We pick you up at Julias Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam and transfer you to your lodgings. Dar es Salaam is Tanzania’s premier city, and its commercial capital. Dar’s name translates to the ‘Haven of Peace’. It started life as a fishing village in the mid 19th century when the Sultan of Zanzibar developed a creek (now a harbor) into a safe port and trading center. Now it’s a teeming metropolis of 5.5 million people where Arab dhows mingle with huge ocean-going vessels.

• meal plan: 
  • dinner
     
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Kiseki Guest House 
  • midrange: Southern Sun 
  • luxury: Hyatt Regency Kilimanjaro Hotel

After breakfast, you are transferred to the Airport in time for your scheduled flight to Kigoma Town. On arrival, you are driven to the port on Lake Tanganyika and then depart by boat to Gombe Stream National Park. In the afternoon you can maybe view some chimpanzees and visit Kakombe waterfalls. Kakombe is approximately a 30-minute walk from camp. You will often pass these falls when tracking chimps.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
     
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Tanapa Bandas 
  • luxury: Grey Stone Luxury Camp

Set off after breakfast to track chimps in the forest. Unless you take a packed lunch you will normally go back to your lodgings at lunchtime. In the afternoon there are many options, depending on how energetic you feel. Choose between further chimpanzee tracking, walking on the beach or swimming. It is also possible to visit local fishing villages close to the park and get the first-hand experience of life in a typical African village.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Tanapa Bandas 
  • luxury: Grey Stone Luxury Camp

After breakfast, you depart to the airstrip for your flight to Ruaha National Park. On arrival at Ruaha, you will be picked up with your driver-guide and proceed with game on route while transfer to your accommodation.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
• accommodation:
  •  budget: Tanapa Bandas 
  • midrange: Ruaha River Lodge 
  • luxury: Kigelia Luxury Tented Camp

Game drives in Ruaha National Park, walking in the wilderness – so much wildlife to see! There are many birds in the park too including Eurasian migrants.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
     
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Tanapa Bandas 
  • midrange: Ruaha River Lodge 
  • luxury: Kigelia Luxury Tented Camp

Breakfast at your accommodation, then leave with your packed lunch with game en route to Udzungwa Mountains National Park. We stop at the Ismila Stone Age Site, one of Africa’s most important historical sites. We arrive in the early afternoon giving you time to relax and perhaps to stroll around this charming market town. Expect to arrive in the mid-afternoon. A restful and relaxing evening at your lodgings.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Twiga Hotel 
  • midrange: Hondo Hondo Tented Camp 
  • luxury: Udzungwa Falls Lodge

Breakfast in your accommodation then set out to trek this extremely beautiful area. Lunch in the bush after which you are off to explore a lovely waterfall and you will probably see the endemic red colobus monkey. The beautiful scenery and the usual glorious sunset; the fresh air and exercise will help you relax and make you ready for a lovely dinner at camp.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
     
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Twiga Hotel 
  • midrange: Hondo Hondo Tented Camp 
  • luxury: Udzungwa Falls Lodge

After breakfast, we depart to Mikumi National Park for a full day game drive. An afternoon game drive in Mikuni National Park before retiring to your lodgings.

• meal plan: 
  • Breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Mikumi Campsite 
  • midrange: Vuma Hill Tented Camp

We depart for Selous Game Reserve. The journey will take about 8 hours due to road conditions over the Uluguru Mountains. We cross rivers and pass small local villages and farms. A game drives en route, before checking into your lodgings inside the reserve.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Tagalala Campsite 
  • midrange: Rufiji River Camp 
  • luxury: Selous Mivumo Camp

A morning walking safari accompanied by an experienced guide. You will really experience that magical, African bush excitement – just like the explorers over a century ago. Back for lunch. In the afternoon, we organize a boat safari on the Rufiji River, where you’ll admire hippos and crocodiles in their natural habitat and many other animals and birds that line the banks of this magnificent river

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Kituri Selous Camp 
  • midrange: Rufiji River Camp luxury: Selous Mivumo Camp

After breakfast, a full day game drive in Selous, the Rufiji River, and its adjoining swamps and savanna feature a large number of animals. The miombo woodland too. In these varied landscapes, you may see lion, elephant, kudu, wild dog, leopard – in fact almost any East African animal or bird.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
     
• accommodation: 
  • budget: Kituri Selous Camp 
  • midrange: Rufiji River Camp
  • luxury: Selous Mivumo Camp

Breakfast at your accommodation then transfers to Mtemere airstrip for your flight to Mafia which leaves at 9 am. On arrival in Mafia, you are transferred to your lodgings where you can relax before dinner.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
     
• accommodation:
  • midrange: Mafia Island Lodge 
  • luxury: Kingasi Luxury Lodge

These days are for your leisure on Mafia Island with optional water sports. The warm, colorful waters of the Indian Ocean surrounding Mafia Island provide an ideal location for many seaside activities. Enjoy some of the best diving and snorkeling there is off the East African coast. Explore the many coral reefs that are teaming with tropical marine life. There are over 400 species of fish inhabiting the reefs around Mafia.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
     
• accommodation: 
  • midrange: Mafia Island Lodge 
  • luxury: Kingasi Luxury Lodge

Transfer to Mafia airstrip for your flight back to Dar. On arrival in Dar, you will be picked up at the airport and taken to your lodgings. The shower and little rest, then we pick you up in the afternoon for the Dar es salaam city tour.

• meal plan: 
  • breakfast
  • lunch
  • dinner
     
• accommodation:
  • midrange: Kunduchi Beach Hotel 
  • luxury: Dar es Salaam Serena Lodge

Transfer to Julias Nyerere International Airport in time for your scheduled flight back home.

• meal plan: breakfast
• accommodation: no accommodation on this day.