8 Days Tanzania and Uganda Safari

OVERVIEW

This combined safari takes you a tour to Tanzania and Uganda’s amazing safari destinations for a memorable wildlife adventure, on the 7 nights and 8 nights you are to visit Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation Area which are the iconic wildlife destinations in Tanzania offering the best game viewing experiences. 

In Uganda, this tour takes you on a visit to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park – the best gorilla trekking destination in the world for an encounter with mountain gorillas, the gentle giants living in the forests of Bwindi. 

This safari starts from Arusha City of Tanzania and ends in Kampala city of Uganda. 

HIGHLIGHTS OF 8 DAYS TANZANIA AND UGANDA SAFARI 

• Day 1: Arrival in Tanzania – Arusha
• Day 2: Transfer to Serengeti national park – evening game drive
• Day 3: Full day Serengeti national park
• Day 4: Explore Ngorongoro Crater
• Day 5: Transfer to Arusha – Fly to Entebbe (Uganda)
• Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park
• Day 7: Gorilla trekking experience
• Day 8: Transfer back to Entebbe and Departure

DETAILED ITINERARY OF 8 DAYS TANZANIA AND UGANDA SAFARI 

Day 1: Arrival in Tanzania – Arusha

Upon arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, meet your safari driver guide – a representative of Jewel safaris for pickup and transfer to your booked hotel in Arusha. Depending on your arrival time, you can do an optional city tour for a museum and coffee tour.

Have dinner and overnight at your hotel 

Accommodation: Tulia Boutique Hotel 

Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner 

Day 2: Transfer to Serengeti national park – evening game drive

After breakfast at your hotel, meet your safari guide and head to Serengeti National Park with your packed lunch. From Arusha it is a drive of 7-8 hours’ drive through Karatu and Ngororongoro Conservation Area with stopovers for sightseeing at Lake Manyara View Point and Ngorongoro Crater View and visit to the Olduvai Gorge. 

Arrive in the park in late afternoon, have lunch at a picnic site and go for en-route game drive as you head to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay. 

Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Lodge 

Meal Plan – breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 

Day 3: Full day Serengeti national park

Have early breakfast and head to the park for a full day game drive with your packed lunch, the game drive starts from far North around the Mara River that is if you visit in the month of the Great Migration which starts from Serengeti National Park heading to Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. 

Spend the whole day looking for the large herds of wildebeests, zebras and gazelles filling the savannah plains of the Serengeti. During the full day game drive, lookout for animals such as hippos, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, Antelopes, Hartebeests, Zebras among others. Return to lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Accommodation: Serengeti Heritage Lodge 

Meal Plan – breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 4: Explore Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, checkout of your lodge and head to Ngorongoro Conservation Area with your packed lunch. From Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater, it is a drive of about 4 hours. Upon arrival, you will descend 600 meters down into the Ngorongoro Crater to explore the crater floor which is 600 m down to crater. 

Ngorongoro Crater hosts over 1 million animals with all the big five including the rare black rhinos, lions, leopards, cape buffaloes and elephants, giraffes, wildebeests, zebras, cheetahs, elands among others. 

You will have picnic lunch in the crater and continue exploring, later ascend from the crater and connect to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay. 

Accommodation: Karatu Tented Lodge 

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner  

Day 5: Transfer to Arusha – Fly to Entebbe (Uganda)

After breakfast, checkout of the lodge and embark on a drive of 3-4 hours to Arusha City to catch your next flight to Uganda. 

Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will meet our driver and head to your booked hotel in Entebbe. Check-in for dinner and overnight stay at your hotel. 

Accommodation: Best Western Garden Hotel

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner 

Day 6: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable national park

After breakfast, meet your driver and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwestern Uganda. From Kampala to Bwindi, it is a drive of approximately 540 kilometers – 9 hours of drive by road. Along the way, you will have a stopover at the equator for photography and the experiment and have another stopover in Mbarara for lunch. 

Proceed to Bwindi arrive in the evening, check in at your lodge for dinner and overnight stay. 

Accommodation: Buhoma Haven Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner  

Day 7: Gorilla trekking experience

Have early morning breakfast and transfer to the park’s headquarters for briefing about gorilla trekking with your packed lunch, the briefing is conducted by a senior ranger guide who takes you through rules and regulations to follow during the trek and while in the forests of Bwindi. 

In groups of 8 people, you will be assigned a gorilla family to trek and later head into the forest of your trek looking for mountain gorillas. The trek takes about 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas, the gorillas freely roam through the forests of Bwindi and the only way you tell them where they are is by tracking them by the footprints done by a trained ranger guide.

On finding the gorillas, you will be allowed to have 1 hour of viewing the mountain gorillas and taking photos of these gentle giants. 

Enjoy your lunch and head back to the park’s headquarters to pick your gorilla trekking certificates, meet your guide and transfer back to your lodge or go to the Batwa Community for a cultural tour. 

Accommodation: Buhoma Haven Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner  

Day 8: Transfer back to Entebbe and Departure

After breakfast, you will transfer back to Kampala with a stopover in Mbarara Town for lunch. Proceed to Entebbe arriving in late afternoon, you will be drop off at the hotel either in Kampala or Entebbe or at Entebbe International Airport for your onward flight back home. 

END OF 8 DAYS TANZANIA AND UGANDA SAFARI