In consultation with the local guides, you can organize your game drives today. You can choose to go on a morning and afternoon game drive and return to camp for lunch, or spend the whole day on a game drive and enjoy a picnic in the great outdoors. There is a lot to observe early in the morning, so it’s worth getting up early. In an open off-road vehicle you explore extensive steppes and savannahs, numerous rivers and Miombo forests. The park is home to large herds of elephants and buffalo, giraffes, zebras, impalas, hippos and crocodiles. During the dry season, elephants move between the park and Niassa Game Reserves in Mozambique to seek out the last reserves of water. The reserve is also home to the endangered African wild dogs – one of the last places to experience the animals in their natural habitat.

Meals: 1x breakfast, 1x lunch, 1x dinner

In the morning you will go on a hike through the bush landscape with an experienced ranger. With keen observation skills, your companion will point out the tracks of various wild animals and explain the plants and trees of the reserve to you.

Then it’s time to say goodbye to this wonderful patch of untouched wilderness. With the bush plane you fly to Mafia Island, the small offshore island in the Indian Ocean. As you approach, you can enjoy the view of the palm-lined white beaches on the azure sea.

From Kilindoni, the small airstrip and also the island’s main town, you pass some sleepy fishing villages, mangrove forests and coconut and papaya fields. 

 

Meals: 1x breakfast, 1x lunch, 1x dinner