15 Days Best of Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda Safari
15 days best of Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda safari is a multi-border crossing safari in countries like Uganda and Tanzania. The 15 days best of Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda safari package is a classical wildlife adventure safari package that allows tourists to explore the most celebrated wildlife conservation areas and National Parks in East Africa, with incredible wildlife sightings with a guarantee of sighting all the famous African Big Five animals.
15 days Best of Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda safari however is unique in nature with it allowing travelers to trek the mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. This classical safari package will take you to notable National Parks in both countries which include; Tarangire, Ngorongoro, Serengeti in Tanzania, and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda. The 15 days best of Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda will also grant you an opportunity to relax by the beachside in Zanzibar
Quick 15 days & 14 nights Best of Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda Safari Tour Details
- Day #1: Arrival in Uganda – Entebbe International Airport
- Day #2: Transfer to Bwindi
- Day #3: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi
- Day #4: Transfer Back to Entebbe
- Day #5: Fly to Tanzania and transfer to Tarangire
- Day #6: All day game viewing in Tarangire
- Day #7: Transfer to Serengeti National Park
- Day #8: All day game viewing in Serengeti National Park
- Day #9: Transfer to Ngorongoro Crater
- Day #10: Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- Day #11: Lake Manyara National Park
- Day #12: Fly to Zanzibar
- Day #13: All day beach life experience
- Day #14: Fly back to Tanzania
- Day #15: Departure
Day by day detailed itinerary – 15 Days Best of Tanzania, Zanzibar, and Uganda Safari
DAY 01: ARRIVAL IN UGANDA
Upon your arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will meet your driver guide who will meet you driver guide who will give you a warm welcome to this beautiful country. Your guide will give you all details of your upcoming safari and will transfer you to your already booked accommodation
Hotel check-in starts at 12:00 pm
DAY 02: TRANSFER TO BWINDI
Following a morning breakfast at your accommodation, you will depart the hotel with your driver-guide with lunch boxes. You will then embark on your journey to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in western Uganda. This long journey is an 8 hrs. drive from Kampala city, Uganda’s capital. Upon your arrival to Bwindi, you will then check in your already booked accommodation where you will have your dinner and overnight as you prepare for the next day of your trip.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
DAY 03: GORILLA TREKKING AT BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST NATIONAL PARK
In the early morning, have breakfast at the hotel before heading out for your gorilla trekking experience in Bwindi. With your gorilla trekking gear, you will meet your driver guide who will drive you to Ruhija Park headquarters for briefing and joining others before heading into the forest for your gorilla trek.
This trek can last for between 30 minutes to 7 hours depending on the location of the mountain gorilla family on that particular day. Once the gorillas are located, you will be allowed to spend one hour with them while observing their behavior, taking photographs before you return to the park headquarters for your certificate of participation, evidence that you did the trekking.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner included
DAY 04: TRANSFER BACK TO ENTEBBE
After an early morning breakfast, your driver-guide will meet you and drive you back to Entebbe for your already booked and scheduled flight to Tanzania the next day. The driver-guide will drop you at your already booked accommodation for an overnight stay and Dinner.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
DAY 05: FLY TO TANZANIA AND TRANSFER TO TARANGIRE
Upon your arrival in Tanzania, you will be picked up at the Kilimanjaro International Airport upon your arrival and transferred to Tarangire National Park for an evening game drive. In the late afternoon, you will head to your already booked accommodation for Dinner and an overnight stay
Meal Plan: Breakfast Lunch and Dinner
DAY 06: ALL DAY GAME DRIVE IN TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
In the morning after breakfast, your driver-guide will arrive at the hotel and inform the receptionist that he is waiting for you. After meeting up with your driver you will travel to Tarangire National Park, and by 10:00 a.m. you will already be on your first safari! The huge Tarangire is known as the ‘Elephant Playground,’ this spectacular park contains the largest population of these mighty mammals. But Tarangire is also home to buffalo, lion, gnu, zebra, and gazelle and the park can rival Serengeti for sheer animal densities. What might you see today? Perhaps a solitary male lion stretched out beneath a tree, perhaps a trio of male cheetah enjoying some lazy bonding time in the sun. Maybe some graceful Grant’s gazelle or zebra bounding away from the road or a couple of giraffes that may appear munching happily from the choicest acacia branches. For Tarangire specialties, look out for kudu and oryx.
On safari, not many trees will pass you by without something of avian interest catching your eye. A memorable flash of color might be a lilac-breasted roller or superb starling. Ostrich is plentiful and it is hard not to chuckle at the sighting of the well-named, studious-looking secretary bird as it awkwardly pads across the grasslands.
