Day 1: Arrival Kigali
Arrive Kigali International Airport. You are met by Hallmark Travel Planners representative and transfer to the Hotel for your overnight stay.
Day 2: Tour of Kigali City – Afternoon Transfer to Uganda
Breakfast at your hotel. Check out of the hotel and leave for the Half Day tour of Kigali City. It is the best way to see and experience Kigali in a short time. The tour includes a visit to the top of Mt. Kigali for views of the city and countryside, a mural walk, a visit to a neighborhood market, fresh milk at a milk bar and more.
The tour ends at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. After lunch, transfer to the border point to cross into Uganda. The journey is very scenic and will take you through a country of a thousand hills to the Pearl of Africa. You cross over to Uganda at boarder for a stop at Kisoro (Chanika) before proceeding to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park for overnight.
Day 3: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest
After breakfast and with your packed lunch, you will walk to the park headquarters for briefing about gorilla trekking. Your guide will take you through all the dos and don’ts while with mountain gorillas and after that, you will be transferred to the starting point of your gorilla family.
Please note that gorilla family allocation depends on your interests, fitness and age. Please inform your guide of your interests and he will try to request for the gorilla family of your choice before you start the trek into the forest. Gorilla trekking can be strenuous and a certain level of fitness is required.
Gorilla trekking can take from 30 minutes to three quarters of the day so one needs to prepare for both. You guide will try to provide information about trees, birds and other wildlife in the forest until you reach a given gorilla family of gorillas.
You will be allowed only one hour of photography and observing mountain gorillas as they go about with their daily day activities and then trek back to the park headquarters to pick your certificates and then dinner and overnight at your Lodge
Day 4: Drive back to Kigali. Fly Kigali – Nairobi
After early breakfast we check out and depart, driving back to Kigali. Lunch in Kigali. Transfer to the Kigali Airport for flight to Nairobi, Kenya. Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you are met and transferred to your hotel
Day 5: Road Transfer – Lake Nakuru. Afternoon Safari
After breakfast, drive to Lake Nakuru National Park. Game viewing drive around the Park, Lunch at the lodge. Afternoon game viewing drive returning to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Drive Lake Nakuru to Masai Mara
Drive across the floor of the Rift Valley and the Loita Plains to the Maasai Mara National Reserve arriving in time for lunch. Afternoon game viewings drive returning to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Safaris in Masai Mara
Full day in the Maasai Mara with early morning and afternoon game viewing drives. With almost every species of animal great and small in the park, this is one of Africa’s premier wildlife areas and today we enjoy both morning and afternoon game drives in search of the ‘Big Five’ (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino).
This is safari at its best and Africa at its most spectacular. Heartland of the Masai, southwest Kenya presents a landscape where Africa is laid bare in all its majesty. Here the endless struggle for survival is played out across the vast open plains and riverine forests of this captivating land.
Each year the Mara explodes into life, as the annual migration of great herds of wildebeest journey from the Serengeti to fresh pastures in the north. Between July and October the Mara River becomes the setting for the crossing of some 1.3 million animals, bringing with them the inevitable predators and the inevitable dramas. Dinner and overnight at your Lodge
Day 8: Drive from Serengeti to Masai Mara
We plan to depart very early today. It is going to be a relatively long day, and drive. After an early breakfast depart with picnic lunch boxes for Kenya-Tanzania border at Isabania (300 KM/approximately 5 hours), where we cross into Tanzania and head for the breathtaking beauty of the Serengeti National Park – traveling time depends on game viewing opportunities). On arrival transfer to the Ikoma wild Camp for a stay of 2 nights. Dinner and overnight at your Lodge
Day 9: Safari Activities in Serengeti
The oldest of Tanzania’s game parks, the Serengeti is a staggering spectacle of incredible diversity, where magnificent herds of wildebeest and zebra form an uneasy alliance against the ever present threat of some of Africa’s most powerful predators. Dinner and overnight at your Lodge
Day 10: Drive from Ngorongoro to Serengeti
This morning we leave Serengeti National park and head for Ngorongoro Conservancy area. Along the way, the is a short detour to visit Olduvai Gorge, the site of the discovery of some of the oldest human remains ever found, before continuing to the Ngorongoro Conservancy area, (160 KM/approximately 3 hours – travelling time depends on game-viewing opportunities). Dinner and overnight at your Lodge
Day 11: Full Day Ngorongoro Crater Tour
After breakfast we enter the magnificent natural amphitheatre of Ngorongoro’s volcanic crater, home to some 30,000 animals and the remarkable setting for one of the most breathtaking wildlife experiences on the planet.
The scene is classic Africa, with seemingly endless herds of big game, large predators and the sweep of the African savannah. In the later afternoon, leave the crater and return to the lodge for dinner and overnight
Day 12: Drive Karatu to Nairobi
After breakfast this morning we depart by road for Nairobi, expecting to arrive by late afternoon. Lunch will be served in Arusha. From Arusha, proceed on to Kenya – Tanzania border and cross back into Kenya. Arrival Nairobi and transfer to the airport for flights onwards.