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24 Days Birding watching in Tanzania and game drive

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24 Days Birding watching in Tanzania and game drive

Amazing birding and wildlife tours in Tanzania

Tanzania Birding and Wildlife Safari

Important bird areas on this tour

Serengeti National Park
Ngorongoro Crater & Highlands
Tarangire National Park
Engikaret Lark Plains
Usambara & Pare Mountains
Ruaha & Mikumi National Parks
Udzungwa National Park
Kilombero Valley

Main targets

Over 700 bird species, including endemic and rare species
Over 100 mammal species, including the Great Migration
Stunning landscapes, big game encounters, and cultural experiences

Tour overview

This birding and wildlife safari takes you through Tanzania’s best birding hotspots and national parks. The tour covers diverse landscapes, from open savannas and highlands to forests and wetlands, ensuring a rich mix of bird species and incredible wildlife encounters. Expect to spot over 700 bird species and more than 100 mammal species, including lions, cheetahs, elephants, and wildebeest.

Main target birds

Beesley’s Lark
Short-Tailed Lark
Fischer’s Lovebird
Secretary Bird
Yellow-Collared Lovebird
Rufous-Tailed Weaver
Tanzanian Red-Billed Hornbill
Spot-Flanked Barbet
Udzungwa Partridge
Kilombero Weaver

Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival & Arusha Birding

Pick up from Kilimanjaro International Airport
Transfer to a lodge in Arusha
Game drive and birding at Momella Lakes (spot thousands of flamingos)

Day 2: Serengeti Transfer via Ndutu

Drive to Southern Serengeti while birding
Arrive early for birding around Ndutu

Day 3: Ndutu Birding & Big Cats

Birdwatching and spotting raptors and vultures
Witness the Great Migration of wildebeest
Encounter lions, leopards, and cheetah

Day 4: Serengeti Central Birding

Transfer to the heart of Serengeti
Evening birding and game drive

Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater

Drive to Ngorongoro with packed lunch
Evening birding around the crater

Day 6: Ngorongoro Highlands

Birdwatching walks and hikes in the highlands

Day 7: Ngorongoro to Tarangire

Morning birding, then transfer to Tarangire
Afternoon game drive and birding

Day 8: Tarangire National Park

Birding in Tarangire
Visit the baobab region and spot large elephant groups

Day 9: Lark Plains

Drive to the lark plains with birding stops

Day 10: Engikaret Lark Plains

Target Beesley’s Lark, Short-Tailed Lark, and acacia woodland species

Day 11: Masai Steppe to Pare Mountains

Birding and big game viewing
Transfer to the Pare Mountains

Day 12: South Pare Mountains & Mkomazi

Birding in Mkomazi National Park

Day 13: Magamba Forest (West Usambara)

Transfer while birding
Afternoon birding in Magamba Forest

Day 14: Magamba Forest Birding

Full day of birding in Magamba Forest

Day 15: Amani Forest (East Usambara)

Birdwatching in Amani Forest

Day 16: Transfer to Miombo Woodlands

Travel with birding stops

Day 17: Miombo Woodlands Birding

Full day of birding in Miomb

Day 18: Iringa Town (Relaxation)

Leisurely transfer with birding stops

Day 19: Ruaha National Park

Birding and game viewing in Ruaha

Day 20: Udzungwa National Park

Transfer while birding

Day 21: Udzungwa Birding (East)

Full day of birdwatching

Day 22: Kilombero Valley & Mikumi Transfer

Birding in Kilombero, then transfer to Mikumi

Day 23: Mikumi National Park

Birding and game viewing in Mikumi

Day 24: Departure

Transfer to Dar-es-Salaam Airport for flight home

Tour price includes

Park entrance fees
All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
A professional driver/bird guide
All transportation with a 4X4 customized safari car with a pop-up.
All Taxes/VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals
Drinking water (On all days)

Tour Price Does Not Include

International flights (From/to you home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips
Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)

Packages

18 Days Tanzania Birding Eastern Arc Mountains

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Tanzania Birding and Wildlife Safaris

18 Days Tanzania Birding Eastern Arc Mountains

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Tanzania Birding Eastern Arc Mountains

Eastern Arc Mountains as an Important bird area

Nyumba Ya Mungu Plains Birding
South Pare Mountains
Mkomazi Area
West and East Usambara Mountains (Magamba Forest, Amani Nature Reserve)
Uluguru and Ukaguru Mountains
Kilombero Valley
Miombo Woodlands
Nou Forest

