How many days is the 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari?

The 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari is 12 days and 11 nights, operating year-round from Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda.

How much does the 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari cost?

The 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari is priced on request depending on your group size, dates, and accommodation preferences. Contact Orika Africa Tours for a free tailor-made quote: hi@orikaafrica.com or +256 707 916 185.

What is included in the 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari?

The 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda includes all accommodation, meals, park fees, private safari vehicle with an experienced guide-driver, and 24/7 support from Orika Africa Tours. Uganda's UTB-licensed Tour Operator & DMC. We welcome solo travellers, couples, families, and larger groups.

Is the 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari suitable for first-time safari visitors?

Yes. Orika Africa Tours designs every itinerary from scratch around your group's fitness, interests, and budget. The 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari is available as a private safari, no shared vehicles, no fixed groups, ever.

What is the best time to go on the 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda?

The 12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda runs year-round. The dry seasons (June to August and December to February) offer the best conditions for game drives and trekking. Contact Orika Africa Tours for month-by-month advice.

12 Days Gorilla & Great Migration Safari

12 days link three countries and three of the continent's defining wildlife experiences into one seamless grand tour of East Africa. It begins in Tanzania on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater and across the endless plains of the northern Serengeti at the height of the Great Migration, crosses into Kenya for the predator-rich Masai Mara and a day in Nairobi, then finishes in Rwanda with mountain gorillas beneath the Virunga volcanoes. The crater, the migration and the gorillas, woven together with private guiding and standout camps.

Starting at Kilimanjaro and ending in Kigali, it pairs naturally with a Zanzibar beach extension at the start or a few quiet days in Rwanda at the end. For a two-country gorilla focus instead, see the 16 Days Uganda to Rwanda Gorilla Safari, or the luxury 15 Days Rwanda & Uganda Luxury Gorilla Safari.

Explore each country in depth in the Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda destination guides.

Trip Highlights

Mountain gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
The Great Migration across the northern Serengeti and Masai Mara
Big Five game viewing on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater
Golden monkey tracking and the Dian Fossey gorilla campus
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and Giraffe Centre in Nairobi
Mto wa Mbu community cultural walk
A journey from Kilimanjaro to Kigali, easy to extend to Zanzibar

Day-by-Day Itinerary

Karibu, and welcome to Tanzania. On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport you are met and driven towards the Ngorongoro highlands, pausing at the village of Mto wa Mbu for a guided community walk and a local lunch. You arrive at your lodge on the crater rim with the rest of the day at leisure.

A full day is given to the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater, a self-contained world of grassland, lake and forest holding one of the highest concentrations of wildlife in Africa. With a packed lunch you search for lion, elephant, flamingo and the crater's celebrated black rhino, often seeing all of the Big Five in a single drive.

After breakfast you transfer to the airstrip for the flight into the northern Serengeti, landing at Kogatende. An en route game drive brings you to camp, and after a siesta you head out again for a sundowner game drive across the golden plains.

A full day in the northern Serengeti follows the rhythm of the Great Migration and the predators that shadow it. Game drives are timed with your guide to the best of the light and the action, with the chance of a dramatic Mara River crossing. An optional hot air balloon safari at dawn can be arranged.

Another full day in this superb, uncrowded corner of the Serengeti, where savannah grasslands roll between rocky hills and the Mara River. Lion prides on the kopjes, cheetah on the open plains and the sheer scale of the migration make every drive different.

After a final Serengeti morning you fly north and cross into Kenya, arriving in the Masai Mara with an en route game drive to camp. A private sundowner game drive closes the day along the famous river bend.

A full day in the Mara, one of the finest places for wildlife anywhere in Kenya, where lion, leopard, cheetah and hyena hunt among vast herds of plains game. Morning and sundowner game drives make the most of the predator action and the migration herds gathered along the river.

A morning flight brings you to Nairobi. You visit the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, renowned for raising orphaned elephants, and the Giraffe Centre, home to the endangered Rothschild's giraffe, with a game drive in Nairobi National Park and lunch in the city.

You fly from Nairobi to Kigali and transfer to Volcanoes National Park, a highland of bamboo, jungle and soaring volcanic peaks. The afternoon brings a visit to the Dian Fossey campus, a window into the long conservation story that brought the mountain gorillas back from the brink.

After a briefing at the park headquarters you venture into the mist-covered forest in search of a habituated mountain gorilla family, spending a treasured hour in their presence high on the volcanic slopes. For those who wish, golden monkey tracking can be added in the bamboo zone.

You drive to Kigali, a clean and welcoming city draped across a thousand hills. A visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial offers a dignified reflection on Rwanda's history, with time to take in the energy of the city before a final night in comfort.

After breakfast you are transferred to Kigali International Airport for your onward flight, closing a journey that has spanned the crater, the migration and the gorillas of East Africa.