3 Days Midrange Solo Traveller Mikumi Safari from Dar es Salaam

Your experienced local safari guide will welcome you at your hotel, residence, airport or another confirmed location in Dar es Salaam between 5:00 and 5:30 a.m. After helping with your luggage and discussing your interests, the guide will introduce the itinerary and begin the private drive toward Mikumi National Park.

Travel through Chalinze and Morogoro while observing agricultural areas, local communities and the Uluguru Mountains. Your private arrangement allows reasonable breakfast, refreshment, washroom and photography stops during the journey. Arrival near Mikumi is expected at approximately 11:30 a.m., followed by lunch and park-entry preparations.

Enter Mikumi National Park at approximately 1:30 p.m. for an afternoon game drive across the Mkata Floodplain. Search for elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeest, impalas and lions while learning about their behaviour from your guide. Leave the park at approximately 6:00 p.m. and transfer to your midrange lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Time: Approximately 5–6 hours of road travel and 4–4.5 hours of afternoon game viewing.
• Attractions: Chalinze, Morogoro, Uluguru Mountains, Mkata Floodplain, elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras and lions.
• Distance: Approximately 300 kilometres from Dar es Salaam to Mikumi, followed by around 25–40 kilometres inside the park.

Destination:

Mikumi Natinal Park

Overnight:

Asante Afrika Camp Mikumi

  mid rage 3 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Lunch, Dinner

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After an early breakfast, leave the midrange lodge at approximately 6:30 a.m. with drinking water and a packed lunch. Enter Mikumi National Park during the cooler morning hours, when wildlife activity and visibility across the plains can be particularly rewarding.

Explore different habitats according to your preferred focus. The Mkata Floodplain offers opportunities to observe large mammals, while acacia woodland and water sources attract birds and smaller wildlife. Possible sightings include elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, elands, greater kudus, lions and spotted hyenas.

Visit the Hippo Pool to observe hippos, crocodiles and waterbirds. Stop for lunch at an authorised picnic site and discuss the afternoon route with your guide. As the only traveller in the vehicle, you can dedicate more time to favourite sightings when conditions permit. Return to the lodge at approximately 5:30–6:00 p.m.

• Time: Approximately 10–11 hours, including lunch and personalised wildlife stops.
• Attractions: Mkata Floodplain, Hippo Pool, acacia woodland, elephants, lions, hippos, crocodiles, antelopes and birdlife.
• Distance: Approximately 60–100 kilometres inside Mikumi National Park, depending on your interests and wildlife movements.

Destination:

Mikumi Natinal Park

Overnight:

Asante Afrika Camp Mikumi

  mid rage 3 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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Begin the final morning with breakfast before checking out of the midrange lodge at approximately 6:30 a.m. Return to Mikumi National Park for one last wildlife drive across an area selected according to recent sightings.

Look for animals that may have moved overnight, including elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras and predators. The morning drive also provides opportunities to ask final questions, photograph the landscape and enjoy the park before beginning the journey back to Dar es Salaam.

Leave Mikumi at approximately 10:00 a.m. and travel through Morogoro and Chalinze. Stop for lunch and refreshments before arriving in Dar es Salaam between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. Your guide will provide drop-off at your hotel, residence, airport or another agreed location.

• Time: Approximately 3–3.5 hours of morning game viewing and 5–6 hours of road travel.
• Attractions: Morning wildlife, Mkata Floodplain scenery, Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro, Chalinze and rural Tanzania.
• Distance: Approximately 20–40 kilometres inside Mikumi National Park, followed by around 300 kilometres to Dar es Salaam.