6 – Day Safari Kenya-Uganda
Day 1: Nairobi – Transfer to Maasai Mara by flight; (Approx. 45 minutes)
Pick up from your Nairobi hotel at 8a.m. and be driven to Wilson Airport for your flight to Maasai Mara departing at 10a.m. On arrival in the Maasai Mara you will be met by our professional guide and driven to your booked camp or lodge. Enjoy a game drive enroute with roof open.
Enjoy a relaxation, and then after lunch head out for an afternoon game drive in the Masai Mara National Reserve till sunset hour. Be sure to see various Wide-open grass plains and scattered acacia bushes. Also, get to see a wide variety of wildlife including the BIG FIVE. additionally, spot the diverse species of birdlife.
Return to the camp/lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
Spot the Lewa Conservancy’s species only found north of the equator, such as the Reticulated Giraffe, Grevy’s zebras, Beisa Oryxes, black rhino, and white rhinos among other wildlife. Enjoy the lunch and take the afternoon game drive till sunset.
Day 2 & 3: Maasai Mara – Full day
After early breakfast, you will spend these 2 days with full-day game drives in search of various animals. There will be parked picnic lunch for the two days. You will have a chance to see the big five and many other wildlife that inhabits these awesome savannah plains. There will be picnic lunch on the banks of Mara River or any other good picnic site as led by our experienced professional guide.
Optional activities: Hot air balloon & guided nature walks
Return to camp or lodge at sunset for dinner and overnight stay.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4: Maasai Mara – Transfer to Bwindi via Entebbe (By Flight)
Enjoy early breakfast.
Be transferred to the airstrip for a flight to Entebbe departing at 8.45a.m. Have a short stop-over in Kisumu. Continue with the flight and arrive in Entebbe at 11.30a.m. Have another flight from Entebbe for Bwindi (Kihihi Airstrip) at 12.45p.m. and arrive in Kihihi Airstrip at 1.55p.m. Have an approximately 1 hour drive road transfer to your booked camp or lodge. Have time to relax and spend the rest of the afternoon around the lodge.
Day 5: Bwindi – Gorilla Trekking Day
Enjoy the morning breakfast and carry parked lunch. The driver will drive you to the start point for trekking where you will be introduced to the local rangers and porters. They will brief you on what expected and how to interact with the gorillas, before assigning you to a gorilla family you will be visiting.
Hiking hours are difficult to foretell, they may take 3 up to 8 hours. Brace yourself for a long-distance walk and in steep and muddy conditions. Additionally, sometimes there is rain overhead, before encountering any gorilla. However, you will have an enchanted experience observing them closely while feeding, playing, and even resting. You will spend a limited regulated time of one hour with the gorillas because of conservation purposes.
After the activity return to the lodge for relaxation. If need be or arises, the lodge offers massage services.
Overnight: Mahogany Springs
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6: Bwindi – Transfer to Entebbe by flight
After breakfast, transfer to Kihihi for flight back to Entebbe. Flight departs at 9.45a.m. to arrive at 11.25a.m. Then connect with afternoon flight from Entebbe to Nairobi.
