21 Days Breathtaking Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya & Tanzania Tour
21 Days Uganda Rwanda Kenya and Tanzania Tour Overview
This 21 Days Uganda Rwanda Kenya and Tanzania Tour offers a 21-day breathtaking African safari to see leopards, waterbucks, lions, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, gazelles, elephants, impalas, gorillas, chimpanzees, and various bird species in some of Africa’s top tourist destinations.
Arrival for 21 Days Uganda Rwanda Kenya and Tanzania Tour
You’ll be collected from the airport. Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.
Day 1: Travel to Murchison Falls National Park | Rhino Tracking | Top Of The Falls | Evening Game Drive
You’ll arrive in Uganda in the morning hours. You will be picked up by our Nextgen Safaris representative with your name printed on an A4 paper from Entebbe Airport and transferred to Murchison Falls National Park.
You will branch off to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for rhino tracking. This is one of the most breathtaking activities in Uganda. After the rhino tracking, you will be driven to Murchison Falls National Park. Your first tourist attraction in the park will be the top of the falls. It is an exciting experience that brings you close to the rushing whitewater as it squeezes through the narrow crevice below.
One of the few African safari destinations that can be explored by car, by boat, or on guided walks, the 3,480km² Murchison Falls National Park is dominated geographically by the Nile River and the 43m-high waterfall after which it is named. You’ll see different animals and a good range of aquatic birds.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the Leosim Hotel.
Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda)
Accommodation: Leosim Hotel
Budget hotel located outside Murchison Falls NP
Meals & Drinks:
- Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 2: Morning Game Drive | Boat Cruise | Birding | Evening Game Drive in Murchison Falls National Park
You will set off very early at 6:00 am. You will leave for a morning game drive. After the game drive, you will head back to your hotel for lunch. In the afternoon, you’ll embark (between 2 pm and 4 pm) on a three-hour boat cruise on the Nile. This boat cruise offers an amazing view of the falls from the bottom angle. Hippos, crocodiles, antelopes, and aquatic birds can be seen along the shores of the river.
Imagine being out in the soft, early morning light, wrapped in a blanket, just as the animals emerge from their night’s rest or the shadows of their nighttime adventures. The world feels fresh and new on an early morning game drive, the sun has yet to beat down upon the earth, and it may end up being your favorite time to be out on safari.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the Leosim Hotel.
Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda)
Accommodation: Leosim Hotel
Budget hotel located outside Murchison Falls NP
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 3: Travel to Kibale National Park | Community Walk
After breakfast, you’ll be traveling from Murchison Falls National Park, driving Southwest through the Albertine Escarpment of the great Western Rift Valley. You’ll drive through Hoima, then Kyejonjo district, and reach the colorful and beautiful town of Fort Portal, the capital of the Tooro kingdom, situated in the shadow of the fabled “Mountains of the Moon,” the Rwenzori. You will either have lunch on your way.
On arrival, you’ll drive to Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary for a community walk and cultural interaction. It is located in the Magombe swamp. This area is recognized for an extensive array of biodiversity among which are several primate species like the red Colobus monkey, baboon, black and white Colobus monkey, blue monkey grey cheeked, mangabey, vervet monkey, red-tailed monkey, and the L’Hoest monkey.
You’ll go on a guided walk in the community-managed Bigodi Wetland Sanctuary.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Kibale Forest Camp( bandas).
Main Destination: Kibale National Park (Chimps)
Accommodation: Kibale Forest Camp (Camping)
- Just outside Kibale NP
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 4: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale National Park
The tracking will start early and take you about two to three hours, depending on the location of the chimpanzees.
The opportunity to see chimpanzees in the wild is one of the most memorable of all safari activities. Getting close to these creatures that share so much of our DNA is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and the excitement of walking through the forest and knowing that they are close will stay with you forever.
After the trek, you will go back to the resort for rest.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Kibale Forest Camp (Bandas).
Main Destination: Kibale National Park (Chimps
)Accommodation: Kibale Forest Camp (Camping)
Just outside Kibale NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 5: Queen Elizabeth National Park | Boat Ride | Evening Game Drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast, you’ll depart to Queen Elizabeth National Park. This is a huge park where wildlife and people coexist in harmony. You will have lunch on your way.
On arrival, you will go for a boat ride. You will enjoy a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel which connects Lake Edward and Lake George. Some of the best wildlife viewings are done on a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, passing squacco herons, pied kingfishers, large numbers of buffalo and hippo, crocodiles, and many different bird species and large mammals. This is one of the most memorable experiences from the park. After the boat ride, you will go for an evening game drive.
