Gorilla Trekking Rwanda | Ngorongoro | Serengeti | Lake Natron Safari
Day 1: Arrival Kigali, drive to Volcanoes Gorilla Park
Upon your arrival in Kigali, your guide will be waiting for you at the airport, he will then take you on a city tour, visiting the Genocide memorials, craft shop, and local market. After the city tour you will drive to volcano national park. Dinner and Overnight at Hotel Muhabura (Budget) Da Vinci gorilla lodge (Midrange) Mountain Gorilla view lodge (Luxury)
Meal plan: Dinner
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking tour, Kigali and fly to Arusha
Have breakfast, after head to the park headquarters for briefing about the mountain gorilla trekking ethics before embarking on your safari adventure searching for the mountain gorillas in their natural habitat. Once you meet the gorillas you are allowed 1 hour regulated time to be with the gorillas. Later this afternoon your guide will drive you back to Kigali for your flight to Arusha Tanzania. Dinner and Overnight at Arusha Tourist Inn.
Meal plan: Breakfast
Day 3: Arusha- Ngorongoro crater
In the morning, after Breakfast, drive from Arusha to Ngorongoro crater.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 4: spend the whole day exploring more of Ngorongoro.
Because of the availability of water all year round around the Ngorongoro crater, this area has fodder and water available all year round and this is the reason the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. You will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 5: Ngorongoro crater – Serengeti National Park
Early morning breakfast and after depart to Serengeti National Park. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Do game drive in Serengeti
Overnight at the heart of Serengeti Seronera Nasikia tented Camp
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Full day Serengeti National Park game drive including following the wildebeest migration.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 7: Serengeti National Park – Lake Natron
After an early breakfast, drive from towards north Serengeti, Check out of the park at Klein’s gate then transfer to Lake Natron for an early dinner and overnight. Go for an evening lake Natron walk for sunset if time permits.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Natron tented camp.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Day 8: Lake Natron – Arusha
Night ascent & dawn summit bid, Oldoinyo Lengai (seismic conditions permitting). Optional waterfall hike and swim. After transfer to Arusha for airport drop off or overnight.
Meal plan: Breakfast