10-Day Rwanda & Tanzania Wildlife Safari Adventure

10-Day Rwanda & Tanzania Wildlife Safari Adventure

Offered by: USD Safari Tours
4.9/5 (1600 Reviews)
Journey Snapshot
🗺 Tanzania, Rwanda ⏱ 10 days 🚙 4x4 Pop-up Roof
kigali ruhengeri (city) volcanoes NP(Gorillas) Serengeti NP Ngorongoro crater Lake ManyaraNP T
Embark on a thrilling ten-day safari across Rwanda and Tanzania, combining spectacular wildlife, breathtaking landscapes, and unforgettable safari moments. Discover Rwanda's unique natural beauty before heading to Tanzania for exciting game drives among lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, and other iconic African wildlife. A perfect journey for tourists seeking wildlife, nature, adventure, and two remarkable East African destinations.

Route

Start kigali (Day 1)
Day 2 ruhengeri (city)
Day 3 volcanoes NP(Gorillas)
Day 4 Serengeti NP
Day 5 Ngorongoro crater
Day 6 Lake ManyaraNP
End T

Tour Features

Day 1:Arrive In Rwanda | Transfer To Your Hotel In Kigali | Relaxing Day 2:Genocide Memorial Visit | Transfer To Musanze | Visit The Dian Fossey Center Day 3:Gorilla Trekking | Visit Iby'Cultural Village Day 4:Last Day In Rwanda | Golden Monkey Trekking | Visit Kigali Local Market Tour | Fly To Tanzania Day 5:Transfer To Serengeti National Park | Evening Game Drive Day 6:Optional Hot Air Balloon Safari At 600 USD Per Person | Full-Day Game Drive Day 7:Travel To Ngorongoro Crater | Guided Game Drive Day 8:Transfer To Lake Manyara National Park | Guided Game Drive Day 9:Transfer To Tarangire National Park | Game Drive Day 10:The Last Day With Us | Transfer To The Airport | Fly Back Home

Activities & Transportation

  • Route: kigali, ruhengeri (city), volcanoes NP(Gorillas), Serengeti NP, Ngorongoro crater, Lake ManyaraNP, T
  • Duration: 10 days
  • Getting around: 4x4 safari vehicle (pop-up roof)
  • Transfers: airport pick-up & drop-off can be included

Accommodation & Meals

Day
Accommodation
Meals
1
Chez Lando Hotel Mid-range hotel located in Kigali (Rwanda)
Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included) Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
2
Classic Resort Lodge> Mid-range hotel located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
3
Classic Resort Lodge> Mid-range hotel located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
4
Outpost Lodge> Budget lodge in Arusha (City, Tanzania)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
5
Osero Serengeti Tented Camp> Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP (Tanzania)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
6
Osero Serengeti Tented Camp> Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP (Tanzania)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
7
Ngorongoro Safari Lodge >Mid-range lodge located outside Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
8
Lake Manyara Tortilis Camp >Mid-range tented bush camp located inside Lake Manyara NP (Tanzania)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
9
Tarangire Simba Lodge> Mid-range lodge located less than 1hr drive from Tarangire NP (Tanzania)
All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
10
No accommodation
Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included) Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day by Day

