DAY 1: Arrive at kigali international airport.
On arrival at Kigali International Airport, you will be met by our representative and be transferred to your hotel in Kigali arriving for overnight on bed and breakfast.
Driving distance: 15 Minutes.
Activity: transfer.
Overnight: Radisson Blue Hotel.
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast.
DAY 2: Transfer from Kigali to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
Morning breakfast, explore Kigali City with a city tour, visiting the National Museum and genocide center, the former president’s Palace, Later, depart for Africa’s largest Mountain Gorilla habitat “Bwindi National Park”later transfer to Bwindi National Park (Buhoma) for dinner and
Driving distance: 3-6hours
Activities: city tour
Overnight: Buhoma Gorilla Camp (FB)
Meal Plan: Half board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
Day 3: Gorilla Tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park
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 a good walking fitness is essential! You then will have the opportunity to Interact and work with the community members who weave baskets from grass collected from 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.
Driving distance: hours
Activities: Gorilla tracking.
Overnight: Buhoma Gorilla Camp
Meal Plan: Full board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
Day 4: Community visit and Forest Walk in Bwindi
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.
Driving distance: hours
Activities: Forest walk and Community walk.
Overnight: Buhoma Gorilla Camp
Meal Plan: Full board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
Day 5: Transfer from Bwindi to Queen Elizabeth National Park
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. Evening game drive.
Driving distance: 2 hours
Activities: Game Drive
Overnight: Ishasha Jungle Lodge (FB)
Meal Plan: Full board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
Day 6: Game drive and boat cruise in Queen Elizabeth.
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.
Driving distance: 3 hours Activities: Game drive.
Overnight: Bush lodge.
Meal Plan: Full board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
Day 7: Chimpanzee Tracking in Queen Elizabeth
Morning breakfast, drive, transfer to Kalinzu forest or Kyambura forest (Both forests have high chances of seeing Chimpanzees, but Kyambura stands out with its underground forest, laterdrive to the lodge for hot lunch as you wait for your boat cruise on the 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.
Driving distance: 3 hours.
Activities: Chimpanzee tracking + Boat cruise.
Overnight: Bush lodge.
Meal Plan: Full board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
Day 8: Transfer from Queen Elizabeth to Kibale Forest National Park.
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.
Driving distance: 3-4 hours
Activities: Experiential game drive.
Overnight: Kibale Guest Cottages or Turaco Tree tops Lodge.
Meal Plan: Half board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
DAY 9: Chimpanzee Tracking in KIbale Forest National Park.
Morning breakfast in the morning and later check in at park the 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 later go for community swamp walk, evening spend the evening at the lodge for your dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
Driving distance: 3-4 hours
Activities: Chimpanzee Tracking.
Overnight: Kibale Guest Cottages or Turaco Tree tops Lodge.
Meal Plan: Half board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
DAY 10: Transfer from Kibale to Murchison falls National Park.
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.
Driving distance: 6-7 hours
Activities: Game drive.
Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge.
Meal Plan: Half board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
DAY 11: Game Drive and boat cruise in Murchison falls National Park.
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 way through a narrow gorge and dropping 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 transfer you to your lodge for enroute game drive, dinner and overnight.
Driving distance: hours
Activities: Game drive + Boat cruise.
Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge.
Meal Plan: Half board –Dinner, bed & breakfast.
Day 12: Transfer from Murchison falls to Entebbe.
Early breakfast, try you last luck in the park to Look for the animals, later drive to the top of 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 Rhino offices for a bush walk to 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 the Ziwa Rhino sanctuary later after this walk you will proceed to Kampala for dinner and evening outbound flight.
Driving distance: 7-9 hours.
Activities: Rhino Bush Walk.
Flight.
Cost Includes in 12 Days Combined Rwanda Uganda Safari
- Transport in a 4WD safari vehicle exclusive to you
- English speaking driver-guide.
- All guide fees.
- One Gorilla tracking permit per person in Uganda.
- Boat cruisein Queen Elizabeth.
- Chimpanzee tracking in Kalinzu Forest.
- Entrance +Boat cruise+ Game drive in Queen Elizabeth.
- Experiential tracking in Queen Elizabeth National Park.
- Chimpanzee permit in Kibale in Uganda.
- Entrance, boat and game drive in Murchison.
- Rhino tracking in Ziwa.
- Meals & accommodation as mentioned.
Cost Excludes in 12 Days Combined Rwanda Uganda Safari
- All optional activities.
- International flights & Visas | Travel Insurances
- Covid test
- Driver guide or local escort tips
- Premium Drinks and dining rooms tips, porter age, personal travel, and baggage
- Telephone bill, laundry, and any items of a personal nature
- Activities not mentioned in the program.