GROUP SAFARIS

8 Days Mountain gorillas, Masai Mara and Lake Nakuru

Day 1: Kampala to Queen Elizabeth National Park with an afternoon Boat trip

Mountain gorillas in BwindiOur company guide/representative will pick you from your hotel after taking break fast and drive you to Queen Elizabeth national Park. Head southwest via Masaka and Mbarara with en route stopover for photographs and informative presentations.
After checking in take lunch and go for the after noon boat across Kazinga Channel to Lake Edward you will be able to see a number of hippos. Overland you will enjoy more game view mammals such as elephants, lions, buffaloes, hyenas, different antelope species and mongoose among others. This boat cruise will expose you to stirring game viewing and birdlife with unique bird species that can only be found there and not else where in the country. Over 500 bird species are endemic to this park. Retire for dinner and overnight at Mweya safari lodge (luxury option), Katara lodge (Mid-range), Simba safari camp (Budget option).

Day 2: Chimpanzee tracking and transfer to Bwindi

After breakfast set off to search for the fast moving pimates at Kyambura Gorge. The journey takes 3-4 hours and the river gorge chains a high-canopy tropical forest which scores to a swamp-forest and papyrus (Cyperus papyrus) swamp near the river mouth. Also catch a glimpse of a variety of primates including, vervet, red-tailed, L’hoest’s and blue monkeys, grey cheeked mangabey, red colobus, black and white tailed colobus, olive baboon and different bird species.
Later, you will leave for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. Driving through the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth called Ishasha famous for tree climbing lions arriving late evening at your lodge, check in and fresh up while waiting for dinner at Gorilla Safari Lodge; Ruhijja Safari Lodge or Buhoma Homestead /Buhoma Lodge (luxury option) or Buhoma Community Rest Camp; WagTail Eco Safari Camp (Budget option).

Day 3: Return back to Kampala

Early morning, after breakfast drive back to Kampala, lunch en route arriving early evening. Meals and overnight stay at Serena hotel (Luxury options), Sheraton hotel.Grand imperial (mid-range option), Holiday express hotel, central inn (Budget option)

Day 4: Transfer to Nairobi

Have morning leisure at your hotel before transferring to Entebbe airport to catch up with your flight to Nairobi. Dinner and overnight at Nairobi.

Day 5: Nairobi - Masai Mara National Reserve Safari

Amboseli national park elephantLeave Nairobi after breakfast  to masai Mara game reserve and pass through Kenya's fertile highlands and head down the Rift Escarpment on a road built by Italian prisoners of war during World War II.Look for the charming chapel they built at the foot of the escarpment. You will pass the impressive Longonot earth satellite station as you head across the Valley to Narok, and then travel across acres of wheat and barley, before you reach the Masai Mara in time for lunch. Following lunch and a siesta, there is an afternoon game drive returning to the lodge as the sun sets. Dinner and overnight at Mara sopa lodge or other lodge.

Day 6: Full day Mara game viewing.

After breakfast, you will go for a full day spent viewing and exploring this spectacular National Park. Wherever you go in the Mara, you will see an astonishing amount of wildlife. Of the big cats, lions are found in large prides everywhere. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot but are still fairly common. Other common animals include Maasai giraffes, baboons, Warthogs, bat-eared foxes, grey jackals, and matriarchal clans of spotted hyenas. Meals and overnight at Sopa Lodge/similar.

Day 7: Lake Nakuru Safari

Leave Mara for Nakuru arriving in time for lunch, you will experience a stunning en route game drive. After lunch at your lodge you will go for an after noon game drive to see one of the largest ornithological spots, Flamingo, and a variety of wildlife including Leopards, Giraffes, and a variety of plain antelope not forgetting the famous Rhino Sanctuary found in this park. Dinner and overnight at your lodge or camp

Day 8: Lake Nakuru – Nairobi

Past breakfast spend the morning watching and photographing birds and wild animals in the park. Depart hotel after lunch and leave for Nairobi stopping for panoramic views of the Great Rift Valley en-route. Arrive at Nairobi in the afternoon.

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