5 Days Best East Africa Safari Holiday, Maasai Mara Great Migration Safari & Gorilla Trekking Uganda (Bwindi Impenetrable National Park), Big 5 Wildlife in Maasai Mara Safari.
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5 Days Best East Africa Safari Holiday, Maasai Mara Great Migration Safari & Gorilla Trekking Uganda (Bwindi Impenetrable National Park), Big 5 Wildlife in Maasai Mara Safari.
This incredible 5 Days Best East Africa Safari Holiday in two of East African greatest primates and wildlife safari will in the world see you spend three days in Uganda and two days in Kenya in both Gorilla trekking in Uganda and wildlife safari in Kenya – Maasai Mara National Reserve.
You are able to come in touch with the Africa ape in Bwindi impenetrable National Park while Maasai Mara will see you enjoy an up-close with the BIG 5 Wildlife.
Accommodation with meals, park fees for wildlife, the flight between Uganda and Kenya under this package
After your breakfast, you will meet up with your guide from our company. He will brief you about the trip and especially the events of this very day.
You will then hit the road southwestern Uganda to the home of the mountain gorillas, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
En route, there is a local community popular for making local drums and crafts and a fruit market, make a stopover admire or buy yourself some of this item for your family back at home or souvenir.
Proceed to the equator line and take as many photos of this beautiful Africa. You may opt to have some coffee here before you embark on the 5 Days Best East Africa Safari Holiday Maasai Mara Safari & Gorilla Trekking safari.
Pass by mountain, tropical rainforest the nine-hour journey. You will have en route launch In Mbarara.
The drive to the mountain gorilla sanctuary is over 7 hours in Kampala. You could choose to fly to Bwindi if you don’t feel like driving
On arrival in the late afternoon, you will go straight to your lodge and check in. you can use the rest of the day to relax in the lodge compound enjoying the green atmosphere.
Later in the evening, you will go for lunch and later overnight. You have to prepare for the tomorrow’s activities before you sleep since the next morning you will have a busy one
Recommended Accommodation:
Luxury lodges: Buhoma lodge/ mahogany lodge/ springs lodge, Chameleon lodge/ hill lodge/ trackers Lodge Buhoma
Midrange: Engagi lodge/ silverback lodge Bwindi/ lake Mulehe Gorilla lodge/ Gorilla Mist Lodge
Budget: Rushaga Gorilla Camp/ Ruhija Gorilla camp Rushaga/ Gorilla Havens Lodge
Buhoma community campground
Meal Plan: lunch and dinner
The long-awaited day of this 5 Days Best East Africa Safari Holiday Maasai Mara Safari & Gorilla trekking safari finally it’s here. After breakfast, early morning, with your guide proceed for the morning briefing before enjoying the highlight of this safari- gorilla trekking, which may last the entire day.
We trek gorillas through the rain forest and bamboo-covered slopes accompanied by a guide in search of a mountain gorilla family.
You may choose to carry a picnic lunch since the time you have to trek to find the apes is not definite sometimes it might the shortest period of 2 hours and sometimes it can go to up to 8 hours.
Make sure that you dehydrate yourself by carrying lots of water it can be that tough sometimes, but the spot of the silverback, all the tiredness will fade.
When the gorilla family is sighted, you will be guided to within 6 meters from the gorillas, sit around them for a whole hour while observing them in the natural habitat. Take as many pictures as possible within this granted hour.
Gorilla trekking is unpredictable. It’s difficult to foresee how many hours you will hike. The trekking excursion can take 2- 8 hours. Expect to walk long distances in steep and muddy conditions, sometimes with the rain
While most of today’s forests are no more than 12,000 years old, Bwindi’s vegetation has been weaving itself tangles for over at least 25,000 years, in the process of accumulating a lengthy species list.
This includes a 310 species list. This includes 310 species of butterflies, 51 reptiles, 200 trees, 88 moths, and an exceptional 120 types of mammals including 10 primates.
The latter includes the blue monkeys, black and white colobus, baboon, Bwindi’s most famous resident, and the mountain gorilla
Bwindi is a prime destination for birdwatchers. Its 350 species include seven which are in IUCN red data listed and 90% of Albertine rift endemics, species which are difficult or impossible to see in any other part of east Africa
Recommended Accommodation:
Meal Plan: full board
After an early breakfast, we set off from your lodge in Bwindi or Kihihi or Kisoro airstrip where we transfer to Entebbe from here by flight then we board a flight from Entebbe to Maasai Mara in Kenya.
