On arrival into Kilimanjaro you will be met and taken to stay for one night at the Arusha Coffee Lodge (full board).
A Safari vacation in Tanzania will provide both you and your family with some fantastic safari memories. Tanzania has some of the most luxurious lodges and wonderful guides for the perfect African safari.
Over the next seven days you will be taken on a private safari in a fully equipped four wheel drive vehicle with radio and a highly experienced driver/guide - Mkombe Mniko. You will have the flexibility to go where you wish, when you wish, and can vary your activities to include walking where possible as well as unlimited game drives, while visiting some of Tanzania's most famous national parks and conservation areas (fully inclusive of meals and activities).
In the morning you will be met by your private guide and taken by safari vehicle on a journey of approximately four hours in a westerly direction into the Ngorongoro Highlands to Ngorongoro Serena where you stay for one night.
In the afternoon you will be taken into the Crater to enjoy some game viewing.
In the early morning Mkombe will take you into the Crater again to enjoy a morning's game viewing. When the crater becomes busy Mkombe will take you up and over the western slope of the crater to Olduvai Gorge.
Continue on across the grassy plains of the Serengeti National Park to a traditional shared camp where you stay for three nights. This is a seasonal tented camp (with four tents) on a private site, and is moved as the migration progresses.
Today you leave your camp in the Serengeti with Mkombe for a game drive ending in the Loliondo Private Reserve where you stay for a further three nights at a similar traditional shared tented camp.
In the morning you will be transferred to the airstrip to board a scheduled flight to Kilimanjaro, connecting with a further scheduled flight of approximately 45 minutes to Nairobi. Depart at 1810 on flight KQ414 to Entebbe where you will be met on arrival at 1925 and transferred to Emin Pasha Hotel to stay for one night (bed & breakfast).
In the morning you will be transferred to the airport to board a light aircraft charter flight to Kibale where you will be met by your private guide who will, over the next three days, take you on a private safari in a fully equipped four wheel drive vehicle with radio and a highly experienced driver/guide. You will have the flexibility to go where you wish, when you wish, and can vary your activities to include walking where possible as well as unlimited game drives, while visiting some of Uganda's most famous National Parks and conservation areas (fully inclusive of meals and activities). Your guide will transfer you to Ndali Lodge where you stay for two nights.
On the afternoon of Day 10 and in the morning of Day 11 you will be taken on 'chimp walks'.
On the afternoon of Day 11 you will be taken on a walk in Bigodi to see swamp birds.
Today your guide will take you on a five hour road journey to Ishasha, enjoying a game drive en route in the Queen Elizabeth National Park. Stay for the two nights at Mweya Safari Lodge (fully inclusive of meals and activities).
Today you will be taken three hours to Bwindi where you stay for three nights at Gorilla Forest Camp (fully inclusive of meals and activities and permits for two days gorilla tracking).
On Day 14 you will be taken by an experienced guide gorilla tracking in the National Park.
On Day 15 you will have another opportunity to track gorillas in the National Park.
In the afternoon you will be transferred back to Entebbe today by charter light aircraft. On arrival you will be transferred to Emin Pasha Hotel for a further overnight stay (bed & breakfast).
Combining a safari in Tanzania with a gorilla trek in Uganda is a fantastic way to see Africa's beautiful animals and both are stunning African locations
In the early morning you will be transferred to the airport to board British Airways flight BA062 departing at 0910 to London's Heathrow Airport, arriving at 1600 (local time).