6-Day Mikumi, Ruaha and Udzungwa Safari with Isimila Site

• Pick up and depart for Mikumi National Park.

• Make a short stop for lunch on the way.

• Arrive and begin an afternoon game drive that continues until sunset.

Head for dinner and overnight at Mikumi Cottages.

• Head out for an early morning game drive in Mikumi National Park, then return for breakfast.

• After breakfast, depart for Ruaha National Park.

• The drive to Ruaha is truly fascinating and gives you a real feel for the African countryside. Along the way, you will pass sisal plantations and local villages before climbing the Great Rift Valley Escarpment and passing through Iringa Town.

• Arrive in the late afternoon and enjoy a game drive on the way to the lodge.

Head on for dinner and overnight at Ruaha Cottages.

• After breakfast, go for a full-day game drive in Ruaha National Park. Ruaha National Park is the biggest national park in Tanzania; here, you will be able to see big groups of elephants, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, kudu, and big cats like lions and leopards.

• Take a break during the day and have lunch while watching some animals coming down to drink at the Ruaha River.

• Continue with the game drive until sunset and return to the lodge.

Head for dinner and overnight at Ruaha Cottages.

• After breakfast, depart for the Isimila Stone Age Site. The site is a dry bed of a former shallow lake, discovered in 1951, amid a landscape of small canyons and eroded sandstone pillars. It is one of a handful of sites that illuminate the ecology of the later Acheulean hand axe makers who occupied Africa between roughly 700,000 and 200,000 years ago. There is also a museum with small, well-captioned displays highlighting some of the finds.

• With a guide, take a walk around the site.

• Have lunch, then depart for Udzungwa Mountains National Park.

Dinner and overnight at Twiga Motel.

• After breakfast, go hiking at Sanje Waterfalls.

• Bring your swimming costumes for swimming at the base of the waterfalls.

• Have lunch at the top with a great view.

Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at Twiga Motel.

• After breakfast, depart for Dar es Salaam.

• Drop off at an agreed place.