Top Dar es Salaam Day Trips

The Selous Game Reserve is Africa’s largest protected game reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On this tour, take in the highlights on a day trip by flying into the park from either Zanzibar or Dar es Salaam. With guided morning and afternoon game drives, you’ll explore the grasslands, lakes, and rivers, and have chance to spot the Big 5, as well as giraffes, hippos, wild dogs, and zebra.

Mikumi National Park is the closest place to Dar es Salaam where you can spot Africa’s Big Five, but it’s still a six-hour drive each way. This extended day tour is ideal for time-crunched travelers, allowing you to take in all the highlights without staying overnight. On arrival, enjoy lunch and a guided game drive, with the chance to spot lions, elephants, buffalos, hippos, and many more animals.

Bagamoyo is a magical town fringed with amazing beaches, Mangrove forest, unforgettable historical memories as well as various traditional lifestyle, located just 65kms north of Dar es Salaam on the coast opposite Zanzibar, it was the formal capital of the German East Africa. It derived the name from the word Bwagamoyo means “here I throw down my heart” reflecting the desperation and despair of the “broken heart” captives whose voyage into the unknown world began here. The town was the most important trading center pot of the east central coast of Africa, in the late 19th century its history was influenced by Indian and Arab traders, the German colonial government and by Christian missionaries. The visit will include; First German East Africa State House in East Africa, Old Fort, Kaole Ruins, Catholic Museum, Crocodile Farm, Old Port in East Africa, the First Cross erected by the Missionary on the coast of East Africa, Dr. Livingstone’s Church, the fish market, etc.

Spot wildlife native to Tanzania on this full-day guided tour of Mikumi National Park. Depart from your Dar Es Salaam hotel in an private vehicle and make your way to the park. Accompanied by your guide, head out on a game drive and see buffalo, giraffes, elephants, lions, pythons, zebras, leopards, and crocodiles. Enjoy a midday break for lunch.

Mikumi is Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park. It’s also the most accessible from Dar es Salaam. With almost guaranteed wildlife sightings, it makes an ideal safari destination for those without much time.

Travelers on limited time can optimize their chances of spotting Tanzania’s wild elephants, lions, and more on this full-day, private safari tour to Mikumi National Park from Dar-es-Salaam. Benefit from the personalized attention of your guide as you explore the Uluguru landscape, avoiding hidden costs with meals and hotel transfer included as per itinerary.

With thriving big game and and hundreds of bird species, Mikumi National Park is offers a real safari experience as a day trip from Dar Es Salaam. Make the most of your time in Tanzania with a full-day, private tour for up to four people that includes morning and afternoon game drives, park entrance fees, lunch, and door-to-door transport.

This is a special tour for those who have limited time and have only a day for safari from Dar Es Salaam city. Mikumi is the third largest park located in the Southern part of Tanzania, it is less crowded and more affordable compared to Serengeti National Park. It is also closest to the capital city of Tanzania, Dar es salaam than any other park in Tanzania (besides Sadaani National Park). Mikumi National Park hosts a big variety of mammals, reptiles, and over 300 species of birds. Animals that are frequently seen in Mikumi National Park include Lions, elands, Hartebeest, Buffaloes, Wildebeests, Giraffes, Zebras, Elephants, Impalas, Warthogs, Elephants, Hippos, more than 300 bird species, and different plant species

NOTICE: All our staff and guides will ensure all necessary prevention techniques. Also, we will enforce our clients to do the same. this includes keeping distance, wearing a mask as well as frequent hand washing and sanitization. This tour is short but you can have a chance to see big four, most accessible from Dar es Salaam. Within its 3230 square. km it's set between the Uluguru Mountains to the north and the Lumango Mountains to the south-east. Mikumi hosts buffaloes, giraffes, elephants, lions, pythons zebras, leopards crocodiles, and many more just to mention a few.

This day tour will cover the below places of interest: > National Museum and house of culture > Fish Market of Dar es Salaam > Ransomed Slave house > Saint Joseph Old Church > Azania front Old Church > Kariakoo Bazaar > Mwenge Curio Shops > Village Museum > Askari Monument > Sultan Majjid

Dar es Salaam is dynamic, colorful and diverse. Originally a small fishing village known as Mzizima it’s now a bustling city and hub for East African business and trade. Packed with interesting culture, history, food, and people our Dar es Salaam city tour will give you a taste of one of East Africa’s most exciting cities. Dar es Salaam is home to African freedom fighters and indeed a home of more than 120 tribes of Tanzania as well as the world.

• Duration: full day • Dhows excursion provides daily sailing trips to the nearby Sinda island • Colourful tropical fish and coral reefs providing excellent swimming and snorkelling conditions • Picnic lunch, non-alcoholic drinks • Snorkeling equipment

Strolling through Bagamoyo’s narrow, unpaved streets takes you back to the mid-19th century, when the town was one of the most important settlements along the East African coast and the terminus of the trade caravan route linking Lake Tanganyika with the sea. Slaves, ivory, salt and copra were unloaded here before being shipped to Zanzibar Island and elsewhere, and many European explorers, including Richard Burton, Henry Morton Stanley and David Livingstone, began and ended their trips here. In 1868 French missionaries established Freedom Village at Bagamoyo as a shelter for ransomed slaves, and for the remainder of the century the town served as a way station for missionaries travelling from Zanzibar Island to the interior.