Main Targets

Endemic and rare bird species of Tanzania Birding Tour
Mountain and forest species
Wetland and open-country species
Special birds of Tanzania found only in certain regions

18 Days Tanzania Birding Eastern Arc Mountains: Tour Overview

This 18 Days Tanzania Birding Eastern Arc Mountains adventure takes you through Tanzania’s diverse landscapes, from the South Pare Birding area and Usambara Mountains Birding Spots to the Uluguru and Birding Ukaguru Mountains. You’ll explore Important Bird Areas (IBAs) and spot a wide range of endemic and rare bird species during your hikes in this tour. The tour includes forest hikes, wetland explorations, and highland Tanzania birding, offering excellent opportunities to see Tanzania’s rich birdlife.

TOUR SUMMARY

day 1

TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: ARRIVAL AT ARUSHA AIRPORT, MEET YOUR BIRD GUIDE AND TRANSFER TO A GOOD HOTEL

Day 2

TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL TO SOUTH PARE MOUNTAINS WITH BIRDS STOP AT NYUMBA YA MUNGU

Day 3

TANZANIA BIRDS: BIRDING MKOMANZI AREA LATER TRANSFER AND BIRD WEST USAMBARA MOUNTAINS

Day 4

BIRDING TANZANIA: WEST USAMBARA MOUNTAINS – MAGAMBA FOREST

Day 5, 6 and 7.

BIRDS OF TANZANIA TOUR: MAGAMBA FOREST, EAST USAMBARAS AND AMANI

Day 8 and 9.

ARC MOUNTAINS BIRDNG TOUR: ULUGURU MOUNTAINS BIRDING TOUR

Day 10.

TANZANIA ENDEMIC BIRDS EASTERN ARC AT TEGTERO, LATER ADD BUNDUKI (ULUGURU MOUNTAINS BIRDING)

Day 11

Eastern Arc Endemic Bird Species: BUNDUKI – ULUGURU MOUNTAINS BIRDING TOUR.

Day 12

Birdwatching Tour Tanzania Eastern Arc: BIRDING MIOMBO WOODLANDS Tanzania

Day 13

TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: BIRDING AT KILOMBERO VALLEY

Day 14

TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL FROM HONDO HONDO TO UKAGURU MOUNTAINS

Day 15

TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: UKAGURU MOUNTAINS.

Day 16

TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL TO BABATI TOWN HOPING FOR NOU FOREST BIRDNG THE NEXT DAY. Asmorein Hotel.

DAY17

Montane Forest Birds Tanzania: WHOLE DAY BIRDNG AT NOU FOREST.

Day 18

18 Day Tanzania Birding Safari: TRAVEL BACK TO ARUSHA FOR YOUR RETURN FLIGHT

reSearched Itinerary details: 18 Days Tanzania Birding arc mountains

Day 1. TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: ARRIVAL AT ARUSHA AIRPORT, MEET YOUR BIRD GUIDE AND TRANSFER TO A GOOD HOTEL

DAY 2 TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL TO SOUTH PARE MOUNTAINS WITH BIRDS STOP AT NYUMBA YA MUNGU

Early this morning after breakfast, we will drive to South Pare Mountains, first stop will be in Nyumba Ya Mungu Plains, its brush country and its where we try Pink-breasted Lark, Scaly Chatterer, Pringle´s Puffback, White-headed Mousebird, Zanzibar Sombre Greenbul, Pygmy Batis, African Bare-eyed Thrush, Red-fronted Warbler, Tsavo Purple-banded Sunbird, Black-necked Weaver, Southern Grosbeak Canary and Somali Bunting.

After our successful stop here, we will head up the South Pare Mountains later today and look for the endemic South Pare White-eye, along with Hartlaub’s Turaco, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Singing Cisticola, Black-headed & Bar-throated Apalis, African Hill Babbler, Evergreen forest Warbler, Placid Greenbul, Usambara Double-Collared Sunbird, Green-winged Pytilia, and Tsavo Sunbird amongst others.

Overnight at Elephant Motel.

Day 3 TANZANIA BIRDS: BIRDING MKOMANZI AREA LATER TRANSFER AND BIRD WEST USAMBARA MOUNTAINS

First thing this morning we will head to a small woodland just outside Mkomazi National Park, where we will search for species such as Black-throated & D`Arnaud´s Barbets, Eastern Black-headed Batis, Grey Wren-Warbler, Tsavo, Black-bellied & Hunter´s Sunbirds, Fischer´s Starling, Straw-tailed Whydah and more. Once we’ve finished here we will head to the West Usambara Mountains where we should arrive in time for a late afternoon birding session and possibilities include Blue-capped Cordon-bleu, Cliff Chat, Grey-Olive Greenbul and East Coast Boubou amongst others.

