Uganda and Rwanda Gorillas
12 days—Uganda and Rwanda Gorilla Trekking & Wildlife SafariThe
$5400-6000 USD
pp
Safari summary
The Uganda Rwanda Gorilla Trekking & Wildlife Safari is the best way to experience gorilla trekking in Uganda & Rwanda. You'll also have a Rwanda city tour, wildlife tours, game drives & boat cruises on the safari destinations that include Murchison Falls National Park, White Nile River, Kibale Forest National park via Fort Portal for chimpanzee trekking & Bigodi Swamp walk, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park for golden monkey trekking & Bwindi for gorilla trekking.
About this tour
Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
Main focus | Game drives | |
Activity level | Strenuous activity | |
Best months | All months | |
Countries | ||
Parks |
Fine details
Safari highlights
- Bird watching—with professional guide
- Hiking | trekking
- Primate trekking
What’s included?
- Accommodation
- Airport transfers
- Meals
- Park fees
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Alcoholic beverages
- All drinks
- Hot air balloons
- Internal flights
- International flights
- Laundry
- Premium alcoholic beverages
- Spa treatments
- Tips and gratuities
- Visas
Itinerary
Rhino Trekking- Murchison Falls
Murchison Falls
After an early morning breakfast at your hotel in Entebbe, your driver-guide will meets & greets you. Shortly after the safari briefing depart & head north of kampala through the districts of Luweero and Masindi to Murchison Falls National Park. Pass through the traditional farms & villages, stopping at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary & Wildlife Ranch for rhino trekking. Stop in Masindi town for lunch en-route & to re-fuel.
Pakuba Safari Lodge
Game Drive, Boat cruise Murchison
Murchison Falls
Wake up for an early morning sumptuous breakfast so that intrepid explorers can begin with an early game drive in the peninsula between the Victoria & Lake Albert Nile. Catch the highest concentration of wildlife in the wilds of Murchison Falls. After lunch take a magnificent boat cruise to the base of the majestic Murchison Falls. The earth literally trembles to one of the world most powerful falls of natural water while crocodiles soak up .
Pakuba Safari Lodge
Transfer Kibale
Kibale
After a leisurely breakfast will be followed by a transfer to Kibale Forest National Park. This drive is incredibly scenic, going through western rift valley floor & escarpments, tea plantations, sugarcane plantations and lush green countryside which characterizes so much of Uganda. Kibale National Park is a habitat for over 13 primate species which you’re likely to encounter most of them during your visit time.
Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
Chimpanzee Trekking experience
Kibale
The Uganda chimpanzee trekking experience is a unique opportunity that will allow you to follow a chimpanzee group in its daily activities. Accompanying Kibale reserve researchers & rangers, you will be on the forest floor to watch the chimps search for their fruits & vocalizing. Then you will follow them for an hour observing the full gamut of their behavior. You will be part of the Uganda Wildlife Authority initiative to trek the chimpanzees without changing their natural environment.
Chimpanzee Forest Lodge
Queen Elizabeth NP with Rwenzori
Queen Elizabeth
After a leisurely morning breakfast, do the crater lakes drive as you proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The drive provides you with a chance to see beautiful, cool Crater Lakes & the drive has got the Great views of Rwenzori Mountain ranges in Rwenzori Mountains National Park. Mount Stanley at 5,109m is both Uganda & Democratic Republic of Congo highest peak in addition to Ruenzori mountains being the third highest peak in Africa after Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania & Mount kenya
Bush Lodge (Banda)
Game Drive Safari & Boat safari
Queen Elizabeth
After an early morning breakfast, participate in a morning game drive. The drive through the Kasenyi Plains which is a spot for predators hunting the prey. The game drive provides you with an excellent opportunity to view animals such as jackals, bushbucks, forest hogs, Buffaloes, elephants . then cruise on the Kazinga Channel & observe beautiful birds & wildlife. The channel attracts large concertation of wildlife & birdlife to quench their thirst & this boat launch safari
Bush Lodge (Banda)
Bwindi Impenetrable NP Via Ishasha
Bwindi Impenetrable
Ishasha sector of Queen Elizabeth National park is famously known for tree climbing lion, after an early morning breakfast begin your journey to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park with a stopover at ishasha sector for a game drive and thereafter proceed to Bwindi Forest National Park.
Bakiga Lodge
Gorilla Trekking Bwindi forest
Bwindi Impenetrable
After an early breakfast, transfer to ranger station, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. After a briefing by a ranger guide, enter the gorilla sanctuary for your adventure. The beauty of this rainforest is spectacular. The area offers a dramatic steeply forested landscape and is incredibly dense, but crisscrossed by numerous animal trails allowing access to tourists. The time taken and the terrain varies depending on the movements of gorillas.
Gorilla Mist Camp
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
A leisurely morning breakfast will be followed by a transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. The drive is characterized with great scenery of the Bwindi Forests, Kigezi cultivated highlands & the great Virunga mountains that straddles the borders of Uganda, Rwanda & Democratic Republic of Congo.
Travellers Rest Hotel
Golden Monkey Trekking Mgahinga
After an early morning breakfast, transfer to Ntebeko visitors center a head of the Golden Monkey Trekking Tour.You will be led by a ranger guide and hike up into the volcanoes in search of these endangered monkeys and after you find them, you’ll be allowed to stay with them for an hour and then return to the trailhead to begin your journey across the border to republic of Rwanda’s volcanoes National park famously known for the Dianny Fossey research center.
Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Optional Rwanda Gorilla or bisoke
To go Rwanda gorilla trekking today, a trekking ticket at USD$1,500 is required additional and Alternatively, you will go for a Bisoke hike. Mount Bisoke adventure is one of the most memorable activities in Rwanda. The top of this volcano has a spectacular crater lake. It is simply a 6-hour hike including the 2 hours descending down to the starting point. Experienced hikers can get to the top of this mountain in a matter of 3 hours or even less and return to the base in about an hour.
Mountain Gorilla View Lodge
Volcanoes National Park - Kigali
Volcanoes
A leisurely morning breakfast, will be followed by a transfer to Kigali. Upon arrival in Kigali, take a tour of the city that includes a visit to the 1994 Rwanda Genocide Memorial to pay your last respects for the victims of 1994 Rwanda genocide against Tutsi & after this you’ll advice your guide where to be dropped and or to drop you at the airport targeting for w night outbound flight marking the end of 12 Day Uganda Rwanda Gorilla Trekking & Wildlife Safari.
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