10 Days Kenya and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Special, Cultural Tour
This is a 10 day tour focusing on Kenya Big 5 animals safari, followed by Gorilla Trekking trip in Volcanoes National park in Rwanda and Cultural Tour. The Kenya-Rwanda Trip takes 7 days in Kenya and 3 Days in Rwanda.
The wildlife safari and gorilla tour begins with visits to Kenya’s Amboseli, Lake Naivasha, Masai Mara before flying to Kigali for a 3 day Gorilla trekking expedition.
Parks in this Trip
Day 1: Arrival Meet & Greet
Transfer to Hotel in Kigali
Day 2: Kigali City Tour. Transfer to Kinigi Afternoon Safaris in Amboseli
Day 3: Gorilla Trekking. Road Transfer to Kigali
Day 4: Flight Kigali to Nairobi – Overnight
Day 5: Road Transfer to Amboseli
Day 6: Safari Activities in Amboseli
Day 7: Road Transfer to Lake Nakuru. Afternoon Game Drive
Day 8: Road Transfer to Masai Mara Game Drive en route
Day 9: Full Day Game Activities in Masai Mara
Day 10: Road Transfer to Nairobi – Depart
Rates Per Person
Start dates | Solo 1 room | 2+ people Sharing rooms |
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Jan 1, 2024 – Dec 31, 2024 | s/p* | Get a Quote |
Jan 1, 2025 – Dec 31, 2025 | s/p* | Get a Quote |
Jan 1, 2026 – Dec 31, 2026 | s/p* | Get a Quote |
*s/p= Special Order. This tour is for solo travelers with special order.
Important to Know
Rates are per person and exclude the international flight from/to your home country.
This tour accepts children who are 15 years and older. Children under 16 receive a discount.
Activities & Transportation
Activities: game drives, evening/night game drives, gorilla trekking, chimpanzee trekking, walking safaris (with an armed guide) & boat trip
Game drives: pop-up roof 4×4 vehicle
Getting around: pop-up roof 4×4 vehicle, boat & hiking/walking
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Accommodation & Meals
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Mid-range tour
This mid-range tour uses lodges and guest houses.
Private tour
This tour will be organized exclusively for you. However, wildlife viewing activities are run by the lodges/camps and will be shared with others.
Can start any day
If availability permits, this tour can start on any day.
Can be customized
You can request minor changes to the accommodations and destinations of this tour.
Suitable for solo travelers
Solo travelers can book this private tour.
Getting There
This tour starts and ends in Kigali/ Pickup Location
A transfer from and back to the airport is included
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for an extra cost
Price includes/excludes
- Park fees (For non-residents).
- Gorilla Permits
- A professional driver/guide
- All activities(Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade).
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section).
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional).
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Drinking Water
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour.
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day).
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Extra meals, snacks, gratuities, souvenirs, service tips
- The government imposed increases in taxes and/or park fees.
Detailed Itinerary
→ Day 1: Arrival Meet & Greet Transfer to Hotel in Kigali
Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be met by our Sarit Gorilla Safaris representative, outside the airport arrivals section and transferred to your hotel.
Accommodation at Flame Tree Village.
→ Day 2: Kigali City Tour – Drive to Volcanoes Park
Breakfast at the hotel. Thereafter enjoy a City Tour of Kigali. (Cost of city tour included) The history of Rwanda dates back centuries, Kigali has been a part of it for 100 years. Founded in 1907 as a German settlement, Kigali did not become the capital until Rwanda’s independence in 1962 when it replaced the colonial seat of power in Butare.
Visit the Kandt museum, see old Kigali and the craft centres then visit the genocide memorial site. Learn about Rwanda’s history from pre-colonial times to the 1994 genocide; learn about other genocides in the world and how this country has dealt with that past.
Tour more and see the new developments in Rwanda; the recovery has been incredible, a testament to humankind’s resilience. Lunch in Kigali. Later, depart Kigali and drive to Ruhengeri. Approximately 2.5 hrs arriving in the early evening at the Volcanoes National park.
Overnight at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge.
→ Day 3: Gorilla Trekking day – Evening drive back to Kigali
Breakfast at the lodge. 0700 hrs: Registration is a simple process where the park staff determines which group of gorillas you will visit. The park staff discusses your fitness level and advises you of the trekking times and conditions to the various groups based upon their location in the park the previous evening. There are a total of 88 gorilla permits available each day with a maximum of eight trekkers visiting any one group.
Once the trekkers are put into groups, each group’s Lead Guide briefs the trekkers of the trekking procedures as well as the “do’s and don’ts” while in the presence of gorillas. After the briefing, trekkers return to their respective vehicles for the drive up the mountain to the starting point.
Trekking can take from 2 to 6 or more hours if the gorillas move before the park rangers locate them the next morning. The guides stop frequently to allow trekkers a chance to rest and take photos along the way. After the trek, rejoin your driver Guide for a transfer to your lodge for lunch.
After lunch, depart from foothills of the volcanoes and drive south past coffee, tea and banana plantations on a scenic drive to Kigali. Everything and everywhere, sheer green and hanging on the hills; Rwanda truly – land of a thousand fertile green hills.
(Approximately 2.5 hrs). Overnight Kigali – Flame Tree Village.
→ Day 4: Fly Kigali to Nairobi – Overnight
Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the airport for the flight from Kigali to Nairobi..
After the immigration and customs procedures, you are met by Sarit Gorilla Safaris representative and transfer to for your hotel in Nairobi for
overnight stay – Tamarind Tree Hotel.
→ Day 5: Drive Nairobi – Amboseli
Breakfast at the Hotel. Early morning depart for drive via Mombasa road to Amboseli National Park, to arrive for lunch at the respective Lodge.
Late afternoon game viewing drive. Amboseli National park – a jewel of a park tucked right under the skirts of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Dust devils swirl around the edges, but in the heart of the park is an amazing swamp. A Garden of Eden where elephant, buffalo, gazelles and egrets and a host of other animals enjoy a peaceable wallow together.
The Amboseli Elephants are the most studied in the world, living beside the most celebrated indigenous culture in the world – the Maasai.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli AA Lodge.
→ Day 6: Day in Amboseli – Safari Activities
Early morning game drive. Breakfast. Morning at leisure. Lunch.
16:30 hours game drive till sunset.
Dinner and overnight Amboseli AA Lodge.
→ Day 7: Drive Amboseli – Lake Nakuru
Early morning breakfast. After breakfast depart with packed lunches heading toward .
Afternoon proceed to Lake Nakuru bird-watching and boat ride at the lake.
Dinner and overnight at Flamingo Hill Tented Lodge.
→ Day 8: Drive Lake Nakuru – Maasai Mara
After breakfast commence drive west past Mount Longonot and via Narok to the Maasai Mara National Reserve to arrive for lunch at Mara River Camp.
Late afternoon game viewing drive.
Dinner & overnight at Mara River Camp.
→ Day 9: Wildebeest Tracking Plains and River banks
Morning and late afternoon game viewing drives in this Reserve, with spectacular scenery and diverse wildlife.
Masai Mara Game Reserve attracts visitors from all over the world. But each year, from end of June to end of October, the best-known visitors arrive in full force. As the rains bring the grassland of the Masai Mara to life, the vast plains rumble with the thunder of approaching hooves as 1.5 million wildebeest and zebra migrate from the Serengeti into Maasai Mara.
An endless torrent of life thunders across an eternity of green as the migratory herds sweep across the Mara. The Great Wildebeest Migration is a vision beyond belief, one of the world’s most impressive spectacles.