09 Days Uganda Kenya Wildlife Safari

The 09 days Uganda Kenya Wildlife safari is mainly for those interested in big game, and the famous mountain gorillas. While on this 09 days combined Safari across Uganda & Kenya, one will be able to visit Bwindi impenetrable forest park, Lake Bunyonyi, Lake Nakuru National Park and Masai Mara game reserve. Some interesting activities include game drives, gorilla trekking, cultural encounters and bird watching.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 09 DAYS UGANDA KENYA WILDLIFE SAFARI

Day 1: Arrive in Uganda, at Entebbe International airport

Day 2: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest for gorilla trekking

Day 3: Bwindi Gorilla Trekking experience

Day 4: Lake Bunyonyi – enjoy bird watching

Day 5: Transfer to Entebbe – then Nairobi and check in hotel

Day 6: Drive to Lake Nakuru National Park

Day 7: Morning game drive and transfer to Masai Mara

Day 8: Morning and evening game drives in Masai Mara national park

Day 9: Transfer from Masai Mara to Nairobi

DETAILED ITINERARY

DAY 1: ARRIVE IN UGANDA, ENTEBBE

You will be picked up from Entebbe by our guide, who will then transfer you to your accommodation for the night.

Accommodation: Airport Guest House – Entebbe
Meal plan: Dinner

DAY 2: TRANSFER TO BWINDI

Today we proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park home to half of all mountain gorillas in the whole world. We will pass through the rolling and terraced hills on Kigezi before joining the forests in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.  You will check into your lodge for relaxation, dinner, and overnight.

Accommodation: 4gorilla hotel or Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

DAY 3: GORILLA TREKKING IN BWINDI IMPENETRABLE NATIONAL PARK

On this day, you will get ready for some breath taking and exciting adventure with the gorillas, also one of the best highlights with this Uganda Kenya wildlife Safari. After breakfast and with your packed lunch, you will walk to the park headquarters for briefing about gorilla trekking etiquette and experience. Your guide will take you through all the dos and don’ts while with mountain gorillas and after that, you will be transferred to the starting point of trekking your gorilla family.

Please note that gorilla family allocation depends on your interests, fitness and age. Please inform your guide of your interests and he will try to request for the gorilla family of your choice before you start the trek into the forest. Gorilla trekking can be strenuous and a certain level of fitness is required.  Gorilla trekking can take from 30 minutes to b hours so one needs to prepare for both. During your gorilla trekking adventure, you’ll also enjoy the breath-taking natural scenery of Bwindi and a chance to see other fantastic creatures that inhabit Bwindi including monkeys, colourful montane butterflies, and unique forest birds that will have you wishing your trip was a little bit longer.

You will be allowed only one hour of photography and observing mountain gorillas as they go about with their daily day activities and then trek back to the park headquarters to pick your certificates and then have dinner and overnight at your Lodge.

Accommodation: 4gorilla hotel or Rushaga Gorilla Lodge
Meal Plan: – Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

DAY 4: TRANSFER TO LAKE BUNYONYI

We will transfer to Lake Bunyonyi today while moving through the misty hillsides in Kigezi. While enroute, there is a chance to see the volcanic mountains and take some photography.

Enjoy the Black smith experience and head to Bird Nest hotel as we drive on top of rolling hills of Kigezi with magnificent views of Lake Bunyonyi. Welcome swimming in both the lake and pool, football playing at the hotel with a cosy, comfortable evening with anonymous services as the day clocks to climax.

DAY 5: TRANSFER TO ENTEBBE – NAIROBI

Today we will drive for most of our journey back to Entebbe international airport for your evening flight to Nairobi. Once we arrive Nairobi, you will then transfer to your accommodation for the night.

DAY 6: DRIVE TO LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK

You will have an early breakfast then check out and Nairobi to Nakuru Town. Have Lunch and proceed for afternoon game drive at Lake Nakuru. Lake Nakuru is Kenya’s most visited National Park. Located 160km and 2½ hours from Nairobi, the park is an important Ramsar site and home to thousands of different bird species.

The 188sq km Lake Nakuru is the only KWS-administered reserve that is fully enclosed. Once just a bird sanctuary, Lake Nakuru is now the best place in Kenya to see the highly protected black and white rhino. Among other animals found in the park include rhino, lion, leopard, flamingos, Egyptian geese, waterbuck, giraffe, hyena, buffalo, baboons, vervet monkeys, gazelles. Lake Nakuru is famous for having the highest concentration of flamingos in the world and is home to over three hundred bird species.

Accommodation: Sewala Lodge, Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 7: TRANSFER TO MASAI MARA

After breakfast at the hotel check out and leave Nakuru region for Masai Mara. You will see Lake Elementaita, Lake Naivasha and Mt. Longonot on the way before you arrive at View Point. You will have lunch at Narok Town. You will travel through the Masai country occasionally coming across Masai herdsmen with their livestock living harmoniously with the wildlife in these vast rolling grasslands dotted by acacia trees and sweeping plains teeming with wildlife as you approach the game reserve. Check in followed by afternoon game drive for at least 3 hours. This game drive will be done till sunset

Accommodation: Nalepomara Lodge / Ol Moran Camp/Masai Mara Sopa Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 8: FULL DAY MASAI MARA MORNING AND EVENING GAME DRIVES

One of the best highlights for the Uganda Kenya wildlife safari is the big game experience in Masai Mara. Today, you will do full day game drives in this spectacular reserve. The Masai Mara is regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife viewing areas with rolling grasslands which offer ideal game viewing and photographic opportunities and the grassy plains are broken by rocky outcrops which are favourite midday resting places for lions.  Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more abundant, and it is for this reason a visitor is almost assured to see the Big Five (buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, and rhino) in the Mara.

The annual wildebeest’s migration alone, also called The Great Migration, involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November. During this time over a million wildebeests accompanied by thousands of other herbivores, migrate from Serengeti National Park to the Mara in search for greener pastures. Hundreds of lions and hyenas follow them picking on the old and weaker ones.

A full day game drive with picnic lunch at the Mara River as you enjoy the scenic view of the crocodiles resting on the brown-muddy river banks gives a remarkable experience.

Accommodation: Nalepomara Lodge / Ol Moran Camp/Masai Mara Sopa Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 9: DRIVE TO BACK TO NAIROBI TO END THE TRIP.

This will be our last day for the Uganda Kenya wildlife safari. You will have early morning breakfast, then check out of your lodge and have a morning game drive as you leave the park to Nairobi. This is the best time for game viewing as the animals are actively feeding. You will have en-route lunch stop and other stops as you drive back.

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

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