Our 19 Days Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Safari combines East Africa’s top wildlife destinations and experiences all in one itinerary. Major highlight to out for include; gorilla trekking in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable national park, golden monkey trekking in Volcanoes national park in Rwanda, the famous canopy walkway in Nyungwe forest national park, chimpanzee trekking in Kibale forest national park in Uganda and scenic wildlife experiences in Africa’s Top savannah parks such as Queen Elizabeth national park in Uganda, Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and finally Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. This tour includes an out-bound flight from Uganda’s Entebbe international Airport to Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve.
Highlights for 19 Days Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Safari
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali
Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe NP (Approximately 6 hours’ drive)
Day 3: Waterfall Hike and Canopy Walk
Day 4: Drive to Volcanoes National Park
Day 5: Golden Monkey Trek and Ibyi’wacu Village Tour
Day 6: Visit Karisoke Center and Transfer to Bwindi National Park (Approximately 3-4 hours)
Day 7: Gorilla Trek and Optional Batwa Cultural Experience
Day 8: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park (About 5-6 hours’ drive)
Day 9: Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise
Day 10: Transfer to Kibale National Park
Day 11: Chimpanzee Trek and Optional Bigodi Swamp Walk
Day 12: Transfer to Entebbe
Day 13: Fly to Masai Mara
Day 14: Full Day Game Drive- Mara
Day 15: Visit Masai Bomas and Transfer to Serengeti
Day 16: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti.
Day 17: Drive to Ngorongoro- Optional Evening Game Drive (About 3 hours)
Day 18: Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive
Day 19: Transfer to Arusha and Departure.
Detailed Itinerary for 19 Days Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Safari
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali
Depending on your time of arrival in Kigali, find your driver guide waiting for you upon your arrival at Kigali International Airport. After a brief meet and great session with your driver guide, you will be taken to your hotel and if you have enough time to explore, you will be taken on a short tour of Kigali city where you can visit any of the following places; Kigali Genocide Memorial, Caplaki craft village, Kimironko Market, and Nyamirambo Women’s Centre. Later have dinner and an overnight stay at hotel.
Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe NP (Approximately 6 hours’ drive)
After a morning breakfast, you will transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park. En route, you will pass through wonderful and magnificent hills and cultivated countryside. Have a stopover at the royal King’s Palace in Nyanza for a cultural description about the history of Rwanda and also visit the national museum in Butare. Have lunch enroute to the park.
Upon your arrival in Nyungwe, check into your lodge for dinner and overnight at your designated hotel/lodge.
Day 3: Waterfall Hike and Canopy Walk
Have your breakfast in the morning and drive to the park headquarters at Uwinka where you will be briefed before start your hike to Isumo tropical waterfalls. This hike starts at 9am and takes 4 hours (to and from). After your hike, connect with your driver guide and head back to your lodge for lunch.
After lunch, you will head back to the park for the Canopy Walk. you will embark on a 2 hour’s hike along the famous Canopy walkway bridge where you will get a panoramic view of the park and a chance to view various primate species during your hike. Later return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Drive to Volcanoes National Park
Start your day with breakfast at your lodge. You will then meet your driver guide and embark on about a 7hours drive to Volcanoes national park, passing through the beautiful Rwanda countryside with a stopover for lunch enroute to the park. Arrive in the park in the evening and check into your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5: Golden Monkey Trek and Ibyi’wacu Village Tour
Early in the morning after breakfast and a briefing from the RDB officials, set off for the golden monkey trekking. This experience of golden monkey trekking is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. The rangers will lead you deep into the forest in search of these lovely primates.
You will move up and down the rugged terrain until you finally meet these harmonious creatures whose company you will cherish for 1 hour. The activity in Rwanda can take 3-5 hours depending on the movement of the golden monkeys. Return to your lodge for hot lunch. In the afternoon you will head out for a cultural tour to Ibyi’wacu village for a cultural experience with a resident local guide. Visit the King’s palace and learn more about the Rwandan culture through dance and singing performances from the local intore dance troupe. Return for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 6: Visit Karisoke Center and Transfer to Bwindi National Park (Approximately 3-4 hours)
Wake up to a good breakfast served by your lodge. You will then meet up with your guide and embark on a 3–4-hour drive to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, arriving in the evening. Check into your lodge with dinner and an overnight stay at your lodge.
