Tour overview
The 15 days combined East Africa Gorillas and wildlife safari will showcase what an ultimate East African safari has to offer from the beautiful breathtaking landscapes and diverse wildlife to our vibrant cultures and hospitable people. With this safari, you will have a magical cruise along the Kazinga channel in Queen Elizabeth National Park as well as enjoy Uganda’s gorillas in Bwindi go about their routine activities in their natural habitat. Wildlife viewing in Kenya and Tanzania will take you to Africa’s most sought after National Parks of Masai Mara known for its indigenous black rhino population, Nairobi National Park situated in the city housing a variety of wildlife and Lake Nakuru National Park renowned for its vast flamingo populations. In Tanzania, you will have a trip to Serengeti National Park renowned for its oldest ecosystem in the entire world, Ngoro Ngoro crater which is the world’s largest unbroken caldera housing vast wild life species and Lake Manyara National Park renowned for its tree climbing lions.
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Pick-up and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Pick up will be at Entebbe airport where our representative will be waiting to receive you, brief you through your travel itinerary and set off for Queen Elizabeth National Park. Along your way you will have a stopover at the equator line in Kayabwe where you will take several pictures with your feet stepping in both hemispheres. You will proceed to have lunch in Mbarara after which you will embark on your drive arriving in the evening to check-in at your reserved lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 2: Game drive and afternoon boat cruise
Arise early in the morning for your breakfast and head off for game viewing as you lookout for several animals for example lions, herds of elephants and buffaloes, Uganda kobs, warthogs, waterbucks, bushbucks to mention but a few with a variety of bird species. Return to your lodge for lunch after which you will report for a boat cruise along the Kazinga water channel waiting sail amidst schools of hippopotamuses, colonies of water birds while you spot crocodiles and herds of buffaloes, elephants, bushbucks and many more quench their thirst along the Kazinga shores. The cruise lasts for 2 to 3 hours after which you will return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable N/P & Batwa community walk
Today morning enjoy your breakfast and checkout to embark on your drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with an en-route drive in the Ishasha sector for an insight about tree climbing lions. Arrival will be in the afternoon to check-in at your lodge and have lunch after which you will be guided by a Batwa guide into their communities to learn about their ancient ways of living. The Batwa will demonstrate how they started fire using sticks, the use of bow and arrow to hunt down small animals, visit medicinal men and many more. You will enjoy their cultural dance and songs before you get back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 4: Gorilla trekking
Wakeup very early in the morning for your breakfast and report to the Park headquarters for a briefing about what is required of you during gorilla trekking. Ranger guides will lead you into Bwindi’s misty forests to trace your assigned gorilla family. Trekking after gorillas may last for about 1 to 6 hours depending on how far the gorilla group could have moved after which an hour is allowed amidst the gentle giants in their natural habitat. Watching the gorillas go about their daily activities for example grooming the little ones, forage, the gorilla babies wrestling and many more is a once in a life time experience. Return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight as you wait for a long drive to Kampala in the next morning.
Day 5: Transfer to Kampala/Entebbe
Arise early in the morning for your breakfast and checkout to be driven back to Kampala through terraced rolling hills with scattered human settlements surrounded by banana and tea plantations. You will make a stopover in Mbarara for your lunch after which you will embark on your drive arriving in the evening to be dropped off at the hotel in the city or Entebbe waiting to catch your flight to Kenya in the next morning.
