Top Dar es Salaam Wildlife Watching

A tour of Dar es Salaam will take you to the National Museum, Village Museum, Mwenge Carvings Market, Tingatinga art Gallery, Slipway Shopping Centre, The Fish Market, City Centre, Historical Building and many other Sites. The name Dar es Salaam means "the house of peace" formerly Mzizima. It is an enticing mix of sight seeing, shopping and entertainment, the largest city in Tanzania reflects a fascinating blend of its rich historical past and its sophisticated contemporary present. The name was given by Sultan Majid bin Said of Zanzibar when he decided to use the harbor city as a port and trade centre in between 1858 and 1862. Since then the town has flourished and is now the commercial hub of the country with high population, important economic centre and one of the fastest growing cities in Tanzania & most prominent city in arts, fashion, media, music, film, television and a leading financial centre it is also the largest and most populous Swahili-speaking city in the world.

The Mikumi floodplain, with its open grassland, dominates the park together with the mountain ranges that borders the park in two sides. The park provides excellent opportunities to view a variety of animals and birds in a short period of time without too much driving around. The wildlife viewing experience in this park can be experienced right upon entering the park where you can encounter baboon, zebra, impala and many more wild animals

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Pick up from Dar es salaam at 5 am and to drive to Mikumi National Park which takes approximately 5 hrs to 6 hrs depending on the traffic on the highway. You will have your breakfast at Morogoro Town then with your picnic lunch box drive into Mikumi National Park. You will arrive around 0900am proceed with game drives until late in the afternoon having a lunch at the picnic site. Mikumi National Park provides excellent opportunity to view diverse number of wildlife and many species of birds in a short period of time without too much of driving around inside the park. You will have the opportunity to view the unique Mikumi Giraffes that naturalists say seem to be a cross breed between reticulated and Maasai Giraffe, Antelope, Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Hippo, Hyena, Wildebeest, Wild Dog, Zebra, Leopard can be easily sported in this park. Then drive back to Dar es Salaam see beautifully landscapes and scenarios in the way back, arrival around 0900pm.

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.

Mikumi and Udzungwa National parks for 3 days will take you to these famous parks on southern Tanzania. Mikumi is home for lions, leopard, elephants, Buffalos, Hippos, wildebeest, zebras and many species of antelopes. Udzungwa is well known for Tropical forest and famous sanje water fall. This tour also offers a fly-in safari from Zanzibar Aiport or Dar es Salaam to Mikumi Please contact us for Enquiry

Selous Safari is a short tour from Dar es Salaam that takes you to visit one of the spectacular southern circuits of game reserves of Tanzania. The park hosts’ small and large mammals including variety of bird species and reptiles. Accommodations can be at the standard or luxury lodges, luxury tented camp or budget camping sites.

The landscape of Mikumi provides a serene wildlife experience Commonly seen animals are Elephant, Giraffe, Zebra, Antelope, Wildebeest, Eland, Crocodile, Hippo, Baboon. If you are lucky, won’t miss to see Lion & very lucky to see a Leopard. Over 300 spices of birds are seen are saddle bill stork, hammer kop, malachite kingfisher, lilac breasted roller, yellow throated long claw, battler eagle etc. Main attraction in Mikumi: game drive and visit to the Hippo Pool, where you can watch hippos wallowing and snorting at close range.

Located in southern Tanzania, a trip to this park allows you to learn in-depth knowledge about complex ecosystems and diverse creatures that are usually skimmed over in more crowded areas.

Ruaha is the largest National Park in Tanzania and has different habitats with various animals, birds and scenery. It is less crowded quite different from other parks .

Selous Game reserve is the largest protected wildlife area in Africa, due to unique ecological importance this pristine uninhabited area was declared as “World Heritage Site” by United Nations in 1981. It is Africa’s greatest conservation area and covers a wide variety of wildlife habitats including Lakes, open grassland, acacia and Miombo woodland and riverine forests, which help the reserve to boast Tanzania’s largest and most important population of Elephant, Buffaloes & Wild Dogs. The topography of the park varies from rolling savannah woodland, grassland plains and rocky outcrops cut by the Rufiji River and its tributaries. Game drives along the edges of the lakes, river and bushes are an extra attractive conjuring up a special magic as the sun goes down over the lakes.

The open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain, the popular centrepiece of Mikumi, draw frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti Plains. Lions survey their grassy kingdom – and the zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo herds that migrate across it – from the flattened tops of termite mounds, or sometimes, during the rains, from perches high in the trees. Giraffes forage in the isolated acacia stands that fringe the Mkata River

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