11 Day Rwanda Gorillas – Kenya and Maasai Mara.

11 Day Rwanda Gorillas – Kenya and Maasai Mara

This 11-Day Rwanda Gorillas – Kenya and Maasai Mara Safari starts in Kigali, Rwanda, and ends in Nairobi, Kenya. On this safari tour, you will trek out and explore Rwanda and Kenya, trek the endangered mountain gorillas of Rwanda, visit several places and National Parks in Rwanda and Kenya, including Kigali City and Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda, Nairobi City, Sweetwaters Game Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. Come Explore Africa with us!

Safari Highlights:

Pickup from Kigali International Airport

Exclusive Kigali City Tour in Rwanda

Double Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park of Rwanda

Visit the Giraffe Centre and David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Kenya

Encounter with Chimpanzee at Sweetwaters Game Reserve

Morning and Night Game Drives in Sweetwaters Game Reserve.

Game Drives in Lake Nakuru National Park

Exploring Maasai Mara National Reserve

Transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for departure.

A Detailed Itinerary:

Day 1: Pick up from Kigali International Airport and Kigali City Tour.

Our professional driver guide from Arcadia Safaris will pick you up from Kigali International Airport upon arrival, greet, and brief you about the journey. He then drives you through Kigali City for a Tour. You will also visit the Genocide Memorial Site, where you learn about the history of The Rwandan Genocide, which took place between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. In this, approximately 100-day period, more than 800,000 members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group and some moderate Hutu and Twa were brutally slaughtered by armed Hutu militias. Proceed for dinner and your overnight at a hotel of your booking.

Destination: Kigali
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 2: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park for your First Gorilla Trek.

Initially, you will go after breakfast, take about a 2-hour drive while advancing to the park headquarters in Kinigi for the Do’s and Don’ts briefing on when with the mountain gorillas, allocation of a park ranger who is to guide you through the process of trekking, then assigns you a gorilla family to go in search of as you get into the search of the mountain gorillas, taking about 2 to 8 hours, depending on movement and range of feeding; Best Rwanda Gorillas

On the way up and during your trek, you will observe various bird species such as the long-crested eagle, stonechat, cinnamon-breasted bee eater, grey-throated throat, African marsh harrier, common moorhen, paradise flycatcher, among other bird species. You will be allowed to spend a maximum of 1 hour with these majestic creatures as you watch and capture every moment while they go about their day-to-day activities, and the young ones playing around the old ones, feeding each other and also eating foliage, as your gaze meets the gentle eyes of Africa’s dark-furred Great Apes.

You will be free to ask as many questions as possible about these gorillas and take memorable pictures, you will then return back to your accommodation for a delicious lunch and the rest of your afternoon will be spent while resting and relaxing at your lodge; 11 Day Rwanda Gorillas – Kenya and Maasai Mara.

Destination: Volcanoes National Park
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 3: Second Gorilla Trek in Volcanoes National Park.

Early on the 3rd day of the 11-Day Rwanda Gorillas-Kenya and Maasai Mara safari, wake to the sounds of birds up in the sky and an early breakfast will signal day commencement. Wear appropriate clothes for the day like a long sleeved shirt, a pair of Kaki or jean trousers, a round cap, water proof boots to protect you from the falling tree branches of the Volcanoes National Park and also in case of bad weather, Pack some snacks as well as water to help in keeping you hydrated during the trek; Best Rwanda Gorillas.

Second Gorilla Trek.

Head off to the park headquarters in Kinigi for a briefing on the Dos and Don’ts while you are with the mountain gorillas. You will be assigned a park ranger who will guide you during the trek and a gorilla family to look out for, then start the search for the mountain gorillas, a search that may take up to about 2 to 8 hours depending on their movement and feeding range.

Some bird species that you will see in your hike are Long crested eagle, stonechat, cinnamon-breasted bee eater, grey throated throat, African marsh harrier, common moorhen, paradise flycatcher among other bird species. After locating the gorillas, you will be allowed to spend up to 1 hour with them while learning about their way of life, how they feed, take care of their young ones, and their communication among others. Ask as many questions as possible about these gorillas and take memorable pictures and then you will return back to your accommodation for lunch. You will spend the rest of your day in full relaxation, getting rested from the long day.

Destination: Volcanoes National Park
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 4: Fly From Kigali to Nairobi at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

After your breakfast, you will be transferred to Kigali International Airport for your flight to Nairobi, Kenya, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. On arrival, you will be picked up by our guide who shall be ready for you, after which you will be transferred to your accommodation in Nairobi for dinner and overnight city. 11 Day Rwanda Gorillas – Kenya and Maasai Mara.

Destination: Nairobi – Kenya
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 5: Transfer to Giraffe Manor to Visit the Giraffe Centre and David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage.

In Kenya, after your wake-up on a fine morning, you will have up a delicious breakfast and then go to the Giraffe Centre. The place established in 1979 educates the school children about their country’s incredible wildlife and environment as well as their breeding programme of the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe. Here, you get extremely up-close with these tall species and get an opportunity to feed them since they love interacting with visitors. Later in the day, you can as well stretch your legs through a small nature trail within the sanctuary and then transfer to Elephant Orphanage in search for the white rhinos. Later return to your lodge for your dinner and overnight.

