Experience Uganda & Rwanda Gorillas, Chimps & Big 5 (Exclusively Private)

After a heavy breakfast, you will embark on an early morning game

drive where you are likely to spot animals like Lions, buffaloes,

waterbuck, Jackson’s hartebeest, Rothschild’s giraffe, oribi among

others. After lunch, exit Murchison Falls National Park.

You will branch off at Ziwa Rhino sanctuary in Nakasongola to track

the Rhinos and later continue to Kampala for overnight stay.

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Transfer from Kampala to Queen Elizabeth National Park:

Your guide will pick you up from your hotel to transfer to Queen

Elizabeth National Park. Queen Elizabeth is the most popular park in

Uganda as it offers diverse ecosystems, classic big game, 10 primate

species and over 600 bird species .You will have a lunch break at

Igongo Cultural Centre and later proceed to the park.

On arrival, you will enjoy an afternoon boat ride along the Kazinga

Channel for a wide view of yawning hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes,

various bird species such as red chest, papyrus Gonolek, pink backed

pelicans, malachite kingfishers, yellow crown, water thick-knee,

yellow-billed stork, shoe bill stock among others. Return at the lodge

for dinner and overnight stay at your booked lodge.

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Transfer Bwindi National Park home to half of the endangered mountain gorillas in the world. It is a scenic drive with an en-route game drive in Ishasha

sector that offers the opportunity to view the tree-climbing lions at a

closer range.

Transfer from Bwindi NP to Ruhengeri: After enjoying that

wonderful experience of the gorillas in Bwindi, we will proceed for the

one more prime destination for gorillas in Rwanda based in Parc

National des Volcanoes PNV). Volcanoes is part of the Virunga

mountains which has different peaks like Bisoke, Karisimbi,

Muhabura, Sabinyo. Marvel at this beautiful mountainous country also

called “a land of a thousand hills.” Arrive in the evening for dinner and

overnight stay at your booked lodge.

Trek to Dian Fossey Tomb (Grave): The hike aims to give tourists a

learning experience about the works of the famous American

primatologist and conservationist, Dian Fossey, who dedicated her life

to research about the mountain gorillas. She set up a research camp

in the valley between Mount Karisimbi and Mount Bisoke hence the

name ‘Karisoke’. Her works to protect the mountains gorillas and their

habitat would lead her into conflict with negative forces including

poachers and she was eventually killed. She was buried among the

gorillas near her Karisoke Research Center.

The hike is done in the morning. You report to the park office in Kinigi

at 7am to the meet the ranger guides for briefing and at about 8am

drive for about 30 minutes to the base of the Mount Bisoke where the

trekking starts just outside the park at the car parking. A walking stick

will be provided at the starting point, free of charge, and porters will

found here that you can hire to carry your bags and provide some

support along the hike.

After early morning breakfast at the lodge, visit Lake Kivu and enjoy

the morning breeze at the shores, this is an hour's drive to Rubavu.

Spend just an hour there, then return to the road to proceed on your drive to Nyungwe National Park with lunch en route.

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Today, after your early morning breakfast, you will leave your hotel for

a chimpanzee tracking in Nyungwe National Park Rwanda

experience. Nyungwe forest is well known for having 13 species of

primates and was transformed into a park for briefing and

Chimpanzee trekking. You will be entitled to one hour stay on finding

the chimpanzees. After doing the chimpanzee trek, proceed to Kigali

where you will be dropped off at the Airport to catch your flight back

home.