Highly Reccomended
Katavi, Mahale and Gombe Tanzania Safari.
Tour Package Overview
Tour to Katavi National Park, Gombe Stream National Park and Mahale Mountains National Park are beauty and unique. There are parks without roads where you can walk and experience nature with all your senses. All Game Viewing at the Parks are done on foot. The biggest attraction of these Parks is the highly habituated chimpanzees but there is a large number of Olive Baboons and different species of Monkeys such as Red Colobus, Blue Monkeys etc.
Katavi NP
Gombe Forest NP
Mahale Mountains NP
Day By Day
Day 0 :
Arrival In Dar Es Salaam/Arusha : Your opportunity to meet your CEO and fellow travellers, and learn more about your tour. On arrival in Tanzania we will transfer to your hotel. You`ll have a short time to freshen up, and then have a briefing.
Our briefings will give you a clear view of the days to come, also you will be told your exact crew numbers and make up as well as get a chance to ask any questions.
Forest Hill Hotel (Arusha) or Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam (Bed & Breakfast) : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Bed & Breakfast (Dinner not included)
Day 1 :
Flight from Arusha/ Dar es Salaam to Katavi National Park :
Pick up from your hotel in Arusha and transfer to Arusha airport for a shared charter flight to Katavi National park which operate only on Monday and Thursday of every week. As you arrive Katavi you will be picked up by our driver guide and transfer to your Lodge for check in and lunch.
Afternoon depart for a game drive till evening when you will drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Mbali Mbali Katavi Lodge : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 2 :
A Full Day of Walking Safaris & Game Drives in Katavi :
Morning after breakfast, with packed lunch enjoy full day game drive as you explore this remote western wilderness. Katavi is the third largest park in Tanzania but is one of the least visited – you will likely see no other vehicles during your stay,and you can expect huge herds of herbivores and pods of hippos, and a kaleidoscope of birds. Katavi National Park is at its best in the dry season, when the plains fill with thousands of zebra, topi and impala. Hartebeest, giraffe, and Defassa waterbuck are also very common,there’s a large population of resident elephants,and some impressive herds of buffalo.
Mbali Mbali Katavi Lodge : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 3 :
Depart for the Mahale Mountains :
Take breakfast; then take a shared chartered flight (one-hour) to the Mahale Mountains. Transfer in boat along Lake Tanganyika. Afternoon foot-walking safari in the Mahale Mountains.
NKungwe Beach Lodge : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4 :
Chimpanzee tracking - Mahale Mountains :
Morning after breakfast Chimpanzee tracking in the forest, Chimpanzee tracking is the main attraction at Mahale, and is always given a high priority. Tracking usually begins early in the morning, with the guides usually starting at the area where the Chimpanzees nested the previous night and tracking from there.
NKungwe Beach Lodge : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 5 :
Depart Kigoma Town for the Gombe:
After breakfast transfer to the lake side for boarding the boat directed to Gombe Stream National park. With only 53 sq km this is the smallest park in Tanzania, is located about 20 km North of Kigoma and can be reached only by boat. The main attraction is the chimpanzee families that live protected in the park’s boundaries. Visitors take walks deep into the forest to observe and sit with the extraordinary primates for an entire morning. Gombe became well known for the conservation project started from Jane Goodall, who first arrived in Gombe in1960. Apart from chimpanzee viewing, many other species of primates live in Gombe Stream’s tropical forests, like velvet and colobus monkeys, baboons. On arrival you will be picked and transferred for lunch at your lodge. Afterwards proceed for Chimpanzee tracking in the forest.
Mbali Mbali Gombe Lodge : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6 & 7 :
Game Viewing & Chimpanzee Tracking :
Full day trekking in Gombe for the Chimpanzees. A visit to the forest and then, the feeding station. Proceed to the water falls and visit the Lake.
Mbali Mbali Gombe Lodge : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 8 :
Gombe/Kigoma – Arusha/Dar Es Salaam :
The morning after breakfast, with picnic lunch boxes, relax at the beach while waiting for a transfer boat at 12:00 noon, ready for transfer back to the airstrip for catching your charter flight back to Dar es Salaam or Arusha city at 5:30pm.
Forest Hill Hotel (Arusha) or Hyatt Regency Dar es Salaam (Bed & Breakfast) : Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Bed & Breakfast (Dinner not included)
Day 9 :
Departure Date/Flight Day :
A Zanzibar holiday can be arranged right after your safari trip.
The departure dates for all our safaris and tours, packages are totally flexible according to your own personal needs. Please contact us for further and more detailed info on safaris, tours and travel packages into Tanzania.
Forest Hill Hotel (Bed & Breakfast): Possibility to upgrade to more luxurious accommodation (at an extra cost) or downgrade to more economic options (price reduction).
Meals : Bed & Breakfast (Dinner not included)