Night at Muller’s Lodge.

DAY 4 BIRDING TANZANIA: WEST USAMBARA MOUNTAINS – MAGAMBA FOREST

What an exciting day we have in store with a full day birding Tanzania in the West Usambara Mountains at Magamba Forest. Major targets for us include Usambara Double-Collared Sunbird, Usambara Akalat, Usambara Weaver, Montane Tiny Greenbul, Usambara Thrush, Red-capped Forest Warbler, Füllebon’s Black Boubou, , Spot-throat, Montane Tiny & Eastern Mountain Greenbul, Usambara Weaver and at dusk we will try for Usambara Nightjar.

There’s plenty of other birds of Tanzania, like; Crowned Eagle, Mountain Buzzard, Ayres’s Hawk-Eagle, Olive & Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeons, Lemon Dove, Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo, Hartlaub’s Turaco, Bar-tailed Trogon, Green Barbet, Forest Batis, Grey Cuckooshrike, Black-fronted Bushshrike, White-chested Alethe.

Overnight at Muller’s Mountan Lodge

DAYS 5 – 7 BIRDS OF TANZANIA TOUR: MAGAMBA FOREST, EAST USAMBARAS AND AMANI

We will have another morning Tanzania birding on our incredible 18 Days Tanzania Birding Eastern Arc Mountains adventure in the fabulous West Usambaras at Magamba Forest to mop up some of the trickier species we still need – like Eastern Golden Weaver in the lower areas. Then we will drive to Amani Nature Reserve in the East Usambara Mountains, swinging by an area to try for Coastal Cisticola and Zanzibar Red Bishop. After a bit of a climb our second main stop of the journey will put us in a good area for species such as Fischer’s Turaco, Mombasa Woodpecker, Green-headed Oriole, Pale Batis, Eastern Nicator, Green Tinkerbird, Fischer’s Greenbul, Black-headed Apalis, Lowland Tiny Greenbul,

Once we get at our camp site the birding could be fast and there promises to be many new species for us. Over these next couple of days we will search for Banded Green Sunbird, Amani Sunbird, Red-tailed Ant-Thrush, Shelley´s Greenbul, Green-headed Oriole, Usambara Eagle-Owl, Southern-banded Snake Eagle, Fischer´s Turaco, Green-backed Woodpecker, Usambara Hyliota, Tanzania Illadopsis, Southern Yellow White-eye, Moustached Tinkerbird, and Black-bellied Starling. We will also visit Kwamkoro Tea Plantations for 3 special birds: Kretschmer´s Longbill, Long-billed Forest Warbler, and Sharpe´s Akalat.

Our first night will be at Amani Nature Reserve HQ in basic lodge, followed by 2 nights camping.

DAYS 8 – 9 ARC MOUNTAINS BIRDNG TOUR: ULUGURU MOUNTAINS BIRDING TOUR

The first target of the day is the patchily distributed Böhms Bee-eater, before setting out on the long drive to Morogoro, (stopping for Brown-breasted Barbet around the town), the gateway to the spectacular Uluguru Mountains Birding (2600m), and our base near the village of Tegetero, but the last part of the drive is on a very bad road so progress will be slow. Once we have arrived we will meet our porters, site and start walking to the campsite, which is around a one and a half hour undulating walk but not too difficult. Once we are settled in to our campsite then the birding begin!

Our main target will be the mega-rare Uluguru Bushshrike, a species only found in the Uluguru Mountains. But it’s a tough species and will take a lot of searching. Other special species in these mountains include Livingstone’s Turaco, the endemic Loveridge’s Sunbird, Bertram’s Weaver, Sharpe’s Akalat, Fraser’s Eagle-Owl, Dark Batis, Uluguru & Shelley’s Greenbul, Orange Ground-Thrush, Spot-throat, White-winged & Chapin’s Apalis, Striped Pipit and more.

This area and over the next few days could give us some ‘so-called’ padders to bump up our list such as African Hawk-Eagle, Mottled & African Black Swifts, Cape Robin-Chat, White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher, Angola Swallow, Trilling Cisticola, Mountain Wagtail, Mountain Thrush and Yellow Bishop to name just a few. 2 nights at campsite.