The park is also famous for its noble baobab trees, rolling savannah, and acacia woodland Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & dinner
DAY 07: TRANFER TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, you will head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife with all representatives of most of the Serengeti’s species. We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park.
After your tour around the park, you will be transferred to your lodge where you will be spending the night.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Included
DAY 08: ALL DAY GAME DRIVE IN SERENGETI
Following breakfast, you will spend the whole day on a game drive in the Serengeti National Park and have lunch at a picnic spot en route. Depending upon the time of year, you might even have the chance to witness the great migration with hundreds of thousands of wildebeests, zebras, and Thompson gazelles.
During the small rainy season in October and November, you will typically see these herds moving from the Kenyan Masai Mara through the northwest of the Serengeti to the plains in the south. After the great rainy season in April, May, and June, the herds slowly travel back through the western and north-western parts of the Serengeti. With fluctuations in rainfall, this timetable can of course change, resulting in the animals migrating during different times and routes. Your guide will try his utmost to find the animals and will make sure that you can see them from the best spot in the national park. Naturally, the migration also attracts predators and with luck, you might see a kill in action.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
DAY 09: NGORONGORO CRATER
Following an early morning breakfast at your hotel in Serengeti, your driver-guide will transfer you to Ngorongoro Crater for a game viewing safari. Safari in Ngorongoro Crater From the rim, we admire the incredible view then descend into the vast crater itself. At one side there’s the Lerai Forest, a classic mountain forest landscape with almost tropical characteristics. This is good elephant country, so keep your eyes peeled. By the side of the nearby swampland is what is sometimes called the ‘elephant graveyard’ as the mighty male tuskers at the end of their lives come to chew on the soft, swampland grasses once their teeth have failed them.
The crater has a population of around 120 lions, with well-defined territories; 15,000 wildebeest, 9,000 zebra, 400 hyenas, and around 50 black rhino. Many wildebeest and other herd animals are resident, benefiting from the many sources of year-round waters and are boosted by some migrators in season. Buffalo, Thomson’s gazelle, and eland are also present in numbers. Hippos can be found in pools and swampland and highland birdlife is colorful and plentiful around the waters. Flamingos can often be seen in Lake Magadi, which occupies part of the crater floor. In the late afternoon, you will be transferred back to Arusha for an overnight stay and dinner.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
DAY 10: NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
Following an early morning breakfast at your camp, you will depart the hotel for a game drive in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Dawn is a good time to watch wildlife and so you will be up early to join an early morning game drive. You will return to the camp for breakfast before heading out for another game drive in the park. Here in the Seronera region, you will often see wildebeests and zebras in close proximity to lions and other predators such as leopards and cheetahs. After a picnic lunch, you will continue your journey towards the Ngorongoro conservation overnight.
Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
DAY 11: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
Following an early morning breakfast at the hotel, head for an early morning game drive before setting to Lake Manyara National Park. You will arrive at Lake Manyara National Park at lunchtime. After having a picnic lunch in Manyara, you start the afternoon game drive, which is the best time to view animals in this park.
When you approach it from the East Rift Valley escarpment looms on the horizon forming an impressive back droid to the lake. In the tall trees of the groundwater forest, monkeys leap from branch to branch, on the escarpment elephants stand in the shade. Other animals frequently seen are zebras, impalas, monkeys, giraffes, buffalos, hippos, and others. After an evening game drive in this beautiful park, you will head to your already booked accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
DAY 12: FLY TO ZANZIBAR AND RELAX BY THE BEACHSIDE
Following an early morning breakfast at your hotel, your Tanzania driver guide will pick up and transfer you to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your scheduled flight to Zanzibar. On arrival at Zanzibar’s Abeid Amani Karume International Airport, you will be met by our driver guide who will take you to your Zanzibar beach hotel for lunch. You have the evening at leisure and your dinner tonight will be provided by your hotel
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
DAY 13: WHOLE DAY BEACH LIFE EXPERIENCE
Today you will be having individual space and beach relaxing at your beachside hotel. This is your individual space and free time on the beach hotel where you can plan to do anything on your own. There are different activities such as water sports that you can enjoy.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
DAY 14: FLY BACK TO TANZANIA AND RELAX AT YOUR HOTEL
Transfer to the airport after breakfast. A leisurely morning and prepare yourself to drive about one hour to the airport. Our driver will be there on time to pick you up and start driving towards the airport at the agreed time. Make sure you are prepared on time.
Upon your arrival to Tanzania, your Tanzania guide will transfer you to your already booked accommodation for a relaxing lunch, dinner, and an overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
DAY 15: TRANSFER TO KILIMANJARO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR DEPARTURE
Depending on the time of your scheduled flight, your driver-guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer you to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your departure
Meal Plan: Breakfast