Rwanda Gorillas Meet Tanzania Safari, 11 Days

This opens the trip, and as you land at about 7:30 pm, our driver-guide will meet and welcome you. You are then driven to Hotel Okapi for dinner and overnight. Meals: half board (H/B)

Wake up in the morning and enjoy a relaxed breakfast. Then take a city tour of sites of interest such as the Genocide memorial, parliament, the Science university, and the local markets. Pause for lunch and some refreshments. After that, drive for 2 hours to volcanoes national park, arriving in the evening and checking in for dinner and overnight at mountain gorilla view lodge.

Meals: full board (F/B)

You wake up very early and have breakfast. Next you go to the park headquarters for a briefing on the dos and donts of being around these primates, and to be assigned a gorilla family to trek. After that you enter the forest for the actual gorilla trekking. Finding the primates takes between 2-6 hours, depending on how they move. Once you find them, you are given one hour to spend with them and take pictures. You then return to your hotel, filled with
the experience, for relaxation, dinner, and overnight.

Wake up very early in the morning and have breakfast. Climb into your safari jeep and drive for 7-9 hours through the southern part of the country, with lunch en route. You arrive late in the evening and check in for dinner and overnight at Nyungwe hilltop view hotel.

Meals: full board (F/B)

Wake up early and eat breakfast, then drive for 1 hour to Kyamudongo forest, the actual chimpanzee tracking spot. You enter the forest and begin the chimpanzee tracking itself. Afterward you go back to your hotel for lunch and some refreshments. In the afternoon, a nature walk lasts until late evening, when you return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.

This is the last day of the Rwanda safari. Have an early breakfast, then start the drive back to Kigali with lunch en route. You arrive late in the evening, and as your flight is on this date
you are dropped at the airport, which marks the end of this trip.

: Transfer From Kilimanjaro Airport To Arusha
Travel time:  1.27 hours
Distance:  51.8 km

A representative picks you up at the airport on arrival and transfers you to the booked hotel. You receive a short safari briefing for the next day. Dinner and overnight are at the hotel Arusha Tourist Inn or Arusha Planet Lodge lodge link: https://planet-lodges.com/arusha_planet_lodge/

Meal plan: half board (HB).

For budget lodging, you stay at Arusha Tourist Inn

: Drive From Arusha To Tarangire National Park
Non game-viewing travel time:  2.50 hours
Distance:  152.7 km

Set off early in the morning for Tarangire, famous for its many baobab trees and large herds of elephants. Take a game drive in the park, looking for big cats, giraffes, bufallos, zebras, antelopes, and other animals. Stop for lunch, then continue with an afternoon game drive across the Tarangire river, watching for many bird species. Overnight at Twiga Campsite or Farm Od dream Lodge

Eileen's Tree Lodge link: https://www.eileenstrees.com/ Meal plan: half board (HB)

For budget lodging, you stay at Lilac Camping

:  Transfer From Tarangire To Serengeti National Park
Non-game-viewing travel time:  6.47 hours
Distance:  345.8 km

Following breakfast, begin the journey to the famous Serengeti with a packed lunch. Arrive in the afternoon and take a game drive on the plains in search of The Big Five, hippos, elands, zebras and many birds. Later in the evening, drive back to the lodge, Mbugani Tented lodge or Seronera campsite.

  Mbugani Tented camp link: http://mbuganicamps.com/

Meal plan: full board (FB)

For budget accommodation, you stay at: Seronera Public Camping

:  Serengeti national park
Non-game-viewing travel time:  1.56  hours
Distance:  113 km

Following breakfast, drive to Moru Kopjes in central Serengeti. Here you see huge, weathered rock formations rising like small mountains. They offer shade, small water pools, and a fine vantage point for many animals, including lions, leopards, and cheetahs. It is also the best place to spot a black rhino. Stop for lunch on the plains, then drive toward NCA, arriving in the late evening. Mbugani Tented lodge or Seronera campsite.

  Mbugani Tented camp link: http://mbuganicamps.com/

Meal plan: full board (FB)

For budget accommodation, you stay at: Arusha Tourist Inn

: Ngorongoro Crater safari - Arusha
Non-game-viewing travel time:  4.08 hours
Distance:  192.9 km

Breakfast is followed by the descent into the Ngorongoro Caldera, one of the world’s natural wonders. On the caldera floor you take a game drive in search of The Big Five, elands, zebras, Oryx, hyenas, jackals and thousands of flamingos. Then you drive up out of the crater for lunch and carry on to Arusha. Dinner and overnight at Arusha Planet Lodge lodge link: https://planet-lodges.com/arusha_planet_lodge/

Meal plan HB.

For budget lodging, you stay at Arusha Tourist Inn
Optional extras
Balloon safari: $599 per person

Masai village visit: $100 for a group

Olduvai Gorge: $47 per person

2hrs walking in Lake Manyara park : $36 person including ranger fee

A tip of $20 per day per group for your guide is recommended