picnic lunch
- dinner
- Accommodation:
- Budget: Ruaha Tanapa Bandas
After breakfast, a morning wilderness walking safari, one of the most exciting experiences in Tanzania, accompanied by armed rangers. Back to the camp for a full breakfast. Then, collect your packed lunch and proceed with a game drive. The Ruaha is the largest park in Tanzania, with a size of 20,226 Square Kilometers. The exciting Great Ruaha River features large numbers of hippos and crocodiles. It attracts lions, leopards, hunting dogs, and other species such as waterbuck, impala, giraffe, warthog, eland, zebra, and elephants. Tou can see Grant’s gazelle, ostrich on the plains.
- Meal plan:
- breakfast
- picnic lunch
- dinner
- Accommodation:
- Budget: Ruaha Tanapa Bandas
After breakfast, we then start the journey back to Dar es Salaam with a lunch stop at Mikumi restaurant at Mikumi. Arrive in Dar es Salaam late in the evening, where the tour will end.
- Meal plan:
- breakfast
- lunch
- Accommodation:
- no accommodation on this day.
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Included in Price:
- All activities as per the itinerary
- All Accommodation as per itinerary – N.B. accommodation mentioned in the itinerary depends on availability at the time of booking; alternatives of a similar class may be booked instead.
- All meals as per itinerary (3 a day unless otherwise stated)
- All transfers to and from agreed pick up and drop off points (e.g. Airport, Bus Station, hotel in town, etc.)
- All camping gear (if you are camping)
- Service of an English-speaking driver/guide
- Safari base 4×4 Vehicle with open roof for game viewing (sometimes a saloon car or other SUV for excursions in town, etc.)
- Driver’s salary and allowances and park fees for vehicle and driver
- Bottled mineral water daily
- All Government taxes
- All National Park and Game Reserve Fees
- If included in your itinerary: foot safaris, night game drive.
- TANAPA armed ranger (where needed, e.g., on foot safaris, some boat safaris, etc.)
Exluded in Price:
- Extras, personal expenses i.e. drinks, telephone, laundry etc.
- Optional activities not outlined on the itinerary
- International flights & corresponding taxes
- Visa
- Flying Doctors rescue services
- Travel, medical, injury and luggage insurance
- Tips to the driver & guides ($ 15-20 per day)
- Anything else not mentioned in the inclusions (above)
