Tour overview
7 days Uganda Gorillas and Masai Mara wildlife safari is a safari that will expose you to both Uganda and Kenya where you will make visits to Uganda’s premier gorilla destination known as Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park that protects more than half of the world’s remaining gorilla population and Kenya’s most visited protected area known as the Masai Mara National Reserve famous for hosting the Big five mammals, wondrous wildebeest migration as well as several other animal and bird species. You will have a touch of Uganda’s culture upon making a visit to the Batwa as well as Kenya’s on your Masai cultural visit. A city tour to Nairobi is part of your safari guaranteed of making visits to Nairobi National Museum and have a drive through wide open grass plains of Nairobi National Park to have a glance at a wide variety of wildlife surviving in the city as well as capturing backdrops of the city scrapers.
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Arrival and transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Our company representative will pick you up from the airport or your hotel, take you through a briefing about your safari and then set off for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park with a stopover at the equator line in Kayabwe for an experience where the earth is bisected into two equal parts. You will have enough pictures with your feet stepping in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Lunch will be served in Mbarara city after which you will proceed with your drive to the southwestern region of the country arriving in the late evening to check-in at your reserved lodge as you wait to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 2: Gorilla trekking and Batwa cultural experience
Today enjoy your breakfast very early and report to the Park headquarters for a briefing about gorilla trekking etiquettes. Groupings of eight will be made and allocated gorilla families that you will go trekking after in their natural habitat. The search for the gentle giants may last for about 1 to 6 hours and an hour is allowed close to the gorillas as you watch them feed and groom the little ones which is an experience of its kind. Return to the lodge for lunch after which you will head off to meet the Batwa in their communities. They are the former forest keepers of Bwindi forests who lived in harmony with the gorillas and entirely depended on these forests for survival. You will enjoy their cultural performances and also learn about their ancient lifestyle before returning to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 3: Transfer back to Kampala or Entebbe
This early morning grab a cup of coffee for your breakfast and check out to be driven back to Kampala or Entebbe with a stopover in Mbarara for your lunch. After lunch if time allows, you will make a visit to Igongo cultural center to have an insight into the culture of Ankole and other tribes from the western region of the country. You will proceed with your drive arriving in the evening to check-in at your hotel either in the city center or Entebbe or an overnight.
Day 4: Fly Kenya and Nairobi city exploration
Arise today morning to have a scrumptious breakfast and checkout to be transferred to Entebbe airport to catch your direct flight to Nairobi Kenya where our representative will be waiting to receive you. Lunch will be in the city center after which you will have a city tour in Nairobi while visiting the city’s iconic tour sites for example the Nairobi National Museum, Nairobi National Park and many more incase time allows. At dusk you will be driven to your hotel to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 5: Transfer to Masai Mara and Masai cultural visit
Enjoy your morning breakfast and checkout to embark on your drive to Masai Mara National Reserve through the country’s rolling hills with dotted settlements. This drive lasts for approximately five hours where arrival will be in time for your lunch. Check-in at your lodge before you head off to the Masai communities to take a glimpse into their Masai traditional life style. This is the best opportunity for you to witness their daily rituals and cultural practices as well as browse through the Masai craft center to have some artefacts to take with you home. Get back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 6: Entire day Masai Mara
This is an entire day for you in the wilderness exploring the endless plains of Masai Mara. Having had your breakfast meet your driver guide with parked lunch and set for an entire day exploration of the Masai Mara golden plains. Expect to lookout for the big five and several other animals such as wildebeests, zebras, gazelles that annually migrate from Masai Mara to Serengeti of Kenya in the months of July to October attracting predators like hyenas, crocodiles, cheetahs and many more. You will have a picnic lunch in the bush and continue with you game viewing throughout the entire day till dusk when you will find your way to the lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 7: Transfer to Nairobi & departure
Wake up to a mouthwatering breakfast and checkout to hit the road back to Nairobi with an en-route game drive through the Mara plains while looking out for several animals that you could have missed out during the previous game drive. Arrival in Nairobi will be in the afternoon for your lunch after which you will proceed to the Airport for your flight back home or let us prolong your safari to other destinations.
