12 Days East Africa Trip Uganda Kenya and Tanzania

$5,050.00

Description

This is a 12 day adventure safari covering some of the best known safari parks in these 3 East African safaris destinations. Travel is by a combination of air transfers and road using a small plans and  customized safari van in Kenya and safari jeep in Tanzania. Accommodation is in affordable mid-range and budget lodges and camps, located places where adventure activities like hiking, nature walks, night game drives and village visits are permitted and possible.

Day Activities Hotels and Meals
Day
1
Arrival Entebbe
Meet and Greet & Transfer to Hotel
Boma Guest House
Breakfast
Day
2
Morning Air Transfer to Bwindi Nkuringo Safari Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
3
Gorilla Trekking Tour in Bwindi
Overnight Bwindi
Nkuringo Safari Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
4
Air Transfer to Kigali. Connect Flight to Nairobi
Overnight.
Tamarind Tree Hotel
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
5
Road Transfer to Masai Mara
Afternoon Game Drive.
Ashnil Mara Camp
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
6
Safaris in Masai Mara
Afternoon Game Drive
Ashnil  Mara Camp
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
7
Road Transfer to Serengeti Serengeti Mawe Camp
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
8
Safaris in Serengeti National park
Afternoon Game Drive
Serengeti Mawe Camp
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
9
Road Transfer to Ngorongoro
Detour at Ol Duvai Gorge
Rhino Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
10
Full Day Ngorongoro Crater Tour Farm Of Dreams Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
11
Full Day Safaris at Lake Manyara Farm of Dreams Lodge
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day
12
Road  Transfer  to Arusha
Souvenir Shopping – Airport Transfer
 Breakfast, Dinner

Day 1: Arrival Entebbe – Overnight

Arrive Entebbe International Airport. You are met by Hallmark Travel Planners representative and transfer to the hotel for your overnight stay.

Day 2: Morning or Afternoon Air Transfer to Bwindi Park

Pick up from your hotel at Entebbe and transfer to the airport. You will enjoy the aerial view of the beautiful chanding landscape.

The flight takes only 2 hours of the lushest highland rain forest on earth, filled with primates and exotic birds, valleys and hilltops and papyrus swamp. Upon arrival at Kisoro airstrip, you will be trasnffered with the lodge vehicle to the lodge. Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge.

Day 3: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest

After breakfast and with your packed lunch, you will walk to the park headquarters for briefing about gorilla trekking. Your guide will take you through all the dos and don’ts while with mountain gorillas and after that, you will be transferred to the starting point of your gorilla family.

Please note that gorilla family allocation depends on your interests, fitness and age. Please inform your guide of your interests and he will try to request for the gorilla family of your choice before you start the trek into the forest. Gorilla trekking can be strenuous and a certain level of fitness is required.

Gorilla trekking can take from 30 minutes to three quarters of the day so one needs to prepare for both. You guide will try to provide information about trees, birds and other wildlife in the forest until you reach a given gorilla family of gorillas.

You will be allowed only one hour of photography and observing mountain gorillas as they go about with their daily day activities and then trek back to the park headquarters to pick your certificates and then dinner and overnight at your Lodge – Travelers Rest.

Day 4: Fly back to Entebbe – Fly to Nairobi

Early breakfast at the lodge. We then check out and transfer back to Entebbe. At Entebbe, connect another flight to Nairobi.
Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be warmly welcomed by a member from Hallmark Travel Planners team who will transfer you to your hotel Nairobi.

Nairobi is Kenya’s capital city, it is one of the largest and most influential cities in Africa, an important commercial and financial regional hub.

Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you are met by Hallmark Travel Planners representative and transfer to your hotel – Tamarind Tree Hotel.

Day 5: Road Transfer – Lake Nakuru. Afternoon Safari

After breakfast, drive to Lake Nakuru National Park. Game viewing drive around the Park, Lunch at the lodge.  Afternoon game viewing drive returning to your lodge for dinner and overnight. Lunch and Dinner included. Stay at Kivu Resort Nakuru.

Day 6: Drive Lake Nakuru to Masai Mara

Drive across the floor of the Rift Valley and the Loita Plains to the Maasai Mara National Reserve arriving in time for lunch. Afternoon game viewings drive returning to your lodge for dinner and overnight. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included. Stay at Enkorok Mara Camp.

Day 7: Safaris in Masai Mara

Full day in the Maasai Mara with early morning and afternoon game viewing drives.

With almost every species of animal great and small in the park, this is one of Africa’s premier wildlife areas and today we enjoy both morning and afternoon game drives in search of the ‘Big Five’ (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino).

