The 10 Days Rwanda Primates & Serengeti Wildlife Safari involves you exploring Rwanda and Tanzania on primate and wildlife safari. This Rwanda and Tanzania safari includes mountain gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park, chimpanzee tracking in Nyungwe Forest National Park and game viewing in Serengeti National Park. It also lets you interact with different local residents on cultural tour.
10 Days Rwanda Primates & Serengeti Wildlife Safari itinerary
Day 1: Drive from Arusha airport to Tarangire National Park
Upon arrival at Arusha airport in Tanzania, meet your driver guide for a quick briefing on your combined Rwanda and Tanzania safari. After, transfer to Tarangire National Park, about 2-3 hours’ drive. Get to the lodge early and enjoy lunch then prepare for evening game drive. This will reward you with clear sight of Tarangire’s wildlife including buffaloes, lions, leopards, impalas, zebras, elephants, birds. Retreat from your game drive in Tarangire and have a relaxed evening, dinner and comfortable stay at the lodge.
Day 2: Whole day exploring Tarangire National Park
Have a leisurely cup of tea or coffee and later, embark on a long day wildlife experience in Tarangire National Park. Today, you will have opportunity to spot diversity of wildlife, birds and other attractions like Tarangire River that make Tarangire National Park an outstanding Tanzania safari destination. You will retreat from the morning game viewing experience to have lunch and relax a little at the lodge. After, you will have an afternoon game drive to explore not only wildlife but also scenic beauty of Tarangire National Park.
Day 3: Transfer to Serengeti National Park
Get up and enjoy your morning breakfast. Check out of your lodge and then be driven to Serengeti National Park. This will come with en-route game drive in Tarangire. Arrive at Serengeti National Park early and have lunch at the lodge. In the evening, you will go enjoy a game drive to sight wildlife species as they rush to their places for the night including buffaloes, elephants, lions, rhinos, birds, giraffes, zebras, hartebeest.
Day 4: Whole day in Serengeti
Rise up early to have a hefty breakfast and later, meet your guide ready to set off for a morning game drive along the savanna plains of Serengeti National Park. Expect to come across lions, birds, elephants, leopards and others. Get back for lunch and later, go continue with a game drive to spot more wildlife including wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, waterbucks, Kudus, cheetahs, hyenas, leopards.
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater exploration & transfer to Arusha
Wake up for an early morning cup tea or coffee at the lodge. After, transfer to Ngorongoro Conservation Area with optional stop at Ol Duvai Gorge. Have lunch and head to the Ngorongoro Crater to sight wildlife like lions, leopards, zebras, cheetahs, hartebeest. After your exploration and photography, drive to Arusha to check into your hotel or lodge.
Day 6: Fly from Tanzania to Rwanda
Breakfast early in the morning and after, drive to the airport to take a flight to Kigali International Airport in Rwanda. Meet your driver guide for transfer to the hotel/lodge for dinner and night stay in Kigali.
Day 7: Kigali city tour & drive to Volcanoes National Park
Enjoy your early morning cup of tea or coffee at the hotel in Kigali and after, go for city trip. This will include enjoying the stunning views of hills, various attractions in and around Kigali capital city for instance visit Gisozi genocide centre, Kimironko market.
After about 2 hours enjoying Kigali city tour, get lunch then be transferred to Ruhengeri where Volcanoes National Park is situated. Here check in at your gorilla safari lodge for evening relaxation, dinner and comfortable stay.
Day 8: Gorilla trekking
Leave your lodge after breakfast to be briefed about gorilla trekking etiquette at Volcanoes national park headquarters. Today, make sure you go with some snacks, bottle of drinking water and be on right attire. The official from Volcanoes National Park will allocate to you a gorilla family and park guide.
Begin trekking to view mountain gorillas at 8:00am through natural habitat characterized by bamboo and steep slopes taking you about 2-6 hours. On finding a gorilla group, you will be permitted to have a close interaction with mountain gorillas for only 1 hour. Thereafter, get back to relax at the lodge and in the evening, pay a visit to Iby’Iwacu village for cultural experience.
Day 9: Drive to Nyungwe Forest from Ruhengeri
Have a leisurely breakfast and after, leave Ruhengeri for Nyungwe Forest National Park. You will have en-route stop at Lake Kivu and later, go for lunch before driving to Nyungwe to check in at the lodge.
Day 10: Chimpanzee tracking & return to Kigali
Wake up for an early morning cup of tea or coffee and after, briefing at Nyungwe park offices on guidelines for chimp trekking. You will start your chimp trek at 8:00am with park guide and this will take about 2-4 hours on a trek. But what is amazing, you won’t only come across chimpanzees but also other species of primates especially owl-faced monkeys, red-tailed monkeys, olive baboons, L’Hoest monkeys, vervet monkey plus birds, flora.
You will be allowed 1 to spend with chimpanzees and you walk back to the lodge to check out. Drive to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda where you will have lunch. If time still allows, pay a visit to historical sites like genocide memorial centres, craft shops and you will be dropped to a hotel.
End of the 10 days Rwanda gorillas, chimps & Serengeti
