13-Day Uganda to Rwanda Gorilla and Wildlife Safari

You'll have a meet and greet at Entebbe International Airport, where your Uganda Adventure Safari begins with our representative, who will warmly welcome you and facilitate seamless arrival formalities. You will then be transferred to your hotel, where you will receive a briefing about your upcoming adventure Safari.
Depending on the time of arrival, you are advised to have money changed on this day and time. Allowing you to go for a city tour with the help of our driver-guide, visit the shopping malls around town, and craft villages to get items that you may need while in the upcountry.

Main Destination:

Entebbe (City, Uganda)

Accommodation:

Cassia Lodge

Mid-range lodge in Kampala (City, Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)

Non-alcoholic drinks

You'll have breakfast and Drive North to Murchison Falls with a stopover at Nakasongola Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for a one-and-a-half-hour opportunity to track rhinos on foot. You will later have lunch in a selected restaurant, then proceed through Masindi to Murchison Falls National Park. The rhinos are still an endangered species, and that's why they are still in the Sanctuary.

Main Destination:

Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda)

Accommodation:

Pakuba Safari Lodge

Mid-range lodge located inside Murchison Falls NP (Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

Arise very early in the morning for your guided game drive on the northern bank of the River Nile in your open-roof vehicle which will give you an excellent opportunity to view and photograph the diverse wildlife. Your guide will help you spot elephant, lion, cape buffalo, Rothchild‟s giraffe, hartebeest, waterbuck, oribi, bushbuck, bohor reed buck, hyena and if you are lucky, the leopard.

After lunch, you'll have a guided return boat cruise upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls stopping just few of meters from the "Devil‟s Cauldron.‟ You'll marvel at the schools of hippos, crocodiles and over the 17km stretch you may see elephant, waterbuck and Uganda Kob. This is also the zone of many birds, species like goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork.

Main Destination:

Murchison Falls National Park (Uganda)

Accommodation:

Pakuba Safari Lodge

Mid-range lodge located inside Murchison Falls NP (Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

After breakfast, you will transfer to Lake Albert at the Fishing village to see the local methods used for harvesting fish and mix with the local communities. You will proceed to Kibale National Park through verdant home steads and tea estates, you will reach early relax whole afternoon as you wait for your meals.

Main Destination:

Kibale National Park (Chimps)

Accommodation:

Isunga Lodge

Mid-range lodge just outside Kibale NP (Chimps, Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

After breakfast, you wil transfer to the starting point of your chimpanzee tracking experience in Kibale Forest National Park. Kibale is the best reserve in Africa to view chimpanzees, a thick jungle with a towering canopy. The forest is reputable of having the greatest variety and highest concentration of primates in East Africa. The most famous of its 13 species is the Chimpanzee, man‟s closest relative. Kibale‟s 1450 Chimpanzees represent Uganda‟s largest population of this endangered primate.

You will enjoy this guided nature walk in the tropical rainforest in search of the wild chimpanzees and birds. Kibale is also a home to the rare I‟Hoest‟s monkey, the black and white Colobus, Blue monkey, Grey cheeked mangabey, Red tailed monkey, Olive baboon and more. Although chimp sightings are not guaranteed, visitors stand a good chance of hearing and seeing our distant cousins as they gloom and bond with one another.

Main Destination:

Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda)

Accommodation:

Enganzi Game Lodge

Mid-range lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP (Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

Queen Elizabeth National Park‟s diverse eco-system of grassy plains, tropical forest, rivers, swamps, lakes and volcanic craters is home to an incredible abundance of wildlife. You'll have an early morning lion-tracking activities alongside the researchers who will provide you with the depth information about lions and the surrounding, here you will enjoy an opportunity to view the massive Rwenzori as backdrop, which provides excellent chance to spot more lions as well as leopard, giant forest hog, Cape buffalo, elephant, defassa waterbuck, Uganda Kob, topi and bushbuck.
After lunch, you'll have a boat Safari on Kazinga Channel into Lake Edward. This trip passes through possibly the highest concentration of hippos and this launch/cruise offers an excellent platform for photography, bird watching and game viewing. The prolific birdlife is colorful and stupendous, with well over 550 resident species.

Main Destination:

Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda)

Accommodation:

Enganzi Game Lodge

Mid-range lodge located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP (Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

After your early morning breakfast, you will have a transfer to Ishasha Sector home of the tree-climbing lions for a game drive. Later, you'll proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, the drive takes you through the Switzerland of Africa area known as the Kigezi Highlands with its terraced hillside and winding roads to Bwindi impenetrable National Park arriving in the afternoon.

