Day 1: Airport to Nairobi

A representative of Epic Wild Tours will be at Jomo Kenyatta airport to pick you up from your flight. Depending on your arrival time you can visit some of Kenya’s craft markets where you can browse the pottery, carvings, batik, weaving, sculpture, musical instruments, leather, and fabrics for sale. Prepare to haggle! All activities today are at your own cost. You will then return to your hotel for your dinner and overnight stay.

Day 2: Nairobi to Lake Nakuru National Park

You will be picked up from your Nairobi hotel early in the morning and then depart for Nairobi; driving through the Great Rift Valley. You will arrive with time for an exciting game drive heading to check-in at your hotel and to enjoy your lunch. After lunch, you will head out for a game drive across the Pink Lake referred to due to the great masses of majestic pink flamingos that surround the shores. You will also have the chance to view the famous white Rhino and black rhino found in this park.

Day 3: Lake Nakuru to Maasai Mara National Reserve

After early morning breakfast, you will check out and leave Lake Nakuru for Maasai Mara. You will pass through Narok Town, a famous Maasai town as you make your way to Maasai Mara. You will arrive in time to check in at Serena Mara Game Camp and have lunch. After lunch, you will take off game drive through the park in search of lion, cheetah, elephant, buffalo, and other members of the “Big Five”, plus other animals. Later in the evening, you will return to camp for dinner and your overnight stay. The Maasai Mara is regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife viewing areas. The annual wildebeest migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November.

There have been some 95 species of mammals, amphibians, and reptiles and over 400 birds species recorded on the reserve.
Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more abundant, and it is for this reason a visitor hardly misses to see the big five (buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, and rhino).

Day 4: Explore Maasai Mara

Full Day Game Drive

Full-day game drives depart at 7.00 am, with your 4×4 fully equipped to cross the Mara plains in search of game. At 1800 meters above sea level it can get cold before the sun rises fully, so we provide blankets and hot water bottles to keep you warm.

By midday, it can become very hot indeed and sun-block lotion and hats are advised. Lunch is served under the shade of an Acacia tree or overlooking the snorting hippos which wallow in the Mara River.

As the afternoon draws to a close and the temperature cools, the shadows lengthen and the Bush changes once more. Evening sightings of rhinos are not uncommon on the way back to camp. Even a bad day is a good day in the Mara since undoubtedly you will have encountered vistas, flora, and fauna new to you.

Day 5: Explore Maasai Mara

Morning and Evening Game Drive Experiences

If you start first thing in the morning, you are likely to find the Mara at its most active. With the sun rising at around 6.00 am, this means an early start to your day. The reward is likely to be the sight of predators who avoid the heat: additional attractions include subtle light on the landscape and the joyous sounds of awakening birds, you return for a hearty breakfast at the camp after 9.00 am.

At around 4.30 pm, we like to explore our own Conservancy, as the cooling temperature brings out the predators. Lion-kills are often fought over by packs of hyenas, jackals, and other scavengers. Yet these life and death scenes are juxtaposed with the impossible beauties of the African sunset, as nature’s ever-changing palette streaks the sky with orange, red, and gold.

Anticipating sunset, your guide will have stopped to prepare sundowners, with a wide choice of drinks. Clasp your favorite drink, ease back in your chair, and watch light shift to dark, heat gives way to the chill.

Day 6: Maasai Mara to Serengeti National Park

Transfer after your morning breakfast to Serengeti National Park. This will take up to 8 hours of driving through rough roads. Serengeti National Park is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering. Enjoy your en-route game drive at Serengeti National Park.

Day 7: Explore Serengeti National Park

If you start first thing in the morning, you will find the Serengeti at its most active. This is when Africa can reveal its cool side, so you should wrap up warm, we aim to be on the road before the sun rises at around 6.00 am. Our 4 by 4 brings you as close as possible to the wildlife, just when the action is likely to be most exciting. Few predators hunt during the heat of the day, so the early morning is the best time to observe the thrill of the chase. It is also a magical time, with the subtle light dappling the landscape.

Heading into the bush for an evening game drive has a level of excitement and character all its own, as predators begin their nightly search for prey. As the day cools and the sky is streaked by red, gold, and orange hues, you may be surprised by the roar of a lion, a galloping giraffe, or the high-pitched giggling of hyenas fighting over a kill. At a suitable vantage point, your guide will pause, allowing you to enjoy a sundowner in blissful comfort.

Day 8: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater

Depart after your morning breakfast with your picnic lunch boxes via the Olduvai gorge where it is believed the cradle of mankind began. Thereafter transferred to Ngorongoro Crater which is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World, a visit to the crater is the main drawcard for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Maasais herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.

Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater to Tarangire NationaL Park

Pick up at 8:30 a.m. from your hotel in Ngorongoro and depart for Tarangire National Park with a picnic lunch for a full day game drive. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is known to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater kudu, the Fringed-eared oryx, as well as a few Ashy starlings

Day 10: Tarangire National Park to Arusha

After breakfast, you will check out from Tarangire National Park and head to Arusha. Enjoy your drive and also have a stop over to buy some sourveniers or rather interact with the locals. You will arrive at your hotel in time for Lunch and enjoy your evening at the pools and rest enough for the adventure that awaits you the next day.

