7 Days Kenya Wildlife and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari
This 7 Days Kenya Wildlife and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari is the perfect tour package if you are looking to combine a visit to Kenya and Rwanda. During this 7 Days Kenya Wildlife and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari, you will get to visit Amboseli National Park and Maasai Mara National Park and then fly to Rwanda where you will explore Kigali city and also get to track mountain gorillas and golden monkeys in Volcanoes National Park.
Highlights for 7 Days Kenya Wildlife and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari
Day 1. Transfer to Amboseli National Park, Game Drive and Walking Safari
Day 2. Transfer to Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Evening Game Drive in Maasai Mara Kenya
Day 3. Full Day Game Drives in Maasai Mara
Day 4. Transfer to Nairobi, Flight to Kigali (Own Booking)
Day 5. Transfer to Volcanoes National Park- Ibyi’wacu Cultural Tour
Day 6. Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park
Day 7: Golden Monkey Trekking and Departure
Detailed Itinerary for 7 Days Kenya Wildlife and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari
Day 1. Transfer to Amboseli National Park, Game Drive, and Walking Safari
Your Kenya safari guide shall pick you up at 7 am from your hotel in Nairobi. After a short brief about your safari, proceed on a transfer to Amboseli National Park, with your packed lunch boxes. Arrive in Amboseli National Park and make a game drive with a chance to view lions, elephants, buffalos, monkeys, and other kinds of animals. Marvel at the views of Kilimanjaro Mountain on a clear day, with a guided walking safari in the park. Later proceed to the camp, check in, and relax as you wait for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 2. Transfer to Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Evening Game Drive in Maasai Mara Kenya
After breakfast, drive to Maasai Mara National Reserve enjoying amazing views of communities and scenic views. Have an en-route lunch, and arrive in the park in the late afternoon hours.
Enjoy a sunset game drive, which will introduce you to the wild game of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Proceed to the lodge, relax as you wait for dinner wait for at the camp, and an overnight stay.
Day 3. Full Day Game Drives in Maasai Mara
You will have an early breakfast at your lodge ahead of your game-viewing activity in the open savannah plains of the reserve with your picnic lunch. You will search for a variety of wildlife species since they are more active at this time of day such as the big five which include lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos, and rhinos as well as other wildlife species such as giraffes, elephants, wildebeest, elands, zebras, topis among others.
You will enjoy your lunch after your morning game drive as you enjoy the beautiful scenery around the reserve and watch wildlife species grazing in the plains. After lunch, you will have another game drive in the reserve and then proceed to your lodge for dinner and overnight as above.
Day 4. Transfer to Nairobi, Flight to Kigali (Own Booking)
You will have an early breakfast at your camp and thereafter proceed to transfer to Nairobi, arriving in time for your booked flight to Kigali.
Upon your arrival, you shall be transferred by your guide to your hotel of stay for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 5. Transfer to Volcanoes National Park- Ibyi’wacu Cultural Tour
Drive Time: Approx. 3 hours
After breakfast, proceed to transfer to Volcanoes National Park with a lunch stop en route. Once at the lodge, check in, and relax as you look forward to your gorilla trek the next day. Enjoy a cultural experience as well. Dinner and overnight at your designated lodge.
Day 6. Gorilla Trekking in Volcanoes National Park
You will enjoy an early morning breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters with your packed lunch and bottled drinking water for a briefing by the park ranger guides at 7:00 am. After the briefing, you will start your gorilla trekking journey accompanied by the ranger guides in search of the mountain gorillas; this takes 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas.
However, the guides will try to find them from where they were last seen the previous day! After the one-hour encounter with the gentle giants, you will drive back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 7: Golden Monkey Trekking and Departure
After breakfast, you will drive to the park headquarters for a briefing. You will then be assigned to a group of trekkers and given a guide and ranger. Commence your hike into the forest in search of golden monkeys. Once you have located a golden monkey family, you will be given an hour to spend in the midst of these playful primates. Later have lunch and you shall be dropped off at the Kigali airport in time for your flight back home. This brings your7 Days Kenya Wildlife and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Safari to an end!
