20 Days Rwanda Congo Uganda trip

 

FULL ITINERARY

Day 1: Arrival Kigali International Airport

At Kigali international Airport Rwanda, you will be met by Embrace Africa gorilla vacation safari guide and thereafter transfer you to your lodge. At the lodge our guide will give a detailed briefing about your Rwandan Uganda safari. Overnight at Five to five hotel

Day 2: Kigali City Tour And Transfer To Volcanoes National Park

Morning after breakfast go a city tour. Here we shall visit Gisozi genocide museum, Nyamata and Ntarama genocide sites and some city markets. Break for lunch, after transfer to Volcanoes national park. Davinci lodge

Day 3: Hike to Diana Fossey’s grave

Morning after breakfast, assemble at the park headquarters for briefing and after hike to Diana fossey’s grave. Afternoon at rest

Day 4: Golden Monkey tracking – Rwanda

Morning after breakfast, we shall get back to the park headquarters and proceed for the Golden Monkey tracking which is listed as endangered by the world conservation union. This is another thrilling activity for visitors. Trekking these habituated primates takes between 3 – 4 hours. The other special thing with these monkeys is that they are only found within the Albertine rift which covers Uganda’s Mgahinga, Rwanda’s VNP, and Congo’s Virunga national parks. Getting close to this primates is another thrilling encounter. After trekking return back to the lodge for dinner and over night stay

You will transfer to Congo town of Bukavu through Rusizi boarder. Depending on the time of arrival, you can make a Bakavu city tour. Overnight at Orchids safari club

Day 6: Lowland gorilla trekking in kahuzi Biega national park

In the morning, you will head for the memorable adventure if tracking the lowland gorillas in Kahuzi Biega national park. Lowland gorillas differ from mountain gorillas in that they are bigger in size and stay in bigger families. The tracking usually takes 1 – 4 hours. After tracking you will return back to Bukavu and for rest at your lodge. Overnight Orchids safari

Day 7: Transfer to Goma Town

Very early in the morning, you will be picked from your hotel ferry which will take you to Coma town (about 2hrs ride). On arrival, you will check in with the virunga national park office and proceed to Coma for a city tour. Overnight at Kibumba Tented Camp

Day 8: Nyiragongo HikeMorning after breakfast proceed to park headquarters. You will meet your ranger guide and porter and begin your hike. Meals will be provided and you will stay in a banda at the top of the volcano

Day 9: Descend nyiragongo

After breakfast, start down hill walk where you will reach down at around 11am. Proceed to Grande Barriers to start your journey Uganda

Day 10: Gorilla trekking in Mgahinga/ bwindi

After an early breakfast, our driver will drive you to Mgahinga/bwindi National Park headquarters arriving in time for briefing. Before briefing, your passport details will be required to make sure that you are eligible to trek mountain gorillas. This will be followed by briefing from one of the UWA rangers about gorilla trekking, dos and don’ts and instructions to be followed on the trek, with the gorillas and after the trek. You will then be led to the forest to search for the mountain gorillas.

Day 11: Batwa (pygmies) experience hike

In the morning, you will go to Mgahinga gorilla national park to start the batwa experience hike. This activity is done and conducted by the batwa people in collaboration with Uganda wildlife authority. The tour takes you the jingles inside Mgahinga national where the batwa people used to live before they were evicted from forest when it was made a national park. They will demonstrate to you how they used to live,hunt and survive in the forest.

Day 12: Transfer to Uganda’s beautiful Lake Bunyonyi

Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi one of the most scenic lakes in Uganda and the second deepest lake in Africa with some areas a deep as 900m. It has very wonderful and cool resorts that most people love to relax. overnight at Bird nest

Day 13: Transfer to Uganda – Queen Elizabeth National Park, tree climbing lions sector – Ishasha

After breakfast we set off for Queen Elizabeth National Park, this is the 2nd biggest park in Uganda. we shall do a game drive enroute in Ishasha sector in search of the tree climbing lions. Other animals that could be seen here include Topis, Leopard, Hyenas, Buffaloes warthogs, Baboons Kobs, African Elephant and much more. Overnight at Enjojo lodge

Day 14: Morning game and afternoon launch cruise along the Kazinga channel

Transfer to the northern sector of Queen Elizabeth National Park. We start with morning game drive, this is one of the most beautiful game drives you can ever do with in Uganda, the drive exposes you to large herds of topis, kobs, Buffaloes and sometimes elephants, and if we are lucky, we can see the tree climbing lions and the leopard. After the game drive through the park to the northern part of the park to catch up with an amazing two hours boat ride on the Kazinga Channel for amazing bird life and a variety of wild life plus biggest schools of Hippos found no where else in on the African continent. Dinner and over night at Engazi lodge

Day 15: Morning game drive After transfer to Kibale Forest National park – the home of Chimps in Uganda

After an early Breakfast we’ll go for a morning game drive in Kasenyi plains in search of the famous Big Four; Elephant, Buffalos, Lions and leopard. Other animals you can expect to see include; Bush bucks,Uganda Kobs, Giant forest hog, Hyenas and Waterbucks warthogs and much more as nature can unveil. In the after noon we’ll transfer to Kibale forest National park overnight at Primate Lodge

Day 16: Chimp tracking And Bigodi Wetland Walk.

After breakfast we visit Kibale Forest National Park, which is reputed to have the biggest variety of primates and highest concentration of chimpanzees in East Africa. We shall meet at the park offices for briefing and thereafter be allocated groups to start our chimpanzee trekking. The trekking usually but not always takes 2-4 depending on how far the chimpanzees are feeding from. After trekking the chimpanzees, we shall break for lunch and afternoon go for a guided nature walk in the Bigodi wetland sanctuary in search of other primates like; uganda red-tailed monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, grey chicked mangabey, red colobus and many others. Overnight at your lodge

Day 17: Drive to Murchison Falls National Park

Drive to Murchison Falls National Park through small towns, villages and great views of the escarpment arriving late evening.

Day 18: Morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise to the bottom of the falls

Early in the morning go 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.

Day 19: Morning game drive and after transfer to ziwa rhino sanctuary

In the Morning you will have a second game drive in search of animals you could have missed in the first game drive and after transfer to masindi with a stop over at the top of the fall. Overnight masindi hotel or Amuka lodge

Day 20: Ziwa rhino tracking and after transfer to Entebbe airport

After breakfast, you will drive back to Entebbe International Airport with a stop over at Ziwa rhino sanctuary for the rhino tracking lunch stop at the Equator crossing. Proceed to Entebbe International Airport for your departure flight. End of your 7 Day Lake Mburo, Mgahinga, Bwindi gorillas, golden monkeys

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Our safaris always include:

– All meals and accommodation mentioned in the Itinerary
– Drinking water
– All entrance fees required and tracking permits in this program
– Professional driver/guide
– All activities mentioned in this program

–4WD safari vehicle All ground tra

They exclude:

 

– Tips
– Charter fees and air tickets
– Telephone calls
– Internet fees and any other items of a personal nature

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