12 Days Tanzania Uganda Safari

Day 1: Arrival in Uganda – Entebbe International Airport

At the Entebbe International Airport, which serves as the primary entrance to Uganda, you will be picked up by our agent and transferred to the hotel immediately upon your arrival.

 

Day 2: Drive to Kibale National Park

After breakfast at your Kampala hotel, you will leave at 6:30 am for the journey to the Fort Portal Area, which is 300 km away and takes about 5 hours to drive. Along the way, the drive gives you good views of rural areas, towns, the inselbergs of Mubende, swamps, and both natural and planted woods.

After a hot lunch in Fort Portal, you will go on a heritage tour to the Amabere g’ Nnyinamwiru caves, which are thought to be the breasts of Nnyinamwiru, who was the daughter of Bukuku, the self-proclaimed King of the Bachwezi who is said to have kept his daughter from breastfeeding her son out of fear that the child would take his throne.

From the caves, you can walk to Fort Portal Crater lake field, which is one of Uganda’s four explosion craters and a great place to see the sights. Set aside time to rest, eat, and sleep.

Day 3: Chimpanzee Tracking & drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park

You will get an introduction to Chimpanzee hiking at the Kanyanchu tourism center at 8 a.m., and then you will go to the tropical forest of Kibale to look for chimpanzees, which are genetically very close to humans. As you walk along the marked path, you can see amazing sights like flowering plants, birds (there are 375 species of birds in the forest), and primates like the Black and White Colobus, Red-tailed Monkey, Vervet Monkey, Baboon, and more.

When you get to the Chimpanzees, you get to spend an entire hour with them watching them do fun things like hunt, guard, make pant-hooting calls, mate, and more. After the 2- to 5-hour activity, you’ll be taken to Queen Elizabeth National Park, which is 157 km away and takes about 3 hours to drive. Along the way, you’ll get to see stunning views of the Rwenzori Mountains.

Day 4: Explore Queen Elizabeth National Park

Indulge in breakfast before leaving at 7am for a game drive. People mostly visit the Kasenyi sector, which is a good place to see Lions, Elephants, Leopards, Topi, Uganda Kobs, Warthogs, Spotted Hyenas, Buffaloes, and other animals. Three to four hours of game drives are followed by a hot lunch on the Mweya peninsula.

Sign up for the 2 p.m. Kazinga Channel boat tour for a two-hour trip along this beautiful natural channel where you might see Nile Crocodiles, Hippos, birds like the saddle-billed stork and African skimmers, and wild animals. You do a game drive along the channel track on your way back to the lodge from the boat ride. After dinner and the night, you can rest and enjoy the night.

 

Day 5: Drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

After breakfast at 7 a.m., you will drive south to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, which is 218 km to Ruhija and 160 km to Buhoma. Along the way, you will go on a game drive in the Ishasha area to look for tree-climbing lions and other animals. Head to Bwindi, where you’ll arrive in the evening for some rest, food, and the night.

Day 6: Gorilla Tracking & transfer to Kigali.

Uganda has many different and interesting protected places. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one of them. With at least 400 Mountain Gorillas, which is about half of the species’ global number, Bwindi is a great place to go trekking for these animals. The trek starts at 8 a.m. from each park station, where park ranger guides give you information.

The gorilla walk lasts between 2 and 8 hours, but you get to see the animals and take pictures for an entire hour. It includes going through beautiful landscapes with steep hills and narrow valleys, full of birds and lush plants. After the activity, you’ll be taken to Kigali with stunning views of the Kigezi Highlands and the Rwandan hillsides.

Day 7: Fly from Kigali to Kilimanjaro International Airport Tanzania & drive to Arusha

Make your way to Kigali International Airport to take the regional flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport. Once you arrive, you will come face to face with our representative, who will then transport you to Arusha.

 

Day 8: Transfer to Tarangire National Park

Set off for the drive to Tarangire National Park 150km about 3 hours’ drive enjoying the views of en route landscapes. You will engage in an exciting game drive upon arrival for likely sights of herds of Elephants, Lions, Cheetah, Zebras, Leopards, Wildebeest, the dry country antelopes such as the rare fringe-eared oryx and long-necked gerenuk

Day 9: Drive to the famous Serengeti National Park

Drive through the Ndutu Area to get to Serengeti National Park, which is 305 km away and takes about 6 hours. The Serengeti National Park has one of the highest animal populations in all of Africa. Its fields go on forever. When you get there, go on a fun game drive.

Day 10: Unlimited game drive in Serengeti National Park

You can go on a long game drive in Serengeti National Park and see large groups of animals like Lions, Leopards, Tanzanian Cheetahs, Jackals, and many more. You may also see millions of Wildebeest, Gazelles, hundreds of thousands of Zebras, Elephants, Buffaloes, Elands, and other animals.

Day 11: Transfer to Ngorongoro crater

During your final game drive in Serengeti National Park, you will have the opportunity to see even more wild animals. Following this, you will transfer to Ngorongoro Crater, which is considered to be one of the seven natural wonders of Africa. Engage in a stroll along the edge of the crater.

 

Day 11: Departure

Go down into the Ngorongoro Crater for a long game drive on the floor of the crater. Check out this beautiful scenery, which is one of the seven natural wonders of Africa and a world heritage site. Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s biggest intact, unfilled, and intact volcanic caldera.

It is home to a lot of animals, such as Elephants, Wildebeest, Black Rhinos, Cheetahs, Lions, Leopards, Cape Buffalos, and more. In the late afternoon, climb out of the valley and make your way to Kilimanjaro International Airport, where you can catch your flight in the late evening.