You’ll explore Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda’s best all-round safari destination. In addition to being home to four of the Big Five (lion, leopard, elephant, and buffalo), this biodiverse park is studded with wetlands that support an astonishing 5,000 hippos along with large flocks of flamingos, pelicans, and other aquatic birds.
Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda)
Accommodation: Tropical Savanna Guest House
Budget lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 6: Ishasha Sector | Transfer To Bwindi Impenetrable National Park| Batwa Cultural Interaction
After an early morning breakfast, you’ll be transferred to the Ishasha sector for the tree-climbing lions on the Kasenyi Plains. It is time to go to the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth: Ishasha. This area is famous for its tree-climbing lions.
When you arrive in Ishasha you will first try to spot the lions in one of the huge trees. The Ishasha sector is notably recognized for its resident tree-climbing lions which are an exceptional attraction and one of the highlights of all safaris taken within Queen Elizabeth National Park. In the southern section of this park, the lions are now and again spotted hanging on branches of huge fig trees whereas the Uganda Kob (which are the major food to these lions) graze in the plains of the Ishasha sector. After you will be transferred to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ruhija Gorilla Friends.
Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)
Accommodation: Ruhija Gorilla Friends Resort Campsite
Budget tented camp located just outside Bwindi NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 7: Gorilla Trekking | Travel to Lake Bunyonyi, Lake with 29 Islands
After breakfast, you’ll head out with the packed lunches to the park head offices with your guide, and have a briefing about the do’s and don’ts while in the park with gorillas. Afterward, you’ll head out for gorilla trekking through the mist rain forest, trekking can take 2 hours or up to 6 hours and this is based on the location of the gentle giants. Make sure you carry enough water, sturdy shoes, non-flash cameras, and rain jackets.
At the end of this adventure, you’ll return to the lodge to shower and relax. Thereafter, you’ll check out in the evening for a transfer to Lake Bunyonyi which twisting water body dotted with 29 islands with various shapes and sizes scattered across the water will amaze you. Dammed by a lava flow 8,000 years ago, Bunyonyi is a flooded river valley that extends for 25km from north to south but is nowhere more than 5km wide. The absence of hippos and crocodiles means swimming is safe; it’s also resulted in an unusually dense population of otters.
Main Destination: Lake Bunyonyi (Uganda)
Accommodation: Paradise Eco-Hub
Budget lodge located in or near Lake Bunyony
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 8: Travel To Rwanda | Transfer to Musanze | Cultural Village Tour
After breakfast, you will be driven to the Rwanda-Uganda border and then transferred to Musanze. You will have lunch on the way, you will visit the community cultural Village to enjoy the Rwandan culture including the traditional dance. Iby’iwacu Cultural Village is a non-profit umbrella organization that aims to improve the lives of reformed poachers and communities around Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park through the provision of conservation incentives, supporting community enterprise development, and livelihood-based projects.
Rwanda’s third-largest settlement, Musanze (formerly Ruhengeri) is an agreeable highland town best known as a base for hiking and tracking gorillas in Volcanoes National Park. The spectacular Virunga Mountains are the setting for Volcanoes National Park. This is Africa’s sixth-highest mountain range – the tallest volcano, Karisimbi, rises to 4,507m – and one of its most biodiverse.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the Garden Palace Hotel.
Main Destination: Musanze (City, Rwanda)
Accommodation: Garden Palace Hotel
Budget lodge located outside Volcanoes NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 9: Travel to Akagera National Park | Boat Ride
After breakfast, you will be driven southwards to Akagera National Park. You will have lunch on your way, you will have a short game drive on your way to a boat cruise.
The park hosts several big mammals with the most sought-after being lions, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, elephants, and hippos, which will provide for great photographic moments. The park has in the recent past made great strides in conservation by engaging the community through community tours.
It may come as a surprise to learn that Rwanda’s premier savannah reserve now ranks among those select safari destinations to harbor all the iconic Big Five. Akagera National Park supports thriving populations of lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos, and black rhinos, alongside giraffes, zebras, warthogs, a wide variety of antelope, and 550 bird species. You’ll take a boat trip on Lake Ihema to watch hippos and crocodiles in the water or by the shores.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the Dereva Hotel.
Main Destination: Akagera National Park (Rwanda)
Accommodation: Dereva Hotel
Mid-range hotel located outside Akagera NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 10: Morning And Evening Game Drive In Akagera National Park
We arise early and leave right after breakfast for a game drive in the northern part of Akagera National Park. We will be searching for big mammals like Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, several Antelope species, and recently the re-introduced Lions and Rhinos. The park is a varied habitat for wildlife and a birder’s haven with over 500 bird species in the park.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the Dereva Hotel.
