This East Africa Safari covers four countries with interesting wildlife viewing in Masai Mara, Serengeti, Queen Elizabeth, and primate tracking in Kibale Forest and Bwindi Forest National Parks. Enjoy an all-in-one, fun-packed trip to Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi
Today is the day you start your trip. Our company representative will meet and pick you up at the airport. After arrival, drive to your hotel for dinner and an overnight stay in Nairobi city.
Day 2: Drive to Masai Mara
Enjoy an early morning breakfast and thereafter depart Nairobi town for Masai Mara National Park. Upon arrival, check into your lodge and visit the Maasai villages. Have lunch and do an afternoon game drive through the park. Get a chance to view a number of animals, including lions, cheetahs, zebras, elephants, wildebeests, and many more.
Have your overnight stay at the lodge.
Day 3: Drive to Lake Nakuru
It was such a great experience while at Masai Mara National Park, and today proceed to Lake Nakuru, famous for the flamingo birds. In the afternoon, do a boat ride. Your guide will help you out with all the information you may need to know about this park.
Have your dinner and overnight stay at the park.
Day 4: Morning Game Drive and Cross to Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
After your breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive through the park and proceed to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The park is so famous for the migrating wildebeests and numerous zebras.
Have the rest of the evening at the park with dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 5: Morning Game Drive and Drive to Ngorongoro National Park
This morning, you are at Serengeti National Park and join your guide for a vibrant game-viewing drive, which offers you the best chance to view the annual wildebeest migration, zebras, herds of elephants, and cheetahs.
After the game drive, enjoy an en-route lunch and proceed to Ngorongoro National Park, where you will have the rest of your evening and overnight stay.
Day 6: Visit the Crater Lakes and Transfer to Uganda
On this day, while on a game drive, visit the Ngorongoro Crater lakes and spot many of the members of the Big Five animal family, including lots of elephants, lions, cheetahs, rhinos, and buffaloes.
After this adventure, hop back on board and transfer to the airport for your flight to Uganda, with an overnight stay in Kampala city.
Day 7: Transfer to Kibale Forest and Chimp Tracking
Welcome to Uganda for your East Africa Safari. This morning, join your driver/guide and transfer to Kibale Forest National Park, the primate capital of the world. Join a scenic drive through the rolling hills and swampy banks of Mubende town.
Upon arrival, have lunch and proceed for an afternoon chimpanzee tracking experience in the forest.
Your guide will lead you to the briefing center, and the rest of the adventure will be yours to enjoy in the forest. Look out for the chimps, L’Hoest’s monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, colobus monkeys, and many more.
Have your overnight stay at the park with dinner.
Day 8: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park for an Evening Boat Ride
After breakfast, drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The drive takes approximately 4–5 hours. Enjoy your warm lunch en route and proceed to the park.
Upon arrival, check into your lodge and embark on an afternoon boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, famous for the hippos and water birds.
Have your night at the park.
Day 9: Morning Game Drive and Transfer to Bwindi via Ishasha
Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the most famous and visited National Parks in Uganda. Enjoy a morning game drive through the Kasenyi tracks and get a chance to see the warthogs, bushbucks, waterbucks, lions, elephants, and buffaloes.
Drive through the Ishasha sector for the tree-climbing lions and proceed to Bwindi, where you will have the rest of the night.
Have your overnight stay at Bwindi.
Day 10: Gorilla Trekking
After breakfast, embark on the gorilla trekking experience in the forest. The time spent here depends on the side where the gorillas spent their previous night.
Have a whole hour with the gorillas and after your lunch transfer to Volcanoes National Park. Enjoy Iby’iwacu cultural entertainment with overnight stay at Musanze.
Day 11: Go for Golden Monkey Tracking and Transfer to Lake Kivu
We are in Rwanda this morning. Get ready to track the golden monkeys of Volcanoes National Park. These are such beautiful primates to meet, and on this trail, you will spot so many other monkey species and birds as well.
Visit the Twin Lakes and later transfer to Lake Kivu for an evening boat ride, with an overnight stay as well.
Day 12: Departure Day
Relax in the morning. Depending on your departure time, transfer to Kigali, do a city tour, have lunch, and transfer to the airport, marking the end of your East Africa Safari.
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