Udzungwa Walking and Mikumi 5 Days
Trip Summary:
This is the best tour for nature lovers which will take you to visit 2 of the southern circuit of Tanzania National parks for game viewing in Mikumi national park for 2 nights and wonderful walking in the virgin forest of the pristine Udzungwa national park for 2 nights. Accommodation can be in lodge, luxury Tented camp or budget camping sites as per your requirements booked on full board arrangements FB. You will enjoy and experience nature, wildlife on game drives, habit and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas.
You will enjoy and experience nature, wildlife, habit and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas, also peoples and culture. Availability 90%
Minimum Rate Per Adult: US$
Departing From: Dar es Salaam
Duration: 5 Days / 4 Nights
Departure Time: 0830 Hrs (possible to leave earlier than)
Departures: Daily
Minimum Persons Required: 2
Best Time: All round the year
Trip Itinerary:
Udzungwa Walking and Mikumi 5 Days
Day 1: Dar – Mikumi National Park
- In the morning at 0830hrs pick up from your hotel in Dar es Salaam or Dar es Salaam International Airport and travel to Mikumi National park witch packed lunch or arrive there in time for lunch. Afternoon game drives in the park, dinner and overnight at Vuma Hill Tented Camp or Kikoboga Camp. FB
Day 2: Game drives in Mikumi Park
- Breakfast in your accommodation followed by both morning and afternoon game drives in the park a home to Elephant, Lion, Wild dog, Zebras, Hyena, Buffalo, Wildebeest, Eland, Hartebeest, Crocodile, Lizard and other residents. Over 300 species of birds have been observed in this park. You will have your lunch dinner and overnight at Vuma Hill Tented Camp or Kikoboga Camp FB.
Day 3: Mikumi – Udzungwa Mountains National Park
- Wake up at 0600hrs for early morning game drives in Mikumi park followed by breakfast at 0845hrs in your accommodation, after breakfast relax at leisure until lunch hours before you travel to Udzungwa Mountains National park arriving in the mid afternoon. Evening rest and relax at leisure waiting for dinner and overnight in Udzungwa Tented Camp FB
Day 4: Wonderful Walking in Udzungwa Park
- Breakfast in your Camp then launch a walking, morning and afternoon in this beautiful Park enjoying and experience the stunning natural beauty of the park. Lunch in the bush then proceed exploring the area, wonderful waterfall, endemic Red Colobus Monkey and the beautiful scenery with a lot of butterflies, evening experience the Sun Set before return to the Camp for dinner and overnight. FB
Day 5: Udzungwa Mountains – Dar
- After breakfast check out from the Camp and travel back to Dar arrives in the early afternoon.
Tour Price Includes:
- Flying Doctors Emergences
- Arrival and
departure Airport Transfers
- All entrance fees.
- Full board accommodation on tour
- Service of an English speaking driver guide
- Transport
based on an excellent 4*4 Vehicle with open roof for game viewing
- Driver's
Salary
and
allowances and park fees for vehicle and driver
- Game drives as per the Itinerary
-
Complementary bottle of water the first and second day
- Complementary of printed Safari hat and T-shirt
- Government taxes
Excludes:
- Extras at the lodges i.e. drinks, telephone, laundry, Internet
etc.
- International flight
- Departure tax
- Tips to drivers (highly recommended)
- Visa, Travel Insurance (we can help arrange of them)
Udzungwa Mountains National Park
Udzungwa is the largest and most biodiverse of a chain of a dozen large forest-swathed mountains that rise majestically from the flat coastal scrub of eastern Tanzania. Known collectively as the Eastern Arc Mountains, this archipelago of isolated massifs has also been dubbed the African Galapagos for its treasure-trove of endemic plants and animals, most familiarly the delicate African violet.
Udzungwa alone among the ancient ranges of the Eastern Arc has been accorded national park status. It is also unique within Tanzania in that its closed-canopy forest spans altitudes of 250 metres (820 feet) to above 2,000 metres (6,560 ft) without interruption.
Not a conventional game viewing destination, Udzungwa is a magnet for hikers. An excellent network of forest trails includes the popular half-day ramble to Sanje Waterfall, which plunges 170 metres (550 feet) through a misty spray into the forested valley below.
The more challenging two-night Mwanihana Trail leads to the high plateau, with its panoramic views over surrounding sugar plantations, before ascending to Mwanihana peak, the second-highest point in the range.
Ornithologists are attracted to Udzungwa for an avian wealth embracing more than 400 species, from the lovely and readily-located green-headed oriole to more than a dozen secretive Eastern Arc endemics.
Four bird species are peculiar to Udzungwa, including a forest partridge first discovered in 1991 and more closely related to an Asian genus than to any other African fowl.
Of six primate species recorded, the Iringa red colobus and Sanje Crested Mangabey both occur nowhere else in the world – the latter, remarkably, remained undetected by biologists prior to 1979.
Undoubtedly, this great forest has yet to reveal all its treasures: ongoing scientific exploration will surely add to its diverse catalogue of endemics.
About Udzungwa Mountains National Park
Size: 1,990 sq km (770 sq miles).
Location: Five hours (350 km/215 miles) from Dar es Salaam; 65 kms
(40 miles) southwest of Mikumi.
Getting there
Drive from Dar es Salaam or Mikumi National Park.
What to do
From a two-hour hike to the waterfall to camping safaris.
Combine with nearby Mikumi or en route to Ruaha.
When to go
Possible year round although slippery in the rains.
The dry season is June-October before the short rains but be
prepared for rain anytime.
Accommodation
Camping inside the park.
Bring all food and supplies.
Two modest but comfortable lodges with en-suite rooms within 1km of
the park entrance.
