Can be taken back-to-back with Tanzania: Eastern Arc.

Day 1: The tour starts this morning at Dar-es-salaam International Airport (DAR), from where we will make our way towards Iringa, stopping on the way to look for some localised specialties. In particular, the endemic Yellow-collared Lovebird, Ashy Starling, and Tanzanian Red-billed Hornbill will be targeted, plus more open-country specialties. Night at a lodge near Iringa.

Day 2: This morning, we make our way to our first camp in the southern Udzungwas, where we will spend two nights. We will make some stops on the way for Brown-headed and White-winged Apalises, Black-lored and Churring Cisticolas, Forest Double-collared Sunbird, and Yellow-browed Seedeater. We will then hike up to our camp, birding the whole way. This new camp has been set-up not too far from the road and it shouldn't take us more than 1.5 hours to reach it, at birding pace. We will have our first chances for specialties like the stunning and most-wanted Rufous-winged Sunbird, White-winged Apalis, Swynnerton’s Robin, the weird Dapple-throat, Spot-throat and Iringa Akalat. Night camping in southern Udzungwa Mountains.

Day 3: We’ll have a full day to find all targets mentioned above, plus more widespread birds like Livingstone’s Turaco, Mountain Buzzard, Bar-tailed Trogon, Black-fronted Bushshrike, Evergreen Forest Warbler, Shelley’s and "Stripe-cheeked" Olive-headed Greenbuls, Waller’s Starling, Oriole Finch, White-tailed Crested Flycatcher, Chapin's and Black-headed Apalises. Night camping.

Day 4: After some final birding, we will make our way back to Iringa for an overnight at our lodge. In the afternoon, if time allows, we will visit a swamp not far away to look for the scarce Locustfinch, Rosy-throated and Fülleborn's Longclaws.

Day 5: Today, we will make our way to our second campsite, this time in the northern Udzungwas. We will camp here for three nights to give us ample time to find all endemics. Night camping in northern Udzungwa Mountains.

Day 6-7: Two full days of birding in the northern Udzungwas will allow us enough time to look for the recently discovered and mythical Udzungwa Forest Partridge, actually closely related to the Asian Arborophila partridges! They are shy and hard to see, but we will do our best to get satisfying views. Other good birds here include African Grass Owl, Montane Nightjar, the seldom-seen Kipengere Seedeater (whose song was not recorded before 2022! and which we saw very nicely on our 2025 tour), White-chested Alethe, Spot-throat, Moreau’s Sunbird, Yellow-throated Mountain Greenbul, Olive-flanked Ground Robin, Usambara Weaver, and more widespread species like Green Barbet, African Broadbill, Brown Parisoma, Dark Batis, Yellow-streaked Greenbul, Kenrick’s Starling, Red-faced Crimsonwing, and more. Nights camping.

Day 8: After some final birding around our camp, we will make our way to Mikumi for an overnight stay. We most likely will have time for a visit of a patch of miombo woodland, which usually yields Racket-tailed Rollers, Shelley's Sunbird, Yellow-bellied Hyliota and more common birds.

Day 9: We will drive early in the morning from Mikumi to the Rubeho Mountains for a three-night stay, with the first night in a hotel and then two nights camping in the forest.

Day 10-11: We will have two full days of birding on the forested slopes of the Rubeho Mountains, mainly to look for the recently discovered "Rubeho" Udzungwa Forest Partridge (this subspecies is much harder to get looks at so we will count ourselves lucky if we see it!), Rubeho Akalat,  the recently discovered Skye Double-collared Sunbird, and a new sunbird discovered here by Ross Gallardy in 2021. Many other more widespread species occur here, like Retz's Helmetshrike, Striped Pipit, Bar-tailed Trogon, Green Tinkerbird, Red-capped and Evergreen Forest Warblers, Black-lored Cisticola, African Hill Babbler, Olive-flanked and Cape Robin-Chats, White-starred Robin, White-chested Alethe, Betram’s Weaver, Jameson's Firefinch and many more. Nights camping.

Day 12: After some final birding in the Rubehos, we will slowly backtrack to Morogoro for an overnight stay.

Day 13: We will make our way to Dar-es-salaam for the tour end, with some stops on the way for Böhm’s Bee-eater, Coastal Cisticola and Ruvu Weaver. We should also be able to find the undescribed "Coastal Canary", which is currently subsumed within Black-throated Canary. The tour ends with drop-offs back at Dar-es-salaam International Airport in the late afternoon.