6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara safari, is fly in safari combining Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park and Kenya’s Masai Mara wildlife park.
The 6 days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara fly in safari starts by taking a chartered flight from Entebbe Airport to either Kihihi or Kisoro airfield located in Kigezi region then drive to Bwindi impenetrable forest national park for check in at already booked safari lodge. Masai Mara fly in safari and gorilla tracking Bwindi will commence with a gorilla tracking experience in Bwindi. The next day before flying back to Entebbe airport for a charter flight to Kenya’s Masai Mara game drive. That enables us experience the big 5 games for instance the Leopards, Lions, Elephants, Buffaloes and Rhinos. Hence making our 6 days Masai Mara fly in safari and gorilla tracking Bwindi amazing.
Highlights of the Safari: 6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara safari.
- Gorilla Trekking at Bwindi
- Batwa community Visit
- Masai Mara Game drive safari
Bwindi impenetrable national park is a gorilla park of Uganda and home to the endangered mountain gorillas. This tropical high altitude rain forest is located in far south west part of Uganda on the border of Uganda and DR.Congo. Currently it is estimated that there 1004 mountain gorillas in the Virunga’s. Uganda area of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park that habitats up to half of the 1004 mountain gorilla total population. Apart from the mountain gorillas, Bwindi and Mgahinga also habitat big mammals. Such as forest elephants, buffaloes and other primate species like the chimpanzees, L’hoest monkeys, baboons, grey cheeked Mangabey, black and white colobus monkeys, blue monkeys and golden monkeys plus 25 bird species endemic to the Albert rift.
The Maasai Mara is a natural continuation of the famous Serengeti plains with undulating grassland, escarpments, acacia forests and great wildlife. One of the highlight of the Mara is the annual wildebeest migration which occurs between the end of June and September, crossing between the Mara sand and Talek River following the alternating rains and across the Kenya-Tanzanian borders, the park is also home to Lions, Cheetahs, Leopards, Hyenas, Rhinos and a record of 450 bird species. Game Drives in the park
Itinerary for 6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara safari.
Day 1: Arrival at Entebbe and Fly to Bwindi Mountain Gorilla Park.
The 6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara fly in safaris, starts with arrival in Uganda at Entebbe International Airport depending on the flight plan may spend a night at a hotel near the airport or carry on with your connecting flight to the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Arriving at either Kihihi airfield or Kisoro airfield from here you embark on a short but scenic drive through the highland of Kigezi with its well terraced high hills and tea plantations to your lodge. Overnight at Sanctuary gorilla forest camp, Buhoma lodge, Mahogany springs and Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge ( Luxury) or Buhoma Havens lodge or Rushaga Gorilla Camp, Lake Mulehe safari lodge ( Midrange) or Gorilla Valley Lodge. Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro ( Budget Option). Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 2: Gorilla Trekking Experience.
6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara safari starts with an early morning departure from the lodge for gorilla Trekking experience that starts by 7:30am that means early breakfast and thereafter head to the park for Gorilla Tracking, you will spend 1 hour with the Gorillas and later return back to the lodge to relaxed afternoon at the lodging enjoying the lodge amenities. Overnight at Sanctuary gorilla forest camp, Buhoma lodge, Mahogany springs and Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge ( Luxury) or Buhoma Havens lodge or Rushaga Gorilla Camp, Lake Mulehe safari lodge ( Midrange) or Gorilla Valley Lodge. Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro ( Budget Option). Meal plan Breakfast, lunch and Dinner.
Day 3: Batwa Community Visit or Optional Second Gorilla Trekking.
Today you have relaxed morning at the lodge, after breakfast we shall take you o visit eco-tourism projects around Bwindi and learn about traditional medicines and agricultural practices, food, hand crafts, the Batwa pygmies and how tourism has helped them to be gainfully employed as an alternative means of survival other than hunting and gathering they did before, it role in conserving the gorilla forest. Or Optional Second Gorilla trekking .
Overnight at Overnight at Sanctuary gorilla forest camp, Buhoma lodge, Mahogany springs and Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge ( Luxury) or Buhoma Havens lodge or Rushaga Gorilla Camp, Lake Mulehe safari lodge ( Midrange) or Gorilla Valley Lodge. Travellers Rest Hotel Kisoro ( Budget Option). Meal plan Breakfast, lunch and Dinner.
Day 4: Return Entebbe Airport and Fly to Masai Mara with Optional Evening Game drive.
After breakfast we then embark on the journey back to the Entebbe international airport to connect to Kenya’s Masai Mara game reserve through the Kisumu immigration office for clearing before proceeding to game reserve. The driver will straightaway transfer you to the lodge. Although depending on the arrival time of the flight an optional game drive in the Evening can be arranged. overnight at Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Luxury) or AA Lodge Masai Mara ( Midrange) o r Mara Duma Bush Camp. ( Budget). Meal plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner.
Day 5: Masai Mara Game drive
Full day drive after breakfast we surely depart the lodge for wildlife drive in search for animals. Most highly to encounter include predators. Such as lions, leopards, cheetahs, hippos, elephant, zebras, buffaloes, black rhinos, spotted hyenas, bat eared foxes, Masai giraffes, warthogs, jackals, baboons black stripped Thomson’s and Grant gazelles, coke’s hartebeests, impalas, topis and wildebeests. overnight at Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Luxury) or AA Lodge Masai Mara ( Midrange) o r Mara Duma Bush Camp. ( Budget). Meal plan: Breakfast and Lunch as well as Dinner.
Day 6: Masai Mara walking safari and fly out
Finally 0n the last day in the Masai Mara enjoy a guided bush safari walk. While on the walk, you will be accompanied by an experienced local guide on the walking safari. And away from the protection of the car the walking safari. Will bring you closer to both flora and fauna of the Mara wilderness.
However you will enjoy the untamed beauty of the Masai Mara with its picturesque acacia tree dotted hills. On the bush walk you will surely be accompanied by a native Masai Scouts. With a vast inventory of traditional culture, Mara plant life and use in treatment and Masai folklore. All these as you track game that includes but not limited to the following, giraffe, buffalo, hyena, zebra or even lion.
At the end of the bush safari walk is a beautiful bush breakfast waiting, regain the burnt calories as you enjoy some game viewing in isolation surrounded by animals, there will be also more animals on the way back to the camp the beauty of Masai Mara. The bush safari walk is estimated to take you close to 1½ to 2 hours, we then check out and prepare to fly out for our international flight home. Thus the End of Tour.
6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara safari includes;
Gorilla Trekking permit
Charter flights,
Gorilla tracking permit,
Airport pick up,
Masai Mara Game drive,
All Accommodation
6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara safari Excludes;
All meals and drinks not mentioned in the safari plan,
Optional activities like Personal insurances,
Visas to Uganda,
And all expenses of personal nature.
6 Days Gorilla trekking and Masai Mara safari,
