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Mikumi
National Park is located 300kms South West of Dar-es-Salaam, and
offers sighting of a wide variety of game within it's 3200 square
kilometers, including baboon, buffalo, hunting dogs, leopard,
lion and greater kudu. Excursions from Dar-es-Salaam are routinely
available to the park.
The open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain, the popular centrepiece of Mikumi, draw frequent comparisons to the more famous Serengeti Plains.
Lions survey their grassy kingdom – and the zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo herds that migrate across it – from the flattened tops of termite mounds, or sometimes, during the rains, from perches high in the trees. Giraffes forage in the isolated acacia stands that fringe the Mkata River, islets of shade favoured also by Mikumi's elephants.
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