Mikumi National Park

On my 4th weekend in Tanzania, I made a savanna safari debut!!!

Destination: Mikumi National Park.

Tanzania is very well known for its vast and rich nature reserve, the most known places being Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Selous Game Reserve and so on.

Mikumi National Park is about 4-5hrs' drive away from Dar es Salaam, some people who know other great parks (like those mentioned above) say it's "just about okay"... but don't judge until you read/see this post till the end.. IT WAS AWESOME!

Perhaps it is a smaller park, but that means the wild animals are in a small area = easily found! a yay to that.

I went there with my colleagues+friends for a weekend; so we went for an afternoon safari till sunset, one night in the near-by motel, then morning-early afternoon safari the next day.


In two days, I saw: lions (female, and male!!!), elephants, giraffes, zebras, boars, hippos, guinea hen, buffaloes, buzzards, snake, gnu, impalas (and other deer-like creatures) etc etc..!!

What's so great about it? hm, I don't know what to say.. it's so DYNAMIC and COOL to see completely wild animals - animals you can usually only see in the zoo!

and the cool thing was, whenever we talk in the car like "hey, there aren't many giraffes, are there...?" then minutes after, voila, how many giraffes? We often bumped into the animals we were just wishing to see! :)

For example, after we talked about a person who loves reptiles...


A snake. lol

It may be small, but Mikumi does great magic, and it totally made my weekend :)


PS Even outside the gate of Mikumi National Park, there are so many animals on the side of the road. So it is just totally natural if you see this. "Beware of Elephants" :P