Saadani National Park is truly unique because it’s right on the Indian Ocean. The beautiful white sand beaches are stunning but you’re more likely to see lions or elephant on the beach than sunbathers. A wide range of grazing animals are commonly seen on game drives and walks through Saadani National Park. These include giraffe, buffalo, warthog, waterbuck, reedbuck, hartebeest, wildebeest, greater kudu, eland, sable, yellow baboon and vervet monkey along with herds of elephant and many other creatures of all sizes.

Zanzibar is famous for its exotic spices—the island grows cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, and pepper, among others. On this tour, discover the island’s spice-growing history and heritage as you visit a local spice plantation, and learn how all the different spices are grown and harvested. Get hands-on as you touch, smell, and taste the various spices, and tuck into tasty tropical fruits.

Avitourism is one of the fastest growing types of environmental tourism or ecotourism. This type of travel takes advantage of birding-related events, and many tourist destinations promote birding festivals, hotspots, trails, preserves, parks and other locations to encourage birders to visit an area. Birdwatchers travel a great deal of distance just to see new or rare birds to add to their book list. Let us spark a little light to your finding and experience the best African adventures that a bird watching tourist seeks to find.

Bagamoyo Historical Stone Town is located on east coast of Tanzania, 75 kilometers northern side of Dar es Salaam. Bagamoyo is one of the most important trading centers on the East African Coast and a famous embarkation port for slaves from the hinterland. When the German colonialists came to East Africa they made Bagamoyo their first German East Africa capital between 1886 and 1891. It is a place of considerable significance to world history, both as an entry point for Arab and European missionaries, explorers, and traders in East and Central Africa, and in the history of the infamous slave trade.

Bagamoyo, is a coastal town founded at the end of the 18th century, though it is an extension of a much older (8th century) Swahili settlement, Kaole. It was chosen as the capital of German East Africa by the German colonial administration and it became one of the most important trading ports for the Germans along the East African coast along the west of the Indian Ocean in the late 19th and early 20th century

Taking you around all the famous and must visit hotspots in the City, this jam-packed tour is all you need for those with limited travel time in the city. The tour is designed to efficiently utilize your time while letting you enjoy Dar-es salaam's immense history and culture.

We offers you the highest quality and most budget tours on the market. Our daily goal is to deliver the best value and exceptional service to our family of travelers. We treat each customer as a unique individual with unique travel needs. Our enthusiasm of excellent service, innovative tours and competitive prices will make your vacation a valued and pleasurable experience such as day tours and sightseeing trips. Recommended Full day Zanzibar Tours & Excursions offers!!! Enjoy full day Mnemba Island, Nungwi Beach, and Kendwa Beach. Overnight at hotel. This tour program has aim to save your Budget and time.

Mikumi is Tanzania’s fifth-largest national park. It’s also the most accessible from Dar es Salaam. With almost guaranteed wildlife sightings, it makes an ideal safari destination for those without much time.

Some 75 kilometres to the north of Dar es Salaam lies Bagamoyo, once the embarkation port for slaves from the hinterland, and later the first German colonial capital. It is a place of considerable significance to world history, both as an entry point for Arab and European missionaries, explorers, and traders in East and Central Africa, and in the history of the infamous slave trade. Tourist attractions include the Kaole ruins dating back to the 12th century thought to mark one of the earliest contacts of Islam with Africa; the Old Fort built in 1860 for holding slaves for shipment to Zanzibar; the first Roman Catholic Church in East Africa built around 1868 used as a base to run a camp of about 650 freed slaves; the German colonial administration headquarters, the Boma, in the first capital of German East Africa; the Mission Museum displaying history of Bagamoyo; and the Livingstone Memorial Church among others.

Saadani is where the beach meets the bush. The only wildlife sanctuary in East Africa to boast for an Indian Ocean beachfront, it sounds too far fetched to be true – an epic safari adventure filled with scenic Savannah, verdant bush lands married with calm beaches absent from tourists. This description may sound like the stuff of dreams, but here in Tanzania’s Saadani National Park, it is the reality. Yet it is also the one place where those idle hours of sunbathing might be interrupted by an elephant strolling past, or a lion coming to drink at the nearby waterhole!

Stone Town, which was listed as a historic district by UNESCO, is the heart of Zanzibar where you will experience the unique heritage of Zanzibar and you will see handmade crafts and souvenirs, the site of the former slave markets, visit the House of Wonders museum, a Portuguese fort, the Sultan Palace, and the birthplace of Freddie Mercury, etc This is a Private Tour for you and your group only. Visit the House of Wonder to see the collection of Zanzibar culture Visit the Palace Museums which was built in the 19th century to serve as a residence for the Sultan's family. See the Historical Anglican Church, the first Anglican cathedral in East Africa, constructed in the 1870s Learn about the East Africa Slave Market Visit Slave chambers at Mkunazini Slave Market Experience the local shopping at Darajani Historical Market Buy some souvenirs at the local markets