4 Days Classic Southern Circuit Safari – Mid-Range & Tented Camp Experience

4 Days Classic Southern Circuit Safari – Mid-Range Lodges & Tented Camps

This rewarding 4-day mid-range safari is perfect for travelers who want to experience Tanzania’s famous Southern Circuit with a balance of comfort, quality service, and authentic wildlife encounters. The journey takes you through two of the region’s most spectacular parks — Mikumi National Park and Nyerere National Park (Selous Game Reserve) — renowned for their vast wilderness, open savannahs, river systems, and rich biodiversity.

Enjoy expertly guided game drives with excellent opportunities to spot elephants, giraffes, buffalos, lions, zebras, hippos, crocodiles, and a wide variety of birdlife. Each evening, relax at carefully selected mid-range lodges or tented camps, offering comfortable en-suite accommodation, hot showers, and freshly prepared meals in beautiful natural settings.

With scenic drives, bush lunches, stunning sunsets, and immersive safari activities, this Classic Southern Circuit safari delivers a memorable and comfortable wildlife experience without the high cost of luxury lodges.

Duration: 4 Days / 3 Night
Destinations: Mikumi NP – Nyerere NP
Safari Style: Midrange & Tented Camps
Start/End: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Safari Highlights

Explore Mikumi’s wide open savannahs, often compared to the Serengeti, and the vast, river-rich wilderness of Nyerere National Park
High wildlife density across both parks — lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, buffalos, wildebeest, hippos, crocodiles, and diverse birdlife
Excellent game viewing around the Mkata Floodplain in Mikumi and along the Rufiji River in Nyerere
Stay in carefully selected mid-range lodges and tented camps, offering en-suite rooms, hot showers, comfortable beds, and quality meals in natural settings
Ideal for travelers with limited time seeking a complete, comfortable, and immersive Southern Circuit safari experience

🗓️ Itinerary Overview

Day 1: Dar es Salaam / Morogoro → Mikumi National Park

Early morning departure from Dar es Salaam or Morogoro with a scenic drive to Mikumi National Park. Upon arrival, enjoy an extended game drive across the Mkata Floodplain, one of the park’s prime wildlife areas. Expect to see elephants, giraffes, zebras, buffalos, lions, and a variety of antelope species.
Enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park, followed by afternoon game viewing.
In the evening, transfer to a mid-range lodge or tented camp near the park for dinner and overnight, offering en-suite facilities, hot showers, and a relaxed safari atmosphere.

Day 2: Full Day Mikumi National Park

Spend a full day exploring Mikumi with morning and afternoon game drives, maximizing your chances of spotting predators, large herbivore herds, and rich birdlife.
Enjoy lunch at the lodge or as a packed lunch inside the park, followed by time to relax during the heat of the day before continuing wildlife viewing in the late afternoon.
Return to your mid-range lodge or tented camp for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Mikumi National Park → Nyerere National Park

After breakfast, depart Mikumi and drive south toward Nyerere National Park (Selous Game Reserve), Tanzania’s largest protected wildlife area.
Arrive in the afternoon and enjoy a game drive en route to your lodge or tented camp, with opportunities to see elephants, giraffes, buffalos, hippos, crocodiles, and abundant birdlife along rivers and open plains.
Dinner and overnight at a mid-range lodge or tented camp in or near Nyerere National Park.

Day 4: Nyerere National Park → Dar es Salaam

Start the day with an early morning game drive in Nyerere, exploring its vast wilderness and riverine landscapes.
After breakfast at the lodge, begin the return journey to Dar es Salaam, arriving in the late afternoon with unforgettable memories of Tanzania’s Southern Circuit safari.