This gorilla safari will take you to Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park famously known for the gorilla trekking safari experience and then after with our combined Rwanda Kenya Safari take a flight to Kenya and depending on the time you can either stay in Nairobi or straight drive to the Amboseli and Maasai Mara for wildlife safari and migration tours experiencing the seasonal wildebeest migration crossing Mara River from Serengeti.

Upon your arrival at Kanombe International Airport in Kigali, you will be met by our driver/guide who will welcome you and drive you northwards to Kinigi via Musanze. En route, the journey offers you beautiful sceneries of rolling hills for which the country Rwanda is well known. You arrive at the park in the afternoon and check in to the service of Mountain Gorilla View Hotel for dinner and overnight.

The next day will be the highlight of your safari. After breakfast at your lodge, you will head to the park headquarters in Kinigi for registration and briefing from the Rwanda Development Board wardens. After the briefing, you will then head for gorilla trekking with in Volcanoes National Park with the rest of the tourists.

Your encounter with these man’s closest shy relatives will be a highlight of your Rwanda safari and the experience you will get this day, will be memorable and your safari will be once life time to remember.

Gorilla trekking can take 2 to 8 hours with in this jungle forest and it depends on the movement of the gorillas on the previous and that particular day. After tracking, you will retire to your hotel for dinner and overnight at Mountain Gorilla View Hotel.

You will set out the Dian Fossey graveyard at Karisoke. In the afternoon you will visit the twin lakes, do a village walk or also visit a local market. Dinner and overnight at Mountain Gorilla View Hotel.

Don’t miss out on golden monkeys trekking which also takes place in Volcanoes National Park and at the same time 7:00 just like gorillas. These rare species are also listed as endangered – and Volcanoes National Park currently has two habituated golden monkeys’ troops that are available for visiting by tourists in the park, both of which make about 80 members.

Golden monkeys in Rwanda live in the bamboo vegetation towards the base of the volcanoes and habituation has helped them to overcome their initial shyness to accept their daily visit by researchers and tourists. Trekking golden monkeys and gorillas is a similar experience – in a small group of no more than eight people, and you can spend one hour with the monkeys once you find them. The endangered species are very active creatures, and jump from tree to tree which is really interesting and a little difficult to photograph!

The golden monkey trek is worth going for while in Volcanoes National Park and if you’re interested in wildlife, this is a rare and delightful experience not to be missed!

After breakfast at the lodge or guest house, we will transfer you to Kigali city. Upon arrival in the city, you will take a city tour and visit the genocide memorial sites and the traditional markets with in Kigali, craft shops and so on. Take a flight to Kenya for your wildlife safari.

On your arrival in Nairobi at Jomo Kenyatta Airport you will be received and welcomed by one our driver/guide. He will brief you shortly about your safari and later will transfer you to Nairobi the country’s capital for check in at your hotel.

Depending on the time of your arrival, after check in you will take a short Nairobi city tour and visit the giraffe centre where children get the chance to feed the giraffes. Return for dinner and overnight stay at Nairobi Hotel.

Take breakfast at your Hotel in Nairobi and after transfer to Masai Mara Game Reserve. You will arrive in time for lunch. Check into your lodge, have lunch and after go for the afternoon game drive with in the reserve to search for the main big five wildlife.

Take an early breakfast and then leave with your parked lunch for the Wildebeest Migration exploration towards the Mara River. You will involve both in the morning and evening game viewing drives. Search for big five animals like Elephants, lions, Leopards, Buffaloes and so many others.

During this day you will also move towards the Mara River to search for animals like hippos, the giant crocodiles, the famous wildebeests and a lot of wildlife. In the evening, retire to your lodge for refreshments and relaxation.

The Great Migration as it is known is the movement of a million plus wildebeest from Serengeti in Tanzania northwards into the adjoining Masai Mara Reserve in Kenya. It is one of the world's most spectacular and thrilling displays of wildlife behaviour.

The migration takes place every year with the animals’ primal instincts guiding them towards greener pastures following the climatic rain fall patterns over the Serengeti - Maasai Mara eco system.

You will see the migration during a safari game drive in the Masai Mara Game reserve which is conducted in specialized vehicles driver by experienced Driver-Guides.

As there are several core points where the wildebeest cross the rivers, it may be necessary to access and station oneself at these points during a day-long outing in the reserve as some of the lodges and camps can be up to an hour's drive from the ideal vantage points.

Most tourists who come specially to see the migration consider seeing the river crossings a highlight of their tour and therefore want to spend enough time at these crossing points, which by the way tend to vary slightly every year while staying within a generally similar sub locality of the reserve.

The movement of the wildebeest is from Serengeti into Masai Mara and is dictated by factors such as the climate, pasture and mating and calving seasons. Keep in mind the wildebeest are migrating through the year in a generally clockwise direction covering vast areas reaching into Southern, Central and Western Serengeti before the year long trek brings them to Masai Mara around July to August. Their journey back to Serengeti happens around late October though this is less spectacular and more like a slow dispersal.

Mid July to late August is the best time to see the migration, keeping in mind it is a gradual event that takes places over several weeks at different locations along the Serengeti Masai Mara border.

If we were to narrow it down further to what month is the best to see the migration would probably pick August. After all is done transfer back to Nairobi for your scheduled flight back home.