Gorillas & Masai Mara - Camping Reverse
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Highlights
- Spend a precious hour in the company of mountain gorillas
- Enjoy game drives in the Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Visit Murchison Falls National Park
- Track chimpanzees and other primates in Budongo Forest
- Option to do white-water rafting
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Trip includes
- 14 breakfasts, 13 lunches and 13 dinners
- All accommodation (see below)
- All transport and listed activities
- Tour leader throughout
- One chimp permit and one gorilla permit
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The adventure begins in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. This evening’s welcome briefing is the perfect opportunity to meet your guide and get to know your fellow travellers. Accommodation: Beauséjour Hotel (or similar)
Rwanda is a country widely remembered for the genocide of 1994, in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed. There is a moving museum in Kigali that covers this period, which we visit this morning. After lunch, we cross the border into Uganda and drive toward...
You will probably remember today for the rest of your life as we spend a full hour in the company of a family of mountain gorillas! Owing to the terrain and need to explore to find the gorillas, our trek doesn’t follow a path; instead, our guides cut a route through t...
Today, we drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP). The park, the most popular and accessible savannah reserve in Uganda, resides in a fertile, equatorial area and has beautiful scenery. It is primarily associated with grassy savannah plains, but also includes le...
We explore QENP on a game drive this morning, searching for elephants, lions, buffalo, leopards, hyenas, jackals, topis, kobs, bush bucks and various others. In the afternoon, there is an optional boat trip of about two hours along the Kazinga Channel to view one of t...
We have a long drive today covering about 280mi (450km) from QENP to Budongo. The drive goes north along the eastern length of the Rwenzori Mountains, where we can see the glaciated peaks, weather permitting. We pass through tea and sugarcane plantations, stopping for...
We depart early this morning for Budongo Forest, home to the largest number of chimpanzees in Uganda, to trek in search of chimps and other wildlife. The walking is fairly easy due to the well-maintained trails and reasonably flat terrain. While trekking in the depths...
We have an early morning game drive in Murchison Falls National Park. We transfer by ferry to the north side of the Nile where we embark on our game drive. The area is home to elephants, giraffes, buffalo and Ugandan kobs, plus the predators: lions and leopards. After...
After a short game drive through the park, we leave Murchison Falls and drive to Jinja, a journey of about six hours. Passing through untouched forest and tree plantations, we arrive in Jinja around 3pm, and the rest of the afternoon is free to relax. Accommodation: Adrift Camp (or similar) – full-service camping – upgrades and wifi available
Today is free to choose from a range of optional activities. White-water rafting in Jinja is considered among the best in the world, with a half- or full-day route that varies from quiet pools and forested islands to thunderous rapids and drops. There are several grad...
We drive about 155mi (250km) to Eldoret, which should take about eight hours, including a border crossing into Kenya. The border crossing can be slow but we leave plenty of time and you’ll no doubt find the experience interesting! Accommodation: Green Wood Campsite (or similar) – full-service camping – upgrades and wifi available
We depart Eldoret in the morning after breakfast and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, one of the finest small parks in Kenya, where we spend the day on a game drive in the park. The park is widely known for having an impressive population of black and white rhinos,...
Today we travel into the Masai Mara, a vast grassland teeming with life. Here wildebeest, gazelles, topis, zebras and buffalo abound in the rolling savannah, and never far away lay the predators: cheetahs, lions and hyenas. Between mid-August and late October, one of ...
Enjoy a full-day game drive in the Masai Mara to increase our chances of encountering many of the wildlife species in the reserve. We find a quiet spot inside the park to enjoy lunch by our vehicle, looking out across the plains. There is also an optional hot-air ball...
We depart after breakfast for Nairobi, travelling up through the Rift Valley escarpment and looking back on classic African views with acacia trees scattering the vast landscape. Our trip ends in the Kenyan capital; we say a fond farewell to each other and begin our r...
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Exodus Adventure Travels Reviews & Ratings
A trip of a lifetime
I believe there is nothing better than seeing animals in their natural habitat and this trip gave me the privilege of seeing a family of 10 gorillas in their home....
Truly wonderful trip
This was our third camping trip with Exodus and this is almost becoming our preferred trip type - being cheaper doesn't hurt either. We were amazed at the shear nu...
Totally amazing!
The stunning scenery and the awesome wildlife were just two factors making this one of the best trips I have ever experienced. The four man crew were what made it ...
Gorillas and Masai Mara
This trip is an absolute must for any animal lover.The diversity of fauna that we saw in 2 weeks was absolutely incredible.The gorillas were absolutely adorable an...
A voyage of discovery.
Having been on many trips of discovery with Exodus, I had never been on one that offered so much. The itinerary was exactly right. The starting point is Rwanda were...
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