7 Days Masai Mara Kenya safari most celebrated is the most celebrated trip offering the possibility of seeing “the big five in it’s magical great wildebeest migration in July and August and mountain gorilla trekking in Bwindi impenetrable forest starting from Kigali – Rwanda crossing over to Uganda to trek gorillas and back to Kigali to fly with Rwanda Air to Nairobi for your safari in Masai Mara national park.
Day 1: Pick up from Kigali – Transfer to Bwindi National Park
This tour starts from Kigali opting for cheaper gorilla
tracking in Bwindi national park. Your guide will be at your hotel or at the
Kigali international airport on arrival and set off for Bwindi national park.
Depending on your Pickup time, you will have a tour of Kigali city and the
Gisozi genocide memorial site.
Dinner and Overnight at your lodge
Day 2: Mountain Gorilla Trekking – Visit Batwa Pygmies
Wake up early for a quick breakfast and drive to Bwindi forest park office where all trackers gathers for a briefing on how the gorilla trekking experience is run. You have a chance to ask questions and there which have the chance to ask for a simple, medium or tough group. Head guides lead you to the gorillas and the time spent to find your group is unpredictable especially for the tough groups. Gorilla trekking in Bwindi impenetrable forest offers a 100% chance to see a family of mountain gorillas in Uganda.
Once you meet your group, you will spend 1 hour watching the mountain gorillas which comprise of Silverbacks, mothers, babies, juveniles and it’s such a beautiful experience. Return back to the briefing point where your guide will be waiting to drive back to your hotel for lunch.
Day 3: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi – Boat ride in lake Bunyonyi and visit the Island
Wake up to the beautiful views of lake Bunyonyi and relax at your hotel, later head out for a boat ride on lake Kivu, visit the different islands and you enjoy the beautiful views. Dinner and overnight at Arcadia Cottages
Day 4: Departure to Kenya
Today is your last day in Uganda, after breakfast be ready for traveling to Kigali. Depending on the time of your flights, you can have an option Kigali city tour to the Gisozi genocide memorial site before driving to the airport to fly to Nairobi in Kenya. Airport Pick up and drive to your hotel in Nairobi for Dinner and overnight
Day 5: Pick up from your hotel in Nairobi – Transfer to Masai Mara National park
Your guide will pick up from the airport or Nairobi hotel to start the tour after your breakfast and drive off for Kenya’s popular Masai Mara Game Reserve reaching the park in time for lunch at Sarova Mara Game Camp. Masai Mara reserve offers the best wildlife viewing safari in Africa and on this tour, you will spend two days of game viewing.
Day 6: Full Day in Masai Mara national park
Enjoy a beautiful breakfast at your hotel while enjoying the beautiful Mara sunrise from the view of your safari lodge. The Masai Mara reserve comprises of 1510 sq km of wide-open savannah landscapes. Kenya’s Mara offers wildlife viewing in abundance and is typically an adventure seekers paradise – the park offers over 450 animal species including guaranteed views of lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, different types of elephant and antelopes. For the month of July and August Mara offers spectacular annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti in Tanzania which cross in search of water and pasture. It’s such a dramatic adventure watching as the savanna predators prove a threat for the wildebeest including the lion, cheetah, wild dog,hyena, vultures and jackals.
Day 7: Mara – Nairobi
After breakfast at your camp, headout for a morning game drives then proceed to Nairobi to arriving in time to catch your departure flight.
