Day 1: Arrival in Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport 

You’ll arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport from where our representative will pick you up and transfer you to your booked hotel around Nairobi. You’ll spend the rst of your day relaxing at your hotel in Nairobi. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Meal Plan: Dinner

Day 2 of 14 Days Best Kenya Rwanda Safari: Visit Lake Naivasha

Travel overland to Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake about 2 hrs from Nairobi. Relax in the afternoon as you enjoy the views or you can do any of the following optional activities – ride on to the Loldia ranch, with its abundant plains game; take a boat trip on Lake Naivasha; take a guided walk with the resident botanist. Stay 2 nights at Loldia House, on the shores of Lake Naivasha, all meals and activities included.

Day 3: Visit Lake Nakuru National Park 

Today, start your day with an early morning breakfast. After breakfast, visit Lake Nakuru National Parks, a prestigious home for flamingos, a rhino sanctuary as large numbers of rhino may be seen head for leopard sightings too. Explore the park on your safari vehicle witnessing various wildlife species. Lunch will be enjoyed under the acacia trees before returning to Loldia in the afternoon.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 4 of 14 Days Best Kenya Rwanda Safari: Guided Nature Walks

In the morning, take a boat ride, or take a guided nature walk before you depart. Transfer by light aircraft to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, to stay 3 nights at Kicheche Mara Camp, all meals & game-viewing activities included.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 5-6: Wildlife Safari in Maasai Mara National Park

The iconic Masai Mara National Reserve is the heart of Kenya wildlife safaris/Wildlife viewing in Kenya. This National Reserve is renowned for its incredible wildlife numbers including the most sought after species like the African Big FIVE (lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo, and elephant) cheetahs, hyenas, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, and various other mammal grazers. The Mara is also know for hosting one of the most spectacular wildlife natural events on earth – the great wildebeest migration. Over 1.5 million mammal grazers including wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles migrate into the reserve each year round  due to the long round trek of drier land in the nearby Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.

During your stay here, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to witness this natural spectacle as it unfolds in the Mara. Three game activities per day allow you to discover more about the Maasai Mara. (check for more info about Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya highlights with Acacia Safaris website)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, and Dinner

Day 7 of 14 Days Best Kenya Rwanda Safari: Nairobi – Kigali

Fly to Nairobi and connect with your flight to Kigali. On arrival, your guide will meet you and take you to your hotel. Enjoy an afternoon City Tour visiting; Muslim quarter, the old town (Nyamirambo), the Batwa pottery and dances Centre the new handicraft village, and other shops, and can include the Gisozi Genocide Memorial.

However, you may fix it upon encountering it at the end of your trip. Dinner and overnight at Hotel Mille Collines, internationally renowned as the setting for the feature film, ‘Hotel Rwanda.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 8: Nyungwe Chimpanzee Safari

Transfer to Nyungwe Forest. Take a stopover at Butare (2hours from Kigali and prior to independence, the most important city in Rwanda) to see the National Museum, with presumably the finest ethnographic collection in East Africa, and to watch the famous Intore dancers.

After lunch, connect to Nyungwe (approx. 2hours) with an optional stopover en route at the Murambi Genocide Memorial. Stay 2 nights at the simple Gisakura Resthouse on the forest edge.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, and Dinner

Day 9: Primates Viewing in Nyungwe Forest

On this day of your safari tour, start with an early morning breakfast at the lodge. After breakfast, depart the lodge and embark on a guided tour in the forest. Search for primates and birds on a guided walk in Nyungwe Forest. The Nyungwe Forest National Park is known for its number of forest bird species that you’ll encounter during your tour. You can also have an opportunity today for enjoying the canopy walk that is found in the forest. Dinner and overnight as above.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 10: Visit Lake Kivu

A long and very scenic drive (about 5 hours) will take you to Kibuye, on the shores of Lake Kivu. This long drive offers the opportunity to adventure and witnesses the status quo of rural life for centuries, virtually unchanged.

Stay overnight at Cormoran Lodge. If you get there in good time, you can take a boat ride on the lake.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 11 of 14 Days Best Kenya Rwanda Safari: Visit the Orphanage

Connect to Gisenyi on Lake Kivu in the morning. Lake Kivu forms the border between Rwanda and the Congo. It’s a beautiful and mysterious lake, always alive with traders and fishermen in their dugout canoes. Take a boat cruise on the beautiful lake.

Visit the Imbabazi Orphanage where you can still find the founder, glamorous Rosamund Carr, now in her late 80s; take a drive into the ancient Gishwati Forest; or, when the border is open, cross into the Congo to visit Gomo, the site of the volcanic eruption in 2002. Overnight at Kivu Serena Hotel.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 12: Drive to Musanze

Drive to Parc National des Volcanos. Stay 2 nights at Gorillas Nest full board.

Day 13: Gorilla Tracking in Volcanoes National Park 

After early breakfast, staff from ORTPN Park Headquarters will meet you. You will be briefed on conduct during gorilla tracking and then trackers will lead you into the forested slopes to seek one of the groups of Mountain Gorillas.

Though Gorilla tracking is known for being unpredictable, here it takes a shorter time.
In the afternoon, you may drive to the scenic twin Lakes Burera & Ruhondo, with their pelicans and herons – and for glorious views of the volcanoes.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Day 14: Departure

Return to Kigali and connect to the airport.

Meal Plan: Breakfast

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