East African Safari

15-Day East African Safari

$18000-20000 USD

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Safari summary

This trip package will give you access to four countries i.e Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania (Zanzibar). You will start your trip from Zanzibar Where you will enjoy the beaches and tour the stone city. You enjoy it for two days and after fly to Kigali Rwanda. You will enjoy the cultural sites, Akegera NP plus the genocide memorial. You will later cross to Uganda where you do gorilla trekking, Queen Elizabeth NP, Murchison falls NP, River Nile and Busoga cultural tours & Kenya tours.


About this tour

Tour type Custom, tailor-made, private
Main focus Primate trekking
Activity level Moderate activity
Best months All months
Countries
Parks

Fine details

Safari highlights
  • Beaches
  • Cultural visits—orphanages, markets, schools
  • Primate trekking
What’s included?
  • Accommodation
  • Airport transfers
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • All drinks
  • Internal flights
  • Laundry
  • Meals
  • Park fees
  • Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
  • Hot air balloons
  • International flights
  • Laundry
  • Premium alcoholic beverages
  • Spa treatments
  • Tips and gratuities
  • Visas

Itinerary

Arrive Zanzibar airport

Arrive Zanzibar airport/ harbour transfer to Stone Town Hotel for check-inn, have the Stone Town City Tour takes around the historical culture and architectural important town of Zanzibar with a century history. It includes a visit to former slave market site, now stands as Anglican church built in 1871, town market, visit the Zanzibar Memorial Museum, House of Wonder built in 1883 (Beit-Al-Ajab),Old Indian dispensary (cultural center) to Maruhubi Palace ruins via Living Stone House.

The African House Hotel

Morning Zanzibar tours & departur

Morning at 8:30am trip to Spice Tour on this tour you will see and taste the tropical fruits, spices plantation. A variety of spices plants used as ornament, medicines, flowers, fruits and another interesting flora can be seen during spice tour and visit to Kidichi bath built in 1850 by the first Sultan for his wife Sheharzad and then transfer to harbour/ airport for Your flight to Kigali Rwanda. Arriving by evening and picked up by our team and taken to the hotel for your relaxation.

2000 Hotel

Kigali Genocide Tour

Have your breakfast at leisure while waiting for your covid-19 results, Once the results are out Negative, you’re clear to resume your tour. Your driver-guide will pick you up from the hotel & Later after this amazing activity, you will be transferred for lunch at the historical Hotel Des Mille Collines common known as Hotel Rwanda because of the Hollywood Film. After having lunch, you will be transferred for another activity which is Kigali Genocide Memorial and Museum.

2000 Hotel

Safari in Akagera National Park

Akagera

Today after your break fast you will be head to Akagera National Park. With a detailed briefing of the day. Leaving Kigali at 6:00am, you will make your way through beautiful and scenic villages and countryside as you take the 3 hours transfer to Rwanda’s very own Big 5 Safari Park, Akagera NP. After your lunch, you will head to Gatuna Boarder where you will be cleared to cross over to Uganda. You will head to Bwindi impenetrable Forest national park and check in your hotel for your relaxation.

Siverback Safari Lodge

Full day Gorilla trekking

Bwindi Impenetrable

After breakfast, you take a short flight to the Park Headquarters and meet with excellent local guides and trackers who will give a talk on the etiquette of gorilla trekking. We then hike into the forest where the gorillas were seen the night before and track from that point. The trekking can take from 1 to 6 hours and climb to altitudes in excess of 7,500 feet. The terrain is rough and at times muddy. You will after move back to your hotel for relaxation and overnight.

Silverback Safari Lodge

Transfer to Queen Elizabeth

Queen Elizabeth

Depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park. On route, take a short walk in the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains and take in the views of this magnificent mountain range. Alternatively drive straight to the park and take a game drive. What you see depends on the season, but the Kasenyi plains are excellent for sighting lion and large herds of Uganda kob. The Mweya peninsula offers excellent game drives with magnificent views across the water to the Rwenzori Mountains.