This is safari at its best and Africa at its most spectacular. Heartland of the Masai, southwest Kenya presents a landscape where Africa is laid bare in all its majesty. Here the endless struggle for survival is played out across the vast open plains and riverine forests of this captivating land.

Each year the Mara explodes into life, as the annual migration of great herds of wildebeest journey from the Serengeti to fresh pastures in the north. Between July and October the Mara River becomes the setting for the crossing of some 1.3 million animals, bringing with them the inevitable predators and the inevitable dramas. Dinner and Overnight Enkorok Mara  Camp.

Day 8: Drive from Serengeti to Masai Mara

We plan to depart very early today. It is going to be a relatively long day, and drive.  After an early breakfast depart with picnic lunch boxes for Kenya-Tanzania border at Isabania (300 KM/approximately 5 hours), where we cross into Tanzania and head for the breathtaking beauty of the  Serengeti National Park  – traveling time depends on game viewing opportunities). On arrival transfer to the Ikoma wild  Camp for a stay of 2 nights. Dinner and Overnight Ikoma Wild Camp.

Day 9: Safari Activities in Serengeti

The oldest of Tanzania’s game parks, the Serengeti is a staggering spectacle of incredible diversity, where magnificent herds of wildebeest and zebra form an uneasy alliance against the ever present threat of some of Africa’s most powerful predators. Dinner and Overnight: Ikoma Tented Camp.

Day 7: Drive from Ngorongoro to Serengeti
This morning we leave Serengeti National park and head for Ngorongoro Conservancy area. Along the way, the is  a short detour to visit Olduvai Gorge, the site of the discovery of some of the oldest human remains ever found, before continuing to the Ngorongoro Conservancy area,  (160 KM/approximately 3 hours – travelling time depends on game-viewing opportunities), where we stay 2 nights at the Farm of Dreams Lodge.

Day 10: Full Day Ngorongoro Crater Tour

After breakfast we enter the magnificent natural amphitheatre of Ngorongoro’s volcanic crater, home to some 30,000 animals and the remarkable setting for one of the most breathtaking wildlife experiences on the planet.

The scene is classic Africa, with seemingly endless herds of big game, large predators and the sweep of the African savannah. In the later afternoon, leave the crater and return to the lodge: Farm of Dreams Lodge.

Day 12: Drive Karatu to Nairobi

After breakfast this morning we depart by road for Nairobi, expecting to arrive by late afternoon. Lunch will be served in Arusha. From Arusha, proceed on to Kenya – Tanzania border and cross back into Kenya. Arrival Nairobi  and transfer to the airport for home bound flight, or extension to Mombasa.

2025 Tour Price Guidelines  – Per Person

Dates 2 People 4 People 6 People
 02 Jan to 31 Mar 2025
01 Nov to 15 Dec 2025
 $6528  $5672  $5386
 01 Apr to 31 May 2025  $6476  $5682  $5486
 01 Jun to 31 Oct 2025
16 Dec to 01 Jan 2026
 $7594  $6712  $6418

Rates are subject to change with notice.

Important to Know

  • This tour can’t be booked by solo travelers.
  • Rates are per person and exclude the international flight from/to your home country.
  • Rates include a fixed budget for flights during this tour. Flights may cost more, depending on travel dates. If so, your quote will reflect this.

12 Days From USD 6,476 Per Person

DEPARTURE/RETURN LOCATION:
Entebbe Uganda / Arusha, Tanzania

DEPARTURE TIME:
Flexible

WHAT TO CARRY AND WEAR:
✔Comfortable clothing
✔Comfortable Hiking Boots
✔Camera
✔Binoculars
✔safari hat,
✔jacket
✔sunscreen.

Wild Animals You Would See on Safari
✔ Mountain Gorillas
✔ Elephant
✔ Giraffe
✔ Bufallo
✔ Lions
✔ Cheetah
✔ Leopard
✔ Zebra
✔ Hyena
✔ Impala
✔ Hippo
✔ Crocodile
✔ Wildebeest
✔ Warthog
✔ Gazelles
✔ Wild Dogs
✔ Mountain Gorillas

INCLUDED:

  • Park Entrance fees
  • All activities (unless labeled as optional)
  • Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
  • Drinks (as specified in the day-by-day section)
  • All accommodation (unless listed as upgrade)
  • Accommodation on the day before the tour departs
  • Round trip airport transfers
  • A professional driver/guide
  • All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
  • All flights during the tour
  • All Taxes/VAT

NOT INCLUDED

  • Accommodation on the last day
  • International flights (from/to home)
  • Tips
  • Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
  • Some meals (as specified in the day-by-day)

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