This 17 Days Combined East Africa Safari offers you a great chance to explore East Africa, thus Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zanzibar while visiting the key attraction in each country and you have a total wilderness experience to not just see the BIG 5, but to also witness the great migration either in Masai Mara. Request a Quote You will as well be able to have an interaction with the local community to experience the African culture, as you wind up you travel with chimpanzee trekking and golden monkey trekking in Rwanda, to set you up for the gorilla trekking encounter in Uganda. You will as well be able to do boat ride and canoe ride as mentioned in the itinerary as well as having Kigali city tour to wind up your stay, as you later fly in the evening to experience beach life in Zanzibar and enjoy a wonderful excursions as you relax by the beach. This is one of its kind, as you will enjoy the real African taste as you have bites along of the real local cuisines. The safari will take you all away from Kenya’s Masai Mara, fly to Rwanda, and cross to Uganda, later return to Rwanda and fly to Zanzibar, before you fly back to Kenya to jet out, back home. Experience Sand and Sea Safari with us!
Destination: Kenya – Rwanda – Uganda – Zanzibar
17 Days Combined East Africa Safari
Day 1: Airport Transfer to Hotel
Your Rwanda Eco Company safari guide meets you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport upon arrival on an evening flight. Transfer to your Nairobi city hotel for check in. Dinner on own account. Overnight stay at the hotel at Park Inn by Radisson (Mid – range) or Ibis Styles Nairobi(Standard hotel). Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast basis.
Day 2: Nairobi / Lake Nakuru National Park – Travel time 3.5 hrs
Breakfast at your hotel. Introduction to your safari driver, pre safari briefing and departure for Lake Nakuru National Park by 0830 hrs. You enjoy a brief stop over as you drive down the floor of the Rift Valley. This will be a scenic drive via farm lands and the Great Rift Valley Lakes. Arrival and check in at your lodge / tented camp in time for lunch. You will then enjoy an afternoon game drive. Lake Nakuru is home to four of the BIG 5, among several other mammal and bird species. The biggest attractions though are White Rhinos and the seasonal lesser and greater flamingos that can be found during some months. Dinner and overnight at Flamingo Hill Tented Camp(Mid – range)Or Lake Nakuru Lodge(Standard hotel). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch &Dinner
Day 3: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara National Reserve- Travel time 6.5 hrs
Breakfast from 0630 hrs. Depart Lake Nakuru by 0715 hrs and drive to Masai Mara National Reserve.Check in followed by lunch. You then enjoy your first game drive in Masai Mara from 1530 hrs to 1800 hrs. Dinner and overnight stay at Base Camp Masai Mara(Mid – range)Or Enkorok Mara Camp(Standard hotel)Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4 and Day 5 – Masai Mara
You will spend two full days exploring and discovering the vast Mara reserve, enjoying game drives as you search for the resident Big Cats, antelopes and bird species. Be on the look out for Lions, Cheetahs, Buffalos, Zebras, Spotted Hyenas, Masai Girrafes, Elands, Gazelles, Hippos, Leopard, Black Rhinos and several other animals and birds that reside here. The Mara, one of the most famous wildlife reserves in Africa is home to the Big Five as well as other predators, scavengers, plains game and prolific birdlife. This is also the place where the wildlife spectacle referred to as the annual wildebeest migration takes place every year between July and October when over 1.2 Million Wildebeest and Zebras cross over from Serengeti in search of greener pastures.Dinner and overnight stay at Base Camp Masai Mara(Mid – range)Or Enkorok Mara Camp(Standard hotel).Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6: Masai Mara – Nairobi- and Flight to Kigali Travel time + 5.5 hrs
Breakfast will be served. Check out of camp. Time allowing and depending on the location of your camp, you enjoy an enroute game drive as you begin your drive back to Nairobi. On arrival, optional lunch may be served at the Carnivore Restaurant if time permits. You will then be transferred to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where you board your evening flight to Kigali.Upon arrival at Kigali international airport, you will go through custom and immigration, and you will be met by our company guide/ representative who will warmly welcome you to the Land of a thousand hills that Rwanda is know of, and later drive to your booked hotel accommodation for dinner and overnight stay at Chez Lando Hotel(Mid – range)Or Quiet Haven hotel (Standard hotel).Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 7: Transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Travel time +5 hours