Main Destination:

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)

Accommodation:

Mutanda Lake Resort

Mid-range lodge1-2hr drive from Bwindi Impenetrable NP (Gorillas, Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

After an early breakfast, you will depart to the starting point for briefing about your gorilla trekking adventure after which you will be led by experienced gorilla trackers on the slopes of the volcanoes. You will start from the site where the gorillas were encountered the day before and from here the gorilla tracking begins. Although the hike can be physically demanding, the anticipation of the exciting experience ahead is amazing, and the beauty of the gorilla forest and its inhabitants are fascinating. One of Africa‟s major highlights are when you encounter these gentle apes. It is a humbling experience to stand just meters from man‟s distant cousins as they eat rest, play and bond with their young ones. You'll follow the mountain gorillas as they range freely in the impenetrable forest and discover their gorgeous natural habitual and the many species, they share it with. You are allowed an hour with the gorillas before finally sloping down back to your lodge.

Main Destination:

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)

Accommodation:

Mutanda Lake Resort

Mid-range lodge1-2hr drive from Bwindi Impenetrable NP (Gorillas, Uganda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

After breakfast, you wil ransfer to Mgahinga Forest and through the bamboo thickets you will come face to face with the Golden Monkeys, You may pay an extra fee of about $3 per person to climb a viewing Platform.
Later, you will cross the Border to Rwanda where you will spend the night in Ruhengeri at the fringes of Volcanoes National Park.

Main Destination:

Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (Gorillas)

Accommodation:

Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge

Mid-range lodge less than 1hr drive from Volcanoes NP (Gorillas, Rwanda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

After breakfast, you'll transfer to Volcanoes National Park. You'll proceed with the trail head to access the Karisoke Research Camp which is about 10 minutes from the park boundary Trekking to the Dian Fossey‟s grave takes about one and half to 2 hour hike which too rewards you with views of forest hogs, forest elephants, a variety of primates and bird species. This hike is an incredible experience physically, emotionally and intellectually. It is so inspiring to learn about someone who was so dedicated and left a legacy that exists even today. The hike involves moving through the forests and hiking up the slopes and therefore requires some relative degree of fitness and patience. At the site, you will find the house from where Dian Fossey was mysteriously murdered in 1985 but the more peaceful is the place where she was buried just next to her favorite gorilla friend, Digit and about 20 other mountain gorillas either killed by poachers or suffered death for other reasons unknown.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

Accommodation:

Nyungwe Top View Hill Hotel

Mid-range hotel just outside Nyungwe NP (Chimps, Rwanda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

After breakfast, you'll join the briefing team and enjoy the trek alongside the large troops of black and white colobus monkeys which reside in Nyungwe Forest. These primates often travel in groups of over 300 individuals. It is possible to purchase a permit to trek these animals. Walking through a mountain rainforest and being surrounded on all levels by these active and cheeky monkeys is an experience not to be missed.

Main Destination:

Nyungwe National Park (Chimps)

Accommodation:

Paradise Malahide Hotel

Mid-range hotelnear Gisenyi (Lake Kivu, Rwanda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

You'll have breakfast and relax at the sun sandy beach on Lake Kivu as you get your meals with in our outside the hotel. Later in the afternoon, you'll have a sunset baot safari to the Napoleon Island. You can have a nature walk to the bat cave as you come across birds and communities.

Main Destination:

Lake Kivu (Rwanda)

Accommodation:

Paradise Malahide Hotel

Mid-range hotel located at Lake Kivu (Rwanda)

Meals & Drinks:

All meals included

Non-alcoholic drinks

You'll have breakfast and transfer to Kigali for a City tour. You'll visit Genocide memorial center in Kigali. The center was officially opened in 2004 to mark the 10th commemoration of the 1994 genocide that was against the Tutsi in Rwanda. The center serves as the final place where masses can flock to grieve for their lost ones, and as for today; it acts as a museum where both locals and international visitors can learn about the history, implementation and consequences of genocide.
Time allowing, you'll proceed to visit the oldest Nyamirambo town in Kigali which has a stretched neighborhood found in southwestern corner of Kigali that envelopes diverse behavior with dominance of Arab— like culture. It is a huge stretched corner which is sometimes referred to as a gangsters‟ paradise! Characterized with many Muslim residents, mosques and unlike other places that close by 8 pm with everyone inside their homes, Nyamirambo hustles and rocks late into the nights!

Main Destination:

Kigali (Rwanda)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)

Non-alcoholic drinks