20-Day Ultimate East Africa Safari | Uganda Gorillas, Kenya Mara and Tanzania Serengeti

Your East Africa safari begins with a warm welcome at Entebbe, set on the shores of Lake Victoria amid lush tropical gardens.

Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. After airport assistance and transfer to your overnight stay, unwind from your flight and enjoy a relaxed evening before heading west into Uganda’s wildlife country. Meals: dinner or bed and breakfast as arranged.

Travel through rolling Ugandan countryside toward Queen Elizabeth National Park, watching villages, tea plantations, and savannah open up along the route.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Arrive in time to settle in and listen for hippos and birds as the day cools—your first classic African soundtrack. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Morning game drives search for lions, elephants, buffalo, and antelope on the park’s open plains and crater lakes.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. In the afternoon, cruise the Kazinga Channel past dense hippo pods, basking crocodiles, and colorful waterbirds for a relaxed wildlife perspective. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Leave the savannah for misty highlands as you drive toward Bwindi, passing terraced hills and rural communities.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. The forest atmosphere builds anticipation for tomorrow’s gorilla trek—one of Africa’s most profound wildlife encounters. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

After a briefing with park rangers, hike through thick vegetation to spend a regulated hour with a habituated gorilla family.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. The trek can be steep and muddy, but watching silverbacks and youngsters at close range is unforgettable. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Drive to Rwanda’s capital Kigali, then continue by scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya’s safari gateway.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Arrive in the evening and transfer to your hotel for rest before the Kenyan parks portion of the journey. Meals: breakfast.

Head north to Ol Pejeta, known for rhino conservation and open plains game viewing.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Visit the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary—the only place in Kenya to see rescued chimps—then enjoy an afternoon game drive. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Cross the Great Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru, famous for rhinos, Rothschild giraffes, and seasonal flamingo flocks.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Optional stops at highland waterfalls add scenery before an afternoon game drive around the soda lake shores. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Drive to the legendary Masai Mara, where golden grasslands support lions, cheetahs, elephants, and vast herds of plains game.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. An introductory game drive sets the stage for two full days exploring the Mara ecosystem. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Full-day game drives follow predator action, river lines, and migration corridors when herds are present (typically July–November).

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Optional hot-air balloon safaris at sunrise offer a spectacular aerial view followed by a bush breakfast. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

A second day in the Mara allows deeper exploration of different sectors and repeated chances at cats, elephants, and dramatic crossings.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Your guide reads the landscape for fresh tracks and recent kills to maximize sightings. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

After breakfast, cross the Isebania border into Tanzania and continue to the remote northern Serengeti.

Pack binoculars, neutral clothing, and sun protection; early starts often deliver the best sightings and softer light. Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Keep cameras ready for elephants, giraffes, and predators along the route into migration country. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Spend the day near the Mara River watching for wildebeest and zebra herds and the predators that follow them.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. River crossings are unpredictable but electrifying when they happen—your guide positions you at proven vantage points. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Enjoy a final northern Serengeti drive before heading south to the Seronera heartland.

Pack binoculars, neutral clothing, and sun protection; early starts often deliver the best sightings and softer light. Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Central Serengeti offers year-round cats, kopje lions, and classic savannah panoramas. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Morning and afternoon drives cover rivers, plains, and rocky outcrops rich with lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and herbivores.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Each session builds on the last as guides share behavior insights and photography tips. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Leave the Serengeti for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with optional cultural stops en route.

Pack binoculars, neutral clothing, and sun protection; early starts often deliver the best sightings and softer light. Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Ascend to a crater-rim stay with sweeping views over the caldera. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Descend into the crater floor for a full morning among dense wildlife, including chances to spot black rhino.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Picnic lunch beside a hippo pool caps a highlight day before returning to the rim. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Drive to Tarangire, famed for elephant herds and ancient baobabs scattered across seasonal marshes.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. An afternoon game drive may reveal lions, giraffes, and colorful birdlife; optional village visits add cultural context. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Another full day in Tarangire explores different loops and water sources as animals concentrate in the dry season.

Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Optional night drives (extra cost) reveal nocturnal species and the sounds of the bush after dark. Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

A final morning drive through Tarangire precedes transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport.

Pack binoculars, neutral clothing, and sun protection; early starts often deliver the best sightings and softer light. Travel days are planned with realistic drive times, and your driver-guide adjusts timing for light, weather, and animal activity. Your guide keeps a comfortable pace with regular stops for photos, water, and wildlife interpretation. Use day-room facilities to freshen up before your international flight home, carrying memories from three countries. Meals: breakfast and lunch.