Early morning enjoy your buffer breakfast and checkout of the hotel and drive heading to the western province, on your way visit the Ethnographic Museum in Southern Province, this will give you a great history of traditional ways of living among Rwandans and their past way of leadership of Kingship with an en route lunch. You will reach in the afternoon at Nyungwe National Park heading for a canopy walk. This 70 meters suspended metallic bridge will give you a great overview of Nyungwe forest and on a luck day spot one or two more primates in the forest as you take a walk on this bridge and later return in the afternoon for dinner and overnight stay at Mantis Kivu Marina Bay Hotel(Mid-range lodge) or Emeraude Kivu Resort (Standard). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 8: Chimpanzee tracking and tea plantation visit
Today, after your early morning cap of African coffee, you will leave your hotel to experience the natural forest of Nyungwe well known for having 13 species of primates, and transferred to the park for briefing and chimpanzee trekking. You will be entitled to one hour on finding the chimpanzees. During the chimpanzee trekking you may as well site other primate such as the famous Congo colobus monkeys. After doing the chimpanzee trek, head for lunch before head for a tea plantation visit. Dinner and overnight at Mantis Kivu Marina Bay Hotel(Mid-range lodge) or Emeraude Kivu Resort (Standard). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch &Dinner.
Day 9: Transfer to Musanze. Travel time + 5hrs
You will make up ready to catch up with the beautiful sun rise over the Lake Kivu after just getting done with your morning breakfast. You will take a boat ride to explore the beautiful attractions within this great lake. You have a nature walk at one of the islands within this lake which is known for harboring thousands of the bats. This lake is also known as a birding paradise as it host a number of bird species like the comrand, pied king fishers, weaver birds, heron to mention but a few. You will later return for and drive off to Musanze which is roughly a 2 hours’ drive. Musanze is a tourism area near Volcanoes National Park, where most of the lodges are located since there are no lodges inside of the park. Dinner and overnight at Da Vinci Gorilla lodge (Mid-range lodge) Or La Palme hotel (Standard).Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
Day 10: Golden Monkey Trekking &transfer to Bwindi Travel time + 2hrs
Today after you warm early morning breakfast, you will be picked by our safari driver guide who will transfer you to the park headquarters for briefing and start off you day golden monkey trekking. Just like the gorilla trekking experience, the same applies to golden monkey trekking though no so hectic like gorilla trekking. In the afternoon, ready for transfer to Bwindi via Cyanika Boarder to your booked accommodation. Diner and overnight at Ichumbi Gorilla lodge (mid-range)Or Broadbill forest Camp (Standard). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
Day 11: Gorilla Trekking Experience
Early morning cup of coffee, then prepare for the gorilla trekking briefing from the park headquarters and thereafter, you will enter the jungle with your packed lunch to search the shy mountain gorillas and enjoy their life style in their real home. After meeting the gorillas, you can sit around these great apes for a whole hour watching their social life as you take pictures. On a gorilla safari, a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as walking shoes, packed food and mineral water, insect repellent, sun screen and hut. The gorilla tracking experience takes half or whole day depending on the movements of these primates. After this gorilla tracking experience you will return and to your lodge for lunch. You will spend the evening relaxing and going through your great shots during your trekking, overlooking the beautiful Lake Bunyonyias you wait for overnight stay at Arcadia lodge Bunyonyi (Mid-range lodge) Bunyonyi Safari Resort (Standard). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch &Dinner.
Day 12: Boat ride and transfer to Kigali Travel time + 4 hrs
Today after your relaxed breakfast, you will transfer to Lake Bunyonyi, where you will have a wonderful relaxation moment, on this great beautiful lake as you head for a canoe ride in this beautiful spectacular lake, as you enjoy a moment of bird watching, and viewing number of islands, hidden with this great lake. Number of bird species can as well be spotted here as it’s a birding paradise. After boat ride, you will transfer to Kigali with an en route lunch, and if time permits, do a brief Kigali city tour before transfer to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay at Chez Lando Hotel(Mid – range)Or Quiet Haven hotel (Standard hotel).Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch &Dinner.
