1 day Nyerere in a Day
Four hours out, a full day of game viewing, four hours back. Long in the vehicle, but it puts you inside Tanzania’s largest park without an overnight.
Wildlife
Nyerere in Four Days — Budget
Two full days of game drives instead of one, which in a park of 30,000 km² is the difference between a look and a visit.
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At a glance
- Destinations
- Nyerere National Park · Rufiji River
- Best for
- Wildlife safari
- Travel style
- Budget · Drive, Ferry/boat
- Activity level
- Easy — most of the day is spent in a vehicle or on a boat
- Best time to travel
- June to October generally gives good access for four days of Nyerere drives, walks and the Rufiji. The extra time helps vary the activities, but March to May rain can still limit roads and close some accommodation.
- Start and end
- Starts and ends in Dar es Salaam
Why this journey
- Two full days of game driving rather than one
- A boat safari on the Rufiji
- A walking safari on the final morning
- Budget accommodation, with the extra day spent on the park instead
- The largest national park in Tanzania, and among the largest in Africa
Day by day
Nyerere is enormous, and the reason to stay longer is simply that you can reach more of it. This route gives the park two complete days plus a walking safari, at budget accommodation.
Day 1 — Dar es Salaam to Nyerere National Park
An early departure with a packed lunch en route. You then embark on a boat safari on the Rufiji, where you will see hippos and crocodiles in their natural habitat.
Stay Nyerere Green Lodge Meals Lunch & Dinner
Day 2 — Full day game drive at Nyerere
After breakfast, we set off for a full-day game drive in the Park. We take a picnic lunch to reach out further into the reserve without returning for lunch. Guests may spot elephants (the largest population in Tanzania), buffalos (also a large population), African wild dogs, lions, leopards, elands, bushbucks, giraffes, impalas, baboons, zebras, crocodiles, the greater kudus, and the rare Sable antelopes.
Stay Nyerere Green Lodge Meals Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 3 — Another full day game drive in Nyerere
Leave early for an extended game drive into different sectors of the park to vary sightings. Enjoy a bush breakfast during the morning drive while focusing on species not yet seen or following up on previous sightings. The afternoon includes a late-afternoon drive to explore riverine areas, floodplains and woodlands with a sundowner stop.
Stay Nyerere Green Lodge Meals Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Day 4 — Wilderness walking safari, Maasai visit, return to Dar es Salaam
Begin with a guided wilderness walking safari with an armed ranger to learn about tracks, plants, birds and smaller wildlife. After returning to camp, Visit a local Maasai/Mbunga community for a short village walk, cultural exchange and handicraft browsing. Then depart for Dar es Salaam by road or charter flight.
Meals Breakfast
Stay and travel
Camping and simple lodges or park bandas, with a cook travelling with the group.
A 4×4 with a roof hatch and a window seat for everyone, driven by your guide throughout.
Camps fill, and roads change with the rains. Where something has to change we substitute at the same level and tell you before you travel, not after.
Included and excluded
What is included
- Every activity named in the day-by-day
- Accommodation as listed, or a similar alternative if a camp is full
- Meals as noted against each day
- Transfers between the agreed pick-up and drop-off points
- Park, reserve and conservation area fees
- An English-speaking Tanzanian driver-guide
- A 4×4 with a roof hatch, or the vehicle the route calls for
- Drinking water through the day
- Government taxes
- Boat safari and transfers
- TANAPA armed ranger where the park requires one
Not included
- International flights, airport taxes and visa fees
- Travel, medical and baggage insurance
- Personal spending — drinks, laundry, telephone
- Tips for your guide and crew
- Anything not listed as included
Practical information
- Visas, insurance and tipping
- A visa is arranged before travel or on arrival. Travel and medical insurance is a condition of booking. Tipping is customary and we will suggest a range rather than set one.
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