Best of Africa – Primates & Savannah

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Day 1: Kigali

Upon arrival at Kigali Airport and disembarking from the aircraft you will be met by a representative who will assist to clear customs and immigration formalities and proceed to the arrivals lounge. Thereafter, you will be transferred to your hotel.

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Day 2: Volcanoes National Park

After breakfast at your hotel, you will embark on a panoramic city tour of Kigali. Learn about Rwanda’s history from pre-colonial times to 1994 genocide and how Rwanda has dealt with that past. You will continue with your tour and see the new developments in Rwanda; the recovery has been incredible, a testament to humankind’s resilience.

Thereafter you will depart for the volcanoes National Park; the area (formerly called Ruhengeri) in the northwest part of Rwanda, the main base town for Gorilla trecking. The drive is through beautiful rolling hills, awesome landscape, bypassing coffee, tea and banana plantations on a comfortable paved road. You will arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. The rest of the afternoon will be spent at leisure

Day 3: Volcanoes National Park

Today you will set off early after breakfast for the park headquarters where you will register for the gorilla trekking. Once you've been assigned a group and have had a briefing from your guide you will be driven to the trailhead where you will start the walk. Your trek will take anywhere from an hour to five hours to reach the gorillas - depending on which group you`ve been assigned. The terrain changes from farmland to bamboo forests, into stinging nettles and rainforest before you will find the gorillas. Trackers leave before the tourist groups to locate the gorilla groups so your guide should know where to take you, and once you`ve found the group you will have one hour with them. Make sure you take plenty of extra film as you`ll be surprised at how many photos you will want to take!

Day 4: Northern Serengeti

After an early breakfast at your lodge, you will transferred back to Kigali to  to catch your scheduled flight to the north of Serengeti National Park.

On arrival at Kogatende airstrip, you will be met by your camp driver guide who will assist with your transfer to your camp arriving in time for lunch. This place offers the ideal spot in the migration path to view the world’s largest migration. The vast grasslands of the renowned Serengeti National Park provide what many consider to be the quintessential African game viewing experience. Meaning ‘endless plains’ in the language of the Maasai, this land of immense open spaces is home to literally millions of large herbivores, as well as the accompanying carnivores.

Days 5 - 6: Northern Serengeti

Day 7: Masai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast at your camp, you will be transferred back to Kogatende Airstrip to catch your scheduled flight to Tarime Airstrip. 

On arrival at the airstrip, you will clear customs and immigration formalities on the Tanzanian side. Thereafter transfer by road to Migori border on the Kenyan side. Board your scheduled flight to Masai Mara National Reserve.

On arrival at Olkuruk Airfield, you will be met by your lodge driver guide who will transfer you to your lodge. You are now in Maasai country, where sedentary crop farming gives way to nomadic cattle herding. Red-clad, spear-wielding Maasai warriors tend their multi-colored herds among the wild animals of the Loita Plains, admirably unimpressed by the presence of large predators. Masai Mara Game Reserve is expansive and perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitors may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. After lunch, you will engage in game activities offered by the lodge

Days 8 - 9: Masai Mara National Reserve

Day 10: End of Itinerary

After breakfast at your lodge, you will be transferred back to Olkuruk Airstrip to catch your flight to Nairobi. 

On arrival at Wilson Airport, you will be met by your driver guide who will transfer you to Carnivore Restaurant for lunch before you are dropped off at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to catch your onward flight.

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