Day 6: Fly to Nairobi Kenya & Nairobi N/P evening game viewing
After your morning breakfast, checkout of the hotel and meet your driver to Entebbe international airport for your flight to Kenya. Our representative will be waiting to receive you and drive you to your hotel where you will check-in and have an early lunch. After lunch you will proceed to Nairobi National Park situated within the city to gaze at several animal species that thrive with in the city. Animals to look out for include lions, elephants, black rhinos, buffaloes, leopards, giraffes, gazelles, common elands and many more. At dusk get back to your hotel for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 7: Drive to Lake Nakuru National Park & evening game drive
Today morning have your breakfast and checkout to be driven to Lake Nakuru National Park arriving in time for lunch. After lunch you will head off for an evening game drive as you look out for the Park’s animals such as zebras, elands, gazelles, waterbucks, lions, buffaloes among others. You will return back to your lodge to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 8: Morning game drive & transfer to Masai Mara
Enjoy your scrumptious breakfast in the early morning and return to the Park’s plains for a morning game drive to lookout for several other animals and wildlife moments that you could have missed during the previous game drive. Several animals will be spotted catching their morning meal for example hartebeests, gazelles, common elands, impalas, wildebeests, warthogs, hyenas and many others. You will proceed to the Lake to enjoy its bird life where you will spot thousands of flamingoes and several others flock the Lake after which you will return to the lodge for your lunch. After lunch checkout of your lodge to be driven to Masai Mara National Reserve arriving in the evening to check-in at your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 9: Whole day Masai Mara
Today morning enjoy your breakfast and report to the Mara endless plains for an entire day game viewing experience as you look out for the big five animals and several others. Animals that you are guaranteed of encountering include large herds of wildebeest, zebras, gazelles, elands, impalas, giraffes, bushbucks, waterbucks, its big cats out on the hunt like cheetahs, serval cats, leopards with a variety of bird species. You will have a picnic lunch in the jungle after which you will continue with your drive through the Mara plains. Endeavor to experience the great wildebeest migration at the Mara River where millions of animals cross to Serengeti in Tanzania as predators patiently wait to feast on them. This occurs annually during the dry season in the months of July to Septembers. Get back to your lodge before it gets dark to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 10: Transfer to Nairobi and fly to Arusha Tanzania
Wake up to a relaxed breakfast and checkout of your lodge to be driven to Nairobi with an en-route dive through the Mara golden plains. Arrival in Nairobi will perfectly be time for lunch after which you will proceed to Jomo Kenyatta international airport for your flight to Arusha in Tanzania. Our representative will be waiting to receive you and upon your arrival, you will be transferred to your reserved hotel to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 11: Drive to Serengeti N/P & evening game viewing
Arise in the morning to a delicious breakfast and checkout to be driven to Serengeti National Park known for its oldest ecosystem in the entire world. This drive lasts for about 4 and a half hours arriving in the afternoon to check-in at your booked lodge and have lunch. After lunch you will proceed for game viewing as you look out for several animals like the big five that define an African safari, wildebeests, gazelles, impalas, zebras, elands, hyenas, cheetahs and many more. For bird lovers this is your paradise since it houses more than 500 bird species such as the Kuri bustard, yellow-coloured fischer’s lovebird and many more. Get back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 12: Morning game drive & transfer to Ngoro Ngoro area
After your breakfast return into the Serengeti plains for a morning game drive as you look out for several animals that you might have missed during your previous evening drive. You will have ample time to catch the early risers graze and if luck enough you will easily witness predators such as lions, cheetahs and many more hunt down their prey. Return back to your lodge for lunch after which you will checkout to be driven to Ngoro Ngoro crater arriving to check-in at your lodge as you wait to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 13: Entire day Ngoro Ngoro Conservation
Arise to a hefty breakfast and drive into the Ngoro Ngoro region for an entire day wildlife viewing where you will as well spot the big five in their natural habitat. This conservation area is Africa’s most densely populated conservation area housing over 25,000 animals in the crater. Other animals to look out for include wildebeests, hyenas, zebras, gazelles, elands, antelopes, jackals, hippopotamuses and many more. You will have your picnic lunch amidst animals after which you will proceed with game viewing until evening when you will be drive back to your lodge to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 14: Shift to Lake Manyara National Park & afternoon boat canoe
Have your morning breakfast and checkout to transfer to Lake Manyara National Park situated just 40km away from the crater region. This drive lasts for approximately 45minutes arriving to have an experience of the wildlife that thrive in Lake Manyara National park. You will have a game drive as you lookout for tree climbing lions lazing between tree branches, elephants, impalas, zebras, klipspringers, warthogs and any more. Retire of the Manyara plains to check-in at your lodge and have lunch after which you will head off for a canoe ride along Lake Manyara where you will capture the Park’s scenic beauty and aquatic animals such as hippopotamuses and several bird species. Return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 15: Departure
Today morning wake up to a relaxed breakfast, checkout of the lodge to meet your driver to Kilimanjaro International Airport with an en-route game drive looking out for moments that you could have missed out in the previous day. This drive lasts for about 2 and a half to 3 hours arriving to have lunch in the closest restaurant after which you will check-in at the airport for your outbound flight back home.
