11-Day Uganda Tanzania Safari
Wild Dreams Come True on this 11-day Uganda Tanzania Safari. Interact with the indigenous Batwa people and learn about their ancient way of life. on this adventure, get to enter the world of the renowned mountain Gorillas in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and have a day of Gorilla Tracking, observing these marvelous mammals. Take a look at the baobab wonders and witness a spectacle of elephants in Tanzania’s Tarangire National Park. Later, reach the plains of Serengeti and marvel at the Great Wildebeest and Zebra Migration
Trip Highlights
- Wildlife viewing at Ngorongoro
- Experience mountain gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Witness the great wildebeest migration
- Big 5 viewing in Ngorongoro and Serengeti
- Cultural encounter with the Batwa
- photography opportunities
- comfortable accommodations
- private guide throughout the trip
- View large herds of elephants at the Tarangire
- Visit the Uganda Equator
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Entebbe, Uganda
Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, our company representative will be waiting for you in the arrivals hall with your name displayed on a signboard. After loading your luggage into the vehicle, you’ll be taken on a short drive to your comfortable hotel in Entebbe, preferably Imperial Heights Hotel, Entebbe is a small, quiet town on the shores of Lake Victoria, the world’s largest tropical lake. The town is located in central Uganda, about 40km from the capital Kampala
After checking into your room and taking some time to refresh, you may choose to visit the beautiful Entebbe Botanical Gardens for a leisurely walk. You can also opt to tour the local markets and craft shops to buy souvenirs.
Accommodation options: Imperial Heights Hotel
Day 2: Transfer To Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
After a good night’s sleep, you’ll be driven back to Entebbe Airport for your scheduled domestic flight to Kihihi Airstrip. The flight duration is just over an hour, depending on the aircraft type and route taken. Upon arrival, our representative will escort you on a short drive to your lodge on the edge of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The drive takes about an hour and a half and offers a chance to see extensive, dense jungle and remote rural communities of Uganda. Once there, you can relax and enjoy a delicious lunch. In the afternoon, a local guide will take you to visit one of Bwindi’s Batwa pygmy villages.
The Batwa used to live a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle inside Bwindi Impenetrable Forest until the national park was established, leaving them with a small area to live in. Now they reside near the park and earn income by welcoming visitors and demonstrating their fascinating ancient way of life. Visiting provides a great opportunity to learn about them and support the community.
Day 3: Mountain Gorilla Trekking
Day three of your 11-day Uganda Tanzania Safari will kick off with a hearty breakfast at around 6.30 am. Then it’s off to Bwindi National Park offices for a briefing before setting off on your gorilla trek. At about 8 am, you will enter the “Impenetrable Forest” to track one of the 21 habituated gorilla families that call Bwindi home.
Once you locate a family, you’ll be given one hour to watch these incredible creatures as they interact with one another and their environment.
On your return to the lodge, you will enjoy a good lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure as you reflect on the day’s soul-stirring encounters with the gentle giants.
Day 4: Transfer To Entebbe
On Day 4 of your 11-day Uganda Tanzania Safari, you wake up to the peaceful sounds of nature and enjoy breakfast. Then you will leave the lush Afro-montane rain forest behind and embark on a long but rewarding drive back to Entebbe.
Pass the rolling hills with terraces and quiet rural villages of Uganda as you reflect on a newfound marvel of Uganda’s precious wildlife inhabitants and welcoming local people. Have a lunch break at Igongo Cultural Centre in Mbarara Town and another at Kayabwe Equator Monument.
Day 5: Transfer To Tanzania
After a leisurely breakfast at your hotel in Entebbe, you’ll take your flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport in northern Tanzania. The airport is not called the Gateway to Africa’s Wildlife Heritage for nothing; you are close to some of the planet’s best-known wildlife reserves.
You’ll be met by our company representative who will transfer you to your comfortable hotel in Arusha city, less than an hour away to the west.
Arusha is Tanzania’s safari capital, situated on the southern slopes of Mount Meru, close to Mount Kilimanjaro. Built by the Germans as a center of colonial administration because of the temperate climate, Arusha is a good spot to take a day off from your safari if you have extra time.
You’ll have dinner at the hotel tonight and also learn a bit about where you are; fantastic Tanzania! It is a world-class safari destination, boasting some of the best wildlife reserves on earth as well as the incredible cultural richness and some very cool geographical features
Accommodation options
Arusha Coffee Lodge (luxury)
outpost lodge(mid range)
Day 6: Arusha To Tarangire
Your day six of the 11-day Uganda Tanzania Safari will start with a delightful breakfast at the hotel, where we will later pack our bags and leave Arusha. Then, we’ll drive about 3 hours southwest to Tarangire National Park. You’ll enjoy some beautiful scenery along the way.
You’ll arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. After lunch, you’ll have some time to rest before heading into the park for a four-wheel drive (4×4) game drive. Learn more about this amazing park as you drive along searching for wildlife.