Day 1 Arrive In Rwanda | Transfer To Your Hotel In Kigali | Relaxing
Morning 🏨Chez Lando Hotel Mid-range hotel located in Kigali (Rwanda) 🍽Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included) Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
On arrival in Rwanda, you will be welcomed and picked up by our Kubwa Five Safaris guide who will be holding an A4 paper with your name printed on it at Kigali International Airport and be transferred to your hotel in Kigali. You will check into your hotel and do some relaxing to sleep off the jet-lag. Dinner and overnight at Chez Lando Hotel.
Day 2 Genocide Memorial Visit | Transfer To Musanze | Visit The Dian Fossey Center
Morning 🏨Classic Resort Lodge> Mid-range hotel located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After breakfast, you will go on a Kigali city tour visiting the Genocide Memorial Site, which gives a brief history of Rwanda. Thereafter, you will be driven to Musanze, where you will visit the Dian Fossey Center. This center will teach you about mountain gorilla conservation. After, you will be transferred to your hotel to do some relaxing. Dinner and overnight at Classic Lodge.
Day 3 Gorilla Trekking | Visit Iby'Cultural Village
Morning 🏨Classic Resort Lodge> Mid-range hotel located less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After breakfast, you will assemble at the park headquarters for a briefing in the morning together with your trekking gear and drinking water and after ascend in the forest to trek the gorillas. This is one of the most memorable experiences you can have while on safari. Volcanoes National Park is known for its ultimate primate safaris, where tourists will get to see a number of primate species. There are twelve gorilla families living in Volcanoes National Park that are fully habituated, with a few others habituated solely for scientific research. The groups, or troops, consist of at least one silverback along with several females and youngsters. The families are known as Susa, Igisha, Karisimbi, Sabyinyo, Amahoro, Agashya, Kwitonda, Umubano, Hirwa, Bwenge, Ugyenda and Muhoza. In the evening, you will visit the Iby'lwacu Cultural Center to enjoy the Rwandan culture, including the traditional dance. Dinner and overnight at Classic Lodge.
Day 4 Last Day In Rwanda | Golden Monkey Trekking | Visit Kigali Local Market Tour | Fly To Tanzania
Morning 🏨Outpost Lodge> Budget lodge in Arusha (City, Tanzania) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After breakfast, you will assemble at the park headquarters for a briefing in the morning, together with your trekking gear and drinking water, and ascend in the forest to track the golden monkeys. While participating in golden monkey trekking, you will get to find out interesting facts about golden monkeys that will make your Rwanda tour interesting. After golden monkey trekking, you will be driven to Kigali for a local market tour. Here you can explore a lively arts scene, traditional markets, several museums and memorials, and tempting restaurants representing most global cuisines. Later, you will be transferred to Kigali International Airport for your scheduled flight to Tanzania. Our Kubwa Five Safaris guide will welcome you at Kilimanjaro Airport and drive you to your hotel in Arusha. Dinner and overnight at Outpost Lodge.
Day 5 Transfer To Serengeti National Park | Evening Game Drive
Morning 🏨Osero Serengeti Tented Camp> Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP (Tanzania) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Serengeti National Park where you will go for an evening game drive on arrival. 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 giraffe, impala, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo, and hundreds of species of birds. Dinner and overnight at Osero Serengeti Tented Camp.
Day 6 Optional Hot Air Balloon Safari At 600 USD Per Person | Full-Day Game Drive
Morning 🏨Osero Serengeti Tented Camp> Mid-range tented camp located inside Serengeti NP (Tanzania) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After breakfast, you will spend the whole day enjoying game drives in this famous park searching for Zebra and Wildebeest migration followed by predators like Lions, Cheetahs and Leopards with packed lunches. If you are interested in Hot Air Balloon Safari, this can be done in the morning; thereafter, you will continue with the game drive. The fee for the Hot Air Balloon Safari is US $600 per person. While you're in the Serengeti, there's an excellent chance that you'll see leopards along the dry riverbanks, cheetahs out on the grasslands, and elephants, giraffes and all kinds of antelopes everywhere across the park. Watch also for the Serengeti's famous lion prides. And that's just the start. Some of the largest and most diverse wildlife populations on the planet roam the Serengeti, not to mention millions of wildebeest and zebras who migrate across the plains every year. Dinner and overnight at Osero Serengeti Tented Camp.
Day 7 Travel To Ngorongoro Crater | Guided Game Drive
Morning 🏨Ngorongoro Safari Lodge >Mid-range lodge located outside Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After breakfast, you will be driven to Ngorongoro crater floor for a game drive with packed lunches. You'll love the warm light and cooler temperatures as we take you out to explore on your evening game drive. This time of day is when both predators and prey are most active and it can feel as though anything could happen at any moment. This is when you'll most enjoy being on safari. 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. 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. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Safari Lodge.
Day 8 Transfer To Lake Manyara National Park | Guided Game Drive
Morning 🏨Lake Manyara Tortilis Camp >Mid-range tented bush camp located inside Lake Manyara NP (Tanzania) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After your morning breakfast, you will be transferred to Lake Manyara. On arrival at Lake Manyara National park, you will go for a game drive. 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 is game-rich and best known for its tree-climbing lions. Lake Manyara National Park is inhabited by over 380 types of birds and many animal species, including elephants, buffaloes, zebras, giraffes, leopards, lions, baboons, hippos, antelopes, warthogs and many others. It is a world-class wildlife-viewing destination, and it offers you some really special safari experiences. It's also famous for its elephants, and it's not unusual to drive along a forest track only to have to stop suddenly to allow an elephant family to pass. Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Tortilis Camp.
Day 9 Transfer To Tarangire National Park | Game Drive
Morning 🏨Tarangire Simba Lodge> Mid-range lodge located less than 1hr drive from Tarangire NP (Tanzania) 🍽All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
On this day after breakfast, you will be transferred to Tarangire National Park for an evening game drive. If you've never been to Tarangire (and even if you have) you're in for a real treat. Tarangire is filled with giants - baobab trees all across the park, as well as elephants, lots of them. But that's just the beginning. Of the big cats, you'll probably see lions, and cheetahs and leopards are around, too. And it's impossible to miss the wildebeest, giraffes, hippos, buffaloes and zebras. Your backdrop for all of this is one of the prettiest in northern Tanzania, with a memorable mix of river woodland, open plains and rolling hills. And some vantage points to take it all in. Other wildlife to look forward to here includes big cats, zebra, hippo, buffalo, wildebeest and more. If you're really lucky, you might spy the park's transient population of African wild dog. Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Simba Lodge.
Day 10 The Last Day With Us | Transfer To The Airport | Fly Back Home
Morning 🏨No accommodation 🍽Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included) Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After having a delightful breakfast, you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro Airport for your scheduled flight back home. Your safari draws to a close, and we're sure that you will have enjoyed it as much as we have.

Rates

From: $7,200 pp (USD)
Final quote depends on date, travelers and lodge level.

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Inclusions

Included
  • Park fees (For non-residents)
  • Gorilla permits (One per person, non-resident)
  • All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
  • All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
  • A professional driver/guide
  • All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
  • All flights during the tour
  • All Taxes/VAT
  • Roundtrip airport transfer
  • Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)

Exclusions

Not included
  • International flights (From/to home)
  • Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
  • Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
  • Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
  • Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees

Note: Some items may vary depending on season and lodge level.

Getting There

Start: kigali

End: T

We can arrange airport pick-up and drop-off. Ask in your quote request.

Offered By

USD Safari Tours
USD Safari Tours
4.9/5 • 1600 reviews