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Tourism Mikumi
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Mikumi
is Tanzania’s fourth-largest national park. It’s also the most accessible from
Dar es Salaam. With almost guaranteed wildlife sightings, it makes an ideal
safari destination for those without much time.
Since
the completion of the paved road connecting the park gate with Dar es Salaam,
Mikumi National Park has been slated to become a hotspot for tourism in
Tanzania. Located between the Uluguru Mountains and the Lumango range, Mikumi
is the fourth largest national park in Tanzania and only a few hours drive from
Tanzania’s largest city. The park has a wide variety of wildlife that can be
easy spotted and also well acclimatized to game viewing. Its proximity to Dar es
Salaam and the amount of wildlife that live within its borders makes Mikumi
National Park a popular option for weekend visitors from the city, or for
business visitors who don’t have to spend a long time on an extended safari
itinerary.
Most
visitors come to Mikumi National Park aiming to spot the ‘Big Five’ (cheetah,
lion, elephant, buffalo, and rhino), and they are always not disappointed.
Hippo pools provide close access to the mud-loving beasts, and bird-watching
along the waterways is particularly rewarding. Mikumi National Park borders the
Selous Game Reserve and Udzungwa National Park, and the three locations make a
varied and pleasant safari circuit.
Swirls
of opaque mist hide the advancing dawn. The first shafts of sun decorate the
fluffy grass heads rippling across the plain in a russet halo. A herd of
zebras, confident in their camouflage at this predatory hour, pose like
ballerinas, heads aligned and stripes merging in flowing motion.
Mikumi
National Park abuts the northern border of Africa’s biggest game reserve – the
Selous – and is transected by the surfaced road between Dar es Salaam and
Iringa. It is thus the most accessible part of a 75,000 square kilometre
(47,000 square mile) tract of wilderness that stretches east almost as far as
the Indian Ocean.
The
open horizons and abundant wildlife of the Mkata Floodplain, the popular centre
piece of Mikumi, draws 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.
Criss-crossed
by a good circuit of game-viewing roads, the Mkata Floodplain is perhaps the
most reliable place in Tanzania for sightings of the powerful eland, the
world’s largest antelope. The equally impressive greater kudu and sable
antelope haunt the miombo-covered foothills of the mountains that rise from the
park’s borders.
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