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Kenya, Tanzania & Rwanda Luxury Safari — Masai Mara, Serengeti & Gorillas

From Giants to Gorillas

18 Days / 17 Nights

Overview

Eighteen days across Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda, from savannah to mountain forest. You’ll see the Chyulu Hills, Lewa, the Masai Mara, the private Grumeti reserve in the Serengeti and the Ngorongoro Crater. Then you fly to Rwanda and finish in the Virungas with golden monkeys and a mountain gorilla trek.

  • Meet and greet on arrival, and all airport transfers
  • Accommodation and meals as listed for each stay
  • Game drives and camp activities as listed
  • Park and conservancy fees
  • Scheduled and light-aircraft flights between stops, as shown in the itinerary
  • Private vehicle with an English-speaking driver-guide in Rwanda
  • Kigali city tour and Kigali Genocide Memorial visit
  • Mountain gorilla permit(s) and golden monkey permit
  • Emergency air evacuation cover (excludes hospitalisation and medical bills)

  • International flights, including the Kilimanjaro – Kigali flight
  • Entry visas
  • Medical and travel insurance
  • Tips and gratuities
  • Hot-air balloon safari (optional): USD 480 per person in the Masai Mara, USD 600 per person in the Serengeti
  • Meals and drinks not listed in the itinerary
  • Items of a personal nature

The Journey – Your Itinerary

2 Nights · Bed & Breakfast

You’ll be met at the airport and taken to Hemingways Nairobi in leafy Karen. The next day is an easy start: the Giraffe Centre, the elephant orphanage at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a farm-to-table lunch and a visit to the Kazuri bead workshop.

THE STAY — HEMINGWAYS NAIROBI

2 Nights · All Inclusive

A short flight takes you to ol Donyo Lodge, looking out to Kilimanjaro. Game drives, horseback riding and mountain biking, and a night out on the star bed if you’d like it.

THE STAY — OL DONYO LODGE

2 Nights · All Inclusive

Fly north to Lewa, one of Kenya’s great rhino strongholds, for shared game drives by day and night and guided walks. If you’d like, the camp can arrange a day trip to the Ngare Ndare Forest, with its waterfalls and canopy walk.

THE STAY — LEWA WILDERNESS

3 Nights · All Inclusive

Three nights on the Mara River with private game drives. The camp has its own photography studio and a spa for the hot middle of the day.

THE STAY — ISHARA MARA

2 Nights · All Inclusive

Fly across the border into the private Singita Grumeti Reserve. Game drives twice a day in open vehicles, with very few other vehicles around.

THE STAY — SINGITA SASAKWA LODGE

2 Nights · All Inclusive

Fly to Manyara and drive up to the crater rim. The next day is a full day on the crater floor with a picnic lunch. The camp sits on the quieter, wilder side of the rim, among Maasai grazing land.

THE STAY — ENTAMANU NGORONGORO

1 Night · Bed & Breakfast

Drive down to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight to Kigali, where you’ll be met and taken to your hotel.

THE STAY — HEMINGWAYS RETREAT KIGALI

2 Nights · All Inclusive

A morning city tour and a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial, lunch in town, then about two hours’ drive north to the Virungas.

THE STAY — ONE&ONLY GORILLA’S NEST

Day 16
A golden monkey trek in the bamboo forest, and an afternoon visit to the Iby’Iwacu Cultural Village. The monkey trek is shorter and gentler than the gorilla trek, so it’s a good way to get used to the altitude and the terrain first.

1 Night · Bed & Breakfast

An early start for your gorilla trek and an hour with a habituated family. Afterwards you’ll drive back to Kigali for a relaxed last evening.

THE STAY — HEMINGWAYS RETREAT KIGALI

Transfer to Kigali International Airport for your flight home.

Where You Will Stay

  • Hemingways Nairobi

    A spacious, residential-style Nairobi stay in leafy Karen, with gardens, a pool and discreet butler service.

  • Ol Donyo Lodge

    Built into the lava-rock landscape between Amboseli and Tsavo, ol Donyo pairs classic game drives with horseback riding, mountain biking…

  • Lewa Wilderness Lodge

    Fifty years of one family’s conservation legacy, and the best rhino odds in Kenya. A UNESCO World Heritage Site run…

  • Ishara Mara

    The camp sits beside the Mara River and uses stone, canvas, timber and large openings to keep the surrounding landscape…

  • Singita Sasakwa Lodge

    A gracious retreat combining the pleasures of country-house living with exceptional access to the Serengeti.

  • Entamanu Ngorongoro

    A remote, low-impact camp on the wild rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, with the landscape taking centre stage.

  • Hemingways Retreat Kigali

    A quiet boutique retreat in Kigali’s leafy Kiyovu, the gentlest start or finish to a Rwanda journey.

  • One&Only Gorilla’s Nest

    A refined resort on the edge of Volcanoes National Park, close to the gorilla trekking starting point.

Why ChoosE TRAVEL WILD?

Journeys designed around you, never off the shelf

Access to experiences few others can offer

Hand-selected luxury hotels in every destination

Guides who know this land as home

Airport meet and greet with private transfers