Main Destination: Akagera National Park (Rwanda)
Accommodation: Dereva Hotel
Mid-range hotel located outside Akagera NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 11: Travel To Kigali | City Tour | Genocide Memorial Visit | Fly To Kenya
You’ll be transferred to Kigali for a city tour visiting the Genocide Memorial site which gives a brief history of the country you are visiting. Rapidly growing Kigali, with its lively arts scene, cheerful craft markets, and wealth of museums, is the ideal starting point for exploring the Land of 1000 Hills.
After the Genocide Center tour, then you’ll be transferred to the Kigali Airport for your scheduled flight to Kenya. Upon arrival at 9 pm from Kigali Airport, you will be met by our Nextgen Safaris representative with your name printed on an A4 paper will welcome you at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, and later you will be transferred to your hotel in Nairobi.
Nairobi is a fascinating introduction to modern Kenyan life, with its fine restaurants, hotels, bars, and nightclubs. You’ll also have the chance to enjoy some excellent museums, wildlife attractions, markets, and shops.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ibis Styles Nairobi Westlands.
Main Destination: Nairobi (City, Kenya)
Accommodation: Ibis Styles Nairobi Westlands Hotel
Mid-range hotel located in or near Nairobi
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 12: Travel to Lake Naivasha | Boat Ride
You’ll wake up early in the morning, have breakfast, and then check out and leave for Lake Naivasha. On arrival in Lake Naivasha, you will check in at your hotel, and then get out for an evening boat ride.
One of the most beautiful of Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes, Lake Naivasha is a pretty place where you’re likely to see hippos, and where zebras and giraffes roam the lakeshore. It’s a lovely interlude during your safari.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Fisherman’s Camp.
Main Destination: Lake Naivasha (Naivasha, Kenya)
Accommodation: Fisherman’s Camp
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 13: Hell’s Gate National Park For Bike riding | Lake Nakuru National Park | Evening Game Drive
After breakfast, you will enjoy bike riding at Hell’s Gate National Park which will take about 2 hours. You can expect a different experience in Hell’s Gate National Park than in any other Kenyan park. With no predators here, you can get out of your vehicle to enjoy the gorge scenery and look for zebras, giraffes, impalas, buffalos, and rock hyrax.
You will be driven to Lake Nakuru National Park, arriving at your hotel in the afternoon. After lunch, you will head out for an evening game drive. You’re in for a real treat when you visit Lake Nakuru National Park. It’s one of the best places anywhere for seeing both black and white rhinos, but there are other highlights as well, including the possibility of seeing lions (some even climb trees here), leopards, flamingos, and endangered Rothschild’s giraffes. Rich birdlife, pretty acacia forests, and a towering escarpment overlooking the lake all add to the natural drama.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Hotel CityMax.
Main Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park (Kenya)
Accommodation: Hotel CityMax
Budget hotel located outside Lake Nakuru NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 14: Morning and Evening Game Drive in Lake Nakuru National Park
You will have breakfast and then depart for the morning game drive. You will return to the lodge for lunch and head out in the evening for an evening game drive. Lake Nakuru National Park’s claim to fame is anchored on its flamingos and the over 400 species of birds found here.
The lake itself is a soda lake on the floor of the Rift Valley. The sight of at times millions of flamingos is quite spectacular. From a distance, the lake appears ringed in pink.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Hotel CityMax.
Main Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park (Kenya)
Accommodation: Hotel CityMax
Budget hotel located outside Lake Nakuru NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 15: Travel to Masai Mara National Reserve| Maasai Cultural Interactions | Evening Game Drive
After breakfast, you’ll head out to Masai Mara. You will go through the floor of the Rift Valley arriving in the evening. On arrival in Maasai Mara, you will visit the local Maasai village for a cultural tour. You’ll learn about the Maasai community and interact with the local Maasai people. An overnight stay at the Maasai village can be organized upon request.
Afterward, you will go for the evening game drive. Masai Mara National Reserve offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe over 450 species of animals have been recorded here.
Welcome to one of the best safari destinations in Kenya. Here in the Masai Mara National Reserve, you’re almost certain to see lions, hippos, elephants, giraffes, wildebeests, buffaloes, impalas, and zebras, not to mention the more than 500 species of birds that have been recorded here. There’s also a good chance you’ll encounter leopards and cheetahs.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Miti Mingi Eco Camp.
Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
Accommodation: Miti Mingi Eco Camp
Budget tented camp located just outside Masai Mara NR
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 16: Hot Air Balloon safari (Optional Activity) | Full Day Game Drive in Masai Mara National Reserve
You’ll spend more time exploring the stunning natural landscapes and extraordinary wildlife of the Masai Mara National Reserve. After breakfast, the whole day is spent in the park with a packed lunch and in search of its well-known predators and their opponents like zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, lion, cheetah, elephant, buffalo, and other animal species.