Day 7: Gorilla Trek and Optional Batwa Cultural Experience
Today after early breakfast, you will be transferred to the park headquarters for a briefing about gorilla tracking. You will encounter one of Bwindi’s endangered mountain gorillas. For most people this is the absolute highlight of their tour in Uganda.
Bwindi Impenetrable national park boasts both mountain gorillas and chimpanzees – the only forest in Africa that can make this claim. It also hosts five other species of primates, 113 species of mammals, over 200 species of butterflies, and 360 species of birds. The gorillas you track are habituated and can tolerate the presence of humans for a brief period of time, every day.
The time taken to track the gorillas can be as few as 2 hours to as many as 7 hours or more depending on the location of the gorillas. Once the gorillas have been located, your group will be allowed a maximum of one hour with them. Coming face-to-face with a mountain gorilla is a truly humbling and emotional experience. This is a fantastic and privileged opportunity to get up close and personal with Uganda’s very own ‘Gorillas in the Mist’.
After your gorilla trek, you will have lunch and then relax your lodge. If you wish, you may choose to do the optional Batwa Cultural Experience where you will visit the indigenous Batwa people and learn more about their interesting culture as you are also entertained to their traditional dance and singing performances. Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge same as the previous night.
Day 8: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park (About 5-6 hours’ drive)
You will have breakfast, and then continue your journey to Queen Elizabeth National park with a visit to the crater lakes and stalagmites site in Fort portal town. You will cross the equator again in Kasese.
Queen Elizabeth National park is Uganda’s second largest park, located at the base of the majestic Rwenzori Mountain range, adjacent to Lake Edward and Lake George. The park has game including Uganda kob, warthog and waterbuck. Lions are often sighted both in and at the entrance to the park. Be ready to see huge numbers of hippos and elephants, and keep your eyes on the lookout for a leopard lazing in the sunshine.
In the late afternoon, you will relax at the lodge with dinner and an overnight stay at your preferred lodge.
Day 9: Morning Game Drive and Afternoon Boat Cruise
Today you wake up early. A little before sunrise coffee, tea and donuts will be served in the lounge before we head out for a long game drive in time to see the first rays of light. You will search for all the wildlife in the park and are likely to come across Elephant, Buffalo, Lion, Waterbuck, Leopard, Uganda Kob, and many Warthogs.
After your early morning game drive, you will take a boat safari along the Kazinga Channel which joins Lake George and Lake Edward.
Here, you will see a lot of hippos (more than you can possibly imagine!), as well as a variety of other animals which come to the waterhole to drink or bathe. You can expect to see buffalo, crocodile, bathing elephant, and a range of beautiful birds. This will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of your tour.
After the boat-safari, you will have lunch and transfer to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay same as previous night.
Day 10: Transfer to Kibale National Park
Today you will begin your journey to Kibale Forest N.P. The long drive is incredibly scenic, passing through tea plantations and the lush green countryside which characterizes so much of Uganda.
Kibale Forest National Park is located in west-central Uganda just east of the Rwenzori Mountains, near the town of Fort Portal. The 766 Km² Park predominantly covers evergreen rain forest and ranges between 1100 and 1600m in elevation. Kibale Forest is one of the last remaining expanses to contain both lowland and montane forests and forms a continuous forest with Queen Elizabeth National Park.
You will have packed lunch en route, arriving in the evening for overnight and dinner
Day 11: Chimpanzee Trek and Optional Bigodi Swamp Walk
Have breakfast and report to the park headquarters for briefing after which you embark on the Chimpanzee trek. You will enter the forest early and watch chimps leaving their overnight nests between 6:00 – 6:30 am before feeding, copulating, hunting, breastfeeding, and resting. Return for lunch at your lodge and spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure or you can do an optional Bigodi Swamp Walk where you stand a chance of seeing the prehistoric Shoebill stork. Later have dinner and overnight as above.
