Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Safari, 14 days

Day 1. Lake Manyara or Tarangire

With arrivals in Arusha, visit the nearby Lake Manyara or Tarangire National Park on your game drive, popular sights include Manyara’s tree climbing lions and other predators. Sop by Gibbs farm or Sopa Lodge for lunch, dinner and overnight accommodation bookings.

Day 2. Serengeti

The day trip takes you to the famous Serengeti plains with an extensive wildlife reserve and eco-system popular for its prides of lions, annual wildebeest migrations and unique savannah vegetation. Check into any of the available overnight options from Seronera campsite, Serengeti Sopa lodge among other campsites and lodges.

Day 3. Ngorongoro Crater

After your morning game drive in Serengeti, have breakfast and travel to the famous volcanic caldera of Ngorongoro, a basin crowded with different wild animals. Take a stopover visit at the historical Olduvai Gorge and proceed on a game drive to the crater park. Find accommodation at Simba campsite, Sopa lodge or Serena safari lodge

Day 4. Ngorongoro/Arusha- flights to Nairobi

After a morning breakfast, have a game drive to the crater floor and also visit Lake Magadi. Enjoy a picnic lunch at the crater rim and then travel back to Arusha for flights to Nairobi. Diner and overnight is available from Hilton hotel and other facilities in Nairobi town.

Day 05:  Hell’s Gate National Park

After breakfast, visit Hell’s Gate National Park near Lake Naivasha and Nairobi animal orphanage found a few kilometers outside the business district. In the afternoon, take a walk in the city, whose trees attract and nest vultures, eagles, and other birds seen in the backyards of your hotel.

Day 06: Hell’s Gate National Park – Lake Nakuru

Travel to Lake Nakuru from the eastern escarpment. The park is known for its pink flamingoes that flock over the lake, turning it into pink and is particularly a paradise for birders. Book overnight and diner from Lake Nakuru lodge or travel back to Nairobi into your accommodation options.

Day 07: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara

On fishing breakfast, a tour guide will pick your up and transfer you to the famous Masaai Mara game park, crossing the scenic rift valley escarpments and beautiful Masaai farmlands.

Mara is actually part of the vast Serengeti eco-system plains and is a must visit for tourists especially during the months of the annual Wildebeest migration (July to September). The park boasts of its big prides of lions, buffalos, leopards, rhinos, cheetah, zebras, giraffes, antelopes, hartebeests and much more.

Accommodation and excellent accommodation is available from Mara Sopa Lodge, Mara Serena lodge.

Day 08: Masai Mara – Nairobi – Fly

Wake up on an early Hot air Balloon safari over the incredible Mara (available at an extra cost), or a morning game drive and have breakfast and then drive back to Nairobi in time for lunch at any restaurant like Nairobi Carnivore or Toona tree restaurant. Enjoy Nairobi night life, its vibrant streets that never sleep and the warmth and friendliness of the Kenyan people.

Check into at the airport for scheduled flights to Entebbe for more adventures from the Pearl of Africa, Uganda. Accommodation is available at the imperial group of hotels in Entebbe, Lake Victoria Windsor hotel, Boma Guesthouse and more. There is mouthwatering cuisines and dining in all these.

Day 09. TO NGAMBA ISLAND

Wake up early for breakfast and catch a morning boat trip to Ngamba Island at 9:45am. At the chimpanzee sanctuary, you are welcomed by bird squirts, noises and groan of the orphaned chimps in their caged habitat. Be witness to the feeding session and from the visitor’s platform, take their pictures as part of your collection of memoirs. Other sights on the islands are birds like kingfishers and fish eagles, monitor lizards and more.

Back to the mainland after a picnic lunch, visit Entebbe zoo, a home for several mammals, once homeless, orphaned and under illegal possession. You’ll visit monkeys, crocodiles, caged snakes, ostrich, beautiful peacock, lion, hyena, grey parrots and many more of these.

Travel to kampala in the evening and get accommodation from city hotels like Sheraton, Serena, Speke Hotel, Tourist hotel and others.

Alternatively, take a tour of kampala’s sights like the Uganda museum, independence monument, Ndere centre, martyr’s shrine, cultural sites like the Kasubi royal tombs, the Kabaka’s palace and a lot others.

DAY 10 Transfer to Fort Portal-Kibale National Park

On finishing breakfast, take a journey west of Kampala through fort portal to Kibaale forest national park where you’ll be tracking down it habituated chimpanzee families. Stop by the equator crossing in Masaka for a few refreshments, snacks, souvenirs and gift items plus photo moments at the statue. Overnight and dining is available at Kanyankyu campsite, Rwenzori View guest House, Mountains of the moon hotel, Primate Lodge and Ndali Lodge.

Day 11: Chimp Tracking-Kibale National Park –Queen Elizabeth National Park

Start your chimpanzee tracking trails after breakfast under careful lead of a trained ranger guide from the Tourist Centre at Kanyankyu. The forest hosts more than 10 different species of primates besides its famous attractions, the chimps. Primates seen on this trail include olive baboons, grey magabeys, colobus monkeys, popots and much more.

Head back to the tourist centre for a picnic lunch and then proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park, further into the west. Get on a game drive through the vast park, sights here include lions, spotted hyenas, stripped jackals, buffaloes, zebras, giraffe, antelopes, Uganda Kob and several birds like the crowned cranes, pelicans, kingfishers, fish eagles and others mostly seen on the launch cruise on Kazinga channel.

Visit the rift valley lakes of Edward and George and continue to the Kazinga channel in the evening which is often brimming with several hippos, crocodiles, buffalos and other animals at the shores besides over 500 different birds that toss around the water expanse.Dinner and overnight accommodation from Mweya safari lodge, Jacana Lodge, Albertine Rift Safari Lodge and other establishments.

Day 12: Transfer to Rwanda Volcanoes National Park

Wake up to an early game drive through the park and find the nocturnal predators like lions, leopards, hyenas and the giant forest hog retiring form their hunt. Birds like the pelicans, little sunbirds, weavers, bee-eaters, malachite fish eagles and others will make this dawn beautiful and worthwhile. Return to the lodge to have your timely breakfast and embark on the long trip to the land of a thousand hills, Rwanda. Find accommodation at Kinigi guesthouse and Mt.Gorilla Nest camp.

Day 13. Gorilla Tracking and transfer to Kigali

Take breakfast and walk to the tourist point in Musanze at the base of the Virunga mountains. Receive briefing from trained trackers and then follow your ranger guides in to the thick, lush forest ahead. Gorilla tracking sometimes lasts several hours (2-9 hours), thus the need to pack your lunch with you. On finding the silverback family, enjoy only one scheduled hour of intense interaction, take their pictures and stare for the moment.

Return to your lodge for refreshments/ lunch and spend the evening interacting with other guests or watch a gorilla conservation documentary by the hotel/ lodge lounge. You can either take a trip back to Kampala or take the overnight in Kigali, in order to catch your departures flights on time

DAY 14:  Transfer to The airport

Depending on where you spent the night, return trips and transfers to airport are available for Entebbe airport or Kigali.