16 Days Uganda Gorilla Trekking & Tanzania Safari Vacation
This 16 Days Uganda Gorilla Trekking and Tanzania Safari Vacation is a Primate, Safari and Beach holiday that involves Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi, Wildlife and Zanzibar Beach holiday and is fit for families and honeymooners. The Uganda Gorilla Trekking and Tanzania Safari tour takes you to East Africa’s famous National Parks of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park Combined with a Zanzibar Beach Stay. This Tour combines the rarest wildlife, culture and primates encounters in East Africa specifically the Kigali City Tour, the breathtaking Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable national park Uganda, Chimpanzee Trekking in Kibale, Big 5 animals viewing in Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire with a Zanzibar Beach Stay and a relaxation moment at Lake Bunyonyi the second deepest lake in Africa.
You experience the Wildlife viewing in the Ngorongoro conservation area in Northern Tanzania which is home to several animal and bird species including Lions, Elephants, Buffalos, Black Rhinos, Cheetahs, spotted hyenas, Impalas, Gazelles among others, the Serengeti national park home to the BIG 5 and other species including Hyenas, Cheetahs, Caracals, Serval Cats and several bovine species ,the Tarangare National park and finally your 16 days Combined Uganda Gorilla trekking, Serengeti and Zanzibar beach holiday will climax with the Zanzibar beach holiday where you will have a complete beach relaxation, sun bathing, dolphin tour, spice tour, and sunset dhow cruise etc.
16 Days Gorilla Trekking and Tanzania safari Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali and Transfer to your Hotel
On arrival at Kigali International airport, You will be picked by your driver/guide who will transfer you to your hotel for overnight. He will brief you about your upcoming activities.
Accommodation at: Hotel Mille Collines
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 2: Full day Kigali City tour.
After breakfast, you will begin your city tour starting with a visit to Gisozi genocide memorial center. Here you will witness the graveyards of the genocide victims laid to rest. You will watch touching videos and pictures and listen to stories that narrate the horrifying genocide. Later you will visit Nyamata Church where over fifty thousand Rwandese were killed as they sought shelter in the church. Here bodies some still in clothes, bones and skulls are displayed. You will later visit the presidential palace museum the state house to the former president the late Juvenal Habyarimana whose death in a plane crash sparked the genocide in 1994.Finally you will visit Caplaki crafts market to buy souvenirs and other local cultural items. Later you will head back to your hotel for lunch, dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Transfer to Musanze/Ruhengeri for Ibiwachu cultural experience.
The Iby’Iwacu cultural village is the best place to hide, relax and you recuperate your mind. The tranquility and hospitality of the locals is mesmerizing as your presence will be of great pleasure to the community members who will share with you and showcase the details of their past. The village displays a traditional lifestyle of a Rwandan including dress code, food growing, processing and preparation, traditional ceremonies and interpersonal relationship with in the community. A visit to this community will leave you in awe of how Africa and Rwanda in particular is sumptuously endowed culture wise.
You will enjoy different types of traditional dances performed by community members like Intore dance and Ibyivugo using local and traditional musical instruments, like Umuduri, Ikembe, Iningiri, Inanga, Ingoma, Amakondera, and Agakenke among others. Take time to listen to the famous songs of the gorillas sang by the famous Ngayabatema as you sit back and meditate upon the conservation evolution of this endangered ape in the Virunga. The visit to this village rewards the cultural enthusiasts with a total understanding of the Rwandan culture. Later you will head out to your lodge for overnight.
Accommodation at: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 4: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi
Today you will wake up at leisure and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale-Uganda for overnight and dinner.
Accommodation at: Bunyonyi Rock Resort
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 5: Canoeing and transfer to Kibale National park.
After breakfast, you will embark on an early morning Canoe cruise on the Lake of a thousand islands as its nicknamed due to its 29 individual islands.
The Cruise presents a morning soothing recreational encounter that is worth exploring and is refreshing. Later in the afternoon you will transfer to Kibale National Park the home of Chimpanzees. On arrival you will go for Bigodi swamp walk and go for overnight and dinner
Accommodation at: Rubalika Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 6: Chimpanzee Trekking and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park.
After your morning breakfast, your tour driver/guide will lead you to Kanyanchu park headquarters for briefing from the senior park ranger. At 8:00 am you will join the rest of other trackers and transfer to the starting point which is 2 Km away from the park headquarters. Most often chimpanzee tracking goes for 3 to 4 hours. While in the forest you may interface with primates including the red tailed monkey, L’Hoest monkey, baboons, white and black Colobus monkeys, grey checked mangabey, red Colobus, blue monkeys and pottos. Other animals include forest elephants unique from the common type, giant forest hogs and a striking tree species. Later you will have lunch at your lodge before embarking on a guided nature walk to Bigodi swamp sanctuary, a good site for birders. Expect to see the Great Blue Turaco and Papyrus Gonolek which can easily be sighted among the other many bird species. There is also an array of butterfly species. Later in the afternoon transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park the home of Gorillas
Accommodation at: Bweza Gorilla lodge
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 7: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
You will get up so early in the morning for breakfast and thereafter your driver will drive you to the Park head offices with your packed lunch. On reaching there by 7:30am you will be briefed about what to do and not to do while trekking after which you will be led by the ranger guides through the mist jungle. Trekking usually takes between to 8 hours or even a full day due to the location of gorillas. When you see them, it will be a great and fun time as you watch them and only 1 hour is permitted to watch them. Also ensure you carry enough water with you, hats, sun glasses, rain coats, and non-flash cameras.
