Summary
This 15 Day Uganda–Rwanda Safari takes you to both countries and allows to visit Nyungwe Forest National Park in Rwanda for a canopy walk or chimpanzee trekking. It visit popular National Parks such as Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda for gorillas or golden monkey trekking, to Bwindi Impenetrable National park in Uganda for gorillas or forest walk, to Queen Elizabeth National park for game drives and a boat cruise on Kazinga channel, to Kibale National park for chimpanzee trekking and wetland walk before drive to Murchison Falls National park for game drives and a boat cruise to the bottom of the falls. This tour proceeds to either Jinja town to visit the source of the Nile and/or White Water Rafting which is the longest river on planet earth Or take a tour to Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary located 23 kms in lake Victoria.
Activities
- Animal Tracking
- Bird Photography
- Boat Cruise
- Evening Drives
- Game Walk
- General Photography
- Hiking
- Landscape photography
- Morning Drives
- Party
- Scenic Drive
- Township tour
- Wilderness Trail
- Wildlife Photography
- Game drive
- Bird Watching
- Culture
- Photo-safari
Places
- Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
- Kigali Genocide Memorial, Rwanda
- Nyungwe National Park, Rwanda
Physical Condition
- Sportive
Connectivity
- WiFi and phone coverage at lodges
Day-by-day Description
Day 1Arrival and transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Game Walk General Photography Township tour Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariUpon your arrival, you will be welcomed by our professional tour guide who will take you for a city excursion in and around Kigali so that you are oriented about this great country with a thousand hills. After this excursion, will drive to Nyungwe for your overnight. Lodge: Nyungwe Top view Hill Hotel Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner Drive time: 4-5 hours
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
- Transfer
Location
Nyungwe Forest National Park
Day 2Chimpanzee trekking or Canopy walk in Nyungwe
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Game Walk Hiking Scenic Drive Township tour Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariAfter your breakfast, you will transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park for briefing and then chimpanzee trekking in the forest. Please note that chimpanzees in Nyungwe Forest National Park are semi habituated and as such, you will be required to wake up early for you to have chances of spotting them. You can as well go for the adventurous canopy walk which involves walking from one end of the forest to another viewing bird, and other species of primates. Return to the lodge for overnight. Lodge: Nyungwe Topview Hotel Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Drive time: 45 minutes
Day 3safari to Volcanoes National Park
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Game Walk General Photography Hiking Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariAfter your breakfast, you will leave Nyungwe Forest for Volcanoes National Park arriving in the late afternoon for overnight at your lodge. Lodge: Lebambou Gorilla Lodge Drive time: 6-7 hours drive Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Volcanoes National Park, Ruhengeri, Rwanda
Day 4Gorilla trekking or Golden monkey tracking in Volcanoes National Park
Activities Included
Animal Tracking General Photography Landscape photography Scenic Drive Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariEarly morning benefit from a tasty breakfast at the lodge before your first exciting morning drive through the Switzerland of Rwanda Park that is too clear in the indigenous forest for Gorilla trekking and draws one to the real side of natural beauty. The activity immerses you into the strange intimacy of the rainforest plus a live call of colorful birds, chattering of the rare golden monkey, and littered with fresh spoor of the mountain elusive populations of buffalo and elephant. If you don’t want to trek gorillas in Rwanda, then you can choose to visit Diane Fossey’s grave or go for golden monkeys. Have lunch at the lodge and later relax up at the lodge from the tiresome and exciting activity. Lodge: Lebambou Gorilla Lodge Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Volcanoes National Park, Ruhengeri, Rwanda
Day 5safari to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Township tour Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariAfter breakfast, drive to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. You will cross from Rwanda to Uganda through chanika Uganda Rwanda boarder and then drive to your Lodge. Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Lodge: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge or Bakiga Lodge. Drive time: 3 hours.
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Day 6Gorilla Tracking
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Evening Drives General Photography Landscape photography Morning Drives Scenic Drive Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariEarly morning, breakfast with your packed lunch, you will report to the Park headquarters for registration and join other trackers in a briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Gorilla Tracking at 7:45 am. You will trek through thick creepers and undergrowth with your guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you half an hour to three quarters of the day. The steeply forested landscape is incredibly dense but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. It is an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful yet endangered Creatures. If you did gorillas in Rwanda and not willing to do it in Uganda, you may opt for a forest walk or community walk. Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Lodge: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge or Bakiga Lodge
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Day 7Queen Elizabeth National Park.
