10 Days Uganda Tanzania Wildlife Safari

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Fly to Bwindi Impenetrable national park at 12:00 pm.

Transfer to Entebbe airport for a 12:00 pm afternoon flight to Bwindi Forest, depending on where you are in Entebbe. The best time to fly to Bwindi is around 12 pm on the twice-daily flight from Kihihi airport operated by Aero-link Uganda. The flight arrives at Kihihi airfield after two hours. After a two-hour journey from the airfield, you will meet your driver-guide who will be waiting to pick you up and take you to the Ruhija region of the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Check into your lodge close to the Bwindi Forest National Park for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 2: Gorilla Trekking Bwindi.

Get up early, have breakfast, and then leave the lodge by vehicle, bringing your hiking equipments, a packed lunch, and water to connect to the sector park headquarters. Join other hikers for a group meeting where park officials will give you an overview of what to expect from your gorilla encounters. In order to locate the habituated gorilla family, only a group of eight individuals along with ranger guides and researchers will embark on a gorilla trekking expedition. These gorillas are typically hard to locate because they constantly rushing away, but once you locate them, you will make the most of your one-hour photo opportunity. After trekking, you will receiving your certificate then return back to your lodge, pack your luggage and check out of the lodge and transfer to Kisoro town. The town is closest to Mgahinga national park. Once you arrive you will have dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3: Golden Monkeys-Mgahinga national park.

Drive to the Mgahinga National Park offices after breakfast; Kisoro town is about a 30-minute drive away. On arrival at the park offices, you will be briefed about the golden monkeys and thereafter enter into the park taking the golden monkey tracking trail and on this experience, other primates, birds, butterflies will be spotted. After trekking, return to the lodge for relaxation dinner and overnight stay.

Day 4: Fly to Entebbe and departure.

After your morning breakfast, you will be transferred to Kisoro airstrip for your 8:25 am flight back to Entebbe airport. Given the weather, there is only one scheduled flight from Kisoro airstrip to Entebbe airport. After the 2 hours connecting flight, the hotel driver will pick you up from Entebbe airport to drive you to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 5: Fly to Tanzania, Transfer to Lake Manyara national park, Evening game drive.

Get up early, eat breakfast and then head to the airport to check in for your trip to Tanzania at 7:00 am. You’ll arrive at Kilimanjaro or Arusha airport (you’ll have to arrange this ticket yourself). When you arrive, your Tanzanian safari guide will be there to greet you. Before you leave for Lake Manyara National Park, have lunch in Arusha. Drive time is three to four hours. After arriving in Lake Manyara National Park, take an evening wildlife drive before going to your lodge.

Day 6: Game drive and transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation area,

After a leisurely breakfast, head out on an early game drive to increase your chances of spotting any animals you may have missed, including the unique tree-climbing lions found exclusively in this park. Once the game drive is over, go on to the Ngorongoro conservation area. It’s a three to four-hour drive, including lunch along the way. Visit the Olduvai Gorge, which is home to the earliest traces of human ancestry, after arriving in Ngorongoro. After discovering hundreds of fossilized bones and millions of years’ worth of stone tools in the region, paleoanthropologists came to the conclusion that humans originated in Africa. Thereafter, proceed to your booked accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 7: Full day at the Ngorongoro Crater.

Get a picnic lunch and head out for a full day of game viewing in Ngorongoro Crater after an early breakfast. A pride of lions, clans of hyenas, packs of jackals, crashes of hippos, dazzles of zebras, herds of wildebeests, bulls of elephants often with extraordinarily long tusks due to the extremely nutrient-rich, mineral-rich grass and many more creatures can be seen in the Ngorongoro Crater. It’s also the greatest location to see the endangered black rhino.
While you wait for your dinner, you will have the chance to learn about the African night sky on a clear night. As you sit in front of the fireplace, you may frequently hear lions and hyenas roaring, giving you a very authentic African nighttime experience. After your dinner, you will be escorted by Maasai warriors to your rooms for overnight at lodge as above

Day 8: Transfer to Serengeti National Park, Game drive.

Get up early, have some coffee or tea, and some food before starting your journey to the Serengeti National Park. The drive to your lodge takes two to three hours. After lunch, check into your lodge and make plans to go on an afternoon and evening game drive. You may witness the majority of the fascinating species in the Serengeti, which is the park with the highest population of large mammals worldwide. A pride of lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, giraffes, hippos, impalas, dik-dik, monkeys, baboons, gazelles, warthogs, and many more animals can be seen in the central Serengeti. Once more, in the evening, you will sit down by the fireplace with your guide to hear some background information on Tanzania’s history, from pre-colonial times to independence and the present. You will have dinner and overnight stay.

Day 9: Hot air balloon in Serengeti National Park.

After breakfast, connect for the air balloon. After being taken to the balloon safari launching point and receiving a briefing from the guide, you will launch the balloon to enjoy an aerial view of the park and the opportunity to see a variety of wildlife species. Only on the Serengeti Balloon Safari will you be able to get up close and personal with these predators after they have finished hunting and are relishing their food, sulking over which piece is the best. Elephants, zebras, giraffes, Impalas, Topis, Lions, Leopards, Cheetahs, waterbucks, wild dogs, Jackals, Warthogs, Hippos, Nile crocodiles, and gazelles are among the numerous animals that have been spotted. After the morning Serengeti Balloon returns back to the lodge for lunch, you will find the driver waiting for you at your landing point drive you the lodge refresh yourselves from such a wonderful experience.

Day 10: Depart Serengeti — Seronera airstrip.

Depart your lodge after a leisurely breakfast, and then make your way to the Seronera airfield to catch your subsequent aircraft to Zanzibar.

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