Mikumi National Park:
Located North of Selous Game Reserve, less than 300 km from Dar es Salaam. Because of its accessibility, it’s one of the popular parks in Tanzania and is an important center for education where students go to study ecology and conservation. A wide range of wildlife inhabits its 3230 sq km area. The Mikumi floodplain with its open grassland dominates the park together with the mountain ranges that borders the park in two sides. Elephant may be encountered and other animals frequently observed are Giraffe, Zebra, Buffalo, Wildbeest, Eland and Liechtenstein hartebeest, Croccodiles, Monitor lizard and Python are other residents. At the southern end of the flood plain in the Kikoboga area, families of yellow balloon live. Hippos wallow in the waters of hippo pools and are frequently joined by flocks of open billed storks, hunting for mulleuses over 300 species of birds have been observed in the park some of which are Eurasian migrants, who stay between October and April. Apart from the saddle bill stock, Hammershop and Malachite, Kingfisher you will also find Monitor Lizard and deadly python inabality the pools. Best time: Whole year but between March and May you must use 4wheel drive.