12 Tanzania Classic Tour and Uganda Gorilla Trekking

Day 1: Moshi to Lake Manyara

After breakfast, you are met by our tour guide/driver, who will deliver a short safari briefing. You will be driving to Lake Manyara National Park for a game drive with our picnic lunch. Upon your arrival at Manyara, you will be welcomed by the Great Rift Valley Escarpment view and fun makers’ baboon at the entrance of Manyara in large groups.

The town is a souvenir hunter's paradise, harboring thousands of souvenir salesmen – ready to pounce at your slightest invitation. The Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located African wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park) at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment.

We will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, in search of the wildlife and birdlife that Manyara hosts along with a view of the famous hot spring known as “Maji Moto”.

Meal plan; Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Karatu Simba Lodge

Day 2: Lake Manyara to Serengeti

After breakfast, we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa - the Serengeti National Park - with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti's species. We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Serengeti Wildebeest Camps

Day 3: Explore Serengeti

If you start first thing in the morning, you are likely to find the Serengeti at its most active. With the sun rising at around 6.00 am, this means an early start to your day. The reward is likely to be the sight of predators who avoid the heat: additional attractions include subtle light on the landscape and the joyous sounds of awakening birds, you return for a hearty breakfast at the camp after 9.00 am.

At around 4.30 pm, we like to explore our own Conservancy, as the cooling temperature brings out the predators. Lion-kills are often fought over by packs of hyenas, jackals, and other scavengers. Yet these life and death scenes are juxtaposed with the impossible beauties of the African sunset, as nature’s ever-changing palette streaks the sky with orange, red, and gold.

Anticipating sunset, your guide will have stopped to prepare sundowners, with a wide choice of drinks. Clasp your favorite, ease back in your chair, and watch light shift to dark, heat gives way to the chill.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Serengeti Wildebeest Camps

Day 4: Explore Serengeti

If you start first thing in the morning, you will find the Serengeti at its most active. This is when Africa can reveal its cool side, so you should wrap up warm, we aim to be on the road before the sun rises at around 6.00 am. Our pop-up 4 by 4 bring you as close as possible to the wildlife, just when the action is likely to be most exciting. Few predators hunt during the heat of the day, so the early morning is the best time to observe the thrill of the chase. It is also a magical time, with the subtle light dappling the landscape.

Heading into the bush for an evening game drive has a level of excitement and character all its own, as predators begin their nightly search for prey. As the day cools and the sky is streaked by red, gold, and orange hues, you may be surprised by the roar of a lion, a galloping giraffe, or the high-pitched giggling of hyenas fighting over a kill. At a suitable vantage point, your guide will pause, allowing you to enjoy a sundowner in blissful comfort.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Serengeti Wildebeest Camps

Day 5: Serengeti to Ngorongoro

After morning breakfast, you will check out of your lodge and depart Serengeti national park heading to Ngorongoro crater, It is a heavenly paradise and the world’s largest intact inactive volcanic caldera. Once descend down to the Ngorongoro Crater, one of the wonders of the natural world. An extinct volcano collapsed around 25 million years ago thus forming a vast super bowl where the largest permanent concentration of African game is on display. The views from the top of the crater wall are absolutely breathtaking which are forested but four-wheel-drive vehicles will take you down into this primeval paradise of woodland, lake, river, swamp, and plain that shelters around 20,000 animals. Large grazing animals such as wildebeest, buffalo, gazelle, and zebra depend on the open grasslands in the crater. Attracting predators, the black-maned lion, the leopard,

The Fever Tree forests shelter monkeys and the few black rhinos that have taken refuge here.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Bougainvillea Safari Lodge

Day 6: Ngorongoro to Tarangire

After breakfast, you are met by our tour guide/driver, who will deliver a short safari briefing. After the briefing, you will be transferred to Tarangire National Park with your picnic lunch. Tarangire derived its name from the Tarangire River which crosses along the center of the park and which provides permanent water for the wildlife and birdlife of the park around the year. It is here where a large group of different species of animal concentrate during the dry season and is the best place to take many pictures.

Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Also, it is in Tarangire by chance you can see the tree climbing African pythons.

We will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, along the Tarangire River.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Sangaiwe Tented Lodge

Day 7: Tarangire to Moshi

After breakfast walking Safari at the park's boundary with your packed lunch, you will then drive back to Arusha as you are doing a game drive to the Tarangire National Park and exit. You will reach Arusha late afternoon for preparation to be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight to Kigali.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Kilimanjaro Wonders Hotel

Day 8: Moshi to Kigali

Transfer to JKIA to connect flight from Moshi to Kigali, after arriving in Kigali, you can visit, The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there. There is a visitor center for students and those wishing to understand the events leading up to the events of 1994. Kandt House Museum of Natural History is a museum in Kigali, Rwanda. It is under the responsibility of the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda. Dedicated to |de}}, in his former home of German resident Richard Kandt on the Nyarugenge Hill in Kigali city, The Nyamata Genocide Memorial is based around a former church 30km south of Kigali in Rwanda, which commemorates the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The remains of 50,000 people are buried here.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Park Inn by Radisson Kigali

Day 9: Kigali to Bwindi

A guide will meet you at the hotel and brief you about your tour. Before your journey to Uganda, you will have an opportunity to tour the city of Kigali and important sites like the genocide war memorial centers. After touring the city, you will embark on a 4-hour drive to Bwindi through the Katuna (Uganda – Rwanda border). After Katuna you will head to Ruhija in Bwindi. This journey will give you an opportunity to see the beautiful countryside and landscapes in Rwanda and Uganda. Rwanda has eye-catching rolling hills and plantations while Uganda has dense green forest around the Bwindi area. Dinner and overnight at your hotel.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Buhoma Lodge

Day 10: Trackking in Bwindi

You will wake up very early to take breakfast. Our guide will pick you up and take you to the park offices where you will be briefed and given information regarding tracking gorillas in Bwindi. 2 Day Gorilla Tour in Bwindi Impenetrable National park you will be assigned a gorilla group and given an opportunity to hire a porter at a cost of 10USD. Your lodge should arrange for you to pack lunch and drink water. Gorilla trekking takes anywhere from 30 minutes to 6 hours depending on the location of your assigned gorilla family that particular day. Once you spot the gorillas, take as many photos as you can and try to follow instructions from the wardens/guides. After completing the trek, come back to your hotel.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation; Kigali Marriott Hotel

Day 11: Kigali

This being the climax of the trip and depending on your next destination departure time you will discuss with your driver-guide the best time to start for the airport. After breakfast, you will check out for the Airport, which ends our safari services. The departure dates for all our safaris and tours are totally flexible according to your own personal needs. Please contact us for further and more detailed info.

Meal plan; Breakfast, Lunch