Day 10: TANZANIA ENDEMIC BIRDS EASTERN ARC AT TEGTERO, LATER ADD BUNDUKI (ULUGURU MOUNTAINS BIRDING)

There’s still going to be new birds to find before we pack up the camp and start walking back to where we left our vehicles. Then we will drive to the village of Bunduki on the other side of the mountain and camp again for a night.

Day 11: Eastern Arc Endemic Bird Species: BUNDUKI – ULUGURU MOUNTAINS BIRDING TOUR.

We have an exciting morning’s birding in the Bunduki area of Uluguru Nature Reserve. It’s a reasonably tough hike to get to the best patch of forest, which gives us options to look for Winifred’s Warbler, Olive-flanked Gound-Robin, Uluguru Greenbul, Chapin’s Apalis, Dark Batis, Loveridge’s Sunbird, Livingstone’s Turaco and Bertram’s Weaver amongst others.

Night at Tanswis Lodge, Mikumi.

Day 12: Birdwatching Tour Tanzania Eastern Arc: BIRDING MIOMBO WOODLANDS Tanzania

We have a full morning’s birding before driving to the very nice Hondo Hondo Camp for the evening try for the Pel’s Fishing-Owl. Targets today include some great birds such as Speckle-throated Woodpecker, Collared Palm Thrush, Hofmann’s Sunbird, Pale Batis, Cinnamon-breasted Tit, Stierling’s Wren Warbler, Eastern Black-headed Batis, Yellow-bellied Hyliota, Livingstone’s Flycatcher, Long-tailed Fiscal, Miombo Starling and Magpie Mannikin.

Night at Hondo Hondo Camp.

Day 13: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: BIRDING AT KILOMBERO VALLEY

This morning we will embark on Guided Birding Tanzania Eastern Arc and explore the flood plain of the Kilombero River to look for the recently described Kilombero Weaver. In this unique area there’s also the mega rare White-tailed Cisticola and Kilombero Cisticola, both of which have yet to be formerly described. And who knows what else is to be

discovered in this remote area.

Udzungwa Forest Tented Camp

Other open country and marsh dwellers present include Great White Pelican, Reed Cormorant, several species of heron & egret, Hamerkop, Spur-winged Goose, Black Crake, White-backed & White-headed Vultures, Brown Snake-Eagle, Bateleur, White-crowned & African Wattled Lapwings, Three-banded Plover, African Skimmer, Coppery-tailed Coucal, White-fronted & Little Bee-eaters, Lilac-breasted Roller, Grey-rumped Swallow, Arrow-marked Babbler, Marsh Tchagra, Siffling Cisticola, Red-winged Warbler, Zanzibar Red Bishop and Zebra Waxbill amongst others. We will then return to Hondo Hondo for some easy afternoon birding and will also try to find the stunning Pel’s Fishing-Owl and Lesser Seedcracker.

Day 14: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL FROM HONDO HONDO TO UKAGURU MOUNTAINS

Today is flexible depending on what species we wish to target. But it’s going to be a long drive today to reach our next campsite.

Day 15: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: UKAGURU MOUNTAINS.

Two very special birds bring us to the seldom-visited Ukaguru Mountains: Rubeho Akalat and Rubeho Warbler. The akalat is highly localised in the understory of primary and secondary montane forest in a narrow range along the Rubeho and Ukaguru (and possibly Uluguru) mountains escarpment between 1800 and 2200 meters. And the rare warbler is only found in the Ukaguru Mountains. Whilst here we could also find Chapin’s Apalis, Moreau´s Sunbird, Yellow-throated Greenbul, Dark Batis and Red-faced Crimsonwing.

Night in Morogoro Hotel.

Day 16: TANZANIA BIRDING TOUR: TRAVEL TO BABATI TOWN HOPING FOR NOU FOREST BIRDNG THE NEXT DAY. Asmorein Hotel.

DAY17: Montane Forest Birds Tanzania: WHOLE DAY BIRDNG AT NOU FOREST.

Here, you will set out to look for the Mbulu white-eye, Mbulu robin-chat, bar-throated Apalis, Schalow’s Turaco, orange ground thrush, the beautiful Oriole Finch, Eastern double-collared sunbird, and many more.

Asmorein Hotel.

Day 18: 18 Day Tanzania Birding Safari: TRAVEL BACK TO ARUSHA FOR YOUR RETURN FLIGHT

Tour price includes

Park entrance fees
All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
A professional driver/bird guide
All transportation with a 4X4 customized safari car with a pop-up.
All Taxes/VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals
Drinking water (On all days)

Tour Price Does Not Include

International flights (From/to you home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips
Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)

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