8 Days Tanzania Katavi, Mahale and Gombe Tanzania Safari

Tour to Katavi National Park, Mahale Mountains National Park and Gombe Stream 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. You will enjoy and experience nature, wildlife, habit and habitat of the fauna and flora in the natural areas, also peoples and culture.

Day 1: Depart by Air to Katavi National Park

Transfer to the Airport in time for your shared Schedule flight to Dar, by shared charter plane (two-hours), fly to Katavi National Park. In the afternoon you will enjoy game drive and late evening you will enjoy dinner and overnight at your lodge

Day 2: A Full Day of Walking Safaris 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. Dinner and overnight at your lodge

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. In the afternoon you will enjoy foot-walking safari in the Mahale Mountains. Dinner and overnight at your lodge

Day 4: The 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. Dinner and overnight  at your lodge

Day 5: Depart Mahale for Kigoma Town

Depart for Kigoma by boat after breakfast. Arrive in Kigoma Town in time for lunch. Afternoon and late afternoon of leisure Dinner and overnight at your hotel

Day 6: 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 Bandas. Afterwards proceed for Chimpanzee tracking in the forest. Dinner and overnight at your lodge

Day 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. Return to your lodge late afternoon. Leisure break. Dinner and overnight at your lodge

Day 8: Depart Gombe for Kigoma and to Dar es Salaam

Morning visit Dr Livingstone Memorial at Ujiji village, which contains some of the last remains of the surroundings of this intrepid explorer’s house. Under two historical mango trees, the memorial’s caretaker tells visitors the tale of Dr Livingstone fascinating and his famous expedition into Africa. In the afternoon transfer to Kigoma Airport in time for your schedule flight back to Dar es Salaam where the tour will be end.