13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday

This 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday is truly a memorable holiday for those wanting the bucket-list experiences of an authentic Kenyan safari and the chance to track the rare mountain gorilla in the equatorial forests of Rwanda. From the plains of Masai Mara to the towering mountains of Volcanoes National Park, your whirlwind tour features East Africa’s two most popular destinations. Of course, there are five rounds of superb golf in the capital cities of Nairobi and Kigali, too – each with unique and distinct flavors.

13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari

Masai Mara National Reserve

13 Days Kenya Safari Holiday Highlights

  • Arrive in Nairobi
  • Golf at Muthaiga Golf Club / Giraffe Centre.
  • Elephant Orphanage / Karen Golf Course.
  • Golf at Windsor Golf Course
  • Transfer to Mara North Conservancy
  • Safari Activities at Masai Mara.
  • Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
  • Gorilla Trekking
  • Golden Monkey Trekking / Spa Treatment.
  • Transfer to Kigali
  • Golf at Kigali Country Club / Genocide Museum.
  • Golf at Kigali Country Club
  • See You Soon

Detailed 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday

Day 1: Arrive in Nairobi

Arrive at Nairobi International Airport, where our 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday representative will meet you. Welcome and assistance with transfer to your luxurious hotel in the Karen residential area of the city. Check in to Hemingway’s Nairobi hotel for four nights. Freshen up and spend the rest of the day on your own.

  • Accommodation: Hemingway’s Nairobi, Luxury hotel located in or near Nairobi
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks not included

Day 2: Golf at Muthaiga Golf Club / Giraffe Centre


Enjoy breakfast in Nairobi. Situated along the Nairobi River in beautiful Kenya, the capital of Nairobi is East Africa’s most cosmopolitan city. Although it has developed a reputation that keeps tourist visits brief, there are fascinating attractions. After breakfast, transfer for your first round of golf. Play 18 holes at Muthaiga Golf Club (Includes Green Fee and Caddy).

The Peter Markovich-designed Muthaiga Golf Club is an 18-hole layout bordered by the Karura Forest, roughly 15 km from the center of Nairobi. It has been voted one of Southern Africa’s top golf courses by SA Golf Digest and has been the home of the Kenya Open Golf Championship (part of the European PGA) until 2004.

This is a walking-only course, but caddies are available. Spend the afternoon on a half-day guided tour of Nairobi, including stops at the Karen Blixen Museum – now. The book and movie “Out of Africa” and the Giraffe Centre are famous for being home to a towering crew of endangered Rothschild’s giraffes.

  • Accommodation: Hemingway’s Nairobi – Luxury hotel located in or near Nairobi
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks are not included.

Day 3 of 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday: Elephant Orphanage / Karen Golf Course

After breakfast, you will visit the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on a half-day tour of a Nairobi elephant orphanage home to adorable baby elephants that conservationists have rescued. You will love to watch the baby animals frolic in a mud bath, get up close to them, and benefit from the chance to touch them as their handlers feed them milk.

Then, return to your hotel, and after a short rest, transfer for your next round of golf. Play 18 holes at Karen Country Club Golf Course (Includes Green Fee and Caddy). Karen Country Club has some unique features that distinguish it from other golfing clubs in Kenya: – flowering shrubs, lakes and wetlands, outstanding indigenous trees, and many fine sporting amenities.

Founded in 1937, Karen Country Club, Nairobi prides itself on being one of the oldest golf clubs in Kenya. With the Ngong Hills as a backdrop, the course is much admired.

  • Accommodation: Hemingway’s Nairobi – Luxury hotel located in or near Nairobi
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks not included

Day 4: Golf at Windsor Golf Course

After breakfast, meet your 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday driver for a transfer to your next round of golf. Play 18 holes at Windsor Golf Club (Includes Green Fee and Caddy). The Tom Macauley-designed Winsdor Golf Club threads its way through coffee farms and indigenous forests with high and low terrain, giving it character and design quality.

The layout boasts lush, springy fairways, fast, true greens, and a sprinkling of attractive water hazards with 73 well-located sand bunkers and unforgiving roughs, which make this course truly special. Finally, spend the evening at leisure on your own, perhaps exploring the myriad sights and sounds local.