Day 13: Transfer to Kigali airport and Fly to Zanzibar
Have morning breakfast, head for a brief half Kigali city tour and depending on your flight time to Zanzibar, you will transferred to the airport to catch up with you flight. Dinner and overnight in Zanzibar hotel. Upon arrival in Zanzibar airport, you will be met by your guide who will transfer you, to your booked hotel for dinner and overnight at Ocean Paradise (Mid – range) or Kichanga Lodge(Standard hotel). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch &Dinner.
Day 14: Day excursion in Zanzibar, Stone town tour & Spice tour
Have morning breakfast, you will head for a day excursion to explore the vibrant hot spot of Zanzibar with a tour of the Stone Town, and learn about its rich history and cultural heritage and Spice tour, which is the second income earner of Zanzibar, with a drive through a profusion of greenery in the countryside seeing, smelling and tasting a variety of spices and mouth-watering tropical seasonal fruits such as jack fruit, pineapple, banana, green coconut juice, dourian, love apple, litche, soursop ( depending on the season ) etc. Spices such as cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, black pepper, turmeric, vanilla, and nutmeg – are as exotic as the flavour.This is also the very best and cheapest place to buy locally made perfumes and oils. Our guided walking tour passes through villages and spice plantations, a walk through the farms as spice farms workers climbs trees, seek out specific plants and cuts off various barks, letting you see, feel and taste everything. Later return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at Ocean Paradise (Mid – range) or Kichanga Lodge(Standard hotel). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch &Dinner.
Day 15: Sea Excursion
Have morning breakfast, you will have a free relaxed morning day at the hotel, you will head off for a sea excursion, for snorkeling and Dhow evening cruise to explore Zanzibar sea. You will return in the late eveningat Ocean Paradise (Mid – range) or Kichanga Lodge(Standard hotel). Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch &Dinner.
Day 16: Free day – Self treat to enjoy your 17 Days Combined East Africa Safari
It’s your free day, to enjoy yourself to the fullest, you can opt to stay at beach, or arrange private walk to stone town or just relax at the hotel. The choice is yours to try something on your own. You can as well decide to just relax, after all, it has been a long safari of sand and sea adventure. Overnight at Ocean Paradise (Mid – range) or Kichanga Lodge (Standard hotel). Meal Plan: Breakfast only.
Day 17: Transfer to Zanzibar airport and Fly to Nairobi – Kenya
Have morning breakfast, you will have a free relaxed morning day at the hotel, and depending on your flight time out of Nairobi to your home country, you shall be transfer to Zanzibar airport, to catch up with your flight to connect with your evening flight in Nairobi to your home country.
End of the 17 Days Combined East Africa Safari.
The 17 Days Combined East Africa Safari Package Includes:
- Pick up and drop off from International Airports;
- 1 nights’ accommodation in Nairobi/ Zanzibar on bed and breakfast basis
- Land cruiser Jeep 4×4 Safari Vehicle with pop-up roof for game view;
- Experience English-Speaking Safari Guide;
- 1 Gorilla ($ 700) permit per person to be paid separately in advance
- All park entry, transit and crater fees;
- Golden monkey permits ($ 100) permit per person
- Chimpanzee permits
- Zanzibar Excursions
- Canoe ride as listed
- Visit to a Masai Village bordering Masai Mara (pay a donation of USD 25 per person locally),
- Regional flights around East Africa (NBO – KGL, KGL – NBO – ZNZ, & ZNZ – NBO)
- All activities under the program;
- All accommodation under the program on full board basis;
- Three meals per day on the safari;
- Bottled water throughout the safari;
- Binocular (1 per safari vehicle);
- Applicable government taxes on tour services, concession fees etc.
- Flying Doctor Emergency Evacuation Cover (Must have valid travel insurance)
However, the 17 Days Combined East Africa Safari Package Excludes: Request a Quote
- Drinks and beverages while at the tented camps & lodges;
- Laundry at the tented camps & lodgesand all other costs incurred at the hotels;
- Change of plan or deviation from itinerary
- International Flights(to and fro, your home country to Kenya),
- Visa (Kenya Visa, Tanzania Visa and East African Visa);
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees;
- Hotels/ lodges imposed increase fees
- All things of personal nature;
- Tipping for hotel and safari staff (highly recommended especially for your safari guides and drivers,
- Medical / travel insurance (recommended)
- All other items not listed in the inclusions list above.