Tarangire is a peaceful, less-visited park off the usual safari route. The park is famous for its mid-year dry season game viewing when thousands of animals gather at the life-giving Tarangire River, including some of the largest herds of elephants in Tanzania. The open Savannah grassland of this 2850 km2 park features the unique upside-down acacia trees, among the largest trees in Africa. The elephant herds, which can include up to 600 animals, attract many predators.
Accommodation options:
Day 7: Transfer To Serengeti
Start your day with an early breakfast and then embark on a scenic drive of about 6 hours north. Travel through rural Masai villages and Ngorongoro Conservation Area, skirting the mighty volcanic Ngorongoro Crater and into the famous Serengeti Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Serengeti National Park, together with Maasai Mara National Park, is Africa’s most famous wildlife safari park.
Visit the Maasai warriors and get to know their ways of life while you enjoy a packed lunch along your drive in the park.
You’ll reach your camp or lodge in the central Serengeti in the afternoon and spend three unforgettable nights here. The picture-perfect landscape of central Serengeti features endless stretches of Savannah-covered open plains, broken up by rocky granite outcrops, scattered acacia woodlands, and a network of streams and rivers.
Central Serengeti is part of the Great Wildebeest Migration, an iconic and dramatic scene in wildlife documentaries for decades, and a must-see experience on any Africa safari bucket list. This area also includes the amazing Seronera Valley, known as one of the best places in Africa to see lions, leopards, cheetahs, and hyenas on exciting hunts. After settling into the lodge, you’ll go on your first official game drive in the Serengeti.
You’ll learn more about this legendary park as you drive and search for some of the incredible wildlife and plants that inhabit the area. One of Africa’s seven natural wonders, the Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest and most scientifically important ecosystems on Earth. Its weather patterns, animals, and plants have changed very little for nearly a million years or more, giving the region an incredible prehistoric feel.
Day 8-9: Full Day Game Drive In Serengeti
This morning on the 8th Day of the 11-Day safari of Uganda Tanzania, you will enjoy an early breakfast and then set off on a morning game drive. You’ll return to your lodge for lunch and maybe a siesta in the heat of the day.
Then you will go out again in search of more animals and birds on an afternoon game drive. The Endless Plains of the Serengeti span almost 1.5 million hectares and are home to over 3 million beautiful wild animals.
These high numbers of animals are due to the diverse habitats, including riverine swamps, forests, kopjes, grasslands, and woodlands.
Packs of painted wolves, prides of African Lions, Cheetahs, Leopards, and Hyenas are often seen tailing the herds of the Blue Wildebeest, Plains Zebra, Topis, and Gazelles.
Serengeti is also home to a diversity of grazers, including African Buffalo, African Elephant, Warthog, Eland, and Water buck. With so much on the go, it is not hard to see the full spectrum of classic African wildlife on even one game drive.
On the 9th day of the 11 Days Uganda Tanzania safari, enjoy an early morning breakfast and lunch at the camp. With morning and afternoon rides inclusive, and later visit the Masai people to interact with them, and learn about their way of life. The name Serengeti,” siringet,” which means endless plains, where the African Savannah grassland dotted with flat-topped Acacia trees gives Serengeti that classic out of Africa feeling.
Day 10:Transfer To Ngorongoro Crater
After a relaxing breakfast, you enjoy one last game drive in Serengeti, as you transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, another World Heritage Site. Ngorongoro Conservation Area is in northern Tanzania. It’s home to the vast, volcanic Ngorongoro Crater and Big 5 game (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino). Huge herds of wildebeests and zebras traverse its plains during their annual migration.
En route, you’ll visit the Olduvai Gorge Museum located near the site where archaeologists Louis and Mary Leakey discovered the remains of Homo habilis, one of the earliest members of the human genus in the 1960s.
After exploring the area, you’ll have your lunch and continue to Ngorongoro. On the way, you’ll learn some cool facts about this incredible natural geological wonderland.
The name Ngorongoro comes from the Maasai; the Maasai pastoralists named the area after the sound produced by the cowbell (Ngoro Ngoro).
The main feature of this 8,500 km2 conservation area is the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest unbroken volcanic caldera on Earth. It was formed about 2 million years ago when a giant volcano, almost the size of Mount Kilimanjaro, exploded dramatically and collapsed on itself.
The caldera is surrounded by incredibly steep walls 600 m above the floor of the volcano. It’s breathtakingly beautiful and a must-visit place on any safari in East Africa.
It is also listed as one of Africa’s Seven Natural Wonders, along with the Red Sea, Mount Kilimanjaro, Sahara Desert, Wildebeest Migration, Nile River, and Okavango Delta, which makes it a must-visit on any traveler’s bucket list
Accommodation options:
Ngorongoro Serena lodge(luxury),
Day 11: Drive Around the Crater & Transfer Back To Arusha
After an early breakfast, you will descend the crater and have an extensive game drive inside, enjoying a picnic lunch on the 260 km2 crater floor. Later, view the wildlife mixed in the presence of humans and vehicles. The view of the walls of the crater gives an amazing pictorial moment and lasting memories. at the end of the day. We shall drive back to Arusha for departure