10-Day Kenya Uganda and Rwanda Safari with Gorilla Tracking

• We will meet you at Nairobi Airport and transfer you to the Kenya Comfort Hotel.

• Tonight, you will stay in shared dorms. There will be a pre-departure meeting at 17:00 hours.

Overnight in Nairobi.

• Heading west from Nairobi, we reach possibly Kenya's most famous natural attraction - the Maasai Mara National Reserve. The Kenyan section of the wildly beautiful Serengeti Plains teems with wildlife. The Mara's highlight is undoubtedly the annual wildebeest migration. Elephant, lion, cheetah, giraffe, and a multitude of hooved herbivores also inhabit the reserve.

• A game drive through the Mara gives us the chance to spot the Big Five.

• During our stay, we can also opt to visit a local Masai tribe.

Overnight at Maasai Mara National Park.

• Transfer from Kenya to Kigali. We will drive through Rwanda, referred to as "The Land of a Thousand Hills".

You will dine and spend the night there as you prepare for the tour in the morning.

• After your early morning breakfast, transfer to Parc National des Volcans.

• You will reach the park headquarters at Kinigi for a briefing, after which you will start tracking gorillas at 8:30 am. It might take you 2 to 6 hours to encounter the mountain gorillas, and once found, you will be allowed to view, interact with, and photograph the gorillas for only 1 hour.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel, lodge, or guest house.

• After breakfast, transfer to Uganda by road through the Kigezi Highlands, commonly referred to as the Switzerland of Africa, to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

• After resting and having lunch, take a community walk to the Batwa (pygmy) communities, whose cultural performances will freshen you up and usher in a great deal of excitement even before you see the gorillas.

Dinner and overnight at lodge, camp, or bandas.

• After an early morning breakfast, get briefed at the park headquarters at Buhoma before tracking the gorillas at 8:30 am. It will take between an hour and a full day to encounter the gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, and the time you spend will depend on their movements.

Dinner and overnight at lodge, camp, or bandas.

• After your early morning breakfast, transfer to Lake Mburo National Park. You will have lunch in Mbarara town.

• Once in the park, you will have an afternoon game drive along the lakeshore track, and you might be able to see several herds of zebra, eland, topis, oribis, buffaloes, and very many species of birds.

Dinner and overnight at lodge, camp, or guesthouse.

• After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive in the eastern hinterland of Lake Mburo National Park. It has a network of game tracks that will allow you to see various animals and birds.

• Leave the national park, have lunch en route, and proceed to the Equator, where you will have a stopover for photography and shopping for handicrafts.

• Transfer to Kampala, the capital city of Uganda.

Dinner and overnight at lodge, hotel, or guest house.

• Depending on the time of your flight, you might be able to have a Kampala city tour.

• This tour will take you to either the Buganda Heritage Trails, where you might see places such as the Kabaka's Palace, Kabaka's Lake, Kasubi Tombs, and the Naggalabi Coronation Site. Alternatively, you can go sightseeing in areas such as the Uganda Museum, Makerere University, Bahai Temple, Namirembe and Lubaga Cathedrals, and the Gadafi and Kibuli Mosques.

• Transfer to Entebbe International Airport.

End of your safari.