
Your guide will greet you warmly and give you an overview of your upcoming safari in Tanzania. You’ll have a quick rundown, then be transferred to Lake Manyara National Park, where you’ll check into your lodge and eat lunch.
You’ll go on a game drive around Lake Manyara National Park after lunch, keeping an eye out for animals including elephants, lions, leopards, waterbucks, impalas, gazelles, hippos, and many more. After your game drive, you’ll have supper and spend the night at your lodge in the national park, where you can take in the sights and sounds of your new environment.
The day will begin with an early breakfast at the lodge before you are transferred to Serengeti National Park. After arriving at the lodge in Serengeti National Park and checking in, your chef will start making lunch.
On your afternoon game drive in Serengeti National Park, you’ll look for the “Big Five”—elephants, lions, leopards, buffalo, and rhinos—on the park’s savannah plains and take in the park’s breathtaking landscape, which includes the kopjes from which lions watch their prey. After supper, you’ll retreat to your lodge for the night.
You will get two game drives in Serengeti National Park this day, one in the morning after breakfast at your lodge and another in the afternoon. On the vast savannah plains, you may perhaps see elephants, wildebeests, hippos, giraffes, zebras, gazelles, impalas, kudus, cheetahs, lions, and leopards.
After a morning spent exploring the Serengeti, you’ll refuel with lunch before setting out on an afternoon adventure. After supper, you’ll go back to your lodge for the night.
On the fourth day of your safari, after you have breakfast at the lodge in Serengeti National Park, your guide will drive you gently out of Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. It is entirely up to you whether or not you want to visit Olduvai Gorge, well known as “the birthplace of humanity” after the discoveries made there by anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey.
After lunch, you will descend 600 metres into the Ngorongoro crater to see the diverse wildlife that lives there, including herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and enormous African elephants, as well as predators like lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs, and leopards.
Lake Magadi, a big but shallow alkaline lake in the southwest corner, is one of the best things about the crater. At the lake, you might see many different kinds of birds, such as flamingos, hippos, and others. After supper, you’ll retire to your lodge for the night.
Breakfast will be served at your lodge bright and early. Your journey to Arusha will take you via Karatu and Mto Wambu, and your guide will deliver you to your accommodation. Enjoy the remainder of the day and dinner at a top-tier affiliate hotel in Arusha.
After a hearty breakfast at your Arusha hotel, you’ll be transferred to the airport for your journey to Rwanda. You will be met by our guide at the Kigali airport and transferred to your accommodation. On your brief city tour, you’ll also stop at a monument dedicated to the victims of the genocide. You will be staying in a Kigali partner hotel of the highest quality for the night and eating supper there.
On day seven of your safari, you’ll get up early to meet with your driver guide and make the journey to Nyungwe Forest Park, stopping for lunch along the way and arriving there in the evening. The Gisakura Visitor Center is where you will spend the night, where you will also have supper.
You will travel to Bwindi National Park after lunch and check into your lodge there. Dinner and an overnight stay at one of our esteemed hotel partners in Bwindi National Park
After an early breakfast at your lodge and a short briefing, you’ll go off to explore Nyungwe Forest National Park in search of the park’s famous chimpanzees. The chimps may be easily seen since they are constantly moving throughout the forest from tree to tree. It normally takes around three hours to locate a chimpanzee. You’ll have lunch back at your lodgings before heading out again.
After lunch, you’ll take part in a canopy walk at Uwinka, which has a 50-meter-long swing bridge hung among the trees. Enjoy a bird’s-eye perspective of the magnificent jungle below you as you look for animals. Just like the previous night, you will check back into your hotel before it becomes dark.
After a hearty breakfast, you’ll go to the Gisakura tea estate and take part in the whole tea-making process, from planting to packing. As a bonus to the tour, you’ll get to sample some of the fresh, flavorful tea. You’ll be taken back to your Kigali hotel after your time at Gisakura to freshen up before supper and bed.
You will be picked up from your accommodation in Kigali in the morning and taken to the airport where you will catch a flight to Kampala, or Entebe Uganda. Upon your arrival in Uganda, you will be met by your safari guide and transferred to your accommodation. You will stay at a first-rate Kampala or Entebbe affiliate hotel for tea and the night at no extra cost to you.
Have breakfast at the resort before leaving for a boat tour of Lake Bunyonyi. Awe-inspiring terraces and islands like Penal Island provide for a memorable backdrop. The coastlines are a great place to kick back and relax.
After eating lunch, you will go on a walking tour of the neighborhood. The Batwa people are well-known for living in the Bwindi forest, and during the community walk, you’ll have the chance to meet some of them and learn about their culture through interactions such as watching traditional dance performances, perusing handmade local arts and crafts, and listening to traditional melodies. After seeing the area, you’ll go back to the Bunyonyi Eco Lodge for supper and the night.
After a hearty breakfast at your lodge, you’ll hit the road towards Queen Elizabeth National Park, stopping along the route to take in the breathtaking scenery. After lunch, you’ll keep travelling to the park, where you’ll spend the night at Pumba Safari Lodge or another nearby establishment of your choosing after an evening game drive during which you’ll see creatures including buffaloes, kobs, waterbucks, elephants, and warthogs.
In the morning, after a hearty breakfast, you’ll go on a game drive and lion tracking adventure in Queen Elizabeth National Park, where you may look for elephants, buffaloes, waterbucks, bushbucks, warthogs, leopards, Uganda kobs, and a wide variety of birds. Stunning scenery awaits you as you go through the park in your vehicle. After the morning’s game watching is through, you’ll sit down to a hearty lunch.
Following lunch, you’ll set sail in Kazinga Channel, the waterway between Lakes Edward and George. The Kazinga boat cruise lasts between two and three hours, and during that time you’ll get up up and personal with aquatic wildlife like hippos and Nile crocodiles, as well as land mammals like elephants, buffalo, and antelopes. As night falls, you’ll notice many people on the shoreline, including fishermen who are getting ready for a night of fishing. After your exciting boat excursion, come back to the Pumba Safari Lodge for a night of rest, supper, and lodging.
After a leisurely morning at the resort, you’ll check out and meet your driver guide to return to Entebbe, stopping for lunch in Mbarara. The safari ends when your driver-guide drops you off at the airport in Entebbe or at your accommodation in Kampala, after continuing on to Kampala after lunch.
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