Destination: The Giraffe Centre – Nairobi, Kenya
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 6: Transfer to Sweetwaters Game Reserve to Encounter with Chimpanzees.

On Day 6; After breakfast you check-out and drive to Sweet-waters in the secluded heart of Ol Pejeta Ranch and Rhino Reserve. Here, these magnificent beasts are afforded sanctuary from those who would take their lives to sell their horns. The Jane Goodall Institute runs a remarkable Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where you go face to face with these primates.

Your camp also overlooks one of the busiest waterholes in the area and offers some amazing views of elephant, giraffe as well as a myriad of other plains game. This is Africa as Teddy Roosevelt saw it years ago when he led one of the first safaris to tour Africa in comfort and Splendour. Our tents at Sweetwater will remind you of this bygone era.

Destination: Ol Pejeta Conservancy – Sweetwaters Game Reserve
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 7: Morning and Night Game Drives in Sweetwaters Game Reserve.

On day 7 of your Adventure, you will have your delicious breakfast and then you will go for an early morning game drive through the reserve; you will have sightings of different mammal species, including the black and white rhinos, African Wild Cat, lions, Aardwolf, African Civet, Baboons, Beisa Oryx, Bohor Reedbuck, Black-Back Jackal, Bruchell’s Zebra, including possible sightings of the wild dogs among others. Later, you’ll be driven back to your hotel for lunch.

You will spend your afternoon relaxing and later in the evening, you will go for a night game drive with an armed park ranger and spotlight torches to help you see nocturnal in the night while hunting and feeding on their prey like African wild dog, Oryx, cheetah, lions, Jackson’s hartebeest, serval and bat-eared fox among others.

Destination: Ol Pejeta Conservancy – Sweetwaters Game Reserve
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 8: Transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park with a Stopover at Nyahururu Town.

After a leisurely breakfast on day 8 of your 11 Days Rwanda Gorillas- Kenya and Maasai Mara Safari, you will then drive to Lake Nakuru National Park which is about 4 hours from Sweetwaters game reserve. The journey will take you through the Great Rift Valley stopping at one of the highest Cities of Kenya, Nyahururu at an elevation of 7700ft.

You will then drive to Thomson falls, a 74m waterfall, which is located 3km away from Nyahururu Town, and upon reaching you will be impressed by the stupendous thundering of the waters which drop several hundred feet down into a fearful gloomy gorge. Later you will be driven to Lake Nakuru National Park, home for Pink flamingos lining beautifully in the middle of the Lake. You will then have dinner and later overnight.

Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 9: Morning Game Drive in Lake Nakuru National Park and Transfer to Maasai Mara National Reserve.

On day 9 of your safari, you will have a sumptuous early morning breakfast and then set off on a game drive through the park that will present various mammal species before you, including waterbucks, impalas, warthogs, elands, lions, leopards, hippopotamus, giraffes, rhinos, among others. Afterward, you will proceed to Maasai Mara National Reserve, which will take about 5 hours including a lunch stopover enroute.

Destination: Maasai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 10: Full Day of Exploring Maasai Mara Game Reserve.

After breakfast, you will spend the day in the Maasai Mara, one of the greatest wildernesses of the world! You will take part in a morning and afternoon game drive where you will see large numbers of wild game. Residents among the park are giraffe, eland, topi, and thousands of plains game including impala, zebra, and gazelles. While in the Mara, take an optional hot-air balloon ride or go fishing on Lake Victoria at extra cost. In the evening on your last day, you will attend a Bush Sundowner – a fabulous al fresco cocktail party overlooking the savannah at sunset. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.

Destination: Maasai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation Options:

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

Day 11: Morning Game Drive and Transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

You will rise early and take off for your last sunrise game drive before returning to the camp/lodge for a proper sit down English breakfast. After breakfast you will check-out and drive to Nairobi where you will check-in the hotel for dayroom use where you can spend the rest of the day at your leisure or take part in some last minute shopping and sightseeing. This evening, you will be taken to the airport for your ongoing flight home.

Destination: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Accommodation Option: No (End of tour) Unless on Request

• Meals Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
• Drinking Water, Fruits and Wi-Fi throughout the journey

PRICE INCLUDES

• Round Trip Airport Transfers (pick-up and drop-off)
• Private Transportation in 4×4 Safari Cars
• Meals Specified on a Full Board basis
• Accommodation with Ensuite Facilities
• Applicable Park Entrance and Activities Fees
• English Speaking Professional Driver-Guide
• Gorilla Trekking Permit Fees
• Fly-in from Rwanda to Kenya Nairobi
• All Hotel and Lodge Pickups and Drop-off
• All Taxes
• Bottled drinking water and Fruits while on safari
• Activities as stipulated in the Itinerary (except those stated as “optional”)

PRICE EXCLUDES

• Activities not mentioned in the Itinerary
• International Flight Fares (unless requested)
• Country Entry Visa
• Personal Travel Insurance
• Telephone Charges
• Laundry
• Bar bills and all Alcoholic drinks
• Souvenirs, Gifts and Tips
• Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
• All related medical tests and vaccinations

SAFARI COST: (Tour Rates are Per Person and exclude International Flight Fares)

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