  • Accommodation: Hemingway’s Nairobi – Luxury hotel located in or near Nairobi
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks not included

Day 5: Transfer to Mara North Conservancy


After your breakfast in Nairobi, meet your 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday driver, who will transfer you to Wilson Airport. Next, fly to the Keekorok Airstrip in Masai Mara. On arrival, you’ll be transferred to the camp. Check in to the Elewana Elephant Pepper Camp for three nights. Situated in southwest Kenya, the Mara North Conservancy is a beautiful private wilderness spanning more than 30,000 hectares.

It is home to an array of plants, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including elephants, rhinos, buffalo, lions, leopards, cheetahs and wildebeest, zebra, gazelle, and other migratory wildlife. Leopard Gorge, in the heart of the conservancy, is famous as the setting of countless National Geographic documentaries.

Along with the neighboring Masai Mara National Reserve, this conservancy is vital for sustaining the famous Serengeti wildebeest migrations and the highly threatened African wild dog and black rhino species. Enjoy an afternoon game drive with sundowners, followed by a sumptuous dinner at the lodge.

  • Accommodation: Elephant Pepper Camp – Luxury tented camp bordering Masai Mara NR without fences
  • Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Drinks are not included.

Day 6: Safari Activities at Masai Mara

Wake up early with coffee and rusks for a morning game drive or a bush walk with 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday expert rangers. You will visit the Mara North Conservancy and the adjoining Masai Mara National Reserve and can-do morning, evening, or all-day game drives.

Please note that viewing the main migration river crossings requires a full day out as they are located some way from camp. Inquire about a Hot Air Balloon Safari over the Masai Mara for a once-in-lifetime Safari Experience! (At your own cost). Take the time to leave the car behind and enjoy the small things – animal tracks, flowers, and micro-ecosystems.

All the 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday guides are Bronze or Silver-level Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association certified, and they enjoy sharing their knowledge and can take you on a delightful ramble from camp.

  • Accommodation: Elephant Pepper Camp – Luxury tented camp bordering Masai Mara NR without fences
  • Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Drinks not included

Day 7: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park


One last morning game drive through The Mara precede your final breakfast in Kenya. It’s a bittersweet parting as you catch a 75-minute charter flight back to Nairobi for your connecting flight to Kigali Airport. On arrival, you will be met and 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday assisted with a scenic 3.5-hour road transfer to Volcanoes National Park in the northwest corner of Rwanda.

Check in to the Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge for three nights. The beautiful Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge lies hidden amongst the foothills of the spectacular Virunga’s (a chain of volcanoes that lie in the heart of the legendary land of King Solomon’s mines). Some of the rarest primates on earth reside on the rainforested slopes of the Virunga Mountains.

The lush slopes of these volcanoes provide a dramatic natural setting for one of the most thrilling and memorable wildlife experiences – seeing the mountain gorilla in its natural habitat—roughly half of the world’s wild population of mountain gorilla residents on the Virunga slopes.

  • Main Destination: Kigali (City, Rwanda)
  • Accommodation: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge – Luxury lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP
  • Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Drinks are not included.

Day 8 of 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday: Gorilla Trekking

After breakfast, set out in search of magical encounters with the families of Mountain gorilla that makes the Virunga Mountains their home. A wildlife experience with the magnificent mountain gorilla is like no other.

Savor every second as you watch them foraging, playing, teasing each other, eating, or slumbering in an uncanny resemblance to ourselves. At times the trek to view them may be arduous, with steep rises covered in dense vegetation. Inhabiting areas which are not easily reachable, gorillas reside where food plants are abundant near the ground and think nothing of climbing incredibly lofty hills to get to them.

Your challenging trek will be richly rewarded when you first set eyes on these extraordinary creatures. Try to spend as much time as possible here, where Dian Fossey carried out her ground-breaking research.

  • Accommodation: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge – Luxury+ lodge bordering Volcanoes NP without fences
  • Meals & Drinks: All meals included, Drinks not included

Day 9 of 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday: Golden Monkey Trekking / Spa Treatment


After breakfast, step out in search of the Golden Monkeys. Watch the playful and curious golden monkey, only found in the high-altitude forests of the Volcanoes National Park. They are searching the lush vegetation at the foot of Mount Sabyinyo for one of two habituated groups of the golden monkey, one of them a troop of more than 80.

