5-Day Nyerere National Park Safari with Rufiji Boat and Walking Tour

• Meet and greet your guide, then leave for Nyerere National Park at 07:00 hrs by 4x4 vehicle with a packed lunch.

• Enter Africa's largest protected area, uninhabited by men, at 14:00 hrs, where Tanzania's greatest population of elephants wanders in an area bigger than Switzerland. Nyerere National Park is considered important enough to be a World Heritage Site, where the lucky few can experience a safari in the wild and unspoiled bush.

• Go for a boat safari on the Rufiji River, which winds more than 250 km from its source in the highlands through Nyerere National Park to the sea. The river is home to hippos and crocodiles.

Overnight at a lodge, tented camp, or campsite on a full-board basis.

• Eat your breakfast.

• Go for a full-day game drive with a packed lunch in Nyerere National Park. The protected area varies from rolling grassy woodlands and plains to rocky outcrops cut by the Rufiji River, the lifeblood of the park, whose tributaries form a network of lakes, lagoons, and channels. Volcanic hot springs even burst forth in places. The Rufiji offers a superb method of game viewing, especially during the dry season when animals congregate.

• Expect to see elephants, antelopes, zebras, hippos, lions, and giraffes; if you're lucky, you will see hunting dogs and varieties of birds.

Overnight at a lodge, tented camp, or campsite on a full-board basis.

• Go for the second full-day game drive with a packed lunch after breakfast in a park introduced as a Heritage Site by UNESCO. The reserve is home to a pride of lions, endangered wild dogs, giraffes, buffalos, herds of elephants wandering in an area bigger than Switzerland, and many more.

Overnight at a lodge, tented camp, or campsite on a full-board basis.

• After breakfast, go for a half-day game drive and return to the lodge for a hot lunch. The park is home to velvet monkeys, baboons, giraffes, buffalos, zebras, crocodiles, impalas, kudus, wildebeests, and many more; if you're lucky, you might see a pride of lions rambling around or relaxing under the shade of an acacia umbrella tree or another tree.

• Eat lunch, then you will have a chance for a village tour, which normally starts at 4:00 pm and takes almost 2 hours, visiting local people in their daily routine.

Overnight at a lodge, tented camp, or campsite on a full-board basis.

• Start the day with a walking safari, which always starts at 6:30 am. It will take 3 to 4 hours, but this also depends on your stamina. Through the walking safari, you can learn about living and non-living things. You will learn about traditional medicine through 2000 different species of plants found in the Selous Game Reserve.

• Get back to the lodge for breakfast after 2 to 3 hours.

• Drive back to Dar es Salaam after breakfast.