Day 1: Arrival Kigali – Overnight

Arrive Kigali International Airport. You are met by Hallmark Travel Planners representative and transfer to the Chez Lando 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.  Overnight: Travellers Rest.

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 – Travelers Rest.

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 by Hallmark Travel Planners representative and transfer to your hotel – Tamarind Tree 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. Lunch and Dinner included. Stay at Kivu Resort Nakuru.

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. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included. Stay at Enkorok Mara Camp.

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 Enkorok Mara  Camp.

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 Ikoma Wild Camp.

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: Ikoma Tented Camp.

Day 7: 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), where we stay 2 nights at the Farm of Dreams Lodge.

Day 10: 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: Farm of Dreams Lodge.

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 home bound flight, or extension to Mombasa.

Tour Price Per Person

Rates are subject to change with notice.

Important to Know

• This tour can’t be booked by solo travelers.
• Rates are per person and exclude the international flight from/to your home country.
• Rates include a fixed budget for flights during this tour. Flights may cost more, depending on travel dates. If so, your quote will reflect this.