Upon arrival, you will be met by camp staff and take a short game drive on the way to camp. You may opt for evening game drives in the reserve. Later get back to your lodge and rest
Recommended Accommodation:
Meal plan: full board
This is another great day because you will have an opportunity to see the big 5 in this full-day game drive.
After an early morning cup of coffee/ tea, before sunrise, you will be able to spot different predators that might make a kill last night.
You will return for breakfast at the camp while the sun rises over the game reserve. You may decide to take a packed lunch to avoid these breaks to have a full feel of what the park can offer.
The secret of sighting many animals in the park is to have as many game drives as possible
A large pride of lions, cheetah, leopard, jackals, elephants, giraffes, African buffalos, eland, ostrich, battered fox, jackals, and black rhino are some of the animals you may spot as you drive around
After that exciting day, you will come back to the camp where you can relax with a cold drink on your Veranda with a view of the Mara River
Overnight at the camp
Recommended Accommodation:
Meal plan: full board
After an early cup of coffee, you will have to experience another for a game drive to see the lions, hyenas, or other predators eating after a successful hunt.
When even your stomach is growling you come back to the camp for breakfast. After breakfast check out
Then it’s time to leave this beautiful game reserve and fly back to Nairobi. The driver-guide of the lodge will take you to the lodge
Bwindi is derived from the Runyakitara word “Mubwindi” and means “a place full of darkness” this name comes from the extensive stands of bamboo interspersed amongst the larger forest hardwoods.
The bamboo and thick ground cover of ferns, vines, and other plants’ growth severely hinder direct access on foot.
The forest is on the edge of the western arm of the Great Rift Valley, only a few kilometers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border and about 25 kilometers (16 mi) north of the Virunga Mountains
The forest is one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth where half the world’s population of the highly endangered Mountain Gorillas live in its natural habitat jungle.
The forest has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a world heritage site for its biological significance
The forest has been described as “riven by disputes and crosshatched by historical, political, biological borders” by the researcher Craig Stanford, co-director of the park’s Jane Goodall Research center. In 1991, the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park was established
Is located in southwestern Uganda. The park is part of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.
The Park is on the edge of the western arm of the Great Rift Valley, only a few kilometers from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) border and about 25 kilometers (16 mi) north of the Virunga Mountains.
Composed of 321 square kilometers (124 sq mi) of both Montane and lowland forest, it is accessible only by foot.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a world heritage site for its biological significance
Species diversity is a feature of the park. It provides a habitat for 120 species of mammals, 348 species of birds, 220 species of butterflies, 27 species of frogs, chameleons, geckos, and many endangered species.
Floristically, the park is among the most diverse forest in East Africa, with more than 1000 flowering plant species, including 163 species of trees and 104 plant species of ferns.
The northern (low elevation) sector has many species of Guineo-congolian flora, including two endangered species, the brown mahogany, and Brazzeia long pedicellate. In particular area shares in the high levels of Endemisms the Albertine Rift
The park is a sanctuary for colobus monkeys, chimpanzees, and many birds such as hornbills and turacos. It is most notable for the 400 Bwindi Gorillas, half of the world’s population of endangered mountain Gorillas.
Habituated mountain gorilla groups are open to tourism in four different sectors of Buhoma, Ruhijja, Rushaga, and the Nkuringo in the Districts of Kanungu, Kabaale, and Kisoro respectively all under the management of Uganda Wildlife Authority
This is a vast game reserve in the semi-arid Narok county in Kenya. It is contiguous with the Serengeti national park in the Mara region of Tanzania.
It is named in the honor of the Maasai people who are the ancestral inhabitants of the area. Mara means spotted in maa, a Masai language.
Maasai Mara is globally famous for its exceptional population in wildlife and wildebeest immigration to and from Serengeti every year during the dry season from July to October.
This is commonly known as the Great Migration. A visit to the reserve is a great venture to undertake for a cultural tour of one of the oldest inhabitants of East Africa, the Maasai.
This noble tribe is one of the very few tribes we have retained most of their traditions. It has a team of traditional dancers who dance o their call-and-dance response singing and perhaps their most widely known dance is the damu or rather jumping dance.
You can get to join the dancing as these flexible male dancers jump higher and higher to the rhythms of the enchanting music accompanying their dance stroke
Masai Mara has several tourism activities. Among others, these are the hot air balloons over the reserve, safari drives, nature walk, bird watching, sightseeing, guided bush walk, and hiking
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