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Game Walk Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariThis morning you will depart for Queen Elizabeth National Park, be prepared for some incredible scenery along the way. You will arrive in time for Lunch at the lodge and game drive in the plains of Kasenyi in search for savannah wildlife that may include herds of buffaloes, antelopes, elephants and if lucky, some wild cats such as lions and leopard. Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Lodge:UWA COTTAGES Drive time: 4-5 hours.
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kasese, Uganda
Day 8 Morning Game drive and afternoon boat on Kazinga Channel.
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Evening Drives Game Walk General Photography Landscape photography Morning Drives Night drive Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariThis morning you will head to back to the plains of Kasenyi for a morning game drive to try to find what could have missed the previous day. Lunch will be served at the lodge and after you will head to the jetty along kazinga channel for the afternoon boat cruise. This cruise offers you chances of viewing animals like: hippos, water birds, elephants, buffaloes, crocodiles and many other wildlife which flop the channel for drinking water. Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Lodge: UWA COTTAGES
Day 9Morning game drive and transfer to Kibale National Park
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Township tour Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariAfter an early breakfast drive to the northern bank of Queen Elizabeth National Park (kasenyi) area in searches the wild animals which include: Elephants, Buffalos, and the wild cats, Savanna birds and deferent species of antelopes such water buck Uganda kobs among others. After lunch you will drive to Kibale Forest National Park arriving at your lodge in the evening. Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. Lodge: Kibale Forest Camp/Chimpanzee Forest Guest House. Drive time: 3-4hours.
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Kibale National Park Tourist Information, Kibale, Uganda
Day 10Chimp Tracking.
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Evening Drives General Photography Landscape photography Morning Drives Scenic Drive Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariThis morning after breakfast you will drive to the park headquarters to join other trackers for a briefing and after you will be taken for chimpanzee tracking, through Kibale Forest National Park. During this walk you will have chances of seeing many of the 13 primate species native to Kibale Forest National Park. After lunch you will drive to Bigodi for a swamp walk. This wetland belongs to community neighboring the park. Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. Accommodation: Kibale Forest Camp/Chimpanzee Forest Guest House
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Kibale Forest National Park, Uganda
Day 11 Murchison Falls National Park
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Evening Drives Game Walk General Photography Hiking Scenic Drive Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariDrive to Murchison Falls National Park through small towns, villages and great views of the escarpment arriving late evening. Drive time: Approximately 8-9 hours drive Accommodation: Red chill hide away camp Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Benefits (On Arrival)
Location
Murchison Falls National Park, Lolim, Uganda
Day 12game drive and afternoon boat cruise to the bottom of the falls
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Bird Photography Boat Cruise Morning Drives Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariAfter an early morning cup of tea, transfer to the northern section popular known as paraa for your morning game drive that will provide you an opportunity of spotting wild game that may include, giraffes, buffaloes, antelopes, hippos and if lucky cats such as lions and leopards. Return to the lodge for a lunch break before proceeding to the pier for your two hour boat cruise to the bottom of the falls to witness how river Nile squeezes itself in a narrow gorge before exploding out producing an experience of a lifetime. Accommodation: Red chill hide away camp Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Day 13To Entebbe en route Zziwa Rhino Sanctaury.
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Game drive Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariDrive drive back to Entebbe via visit Zziwa Rhino sanctuary en route before proceeding to Kampala for tracking and then head to the guest house for overnight stay. Accommodation: Boma Guest House Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch Drive time: 6-7 hours
Day 14Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary or Jinja visit for source of the Nile
Activities Included
Bird Photography Game Walk Wilderness Trail Wildlife Photography Bird Watching Culture Photo-safariDrive from Entebbe town and straight to the pier to embark on your afternoon boat cruise to Ngamba Island located 23 kilometers on an island in Lake Victoria. This one hour boat cruise will expose you to several birds, you cross the equator arriving at Ngamba for an educational and informative talk about chimpanzees. After the talk, you will then proceed to view orphaned chimpanzees feeding and then return to Entebbe Main Land for your overnight. Ngamba Island is a place where resqued chimpanzees are orphaned, rehabilitated and the fact that they cannot return back to their original forests, Ngamba becomes their new home. Be part of the few to learn more about chimpanzees and how to protect them or drive to Jinja where the journey will take you through Mabira Forest, small road side markets, sugar and tea plantations and enroute stop at Ssezibwa Falls. You will then take a boat ride to the source of the Nile to witness the actual point where the Nile starts its long journey to the Mediterranean Sea. Accommodation: Boma Guest House. Meal Plan: Breakfast and Lunch Drive time: 3 hours
Day 15Departure
After your breakfast and depending on your flight details, you will be transferred to Entebbe International Airport for your flight out
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