The Masai Mara National Reserve offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffes, wildebeests, zebras, buffalos, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalos, leopards, many kinds of antelopes, and elephants.
Optional activity at a fee: A balloon safari at USD 485 per person can be organized early morning on this day then proceed with the normal program.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Miti Mingi Eco Camp.
Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
Accommodation: Miti Mingi Eco Camp
Budget tented camp located just outside Masai Mara NR
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 17: Transfer From Masai Mara National Reserve to Serengeti National Park | Evening Game Drive
You’ll go to Tanzania’s borders with packed lunches. You’ll meet Tanzania driver/guide change safari car and immigration formalities and drive to Serengeti National Park with your packed lunches.
On arrival in Serengeti, you will have an evening drive. You’ll discover just why so many safari visitors fall in love with the Serengeti. Keep an eye out for big cats, even bigger elephants, and almost every kind of safari wildlife you can imagine. You might also see giraffes, impalas, zebras, wildebeests, buffalos, and hundreds of species of birds, and that may all just be before breakfast. You’ll never forget watching these animals interact, whether you see a hunt, a vast herd, or a mother protecting her cub or calf.
The Serengeti’s scenery is also unforgettable – observe Africa’s iconic acacia trees, the park’s golden grasslands, and great piles of boulders known as kopjes.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp.
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Accommodation: Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 18: Optional Hot Air Balloon Safari (US $600 per person) | Full Day Game Drive | Serengeti National Park
You will have a full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of your time. In case you prefer having a hot air balloon safari at Serengeti National Park, this is an optional activity and it costs US $600 per person. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year. You can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, and many more.
The Serengeti National Park, meaning “endless plains” in the Maasai language, is undoubtedly one of the world’s most celebrated Wilderness areas and is an ongoing source of inspiration to writers, filmmakers, and photographers. Serengeti National Park Tanzania’s oldest national park, is renowned for the part it plays in the annual Great Migration, when antelopes and wildebeests migrate to Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp.
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Accommodation: Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 19: Travel to Ngorongoro Crater | Evening Game Drive
After an early breakfast, you’ll drive to Ngorongoro Crater for a game drive with packed lunches. You will go through the Ngorongoro Crater Highlands to the base of the Rift Valley Escarpment; a dramatic bluff nearly 2,000 ft high. You will have an evening game drive.
You will learn why magical Ngorongoro is unlike anywhere else in Africa. Cloud forests encircle the crater rim, and the view out across the caldera of this former volcano – quite apart from the altitude – will leave you gasping for air. Your drive down a steep trail carries you onto the crater floor where a unique wildlife offering is added to the sheer beauty of the experience. You’ll share the sunken ecosystem of the crater floor with hyenas, lions, elephants, black rhinos, and hippos. An ecosystem that has formed in the crater in the millennia since the volcano wrought its terrible fury upon the land. It could just be one of your best safari days ever.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Rhino Lodge.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
Accommodation: Rhino Lodge
Mid-range lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater
Meals & Drinks:
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 20: Travel to Lake Manyara National Park | Game Drive
You will depart Ngorongoro and go to Lake Manyara National Park. Here lies a narrow belt of acacia woodland and a floodplain that is filled seasonally by Lake Manyara. Encompassing this area is Lake Manyara Park which is often overlooked, but game-rich and best known for its tree-climbing lions.
You’ll walk along the main street of Mto Wa Mbu which is strung out along the road close to the gate for Lake Manyara National Park. It’s a busy and engaging little town where safari tourists mingle with Tanzanians from all across the country. You’ll soon get a feel for the diversity of tribal cultures (members of all of Tanzania’s 120 tribal groups live here) and the sometimes frenetic, sometimes laid-back pace of local life.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Twiga Lodge.
Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park (Tanzania)
Accommodation:Twiga Lodge & Campsite (Lodge)
Budget lodge located just outside Lake Manyara NP
- All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Day 21: Transfer To Airport
After breakfast, you will be driven to Arusha town for shopping, have lunch in town, and then drive to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your scheduled flight back home.
Your safari in Tanzania will come to an end, bringing to a close your time in this remarkable country. We are sure that you have had the most wonderful time.Main Destination:Arusha (City, Tanzania)Accommodation:No accommodation (End of tour)Meals & Drinks:
- Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
End of 21 Days Uganda Rwanda Kenya and Tanzania Tour
Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost. You’ll be dropped off at the airport.
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