Gorilla Trekking, Masai Mara and Serengeti Tour

Day 1. Transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park

Pick up at 8am from your hotel in Nairobi and depart for Lake Nakuru arriving in time for check in and lunch. Have a short rest to relax and enjoy the lodge facilities and at 4pm headout for game drive until sunset and return to your lodge.

On the floor of the Great Rift Valley, surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland, lies the beautiful Lake Nakuru National Park. Visitors can enjoy the wide ecological diversity and varied habitats that range from Lake Nakuru itself to the surrounding escarpment and ridges.

About 550 different plant species including the unique and biggest euphorbia forest in Africa, picturesque landscape, and yellow acacia woodlands. Lake Nakuru National Park is ideal for bird watching, hiking, picnic and game drives. 

The park hosts over 56 different species of mammals including white rhinos, waterbuck, buffaloes, giraffes, and zebras. The park is regarded by avid birders as the greatest World ornithological spectacle on the Earth, home to greater and lesser flamingos and other water birds including a variety of terrestrial birds numbering about 450 species in total. It is currently a Rhino and Rothchild’s giraffe sanctuary. 

Day 2: Game drive and Transfer to Masai Mara

Early morning game drive and return to lodge breakfast. Thereafter depart for Maasai Mara to arrive for check in and lunch. Have a short siesta and at 4pm head out for an evening game drive until sunset. 

This is Kenya’s number one park and is always on every tourist’s “Must See List”. Full of life with various types of animals and birds, Maasai Mara crown’s the climax of every safari in Kenya. Its rolling grasslands and acacia savannah have time and again been captured on film with the movie “Out of Africa” being the most famous. The climate is gentle, rarely too hot, and well spread rainfall year-round. Apart from the big five, the Maasai Mara is most famous for the annual migration of over a million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle etc. from the Serengeti in northern Tanzania crossing the Mara River into Kenya in search of fresh feeding grounds, which takes place in late July to September. 

The reserve is also home to great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, zebras, and thousands of antelopes, impalas, and gazelles. 

Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Mara River, while prides of lions and cheetahs prowl the savannah plains and over 450 bird species. 

Have a short rest in your rooms and depart for an afternoon game where you start spotting nature at its best, exploring wildlife and as the sun starts to edge dip into the African horizon it will be the perfect opportunity for you to capture the beautiful Mara landscape on film and return to your lodge at sunset. 

Day 3: Hot Air balloon trip and Game drive, Big Five in Masai Mara

Pick up early for a hot air balloon safari followed by a bush breakfast. Thereafter your drive guide will pick you up for a visit to a Maasai village and return to camp for lunch. The rest of the afternoon will be spent at leisure and at 4pm headout for an evening game drive until sunset and return to the lodge for freshening up and dinner.

The landscape is breathtaking with its network of roads specially constructed for game viewing. Certainly, the most frequented game reserve in Kenya, Maasai Mara is a magnificent landscape of open plains bisected by the Mara River and its tributaries and punctuated by marshes and forests.

 This 650 sq. kilometer reserve supports the highest density of game to be seen anywhere considering its size

Day 4: Transfer to Serengeti National Park via Isebania Border

Early breakfast and picnic lunch boxes depart for Isebania the Tanzania/Kenya border point. After the customs and immigration formalities proceed to Serengeti to arrive for an evening game drive until sunset and proceed to your camp for check in. 

The park is undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world with over 3 million large mammals, unbeaten for its natural beauty and its greatest concentration of plain games in Africa. 

The Serengeti is home to the world’s largest populations of Wildebeest, Zebra, Cape Eland, Lion, Cheetah, Hyena and Gazelles.

The scenic beauty of the sky with cool nights and warm days makes your visit to this remaining home for great migration of large mammals incredible. It is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth – the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, and birds is also impressive. 

The Park also has more than 500 species of birds, most notably, ostriches. Drive towards your camp.