Day 12: Transfer to Entebbe
After breakfast at your lodge, you will drive to Entebbe with a stopover for lunch and also visit the equator monuments in Kayabwe. Upon your arrival in Entebbe, you will check-in at your hotel have dinner and overnight stay.
Day 13: Fly to Masai Mara
Have breakfast; connect to Entebbe airport for your onward flight to Masai Mara. Aero-link Uganda operates daily flights from Entebbe to Masai Mara. Flight to Masai Mara departs Entebbe airport at 1145hrs and arrives in Masai Mara at 1430 hrs. Upon arrival at one of the allocated airstrips in Masai Mara, you will be met by your Kenya safari guide to drive you to your booked lodge for late lunch.
Later evening connects for an evening game drive which is a rewarding game viewing experience on which you will spot predators such as lions, leopards, cheetahs as they try to hunt in the dark times of the night with a help of a spotlight. In the evening you will head back to your lodge, check-in and stay overnight at transfer to your reserved lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay.
Day 14: Full Day Game Drive- Mara
Wake up in the morning at enjoy your bush breakfast with spectacular views of the vast savannah plains in the park and possible sights of wildlife roaming freely in the park. meet your safari driver to head to the plains of Maasai Mara for a full day adventure in this stunning savannah vegetation of Masai Mara as you watch many animals in large numbers such as lions, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, wildebeests, zebras and many more. You will enjoy your picnic lunch and proceed for a game drive till the sun goes down. In the evening you will head back to your lodge, have dinner and stay overnight at lodge as above.
Day 15: Visit Masai Bomas and Transfer to Serengeti
Have breakfast at your lodge before heading out to visit the Masai Bomas where you will get an opportunity to interact with the local Maasai people, visit their homesteads and get to watch their traditional dance performances (feel free to join in whenever you like).
You will then embark on your journey from Masai Mara to the Isebania border taking approximately 3-4 hours with lunch en route. You will check in with the immigration office at the Isebania border where you will be crossing the border into Tanzania. This day will take you to other side of Masai Mara as you exit the park via Oloololo gate in Mara west.
Meet your Tanzanian driver guide and embark on approximately a 2 hours drive from the Isebania border to Serengeti national park where you will enter the park with the game drive lasting up to 2 hours as you enjoy the plains of Serengeti. The Serengeti allows you see the big five game in plenty. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Day 16: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti.
Have early breakfast, get parked lunch, and go for a full day game drive we start from far North around the Mara river in case you came in the opposite month when the migration will start from Serengeti after missing it from Mara Kenya side now this will be your turn to enjoy the best. Spend the whole day looking for these animals like Hippos, Elephants, Buffalos, Giraffes, Lions, Hyenas, Cheetahs, Antelopes, Hartebeest, and zebras mention but a few. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at the lodge above
Day 17: Drive to Ngorongoro- Optional Evening Game Drive (About 3 hours)
Have your breakfast at leisure and then meet up with your driver guide. You will then embark on a 3hours drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will arrive in time for lunch at your lodge. After you have had lunch and rested enough, you will head out for an optional evening game drive where you will get a chance to view wildlife as they retire back to their dens including elephants, buffaloes, wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, hartebeests and so many more. Later return back to your lodge for dinner under the open-lit skies and an overnight stay.
Day 18: Ngorongoro Crater Game Drive
After breakfast, drive back to the park with your parked lunch for a morning drive down into the crater 600m down crater. It’s much famous as one of the biggest volcanic calderas in the world; it occupies over 1 million animals with all the big 5 including the rare black rhino present. Other animals include Lions, leopards, cheetahs, Elephants, Buffalos, Giraffes, zebras and others.
Later afternoon/evening, drive back to your lodge for relaxation, dinner and overnight stay at lodge as above.
Day 19: Transfer to Arusha and Departure.
After having a relaxed breakfast meal, you will meet up with your driver guide and drive back to Arusha with lunch enroute. Upon your arrival in Arusha, your driver guide will drop you off at a hotel of your choice in Arusha town or at the airport depending on the time of your return flight.
End of 19 Days Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania Safari
