Overview
Uganda and Rwanda boast of their untamed wilderness, unique wildlife – ranging from endangered mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, huge concentrations of antelope families to diverse bird species. On this special 12-day combined safari, you have the opportunity to immerse yourself in the wilderness to enjoy a close sight of wildlife in the pristine parks, primate vacations, boat safaris, and community / cultural encounters.
Highlights
- Day 1: Arrive at Kigali international airport.
- Day 2: Transfer from Kigali to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 3: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
- Day 4: Community visit and Forest Walk in Bwindi NP
- Day 5: Transfer from Bwindi to Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Day 6: Game drive and boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Day 7: Chimpanzee trekking in Queen Elizabeth NP
- Day 8: Transfer from Queen Elizabeth to Kibale National Park
- Day 9: Chimpanzee Tracking in Kibale Forest National Park
- Day 10: Transfer from Kibale to Murchison falls National Park.
- Day 11: Game Drive and boat cruise in Murchison falls National Park.
- Day 12: Transfer from Murchison falls NP to Entebbe
Itinerary
On arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be met by our company representative who will brief and welcome you to East Africa. they will brief you about this tour and later transfer to your hotel in Kigali arriving for overnight stay.
Morning breakfast, explore Kigali City with a city tour, visiting the National Museum and genocide center, the former presidential Palace. Later, depart for Africa’s largest Mountain Gorilla habitat, “Bwindi National Park”. Later transfer to Bwindi National Park (Buhoma) for dinner and night stay.
After an early breakfast, you will be taken to the park offices for a short briefing, after which you will enter the forest and start your Gorilla trek (please note that a drive may be required to your trekking starting point). The trekking can be quite strenuous, so good walking fitness is essential.
You will then have the opportunity to interact and work with the community members who weave baskets from grass collected from the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest boundaries. These baskets serve as an income for the women of this community. Sit and relax in the gardens, as the women will get you started, showing you the skills needed to weave. Enjoy lovely home-made doughnuts and cinnamon bread during a tea break.
Morning breakfast, check in at the park office again it’s possible to go and do tracking again (Please Book this in advance) or go for a forest water fall walk come back for lunch at the lodge and in the afternoon go for community visit including a visit to the Batwa tribe one of the longest forest dwellers who were evicted from the park in 1900’s to pave way for strong conservation implementation. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. Water falls, Nature walk, and Batwa Community walk.
Breakfast at leisure, drive through the local communities and through tea estates, hot Lunch at the lodge, and later you will enter the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park, making your first evening game drive in search of tree-climbing lions’ dinner, and overnight at the lodge. Transfer to Ishasha for evening game drive.
Early game drive, transfer to the northern sector of the park. You will arrive in good time for your hot lunch, relax at the lodge in afternoon later at 5:00pm go for evening game drive in search of more wildlife later return to the Lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Morning breakfast, drive, transfer to Kyambura gorge (this underground forest has high chances of seeing chimpanzees). Later drive to the lodge for hot lunch as you wait for your boat cruise on Kazinga Channel.
This boat is the perfect platform for viewing hundreds of hippos, crocodiles, elephants swimming and cooling themselves, an evening relaxation at the lodge as the view the sun go down in the hills of the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Early morning breakfast, check in at the park office to pick a ranger who will help in tracking where the predators are relaxing from after their kill, usually the Experiential Lion Tracking game drive takes about 3 hours but based on your wish and time you would love to keep around the lions or leopard later proceed to Kibale National Park for hot Lunch and relax at the Lodge.
Morning breakfast in the morning and later check in at the park's offices for briefing, spending one hour with the Chimpanzees return to the office for certificate awarding, and later the guide will drive you to the Lodge for hot lunch, and later go for a community swamp walk, evening spend the evening at the lodge for your dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
Breakfast and drive to Murchison Falls National Park, Packed Lunch along the way in Hoima town or Kagadi, later check in the park late evening, depending on the lodge we shall use for lodges inside the park, you will have a chance to do a game drive as you check in to your lodge.
Morning game drive in the park, traversing through these our savannah lying lowlands stretching from Karuma Falls to the Delta, you have more chances to spot the galloping Giraffes, gentle matching Elephants and the roaring lions in their jungle, as early as you enter the park this opens your chances of seeing the predators looking for morning breakfast as antelopes are also running for their lives, this gives you the best thought of what they mean when it comes to “survival for the fittest”.
In the afternoon, you will join a scheduled boat cruise to the bottom of the falls, where you will confirm the strength of these falls as they forge their way through a narrow gorge and drop down the ridge to form the magnificent and world’s strongest falls. Later, the boat takes you downstream, where you will find your guide and be transferred to your lodge for an en route game drive, dinner, and overnight.
Early breakfast, try your last luck in the park to look for the animals, later drive to the top of the falls, where you will get a great opportunity to have almost an aerial view of the Murchison falls and also view both the main falls and the Uhuru “Independent falls” which were formed in 1962, the same year Uganda got her independence.
Check in at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary offices for a bush walk to spot the rhinos. Uganda’s Rhinos became extinct in 1985 due to Political unrest and instability, but the efforts to have them reintroduced started in 2006, with currently two Rhinos at the Entebbe education center and over 35 in the wild at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary. Later, after this trek, you will proceed to Kampala for dinner and an evening outbound flight.
Cost
The Cost Includes
- Park Entry Fees
- Bottled drinking water
- Guided walking tour
The Cost Excludes
- Alcoholic drinks
- Gratuities/tips
- Entry visa fees





