10 Days Best of Africa Safari

Upon arrival at Kigali airport, you will meet our representative who will assist in the immigration formalities and transfer you to the hotel.

Following breakfast at your lodging, you will go off on a comprehensive city tour of Kigali. Discover Rwanda’s history, from pre-colonial periods to the genocide in 1994, and how the country has responded to it. You will continue your tour and witness the latest events in Rwanda; the country’s remarkable recovery is evidence of the tenacity of humanity. The main base town for gorilla trekking is the area in the northwest of Rwanda known as Ruhengeri, which is now part of the Volcanoes National Park. On a pleasant paved road, the drive passes through gorgeous rolling hills with amazing scenery, avoiding farms of coffee, tea, and bananas. Your lodge will be ready for lunch when you get there. Spend the rest of the afternoon for leisure.

After breakfast this morning, you will go early to the park headquarters to register for the gorilla trekking. You will be taken to the trailhead, where the walk will begin, once your guide has briefed you and assigned you to a group. Depending on whose group you are assigned to, your trip to the gorillas could take anywhere from one to five hours. Before you can locate the gorillas, the landscape shifts from grassland to bamboo forests, stinging nettles, and rainforests. To find the gorilla groups, trackers depart ahead of the tourist groups. This way, your guide will know where to take you, and you will spend an hour with the troop. Later return to your accommodation for dinner and overnight.

You will return to Kigali to catch your planned flight to the northern Serengeti National Park following an early breakfast at your accommodation. Your camp driver guide will meet you when you arrive at Kogatende airstrip and help you get to your camp in time for lunch. This location provides the best vantage point along the migration route to witness the biggest migration in the globe. The famous Serengeti National Park’s expansive plains offer what many people believe to be the ultimate African wildlife viewing experience. Literally millions of huge herbivores and their companion animals call this country of vast open spaces, which means “endless plains” in the Maasai language, home.

You will be driven back to Kogatende Airstrip to catch your planned flight to Tarime Airstrip following breakfast at your camp. You will go through Tanzanian immigration and customs procedures when you arrive at the airport. After that, travel by road to the Kenyan side of the Migori border. Take the plane to Masai Mara National Reserve as planned. When you arrive at Olkuruk Airfield, your lodge driver guide will meet you and take you to your lodging. Now that you are in Maasai nation, nomadic livestock herding replaces sedentary grain growing. Among the wild creatures of the Loita Plains, red-clad Maasai warriors with spears manage their multicolored herds, wonderfully unfazed by the presence of big predators. Masai Mara is an expansive and perhaps the only region left in Kenya where visitors can spot wildlife in abundance. After lunch, proceed for an afternoon game drive before heading back to your camp/lodge for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast at your lodge, have an optional visit to the Maasai village for a chance to learn about their culture, way of lice as well as dances. Later transfer to the nearest airstrip for a local flight to Nairobi. On arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel or Airport for your onward flight.