As accessible as it is, Mikumi is the most appealing Park for a safari. This park will give you a true taste of an African safari while preserving your precious time.
The park has a variety of wildlife that can be easily seen. Its closeness to Dar makes it an ideal place for weekend visitors who don’t have to spend a long time on an extended safari itinerary.
The park derives its name from a palm tree called Borassus palm, which once grew there and covered an area of 3,230 km2.
The grassy plains of Mikumi, encircled by mountain ranges, are like a colourful bowl shimmering in a play of ever-changing skies and light. The floor of this bowl has prolific wildlife, and the huge herds of animals, the elephants and the roaring of the lions are only some of the many highlights. The flood plain provides a habitat for a diverse bird fauna, with both resident species and a number of migrants that fly here to escape from the Eurasian winter. The gentle foothills and vast miombo woodland savanna that spread out in the southern parts of the park are quite another world. It is here that one of the most magnificent antelopes in Africa, the sable antelope, still roams, and this area continues to form part of the corridor, or ancient migratory route, by which animals move between the Selous GR and the Mikumi plains.