An early in the morning we depart Dar es salaam around 5:00 am to Ruaha national park, an eight hours drive from Dar es salaam. We will stop at Mikumi for breakfast and lunch at Iringa and continue to drive until Ruaha national park. Ruaha National Park is Tanzania's largest, a vast wilderness in the south-west of the country visited by only a handful of travelers each year. At the park's heart is the aptly-named Great Ruaha River