2 days of national park game drives in Nyerere National Park. Spend your time inside the national park viewing different animals including lions, elephants, hippos, and buffalos. For those who love game drives and watching animals in their natural habitat, this safari tour is perfect for you as it gives you two days in the same big park formally called Selous game reserve to really move around to all the different parts of the park and see wildlife up and close. We have also included a Boat Safari on the morning of day two where you can really see the hippos and the crocs but also a different view of the riverside where animals such as elephants and hyenas come to drink water. The safari is well executed from your pick up any where in Zanzibar and your return to your hotel after the safari. A great early morning flight experience is included as you lift up in Zanzibar airport and fly through the Indian ocean channel to mainland Tanzania, filled with beautiful views of African rural and peri urban areas.
This is a private safari experience and uses scheduled flights by Auric Air and Safari Air Link (SAL), two of the country's top Tourism circuit airlines. Suitable for older couples who may not wish to wake up at 4.00 am to catch the 6:20 am group safari flights. The flight leaves Zanzibar at 8:05am (auric Air) and at 9:30am (SAL), providing a more comfortable hotel to airport to flight over the channel and mainland to Selous experience.
Spend day one enjoying the nature and wildlife in Nyerere National park. Retire in the evening to one of the best lodges in this park, Selous River Camp, (https://www.selousrivercamp.com/). This exclusive camp accommodation has only five secluded and spacious Mudhut rooms, each with a river view.
This is a popular safari tour by many Zanzibar holiday makers, so book early for your safari, flights are fully booked months ahead. Karibu Tanzania, that is Kiswahili for welcome to Tanzania.
The safari holiday will start early in the morning with your pick-up at your hotel at 05:00AM and a transfer to the airport in time for your scheduled flight at 06:30AM. Inside the airport, you will be attended to by one of our designated officers who will show you the waiting area for the flight.
Upon arrival at Mtemere airstrip which is inside the national park, you will be met by our tour guide, and proceed to do a full day of safari game drives in Nyerere national park. Game drives (animal sightings from the safari car) are the best way to explore this vast wildlife sanctuary as you will come across large game, including elephants, lions, and buffalos.
You will break for a hot picnic lunch in the afternoon inside the park and get some time to stretch and rest. Then you will continue with afternoon game drives until sunset when you will drive to the lodge for dinner, rest, and overnight.
Accommodation options: Selous Safari lodge or Nyerere tented Camp
Meal Plan: HB
Wake up early today for a coffee and tea at the lodge, before heading out for a Boat Safari at the Rufiji River.
Today you will wake up early for coffee or tea at the lodge, followed by a drive with our driver to the Rufiji River to start your morning boat safari. The cruise usually lasts two hours and we do it early in the morning to avoid the bright sunlight. Incredible views of hippos growling, crocodiles basking on the river banks, and so much birdlife will surely be interesting to view. Afterwards, you will return to the lodge for a full breakfast.
Check out of the lodge and enter the park gates for a second day of game drives in the Selous basin. See lions, elephants, buffalos, wildebeests, giraffes, zebras, as many more animals roaming around freely in their home.
At around 3:00pm you will start driving to the airstrip for your scheduled return flight.
Lunch will be served in the bush today also.