Day 11: Arusha to Amboseli National Park

After breakfast you will drive to the border of Tanzania and Kenya at Namanga. After your immigration clearance, you will drive towards the park with the view of Mt. Kilimanjaro in the backdrop, Amboseli National Park is famous for its big game – elephants, lions, and cheetahs are the main attractions – and for its great scenery beauty. Amboseli embodies five main wildlife habitats, plus a generally dry lake-bed – Lake Amboseli. These are open plains; extensive stands of yellow-barked acacia woodland; rocky, lava strewn thorn-bush country; swamps and marshes; and at the western end of the reserve, above Namanga, the massif of Ol Doinyo Orok rising to over 2,760m (8.300ft) and still for the most part zoologically unexplored.

Day 12: Explore Amboseli National Park

You will have two game drives scheduled for this day. After breakfast you will take off for the morning game drive on the open flat plains; the ideal place to search for pride of lion, buffalo, cheetah, zebra, and wildebeest. The swamps are good places to catch the elephant as they bathe in the mud. There is a wealth and diversity of bird species to see as well. Ensure your camera has a liberal memory card since Africa has a few better blends of untamed life and landscape. The Royal Court of Kilimanjaro is best known for its views of Mt. Kilimanjaro and its expansive crowds of a free-wandering elephants. You can also visit Maasai Manyatta Village where you can take in more about Africa’s most renowned tribal society.

Day 13: Amboseli National Park to Nairobi

You will drive to Nairobi and depending on the time you get there you can head out to the Giraffe Center where kissing a giraffe is the order of the day. You can also visit the famous Utamaduni Restaurant located within Bomas of Kenya. Bomas of Kenya is home to one of largest auditorium in Africa and displays traditional villages belonging to the several Kenyan tribes. You can also choose to visit Carnivore Restaurant and get to enjoy the exotic African dishes. Afterwards head back to the hotel for a relaxed evening.

Day 14: Nairobi to Kigali

Transfer to JKIA to connect flight from Nairobi to Kigali, after arriving in Kigali, you can visit, The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there. There is a visitor center for students and those wishing to understand the events leading up to the events of 1994. Kandt House Museum of Natural History is a museum in Kigali, Rwanda. It is under the responsibility of the Institute of National Museums of Rwanda. Dedicated to |de}}, in his former home of German resident Richard Kandt on the Nyarugenge Hill in Kigali city, The Nyamata Genocide Memorial is based around a former church 30km south of Kigali in Rwanda, which commemorates the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The remains of 50,000 people are buried here.

Day 15: Kigali to Bwindi

Our guide will meet you at the hotel, and brief you about your tour , after which you will embark on a 4-hour drive to Bwindi through the Katuna (Uganda/Rwanda) border. After Katuna, you will head to Ruhija in Bwindi. This journey will give you an opportunity to see the beautiful countryside and landscapes in Rwanda and Uganda. Rwanda has eye-catching rolling hills and plantations, while Uganda has dense green forest around the Bwindi area.

Day 16: Tracking in Bwindi

You will wake up very early for breakfast. Our guide will pick you up and take you to the park offices where you will be briefed and given information regarding tracking gorillas in Bwindi. You will be assigned a gorilla group and given an opportunity to hire a porter at a cost of 10USD. Your lodge will arrange a packed lunch and water. Gorilla trekking takes anywhere from 30 minutes to 6 hours, depending on the location of your assigned gorilla family that particular day. Once you spot the gorillas, take as many photos as you can and try to follow instructions from the wardens/guides. After completing the trek, return to your hotel.

Day 17: Bwindi to Kigali to Nairobi

Following breakfast with our previous memories of Gorilla Trekking, Rwanda driving through the impressive hillside landscapes of Rwanda that have earned her a dub as the land of a thousand hills.

You will start your Kigali city tour with your list of the to-do things and the prepared places to visit on the day during the tour. To get the most on this tour, you need to engage with your driver guide concerning your interests but be sure that all your requests must be within the vicinity of Kigali city.

The trip continues as you drive through the older commercial and residential areas .Your Kigali city tour will probably end with a visit to the Caplaki Craft centers where you are able to purchase souvenirs from your stay in Rwanda in turn supporting families of the women involved in making the items. You are free to choose a cosmopolitan restaurant for a more diverse menu at the time of the lunch break.

Depending on your flight time, you will discuss with the guide when best to end the trip and drive to Kigali International Airport for your flight back to JKIA Nairobi. You will then head to your hotel where you will spend the night.

Day 18: Nairobi to Airport

This being the climax of the trip and depending on your next destination departure time you will discuss with your driver-guide the best time to start for the airport. You will check out and leave for a drop off at the Airport, to board your flight which marks the end of our safari services.