Safari Overview
6 days Tanzania wildebeest migration and Uganda gorilla trekking safari is an amazing trip that will give you a touch of open savanna in Tanzania and tropical rainforest experience in Bwindi impenetrable forest national park. In the period of 6 days you will visit 3 national parks and these are; Ngorongoro conservation crater, Serengeti national park and Bwindi impenetrable national park. Wildebeest migration always happens in the dry season where in the months of June to September, this happens when wildebeests transfer from Serengeti in Tanzania to Masai Mara in Kenya crossing dangerous Mara River where savanna predators are always camouflaging at the river banks to make a kill. On this trip, you will encounter a number of wildlife for example lions, leopards, cheetahs, wildebeests, giraffes, blue monkeys, vervet monkeys, mountain gorillas, birds to mention but a few.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Pick up and transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation Area
On the first leg of your trip, our company representative will pick you from the Airport, brief you about the trip and then transfer your lodge in Ngorongoro with stopovers for the beautiful sceneries, you will proceed to the lodge, check in, relax and wait for the next day to explore the park.
Day 2: Game drive in the crater and transfer to Serengeti national park
In the morning, you will enjoy a scrumptious breakfast, meet your driver guide and transfer to the endless plains of Ngorongoro crater. The crater is a great place to spot a number of wildlife for example lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, warthogs, zebras, giraffes among others. The crater rim is considered to be the ‘’Garden of Eden’’ for the wildlife since of the wildlife can be found here, you will enjoy a picnic lunch, then proceed for a transfer to Serengeti national park. You will connect to your lodge, have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3: Full day exploring Serengeti national park
After a scrumptious breakfast, meet your driver and head to the jungle to meet a number of wildlife for example cheetahs, lions, leopards, zebras, hyenas and these are the savanna predators that will be seen roaming as they hunt for the preys. You will also head to spot wildebeest migration and this involves over millions of wildebeests crossing from Serengeti heading to Masai Mara and seeing this movement will forever leave unforgettable memories. On a lucky day, you will find a cheetah or a lion trying to put down a wildebeest. You will later head to the lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Transfer to Arusha and fly to Kigali Rwanda
On this day, you will arise in the morning on a mouthwatering breakfast, check out of the lodge and hit the road Arusha airport for a flight to Kigali. You will have lunch on the way to Arusha, and on arrival in Kigali, you will be picked by our representative in Kigali, he will transfer you to the lodge for accommodation and overnight stay.
Day 5: Transfer to Bwindi national park
In the morning, you will have breakfast, meet our driver guide who will transfer you Bwindi impenetrable forest national park in Uganda. You will enjoy the rolling hills of Rwanda as you head to Uganda, you will cross to Uganda, have lunch in Kabale and proceed to Bwindi to connect to your accommodation, check in, and head to Batwa community to have a touch of their history and enjoy how they used to live in the forests. They have craft shops where you can buy souvenirs, later head back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Gorilla trekking and transfer back to Kigali and departure
After a scrumptious breakfast at 6:30 am, meet your driver guide who will transfer you to the park headquarters to have a briefing about gorilla trekking etiquettes. It is here where you will be allocated a gorilla family to track, you will be assigned a ranger guide who will be answering all your questions about gorillas. Gorilla trekking takes about 1 hour to 5 hours, and after meeting the gorillas, you will spend 1hour in their presence, taking pictures and videos, you will enjoy seeing gorillas play, feed and thereafter, you will head back to the park headquarters to get gorilla trekking certificate, your driver will be waiting to transfer you to the lodge to freshen up and transfer to Kigali to catch your flight and this will mark the end of your safari.
