18 days Africa educational safari in Kenya and Uganda

Combining the highlights of these 2 countries in Africa is really a big adventure and you will enjoy such a magnificent variation of sceneries! It will be a safari you never will forget!!!

The next safari can be extended so you can enjoy the beautiful scenery longer or combine it with an other safari. Also you can have an other mean of transport like flying to save time and avoid the bad roads. When we have to reach a curtain budget - of course possible we do our best! Then we can sleep in schools,. tented camps etc. Please let us know your wishes!

A good example for an course schedule: designed for upper level undergraduates & graduate students majoring in biological sciences, natural resources management, zoology or related field: it is so good to learn to understand Africa. Please give the goals of the excursion to Africa and we try hard to for fill your wishes.

Program Africa educational safari:

Day 1: Home - Nairobi Departure from home to Nairobi.

Day 2: Nairobi
Arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International airport, you will be met and transferred to a city hotel-Park place or similar. Today there is space for some excursions.
- Meals and overnight in the hotel

Day 3: Nairobi National Park
Students will picked and driven to Nairobi National Park for a Safari Walk under guidance of your teachers or an educated guide. Morning secession will be introduction of the park and PM game drive in the park.
- Meals and overnight in the hotel.

Day 4: Nairobi - Tsavo East Education Center
Depart Nairobi for Tsavo East arriving in time for lunch . Check in at your hostel with a special space for the teachers. Today we do also a guided nature trail walks Outreach.
- Meals and overnight at the hostel.

Day 5: Tsavo East National Park
Tsavo East National park with morning lecture and a wildlife drive. After lunch students will be taken to Mundando Rock.
- Meals and overnight at the hostel.

Day 6: Tsavo East - Amboseli
After lunch we enter into Amboseli National Park with a possibility of seeing game on the way to Amboseli. A late game drive in the afternoon.
- Dinner and overnight at your lodge.

Day 7: Amboseli National Park.
Full day of game viewing in the Park. Amboseli National Park is located at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain. The snow of the mountain form a majestic backdrop to one of Kenya's most popular spectacular displays of wildlife - lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, cheetah, buffalo and host of plains game, creating Kenya's most sought after photographer's paradise.
- Meals and overnight at your lodge.

Day 8: Amboseli - Nairobi - Lake Nakuru
Tsavo West with morning presentations and afternoon Rhino sanctuary.
- Meals and overnight at the hostel in Nakuru Park.

Day 9: Lake Nakuru National Park
Today we do in the morning a game drive in the bus under the guidance of a Park Ranger; in the afternoon we first do park cleaning and but also plant trees on indication of the Rangers.
- Meals and overnight at the hostel in Nakuru Park.

Day 10: Lake Nakuru - Masai Mara
The drive in the morning takes you to the Masai Mara Game Reserve, the northern part of the Serengeti of Tanzania; one of Kenya's most favored game-viewing areas of even whole Africa. The reserve covers 700 square miles of magnificent wilderness. It is the Africa of the imagination; endless reaches of acacia-dotted grasslands studded with hazy hills. Afternoon game drive is held to see the sun downer as hoping to see lions in large prides, elephants, buffalos, zebras and numerous plain animals.
- Dinner and overnight at the camp/lodge.

Day 11 en 12. Masai Mara National Park
The full day game viewing is coupled with exploring this spectacular Park. The Mara is the land of the African legend: lions are abundant throughout the park, as are the elephants, giraffes and a variety of gazelle species and zebra as well as other forms of wildlife. Cheetah and leopard are also regularly seen and - less commonly - the rhino.
The annual wildebeest migration, one of nature's few remaining wildlife spectacles, occurs in the Mara from July to September where the big animals and their predators are to be present in abundance during the time frame of this trip. Several bird species of the Bee-Eater, the flying rainbow that heads the list of the Mara's birds, occur in the reserve. As well as wildlife, the Maasai Mara is also home to many members of the colorful Maasai tribe who may be seen around the borders of the park - Morans (warriors) loping across the plains, young boys herding goats or elders grouped under a tree discussing matters of the day. A visit to a Masai boma (homestead) reveals this outstanding culture and customs.
- Dinner and overnight at the camp/lodge.

Day 13: Masai Mara // Kampala
Today we cross the border with Uganda to Kampala to have excursions around Kampala.
- Meals and overnight in a hotel.

Day 14: Kampala - Bwindi
We depart Kampala in the morning driving south with stops at the craft village at the Uganda Equator for pictures and shopping. After lunch at the Lakeview hotel in Mbarara, we proceed through the beautiful evergreen mountain country referred to as the "Little Switzerland". Arrive Bwindi late afternoon/early evening.
- Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Forest Camp.

Day 15: first day of Gorillas
After breakfast and briefing by park ranger guides, we depart with picnic lunch boxes to start a 30 minutes - 8 hours trek to find the Mountain gorillas. The tracking starts at the area where the gorillas were the previous day. After a full hour with the gorillas, then we will return to Gorilla Forest Camp for dinner and overnight.

Day 16: second day of Gorillas
With a picnic lunch, we take today a second chance tracking the gorillas.
- Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Forest Camp

Day 17: Bwindi - Lake Bunyoni - Mbarara
Today we travel to Kabale where there is lunch at Lake Bunyoni: here we can rent canoes to explore the many small islands of the Lake. Aft re that we continue to Mbarara.
- Meals and overnight at the Agip Motel.

Day 18. Mbarara - Entebbe Airport
In the morning we leave to the Entebbe Airport on the way to home: here ends the safari but we hope that you enjoyed the safari and even more: learned a lot!

We hope you had fun and the memories will be of a lifetime of Africa.

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