13 Days Tanzania Uganda Tour

13 Days Tanzania Uganda Tour Highlights

Day 1: Airport pickup and transfer to the hotel

Day 2: Transfer to Tarangire National Park

Day 3: Transfer to Lake Manyara National Park

Day 4: Transfer to Ngorongoro National Park

Day 5: Transfer to Serengeti National Park

Day 6: Great Migration Mara River

Day 7: Another Full day in Serengeti National Park

Day 8: Transfer to Lake Natron

Day 9: Transfer to Kilimanjaro – Departure for Kigali International Airport

Day 10: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Day 11: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

Day 12: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi

Day 13: Transfer to Kigali Airport – Departure

Detailed 13 Days Tanzania Uganda Tour

You will be picked up from Kilimanjaro International Airport and transferred by private vehicle to Arusha for your dinner and overnight stay

Dinner and overnight stay at Ilboru Safari lodge

After breakfast, you will proceed to Tarangire National Park for game viewing and a picnic lunch. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses through the park, which is the only source of water for the wild animals here during the dry season. The park is famous for its large numbers of elephants, baobab trees and tree climbing African pythons.

Dinner and overnight stay at Tarangire Roika tented lodge

After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Manyara National Park for game driving and a picnic lunch. This small but scenic park covers an area of only 330 sq km (127 sq miles), of which up to 200 sq km (77 sq miles) is made up of the lake when water levels are high.

Lake Manyara is an excellent place for bird watching and a good area to find elephants, giraffes, zebras, baboons, warthogs, buffalos and maybe even a legendary tree-climbing lion! At some point during your game drive, you should get off your vehicle at the hippo pool to stretch your legs and observe the hippos here!

Dinner and overnight stay at Kudu lodge

After breakfast, you will drive to the Ngorongoro Crater for game viewing and a picnic lunch. This park is one of the most densely crowded wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals.

The crater is often called “Africa’s Eden” and is also considered the eight Natural wonder of the World. A visit to this amazing place is a main draw for tourists coming to Tanzania and undoubtedly a world-class attraction!

Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze will lions sleep and laze in the sun nearby. At dawn, the endangered black rhino will return to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on the dew-laden grass in the morning mist.

Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Maasai herd their cattle and goats over green pasture and through highland slopes. They live alongside the wildlife here as they have done for centuries.

Dinner and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge

After breakfast you will drive through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Serengeti National Park, enjoying game viewing and a packed lunch en-route. The Serengeti covers over 6,000 square miles of sprawling, unspoiled landscape.

Add to that an extraordinary population of resident and migratory animals in a constant bid for survival, and you will begin to understand why this place is often called “the world as it was in the beginning”.

As soon as you enter the park the wildlife viewing will begin! Search for leopards and lions and watch in awe as zebra, wildebeest appear from amidst the woodlands and plains.

Dinner and overnight stay at Serengeti Kati Kati tented camp

Early morning game drive in Central Serengeti looking for hunting predators, then return to the camp for breakfast. After breakfast depart with picnic lunch and drive towards the North Serengeti for game drive.

The great migration is supposed to be in this area from late July to mid-October crossing the famous Mara River to Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya and back to Serengeti. You will have a high opportunity to see them crossing while the crocodiles in the river attack them.

The North Serengeti has also lots of big cats, elephants, giraffes, impalas, hippos and it is another good place to see the endangered black rhino. In the late afternoon, you will continue to Serengeti Mbugani camp (located in the North Serengeti) for dinner and

Dinner and overnight stay at Serengeti Kati Kati tented camp

Morning and afternoon game drive along the Mara River, with early departure. The great migration is supposed to be in this area from late July to mid-October crossing the famous Mara River to Maasai Mara reserve in Kenya and back to Serengeti.

You will have a high opportunity to see them crossing while the crocodiles in the river attack them. The North Serengeti has also lots of big cats, elephants, giraffes, impalas, hippos and it is another good place to see the endangered black rhino. All meals and overnight will be at Mbugani migration camp.

After early breakfast you will drive to the Lobo area for game drive. Lobo is the area in North-East of Serengeti National Park with unique landscape, and you will have a high opportunity to see leopards, cheetahs, big prides of lions, the rare clip-springer antelopes and others. In the late afternoon, you will continue to Central Serengeti.

Dinner and overnight stay at Serengeti Kati Kati tented camp

After breakfast, you will leave the Serengeti and will enjoy a game drive en route to Lake Natron. The scenery here is beautiful, especially the Ngarasero Escarpment, the waterfalls, the gorge, Oldonyo Lengai (a still active volcano) and the flamingos across the lake.

Today we will go on a walk to the waterfalls. During the walk, you will cross the water at different times, at which point you can swim and refresh under the waterfalls.

Dinner and overnight stay at Lake Natron Tented Camp

After breakfast you can go shopping in town or relax at the lodge (time permitting). You will then be transferred to Kilimanjaro for your departure to Kigali International Airport. On arrival, you will be picked up by our guide and taken for overnight stay at the hotel

Dinner and overnight stay at Onomo Hotel Kigali

After breakfast, you will be picked from your hotel by our representative and will be transferred to Bwindi National Park in Uganda by road, the home of mountain gorillas. You will also receive instructions for the trip from our guides. You will relax by the lodge on arrival.

Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Mist lodge

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Park Headquarters in which you will be briefed about gorilla trekking. Bwindi National Park is renowned for its impressive mountain gorillas.

Trekking may last 1 to 4 hours depend on the location of the gorillas. You will be availed with walking sticks by the park rangers. After locating the gorillas, you will be allowed to spend only one hour with them for the purpose of conservation.

The ranger guide will brief you on how to conduct yourself while in the presence of the gorillas. You will return to the lodge for lunch.

Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Mist Lodge

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Lake Bunyonyi. Lake Bunyonyi is the second largest lake in Africa. On arrival, you will have lunch and will enjoy a boat ride around the islands of the lake. You will have lunch and relax by the lakeside after.

Dinner and overnight stay at Lake Bunyonyi Overland Resort

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Kigali Airport for departure.