Tembo Safari lodge

Transfer to Murchison falls

Murchison Falls

You will wake up early to take breakfast ready for a long eventful day. The guide will take you for an early morning game drive at the Kasenyi plains with the purpose of catching up with nocturnal animals retreating to their dens after a busy night of hunting. The morning is also the best time to spot the early risers like birds and other mammals. After the game drive, drive back for lunch, rest and then set off at 10:00 am for Murchison falls national park.

Pakuba Safari Lodge

Murchison Falls Game Drives

Morning game drive via the Nyamsika plateau, enjoy the view and you may see some of the big five like (elephants, lions, buffaloes and giraffes), warthogs, bush backs, water bucks, heart-beasts and many more. Return to lodge for refreshment, breakfast and lunch, then after prepare for a boat trip on placid Victoria Nile, upstream, to the base of the falls. This will take like 3hrs and after return to Lodge for dinner and overnight.

Pakuba Safari Lodge

Game Drives, lunch cruise and falls

Murchison Falls

Be up for early breakfast at about 6.00am. The driver picks you up and along with a game ranger set out for the game drive by 7.00am. River Nile divides the park into the southern and northern sections. The northern side. Has a higher concentration of game than the southern part. You explore the major game trails especially around Paraa and expect great wildlife sightings including giraffes, lions, elephants, spotted hyenas, warthogs, Uganda kobs among others. At about 11am you return

Pakuba Safari Lodge

Transfer to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

Murchison Falls

On a Rhino trek, expect to spot not only the white rhinos but also antelopes, birds and a lot more. You will enjoy one hour of face to face with rhinos, capture their pictures, learn their behavior's and return from your foot walk experience. After, your Uganda safari guide will drive you to Kampala for your relaxation.

Hotel Africana

Travel to the source of River Nile

The Nile starts its journey to Egypt from Lake Victoria in Jinja town – eastern Uganda. When you drive out to the source of the Nile, your first encounter are the beautiful gardens in the vicinity. Next is the several craft shops with mostly African pieces sourced from all over the country. You can then visit and photograph severale sites For example, Mahatma Gandhi requested that some of his ashes be sprinkled in the Nile after cremation along many other rivers in the world.

Brisk Hotel Triangle

Tour to Busowoko water falls

Busowoko Falls is one of the last waterfalls remaining on the upper Victoria Nile. The others have disappeared under its backed-up waters. Busowoko Falls is located downstream on River Nile, some 19kms from Jinja City in Bususwa/Bukongo village just after Namavundu Forest.

Brisk Hotel Triangle

Transfer to Entebbe airport

Busoga is a traditional Bantu kingdom in present-day Uganda. It is a cultural institution that promotes popular participation and unity among the people of Busoga, through cultural and developmental programs for the improved livelihood of the people of Busoga. Coffee tours and tasting. Travel back to Entebbe international airport After your activities you will be picked up by our safari guide and be driven back to the airport for your flight to Kenya.

ibis Styles Nairobi Westlands

Nairobi National Park tour

Nairobi National Park wildlife Safari, you will be welcomed into Kenya by our experienced safari driver/guide who will meet and greet you then introduce himself and brief you about your 5 days excursion in Kenya as you enjoy a drive to your reserved hotel in Nairobi. While at the hotel, you will check-in, have, and if time allows relax abit and later on head out for a transfer to Nairobi National Park.

ibis Styles Nairobi Westlands

Transfer to Nairobi city

You will wake up early at 6:00AM, go for morning game drive where you will be able to spot nocturnal animals before they return to their hide out plus other wild animals coming out to hunt or look for food. Back to the lodge /camp for breakfast. After, you will check out from the lodge and embark on your journey back to Nairobi, to be dropped off at your hotel or at Jomo Kenyatta Airport to catch out your flight.

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