Rwanda, Uganda & Kenya: 14-Day Premium Safari

Kigali

Met at the airport and taken to your hotel for a 6:00 pm welcome meeting, then dinner together at a lively local restaurant.

• EveningWelcome devotion

Remembering, and hope

A sobering and important day at the Ntarama and Nyamata church memorials and the Kigali Genocide Memorial, learning the story of 1994 and of Rwanda’s remarkable healing. In the afternoon, a city tour, the craft market and a Ugandan rolex at a street stall.

• EveningPrayer and reflection together

Across the border to Bwindi

About four hours to Nkuringo, on the ridge above Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, with views to the Virunga volcanoes.

Mountain gorillas

Briefing by the Uganda Wildlife Authority, then the trek. It can be steep and wet, and local porters are a great help and a welcome source of work. Spend one unforgettable hour with a gorilla family, then a picnic lunch in the forest.

• EveningDinner with a park ranger, hearing about their work

With our neighbours

A day with a local church near the forest, visiting families with food and essentials and sharing the gospel, or a second gorilla trek for those who wish.

Kibale: the primate capital

North to Kibale Forest for chimpanzee tracking, bird walks and crater-lake views. Then on to Entebbe for the night before the flight to Kenya.

• MorningChimpanzee tracking

Fly to Nairobi and on to the Mara

Fly to Nairobi and drive across the Great Rift Valley towards the Masai Mara, past the Loita Hills, where a Maasai community welcomes us with song.

The Masai Mara

Morning, afternoon and full-day game drives among wildebeest, zebra, elephants and the big cats, sundowners on the plains, and one afternoon with a local church in a nearby community.

• Each eveningWorship around the fire

Nairobi

Return to Nairobi, arriving in the late afternoon, where the journey ends.