7-Day Tanzania Safari through Selous, Mikumi and Ruaha

• Meet and greet your Tanzanian safari guide and depart from Dar es Salaam to Selous Game Reserve with a picnic lunch. The journey takes 6 hours, and you will travel in a 4x4 safari vehicle.

• Go on a boat safari along the mighty Rufiji River, which brings you into close contact with hippos, crocodiles, and fantastic birdlife. Crocodiles glide into the water as your boat approaches, and hippos appear in frightening proximity, grunting and blowing steam.

Dinner and overnight will be at Selous Hippo Camp (Full board).

• Enjoy a full day in Selous Game Reserve exploring the reserve in a 4-wheel vehicle. This allows for excellent photographic opportunities and the chance to discover different sections of the vast park. Selous is famous for its elephants, and commonly seen animals include lions, wild dogs, buffaloes, bushbuck, impalas, elands, baboons, zebras, and greater kudus.

Dinner and overnight will be at Selous Hippo Camp (Full board).

• Have breakfast and proceed on a wilderness walking safari with the guidance of an armed ranger, lasting 2 hours. The walking safari starts in the morning and gives you a particularly intimate feel for the African wilds.

• Meet your vehicle and enjoy a game drive en route to Mikumi National Park. The journey is amazing and truly wild, passing through untouched areas of Tanzania. The drive takes you up into the Uluguru Mountains, across rivers, and past small local villages and farms.

Dinner and overnight will be at Angalia Camp (Full board).

• Have a refreshing breakfast, check out, and begin the journey to Ruaha, with lunch in Iringa Town.

• Continue to the national park, where you will arrive in the afternoon.

• Go for short game drives in the park or relax at leisure.

Dinner and overnight will be at Mwagusi Camp (Full board).

• Have breakfast and enjoy game-viewing drives in Ruaha National Park. Look for roan and sable antelope, hippo, crocodile, waterbuck, reedbuck, and buffalo.

• Animals venture to the river's edge to drink, attracting the attention of lion, leopard, hyena, wild dog, jackal, and many more antelopes, including dik-dik. There are also many birds in the park, including Eurasian migrants that visit the park twice a year.

Dinner and overnight will be at Mwagusi Camp (Full board).

• Enjoy breakfast and commence a walking safari accompanied by an experienced Tanzanian safari guide. Here, you will have the opportunity to 'touch the wild'.

• Have a refreshing lunch at the camp.

• Continue on a game-viewing drive en route to Iringa Town.

Dinner and overnight will be at Mwagusi Camp (Full board).

• Have a refreshing breakfast.

• Enjoy a short tour to the Isimila Stone Age Site in the Iringa region, an important site consisting of stone tools.

• Depart for Dar es Salaam, where you will arrive in the late evening and be dropped off at the hotel.