14 Days Best Rwanda And Kenya Safari
The 14-Day Best Rwanda and Kenya Safari is a multi-border crossing 14-day safari package that allows you to explore both Kenya and Rwanda on a single visit. This 14-day Best of Rwanda and Kenya Safari tour starts from Kenya and ends in Rwanda. On this safari, you’ll enjoy a gorilla Safari tour to Volcanoes National Park, primate tracking in Nyungwe Forest National Park, city tours in Rwanda, and a visit to Lake Kivu. Before flying to Rwanda for a memorable primate adventure, you’ll explore some of the best wildlife viewing destinations on earth while in Kenya. This classic safari includes a visit to the iconic Masai Mara National Reserve for an incredible wildlife experience.
Safari Highlight
Day 1: Arrival in Kenya
Day 2: Lake Naivasha
Day 3: Lake Nakuru
Day 4: Guided Nature Walks
Day 5-6: wildlife safari in Kenya in Masai Mara National Park
Day 7: Nairobi – Kigali
Day 8: Nyungwe chimpanzee tour
Day 9: Primates Viewing in Nyungwe Forest, Day 10: Lake Kivu
Day 11: Visit the Orphanage
Day 12: Drive to Musanze
Day 13: Gorilla tracking in Volcanoes National Park
Day 14: Departure
Detailed Safari Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival At Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
You will arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, from where our representative will pick you up and transfer you to your booked hotel in Nairobi. You’ll spend the rest of your day relaxing at your hotel in Nairobi. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.
accommodation: Crowne Plaza
Meal Plan: Dinner
Day 2: Visit Lake Naivasha
After an early morning breakfast, you will be driven overland to Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake about 2 hours from Nairobi, and relax in the afternoon as you enjoy the views, then later go for optional activities like a ride on the Loldia ranch with its abundant plains, and take a boat ride on Lake Naivasha
Day 3: Visit Lake Nakuru National Park
Today, start your day with an early breakfast. Afterward, visit Lake Nakuru National Park, a renowned home for flamingos and a rhino sanctuary where you can see large numbers of rhinos and possibly spot leopards too. Explore the park in your safari vehicle, observing various wildlife species. Enjoy lunch under the acacia trees before returning to Loldia in the afternoon.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 4: Guided Nature Walk
In the morning, take a boat ride or take a guided nature walk before you depart. Transfer by light aircraft to the Masai Mara National Park to stay 3 nights at Kicheche Mara Camp, all meals & game-viewing activities included.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 5-6: Transfer To Masai Mara National Park
The iconic Masai Mara National Reserve is the heart of wildlife safaris. The national reserve is renowned for its incredible wildlife numbers, including the most sought-after species like the African Big FIVE (lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo, and elephant), cheetahs, hyenas, giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, and various other mammal grazers. The Mara is also known for hosting one of the most spectacular wildlife events on earth – the great wildebeest migration. Over 1.5 million mammal grazers, including wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles, migrate into the reserve each year due to the long round trek to drier land in the nearby Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
During your stay here, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to witness this natural spectacle as it unfolds in the Mara. Three game activities per day allow you to discover more about the Masai Mara (check for more info about Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya highlights with Rosamy Africa Safaris Travels)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, and Dinner
Day 7: Transfer To Kigali From Nairobi
Fly to Nairobi and connect with your flight to Kigali. On arrival, your guide will meet you and take you to your hotel. Enjoy an afternoon City Tour visiting; Muslim quarter, the old town (Nyamirambo), the Batwa pottery and dances Centre, the new handicraft village, and other shops, and can include the Gisozi Genocide Memorial.
However, you may fix it upon encountering it at the end of your trip. Dinner and overnight at Hotel Mille Collines, internationally renowned as the setting for the feature film, ‘Hotel Rwanda.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 8: Visit Nyungwe Chimpanzee Safari
Transfer to Nyungwe forest. Take a stopover at Butare (2hours from Kigali and prior to independence, the most important city in Rwanda) to see the National Museum, with presumably the finest ethnographic collection in East Africa, and to watch the famous Intore dancers.
After lunch, connect to Nyungwe (approx. 2hours) with an optional stopover en route at the Murambi Genocide Memorial. Stay 2 nights at the simple Gisakura Rest house on the forest edge.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, and Dinner
Day 9: Primates Viewing In Nyungwe Forest
On this day of your safari tour, start with an early morning breakfast at the lodge. After breakfast, depart the lodge and embark on a guided tour in the forest. Search for primates and birds on a guided walk in Nyungwe forest. The Nyungwe Forest National Park is known for its number of forest birds that you will encounter during your tour. You can also have an opportunity today to enjoy the canopy walk that is found in the forest. Dinner and overnight as above.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 10: Visit Lake Kivu
A long and very scenic drive (about 5 hours) will take you to Kibuye, on the shores of Lake Kivu. This long drive offers the opportunity to adventure and witness the status quo of rural life for centuries, virtually unchanged.
Stay overnight at Cormoran Lodge. If you get there in good time, you can take a boat ride on the lake.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 11: Drive To Musanze
On the 11th day, have a scenic drive to Musanze, the gateway to Volcanoes National Park. The journey unfolds with breathtaking views of Rwanda’s “land of a thousand hills.” You will pass through vibrant green tea and coffee plantations clinging to the steep slopes, and small villages where daily life unfolds in colorful vignettes.
Day 12: Visit The Orphanage
Connect to Gisenyi on Lake Kivu in the morning. Kivu forms the border between Rwanda and Congo. It’s a beautiful and mysterious lake, alive with traders and fishermen in their dugout canoes. Take a boat cruise on the beautiful lake.
Visit the Imbabazi Orphanage, where you can still find the founder, glamorous Rosamund Carr, now in her late 80s; take a drive into the ancient Gishwati Forest; or, when the border is open, cross into the Congo to visit Gomo, the site of the volcanic eruption in 2002. Overnight at Kivu Serena Hotel.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 13: Gorilla trekking in Volcanoes National Park
After an early breakfast, staff from the Park Headquarters will meet you. You will be briefed on conduct during gorilla tracking, and then trackers will lead you into the forested slopes to seek one of the groups of the mountain gorillas. Tracking is known for being unpredictable; here, it takes a shorter time.
In the afternoon, you may drive to the scenic twin Lakes Burera & Ruhondo, with their pelicans and herons, and for glorious views of the volcanoes.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 14: Departure
Wake up early in the morning after a delicious breakfast, your driver guide will drop you off at Kigali International Airport for departure.
Meal plan: Breakfast
