6-days Gorilla Tracking In Bwindi & Masai Mara

Itinerary

Day 1: Kigali - Bwindi National Park

Stop At: Kigali Genocide Memorial, KG 14 Ave, Kigali Rwanda
Our representative will pick from from Kigali Airport or your hotel in Kigali. Visit the Genocide Memorial Center in Kigali. The Kigali Genocide Memorial is the final resting place for more than 250,000 victims of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. It honors the memory of the more than one million Rwandans killed in 1994 through education and peace-building.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Buhoma Uganda
Later, you will be transferred in about 4, 5 hours to the Lodge. From here you will depart tomorrow for the gorilla tracking!
Duration: 4 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Bwindi Community Bandas

Day 2: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi National Park - Community walk to meet with Batwa Pygmies

Stop At: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Buhoma Uganda
Today is the big day where you prepare yourself for an encounter with one of Bwindi’s gentle giants: the rare Mountain Gorilla.

For most people this is the absolute highlight of their tour in Uganda.

The time taken to track the gorillas can be as few as 2 hours to as many as 7 hours.

Once the gorillas have been located, your group will be allowed a maximum of one hour with them.

Coming face-to-face with a mountain gorilla is a truly humbling and emotional experience.

This is a fantastic and privileged opportunity to get up close and personal with Uganda’s very own ‘Gorillas in the Mist’.

Duration: 6 hours

Stop At: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Buhoma Uganda
After the gorilla trek, you will tour through the Buhoma/Batwa community, of which the success and survival of the park, and its inhabitants, relies upon. Bwindi locals are not just employees of the park, but also its protectors, so a village visit is a critical component. During our walk, we’ll observe their traditional ways of life, and understand how the local people have ingeniously incorporated eco-tourism into their daily life, and have become an example of empowerment and local ownership for all of Uganda. At the end of our tour, the Batwa pygmies, one of the most vulnerable and unique indigenous cultures left on our planet, will invite you to a traditional dance and the opportunity to purchase handicrafts which directly support their community. After our tour, we'll head back to our accommodation for a wonderful Farewell Dinner, after which the sounds of the rich Bwindi forest will lull you to sleep.
Duration: 2 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Bwindi Community Bandas

Day 3: Bwindi National Park - Kigali - Fly to Nairobi

Stop At: Nairobi, Nairobi
After breakfast (inclusive) you drive back to Kigali Airport for your onward flight to Nairobi. Upon arrival in Nairobi a representative will be transferred you to your accommodation.
Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
Accommodation included: Overnight at Kenya Comfort Hotel

Day 4: Nairobi/Maasai Mara

Stop At: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Rift Valley Province
You will depart from Nairobi in the morning and drive to the floor of the Great Rift Valley on your way to Maasai Mara Game Reserve. You will arrive at the Reserve’s tented encampment in time for lunch and then head out for an action packed afternoon game drive. You will return later in the day for dinner and your overnight stay at the camp or similar.
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Miti Mingi Eco Camp

Day 5: Discover Mara

Stop At: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Rift Valley Province
After breakfast you will take off for a morning game drive that will take you on a search for great predators and perhaps even cubs. On the plains, you will see enormous herds of grazing animals as well as the chance to spy the elusive cheetah and leopard hiding amidst the Acacia boughs. You will return to camp for lunch and then return to the Reserve for an evening game drive along the famous Mara River. The river is the gateway of the annual migration of wildebeest from Serengeti to Maasai Mara. This great spectacle features the pounding of over 6 million hooves from the vast Serengeti plains to the Champagne colored hills of Kenya’s Maasai Mara where over 1 million wildebeest, 300,000 gazelle and some 200,000 zebra relentlessly tracked by Africa’s greatest predators, migrate in a clockwise fashion over 1,800 miles each year.
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at Miti Mingi Eco Camp

Day 6: Masai mara - Nairobi

Stop At: Nairobi, Nairobi
Early morning pre-breakfast game drive from 0600am to 0930 am, see the Sunrise and try to track the wild cats when they are active. If you are lucky enough you will be able to witness a hunt and a kill, return to the camp by 0930 am for Full breakfast. After breakfast, depart the Mara region for Nairobi arriving back in mid afternoon. Drop off at place of choice in Nairobi
Duration: 6 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.