Discover Southern Circuit

Discover Southern Circuit 4 Nights / 5 Days

The safari will take you to the southern parks of Tanzania. You start with unspoilt Ruaha, the biggest elephant sanctuary in the country.

The lifeblood of the park is the Great Ruaha River with its spectacular gorges. It is host to numerous plain animals and the predators that follow them -lion, leopard, hyena, wild dog and jackal.

Then you head to Mikumi, the most accessible park from Dar es Salaam. Prominent features here are the Mikumi flood plain and the mountain ranges that rise on two sides of the park.

And all the usual suspects of wild Africa have their home here, not to mention a few peculiar ones such as yellow baboons. Your stay is in top class accommodation throughout

RATES: Available on request.

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: IRINGA | After breakfast, drive to Iringa town, where you arrive for lunch at Kitonga Inn Lodge. At 1400 hrs continue to Iringa Hotel. Dinner and overnight at Iringa Hotel

Day 2: RUAHA | After breakfast, proceed to Ruaha National Park. You arrive in time for lunch at Ruaha River Lodge. At 1500 hrs go for an evening game drive in the park.

Ruaha National Park is an unspoilt wildlife park in central Tanzania. It occupies 10,000 sq km and carries 8000 tuskers making it the biggest elephant sanctuary in the country. The Great Ruaha River with its spectacular gorges flows along the parks’ eastern border and is host to hippo and crocodile.

The river is the parks lifeblood and provides drink for waterbuck, reedbuck and buffalo. This in turn attracts the predators: lion, leopard, hyena, wild dog and jackal.

Plain animals thriving in the grasslands of the Ruaha include: greater and lesser kudu, impala, sable and roan antelope, giraffe, zebra, dik-dik and Grants gazelle. Birds are plenty too- over 370 species have been recorded.

Proceed to Ruaha River Lodge, the only safari lodge built along the banks of the Great Ruaha River.

Dinner and overnight at Ruaha River Lodge

Day 3: RUAHA | After breakfast,you will depart to Ruaha National Park with a  picnic lunch en-route Dinner and overnight at Ruaha River Lodge

Day 4: MIKUMI  | Check out from Ruaha River Lodge. Enjoy a short game drive before proceeding to Kitonga Inn at Iringa for lunch. 1400 hrs- drive on to Mikumi National Park.

Mikumi is located 300 km for Dar es Saalam and is the most accessible park for those departing from Tanzania’s capital.

Prominent features of the park are the Mikumi flood plain and the mountain ranges that rise on two sides of the park. You will encounter elephant, giraffe, zebra, buffalo, hippo, crocodile, wildebeest, eland and Lichtenstein’s hartebeest.

Lion and wild dogs are among the carnivores common here. Towards the southern end of the flood plain live families of yellow baboon.

Over 300 species of birds have been recorded in the park. Many are Eurasian migrants who stay between October and April.

Dinner and overnight at Vuma Hill Camp

Day 5: MIKUMI / DAR ES SALAAM | After breakfast, enjoy morning game drive in Mikumi National Park. You return for lunch and thereafter depart for Dar es Salaam at 1400 hrs.