4 Days 3 Nights Explore Ruaha Adventures
Enjoy a safari to Ruaha National Park, Tanzania’s largest park. It’s a vast wilderness in the southwest of the country visited by only a handful of travelers each year. At the park’s heart is the aptly named Great Ruaha River, a massive watercourse that dwindles to only a few pools in the dry season, but bursts its banks and roars over boulders at the height of the rains. Go for an excursion where you’ll see the rare antelope, small and large mammals and a variety of reptiles and bird species.
| Destination |
Ruaha National Park |
| Included |
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
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| Excluded |
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
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Details
You will be picked up from Dar es salaam early morning (5am) and drive to Ruaha National Park via Morogoro town and Mikumi National Park; this drive will take 9 to 10hrs. You will stop on the way for hot lunch- Tanzanian cuisine. the journey will take you through different landscape, vegetation and escarpment. On the highway then passes through Mikumi National Park and you will get the opportunity to view the game along the road. Beyond Mikumi the road will take you through the baobab valley where you can get a chance to see thousands of baobab trees. later on you will start to ascending the Kitonga Gorge eight kilometers high. the road will take you to Iringa town and continue driving to Ruaha National Park, arrive at late evening for dinner and overnight at the lodge outside the park.
Meal plan : lunch and dinner
After breakfast drive to the gate and start a full day game drive inside the park until sunset.
A fine network of game-viewing roads follows the Great Ruaha and its seasonal tributaries, where, during the dry season, impala, waterbuck and other antelopes risk their life for a sip of life-sustaining water. And the risk is considerable: not only from the prides of 20-plus lion that lord over the savannah, but also from the cheetahs that stalk the open grassland and the leopards that lurk in tangled riverine thickets. This impressive array of large predators is boosted by both striped and spotted hyena, as well as several conspicuous packs of the highly endangered African wild dog.
Dinner and overnight will be at Lodge or Tented Camp. Full Board. (Inside the park). Accommodation depends on your budget.
Work up for early morning game drive until 08:30hrs then drive back at the camp, lodge or cottage for breakfast. After breakfast you will continue with game drive until lunch time then start to drive to Iringa town for dinner and Overnight at Neema Craft or equivalent Full Board.
After breakfast start driving to Dar es Salaam via Mikumi and Morogoro town. Lunch on the way. Arrive to Dar es Salaam late afternoon. Drop off at your hotel or airport for your next destination.
Meal plan: -Breakfast and Lunch.
End of safari.