Day 5: Full day Game drive in Serengeti National Park

After breakfast head out with your packed lunch for a full day game drive in the wilderness in search of the big five animals amongst other animals like giraffes, thousands of elands, Topi, kongoni, impala, Grant’s gazelle, Gaudy agama lizards and rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite kopjes, not forgetting different species of birds. 

The climate of the Serengeti National Park is subtropical, with rain season from November to April and dry season from May to October. 

A world-renown, World Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site that has many more attractions than any other national park in Africa.

The great migration, the big five, unique bird collections, endangered species, highest concentration of carnivores and herbivores, scenic and spectacular landscapes are some of the attractions one will encounter! Later in the evenin,  head back to the camp. 

Day 6: Transfer to Ngorongoro Crater for exploration

After breakfast collect packed lunch and with a morning game enroute depart for Ngorongoro and on arrival descend into the crater where you will spend the rest of the day exploring. At sunset ascend back and proceed to your cap for check in. The Crater was a huge volcanic mountain, rivaling Mt Kilimanjaro in size. 

This changed when the top of the mountain collapsed in on itself, creating the biggest volcanic caldera in the world. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area spans vast expanses of highland plains, savanna, savanna woodlands and forests. Established in 1959 as a multiple land use area, with wildlife coexisting with semi-nomadic Maasai pastoralists practicing traditional livestock grazing, it includes the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera. 

The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles, and other animals into the northern plains. The north of the Crater is, overall, much drier and consists of the open grasslands which characterize the Crater floor; this is where most of the resident game resides. 

You are guaranteed to see large concentrations of game on any Ngorongoro safari. Break for picnic lunch and continue with the expedition. 

Day 7: Morning game drive and transfer to Arusha 

After an early breakfast and with lunch boxes, have a morning game drive and depart for Arusha where you will be dropped off at your hotel booked directly. 

 End of Kenya and Tanzania Trip.

Day 8: Flight to Kigali

We shall drop you off at the airport for your flight to Kigali.

Day 9: Kigali City tour and transfer to Volcanoes National park

After breakfast, we shall have a tour of Kigali city, we shall visit the genocide memorial and other sites around the city.
After the tour, we shall then transfer to Volcanoes national park the home of gorilla trekking in Rwanda. On arrival in the park, we shall have a cultural tour of Gorilla guardians village, then rest for the evening.

Day 10: Gorilla Trekking Day and back to Kigali

This is the Gorilla trekking day. In the morning you will gather at the park offices for briefing and gorilla group allocation. You and your group members head into the forest guided by an armed ranger guide who uses radio technology to communicate (with other rangers in the park) about the location of the gorillas in the forest.

The trek can sometimes be strenuous, however on locating the gentle giants, the trek will seem really worth it.
The time with the Gorillas is just 1 hour. Enjoy the primates and take pictures as well.

After the 1hr with the gorillas, you trek out of the forest, go for lunch and then transfer back to Kigali for your flight of other activities.

End of our Services

Package includes

• Gorilla trekking permit
• All park entrance fees
• Accommodation as per itinerary
• Meals as per the itinerary
• Drinking water station in your vehicle please bring reusable water bottle to be refilled as needed
• Services of an English -speaking experienced driver/guide
• Transport in a 4×4 safari land cruiser for game viewing and photography. 
• Exclusive use of safari vehicle throughout the trip
• All government taxes and levies
• Flying doctor’s emergency services in Kenya/Tanzania
• Safari accessories (First Aid kit, cooler box, and fire extinguisher) Emergency number 24 hours.
• All safari vehicles have RF radio to help driver locate wildlife.
• Game drives in Masai Mara, Serengeti, Lake Nakuru and in Ngorongoro 

Package excludes

• Expenses of personal nature such as visas, driver tips etc.
• Hot Air Balloon safari and Masai Village visit $445 per person to be paid for on arrival
• Personal insurance cover
• Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
• Domestic and international flights and respective taxes