Later after the trek, your driver/guide will transfer you back to Kigali City for relaxation, dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Accommodation; Hotel Mille Collines
Meal Plan: Half Board
Day 8: Flight from Kigali to Arusha and transfer to Ngorongoro.
Today after an early breakfast, you will head to the airport to catch your flight to Arusha -Tanzania arriving in time for lunch and transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation area in Karatu. On arrival you will check in your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation; Tloma Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 9: Game drives in the craters, visit masai and transfer to Serengeti with an evening game drive.
After breakfast you will drive down into the crater together with your guide. Ngorongoro is the largest inactive volcanic crater in the world with an intact ecosystem. The Ngorongoro Crater was created by the collapse of a former volcanic mountain. The crater has a massive bottom of about 264 square kilometers (about 3 times the size of Paris) with a depth of over 600 meters.
During the ride in the crater floor you will see again the breathtaking variety of Africa’s wilderness. African elephants, buffalos, black rhinos, hippos, hyenas, cheetahs, lions and dozens of other species await you. Afterwards you will have lunch and transfer to Serengeti national park.
After you have arrived to your lodge in the late evening, you will have Lunch and head out for an evening game drive and thereafter have a well-deserved night’s rest.
Accommodation; Tanzania Bush camp
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 10: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti
Today is without question one of the highlights of your safari. After a rich breakfast you will start your adventure a little earlier than usual. During a full day game drive, you will experience the Serengeti in its full glory today!
The Serengeti is one of Africa’s most complex and intact ecosystems. Therefore, you can look forward to countless plant species like the characteristic umbrella acacias and millions of mammals like zebras, elephants and antelopes. The Serengeti is also home to the “Big 5” (elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard). In the evening you will return to Tanzania Luxury Bush camp where you will have a delicious dinner and overnight.
Accommodation; Tanzania Bush camp
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 11: Morning Game drive and evening relaxation at the Lodge
Today you will wake up at leisure and stay at the lodge relaxing. After lunch time you will embark on an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park viewing animals lie baboons, hippos which come to cool off at the river bank of Serengeti River. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation; Tanzania Bush camp
Meal Plan: Full board
Day 12: Transfer to Tarangire National Park and afternoon game drive
After a big breakfast you will transfer to a very special national park called Tarangire National Park and do an afternoon game drive. Tarangire is famous for its diverse landscape with nine different vegetation zones. The park is particularly known for the abundance of Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in the continent) which fill the landscape and dwarf the animals next to them. The river of the park is full of wildlife ranging from a large variety of birds to lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, antelopes and, of course, elephants. The lunch area is fascinating, boasting an observatory with amazing views to the river and wildlife (with good chances of seeing a hunt while having your picnic). You will later continue to your lodge for overnight and dinner.
Accommodation; Burunge Tented Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board
Days 13: Transfer to Arusha
After a heavy breakfast, you will transfer to Arusha with lunch enroute arriving in time at Arusha Airport to catch your flight to Zanzibar. On arrival, you will be welcomed by your driver and transferred to your hotel. If you like, you can join one of the following tours in Stone Town before being transferred to your Hotel in Nungwi.
Guided Spice Plantation Tour
Guided Walking Tour of Stone Town
Prison Island Tour
Accommodation: Toa Hotel and Spa
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 14-15: Full day in Zanzibar
Enjoy your Zanzibar holiday at leisure. Relax on the white sand beach,go snorkeling, diving or sailing. (Extra fees required for all activities.)
Accommodation: Toa Hotel and Spa
Meal Plan: Full Board
Day 16: Transfer from Zanzibar Serena Hotel to Zanzibar Airport
After your extensive East Africa tour, bid farewell to the sun and sand as you transfer to Zanzibar International Airport (ZNZ) for your departure flight.
Accommodation: N/A
Meal Plan: Breakfast
End of the 16 Days Gorilla Trekking and Tanzania Safari.
Tour Cost includes:-
Airport transfers.
Transportation by a 4wd vehicle.
Full Board Accommodation
Internal flights
Iby’Wachu cultural village visit.
Canoeing in Lake Bunyonyi.
Gorilla permit
Chimpanzee chimp Permits.
Massa Village visits.
English speaking Driver/guide.
En route lunches.
Park entrance and concession fees as payable to the authorities based on the itinerary.
18% V.A.T on tour services as charged by Tanzanian government effective 1st July 2016.
Drinking water while on safari.
Tour Cost excludes:
Additional sightseeing
All items of a personal nature such as tobacco; laundry; phone calls, etc.
All extra costs incurred at the hotels including drinks, telephone services.
Tip for safari guide & waiters, porters.
Travel Insurance.
Zanzibar infrastructure tax of USD 1 per person per night.
International Flights.
Lunch on day of departure.
Porter fee while trekking.
Tanzania entrance visa of USD 50 except Americans who pay USD 100 for Tanzania.
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