Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrival day in Dar

   • Upon arriving in Dar es Salaam, transfer to Royal Mirage.

   Overnight stay.

2. Day 2: Dar es Salam to Kigoma

   • Transfer to the airport for your flight to Kigoma after breakfast.
   • Upon arrival, transfer to Kigoma Hotel.

3. Day 3: Transfer Day

   • After breakfast, transfer from Kigoma Hotel to Sunuka, halfway south of Mahale.

   • Board a speed boat for one hour to Mahale National Park for formalities.

   • Proceed to the bandas for afternoon beach safaris.

4. Day 4: Mahale Mountain National Park

   • Enjoy another early morning game viewing (Chimpanzee tracking in the forest) after breakfast.

   • Have lunch at the camp.

   • Spend the rest of the afternoon fishing by boat on the lake for 2-3 hrs. Mahale is one of the best locations on Lake Tanganyika for fishing, hence you will be able to catch a lot of fish in only a few hours. Some of the types of species caught are the sangara (Nile Perch) and kuhe.

5. Day 5: Mahale

   • After breakfast, enjoy another early morning game viewing (Chimpanzee tracking in the forest).

   • Eat lunch at the camp.

   • Spend the rest of the afternoon fishing by boat on the lake for 2-3 hrs. Mahale is one of the best locations on Lake Tanganyika for fishing, hence you will be able to catch a lot of fish in only a few hours. Some of the types of species caught are the sangara (Nile Perch) and kuhe.

6. Day 6 and Day 7: Mahale trekking

   • After breakfast, enjoy another early morning game viewing (Chimpanzee tracking in the forest).

   • Eat lunch at the camp.

   • Spend the rest of the afternoon fishing by boat on the lake for 2-3 hrs. Mahale is one of the best locations on Lake Tanganyika for fishing; hence you will be able to catch a lot of fish in only a few hours. Some of the types of species caught are the sangara (Nile Perch) and Kuhe.

7. Day 8: Mahale to Katavi

   • Transfer to the airstrip for a flight to Katavi.

   • En-route game drives.

   Overnight at Bandas.

8. Day 9: Katavi

   • After breakfast, do a game drive in Katavi National Park with your Tanzania tour guide. This remote national park in western Tanzania is probably the wildest and most untouched reserve in the whole of Africa. Katavi contains one of the highest concentrations of wildlife amongst the Tanzanian parks. Thousands of buffalos, antelopes and elephants roaming the around the park provide ample feeding opportunity to the hundreds of pride of lions and other predators sharing the habitat. The park provides a good opportunity of viewing the rare species of cheetah and wild dogs. Other predators include leopards and hyenas. Prominent species include zebras, eland, topi, impala, hartebeest, waterbucks, giraffe, reedbuck and Defasssa.

   Dinner and overnight at Bandas.

9. Day 10: Katavi

   • After breakfast, continue with another early morning game drive with picnic lunch. Prominent species of birds at the rivers include yellow-billed, open-billed and saddle-billed stork, pink-backed pelican, Africa spoonbill and numerous heron, egrets and plovers. Raptors include fish eagle, bateleur and white-backed vulture. Other species are also found in the woodland and floodplain areas of the park. 

   Dinner and overnight at Bandas.

10. Day 11: Katavi to Kigoma

    • Take a private car and drive to Mpanda for breakfast.

    • Drive onwards to Uvindza.

    • Upon arriving in Kigoma in the evening, drop off at Mapinduzi hotel.

11. Day 12: Kigoma to Dar es salaam

    • Transfer to the airport for the flight back to Dar es Salaam Airport and then connect flight to Zanzibar.