5Days Explore Ruaha and Mikumi

Day 1: Depart to Mikumi National Park

After breakfast, depart to Mikumi National Park with packed lunch. Arrival for afternoon game drive, Check in at Vuma Hill Tented Camp base on full board

Vuma Hill Tented Camp is set in the spacious hillside of Mikumi National Park, overlooking the Mkata plains and surrounding mountains. Each tent is designed to give you privacy and the comfort you desire with private bathrooms and hot water showers inside each tent along with custom made furniture

Mikumi National Park abuts the northern border of Africa's biggest game reserve - the Selous – and is transected by the surfaced road between Dar es Salaam and Iringa. It is thus the most accessible part of a 75,000 square km (47,000 square mile) tract of wilderness that stretches east almost as far as the Indian Ocean. The open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain, the popular centre piece of Mikumi, draw frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti Plains.

Day 2: Depart to Ruaha National Park

After breakfast, depart to Ruaha National Park with hot lunch in Kitonga. Check in at Ruaha River Lodge for dinner and overnight

Ruaha River Lodge: Overlooking the Great Ruaha River, the lodge offers accommodation in bandas built from local stone and thatch. From the seclusion of your veranda you can watch wild animals as they descend from the hills. The dining bandas and bars at the Ruaha River Lodge are in elevated positions above the river, combine comfort and coolness with unrivalled panoramic views.

Day 3 and 4: Game drives

Two full day game drive in the Park with packed lunch. Dinner and overnight at Ruaha River Lodge

covering a conservation area of 10,300 square km in the south-west of the country, Ruaha National Park sprawls within and along the Great Rift Valley, covering a unique transition zone where the eastern and southern species of both fauna and flora meet against a dramatic topographical backdrop. This is also one of the few Tanzanian parks where sightings of the rarer antelopes, such as the Sable, the Roan and both lesser & Greater Kudu, are a probability rather than a possibility. The proliferation of plains game in the park also ensures that the larger predators - leopard and large prides of lion - are unusually active. The bird life, too, is unparalleled with some 530 species recorded.

Day 5: Fly back to Dar

After breakfast, drop off at the airstrip for 09:45 flight back to Dar. Drop off at your hotel or International Airport or connect flight to Zanzibar.