10 Days Kenya and Rwanda cultural tour
10 Days Kenya and Rwanda cultural tour : Kenya cultural tour safari holiday gives personal insight into some the 42 different native tribes, their beliefs and their traditions. Although, most of Kenya cultural tour safari experiences are visiting authentic remote villages, this trip offers you an opportunity to come face to face with the vast cultures and ethnic groups. A mixture of people and colourful tradition is guaranteed to thrill you. The rich cultural heritage and diversity can be experienced through visiting the people in their homesteads and hence coming into reality with their traditions and beliefs. Kenya community tour Safaris offer discoveries on African cultures while on our carefully designed cultural safari. Kenya has a culture born of countless sources. This region has been crossed by the paths of a long and complex history. From the prehistoric records of early man to the present day, Kenya has been a land of unending change, contrasts and diversity.
Apart from being the home of the endangered mountain gorillas, Rwanda is one of the best cultural destinations in Africa. Cultural tours in Rwanda is what keeps many coming back over and over again as the warm hospitality of the people of Rwanda with insightful cultural experiences after your long day of a hike through the jungles of the Land of a Thousand Hills is the best way to enjoy your stay in Rwanda. Rwanda is built on strong traditions that originate from the Ancient traditions of honour and hospitality, it is no doubt that many travellers are curious to discover the much narrated Rwandan culture to meet up with unique people, relate to their lives and get introduced to the different customs and traditions of the locals. Below are some of the interesting cultural sites to visit in Rwanda that you can discover, explore and relate on your Rwanda cultural tour;
Safari highlights
Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi – City tour
Day 2: Transfer to Amboseli national park – evening game drive
Day 3: Masai Cultural tour and game viewing
Day 4: Masai Cultural tour
Day 5: Transfer to Masai Mara national park
Day 6: Community tour – Masai Mara national park
Day 7: Game drive and transfer to Nairobi
Day 8: Fly to Rwanda – Kigali
Day 9: Visit Bugesera Reconciliation Village
Day 10: Depart Kigali
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi – City tour
Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta airport, you will meet with your safari guide who will transfer you to your reserved lodge for relaxation. Depending on your time of arrival, take some time to explore Nairobi city. Dinner and overnight stay at Hilton Hotel Nairobi
Day 2: Transfer to Amboseli national park
After breakfast at your hotel, check-out and set off to Amboseli national park. Upon arrival at your booked accommodation, have lunch and take on to an afternoon game drive. Return to the lodge for relaxation and overnight stay at Ol Tukai Lodge Amboseli or Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
Day 3: Masai Cultural experience and game drive – Amboseli national park
After your breakfast, connect to the Masai community for your filming experience. Meals will be provided at the lodge. Overnight stay at lodge as above
Day 4: Masai Cultural tour
After breakfast, you will connect for yet another day Masai community experience in a different community. Return to the lodge for lunch and spend your afternoon on a game drive. Dinner and overnight stay at lodge as above.
Day 5: Transfer to Masia mara national park
After breakfast, meet with your driver and transfer to Masai Mara national park. It’s a 6-7 hours’ drive with en-route lunch, connect to your reserved lodge for relaxation. Dinner and overnight at either Mara Simba Lodge/AA Lodges and Camps/Mitimingi Eco-Camp
Day 6: Masai Cultural tour – Masai Mara national reserve
After breakfast, you will connect for your third day Masai community experience. Meals and overnight at either lodge as above
Day 7: Transfer to back Nairobi
After breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive in the park, after you return from the game drive, have lunch at the lodge and check-out of the lodge to embark on your journey back to Nairobi. Upon arrival, take your PCR test. Dinner and overnight stay at Hilton Nairobi Hotel
Day 8: Fly to Rwanda – Kigali
Depending on your flight schedule, after breakfast and receiving your test results, you will be transferred to Jomo Kenyatta airport for your flight to Kigali. Upon arrival in Kigali, you will take another PCR test on arrival and quarantine at Des Mille Collins Hotel for 24 hours as you wait for your test results.
Day 9: Transfer to the Reconciliation Village via Nyamata & Ntarama Memorials
After your relaxed morning breakfast, you will then head and visit Kigali genocide memorial ground were over 250000 victims of Kigali genocide were laid to rest before you will drive south of Kigali heading to Ntarama and Nyamata genocide memorial sites which is roughly a 45 minutes’ drive. These two sites will give you a great picture of the entire genocide incidence. As you will be able to get fresh information about how the entire genocide started. Ntarama’s former Catholic Church is now a memorial site. 5,000 people were massacred there on 15 August 1994 during the Rwanda Genocide.
This memorial center is one of six major centers’ in Rwanda that commemorates the Rwanda Genocide. You will later head to visit Nyamata and its surrounding region suffered some of the most extensive devastation, horrifying violence that took place in 1994 against the Tutsi and moderate Hutus. This is a placed believed as the starting point of genocide in 1994 and over 10,000 of victims were believed to be killed in a catholic church.
After visiting Nyamata memorial site, you will proceed for lunch before driving, Bugesera Reconciliation Village, Mbyo Reconciliation Village is where perpetrators and victims, murderers and survivors, Hutus and Tutsis, are neighbors, having intermarried one another and trying to live in harmony, after return from prison after 9 years of imprisonment, and they had no place to go, and the government had to build the reconciliation village with partnership with some NGO’s to see these victims can have a home, after asking for forgiveness from the families they harmed. Acquire a proper sense of the place through actively engagement in different activities ranging from agricultural related to interaction with locals, acquiring cooking and weaving lessons from locals and listening to some testimonies from one of the community members in a reconciliation village.
The stories are still fresh on these people’s mind, that you will almost shade tears, as you listen and relate the past situation. Never should this happen again. You will later drive back to Kigali with an authentic experience of the real genocide situation after listening to number of the stories with its impact that can be vividly observed. You will be dropped to your booked accommodation. Dinner and overnight stay at Des Mille Collins Hotel as above
Day 10: Kigali city tour – Departure
After a relaxed breakfast, we shall drive back straight to Bugesera, to listen to more stories, socialize with the community, visit their home projects such as farms, and basket weaving cooperatives. You will have more time to share with the community. Lunch will be served in the course of the day, before you drive back to Kigali, you will be dropped off at Kigali airport for your onward flight back home. End of the trip