Spend an hour watching as they leap among bamboo shoots or tumble among the dense foliage on the forest floor. The golden monkeys are entertaining, swinging through the bamboo or racing after one other in circles. They are beautiful, with shiny reddish-gold backs. Hiking to see them is done at a leisurely pace.

The primates inhabit the bamboo forests at the bottom of the mountain range, and the terrain here is flat and easy to hike. Return for lunch, and then you will be pampered with a 90-minute Terre Blanche Body Mask to rejuvenate those muscles with Bentonite Clay, Buchu & Aloe Ferox, followed by a full body massage.

  • Accommodation: Sabyinyo Silverback Lodge – Luxury+ lodge bordering Volcanoes NP without fences
  • Meals & Drinks: All Meals Included, Drinks not included

Day 10 of 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday: Transfer to Kigali

After breakfast, check out from Volcanoes National Park and transfer by road to Kigali before checking in to Kigali Serena Hotel for three nights. Vibrant and colorful, Kigali is the bustling capital city of Rwanda. It spreads out over four scenic ridges and the valleys in between, with the city center located on one hill, and the government and administrative quarter on another.

  • Main Destination: Kigali (City, Rwanda)
  • Accommodation: Kigali Serena Hotel – Luxury hotel located in or near Kigali
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks not included

Day 11 of 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday: Golf at Kigali Country Club / Genocide Museum


After breakfast, transfer for your next round of golf. Play 18 holes (including Green Fees and Caddy). Completely redesigned by the Black Knight, Gary Player, and reopened in 2021, the Kigali Country Club is all set to be placed in the international tournament circuit. The new routing gives players considerable variety in terms of the whole length, the direction of play, and elevation, which will reward accuracy and strategic club selection.

In addition, the new clubhouse and driving range adds to its appeal. In the afternoon, visit the Kigali Genocide Museum. Almost 250 000 victims of the genocide against the Tutsi tribe are buried within the grounds of the Kigali Genocide Memorial – a quarter of the one million Rwandans killed during the atrocities that swept the country in 1994.

This guided 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday serves to educate visitors about the horrors of the genocide through three permanent exhibitions and as a meaningful tribute to those who perished.

  • Main Destination: Kigali (City, Rwanda)
  • Accommodation: Mihingo Lodge – Luxury hotel located in or near Kigali
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks are not included.

Day 12 of 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday: Golf at Kigali Country Club

After breakfast, transfer for your final round of golf and the second round on Kigali Golf Course. As you play the course a second time, let’s see your scores improve. In the evening, enjoy a farewell dinner at the Hôtel des Mille Collins which offers not only superb food but breathtaking views over Kigali Hills.

  • Main Destination: Kigali (City, Rwanda)
  • Accommodation: Kigali Serena Hotel – Luxury hotel located in or near Kigali
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks not included

Day 13: See You Soon

Enjoy the final breakfast in Rwanda on this great 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday before checking out and transferring to the Kigali International Airport for your outbound flight. We look forward to welcoming you back to Africa soon!

  • Main Destination: Kigali International Airport (Airport/Airstrip, Rwanda)
  • Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
  • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included), Drinks not included

End of 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday

Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.

You’ll be dropped off at the airport.

Important to Know

  • Rates are per person and exclude international flight from/to your home country.
  • This 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday is unavailable for children.
  • Rates include a fixed budget for flights during this tour. Flights may cost more, depending on travel dates. If so, your quote will reflect this.
13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari

13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari

13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday Inclusions and Exclusions

Package Include:

  • Park fees (For non-residents).
  • Gorilla permits (One per person, non-resident).
  • All activities (Unless labelled as optional)
  • All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade).
  • A professional 13 Days Kenya Rwanda Safari Holiday driver/guide
  • All transportation (Unless labelled as optional)
  • All flights during the tour.
  • All Taxes/VAT
  • Roundtrip airport transfer
  • Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section).

Package Exclude:

  • International flights (From/to home).
  • Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour.
  • Tips (Tips)
  • Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
  • Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees.
  • Drinks