Tour Itinerary
Day 1. Arrival in Entebbe
Our guide will pick you up on arrival at Entebbe International Airport and be transferred to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Serena hotel (Uganda
Day 2. Transfer to kibale national park
Transfer from Entebbe to kibale, this drive will take about 6 –hours and reach early, you can engage in Bigodi swamps for birders, Crater Lake drive, and cultural walk in preparation for the following day chimpanzee tracking. Dinner and overnight Dinner stay at Kyaninga Lodge or Primates lodge.
Accommodation: Kyaninga Lodge/ Primates lodge
Day 3. Chimpanzee tracking and transfer to queen Elizabeth National Park.
After breakfast set off to Kibale headquarters for briefing from the head park guide about what to expect and how to conduct your self during the chimpanzee tracking adventure. Trekking for chimpanzees normally takes 3-5 hours after which you will return to your hotel for lunch and a rest. In the evening, you will be transferred to Queen Elizabeth national park. The journey to Queen Elizabeth national park takes 2 hours then Dinner and Overnight stay at Mweya Safari lodge.
Accommodation: Mweya Safari lodge.
Day 4. Morning game drive and kazinga channel
Wake up early morning after Breakfast at around 6am will embark for the morning game drive along the kasenyi tracks to spot the early morning predators and other nocturnal animals before they retreat to their hideouts, herds of buffalos, elephants, leopards, lions and various species of antelopes, return to the lodge for lunch then at 2 pm head to kazinga channel for boat cruise to spot hippopotamus, different water birds, and many more herds of buffalos along the shores.
Overnight stay at Mweya Safari Lodge /, Ihamba Lodge / Park view lodge
Accommodation: Mweya Safari lodge /, Ihamba Lodge / Park view lodge.
Day 5. Transfer to Bwindi.
After early morning breakfast embark on the road and head to Bwindi through Queen Elizabeth inshasha sector where you will be lucky to see the famous tree climbing lions then Bwindi forest impenetrable national park will arrive in the evening meet the Batwa community. Check in your lodge for dinner and overnight
Accommodation: Gorilla Safari Lodge.
Day 6. Gorilla tracking in Bwindi
Wake up to an early morning breakfast and your driver or guide will pick you up from your lodge and head to the park quarters for briefing before the gorilla expeditions, head to the trail head and begin your treks transfer. You are allowed to spend one hour with the mountain gorillas once you meet the gorillas, after you will transfer to Kinigi at chanika crossing into Rwanda enjoying the scenic drive through the country enjoying the green rolling hills to volcanoes national park. Dinner and overnight
Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla view lodge.
Day 7. Golden monkey tracking- transfer to Congo
Wake up early for another exciting day for breakfast, after will go for briefing about golden monkey tracking in kiningi. Golden monkeys are endangered primates looking so bright because of their color. As you track them, expect to spot other primates in the forest then drive back to the lodge for lunch. Afterwards, our guide will take you Rubavu for relaxation on kivu lake then dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Kivu serena.
Day 8. coffee processing & Transfer to Kigali
in the morning breakfast your will go for coffee processing and visiting fish firm and Nyamyumba hot water spring then back to the hotel for lunch then transfer you to Kigali for dinner and over night
Accommodation: Kigali serena Hotel.
Day 9: kigali city tour
For Kigali city tour will visit different places like:
- Kandt House was the first colonial governor of Rwanda, on behalf of Germany, until the early 1900s. At present, the Kandt House Museum in Kigali comprises three main parts.
The first part presents Rwandan life in all its aspects – social, economic, and political – before the colonial period.
The second part traces the experience of the Rwandan people during the colonial period. Following the Berlin Conference in 1884, the Germans ruled Rwanda until 1916, when the Belgians took over under the League of Nations Mandate after World War I. Richard Kandt’s life and deeds in Rwanda are covered here.
The third part covers the history of Kigali, before, during and after the colonial era. Kigali was made the capital upon independence in 1962. - Camp Belgian monument (Belgium Tomb) is found in Nyarugenge in Kigali Rwanda. The camp is place where the ten Belgian were massacred during the early days of the Rwandan genocide on the 7th of April 1994against the Tutsi, this were working with the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda.
- The Kigali Genocide Memorial is an important place of remembrance and learning about the Genocide against the Tutsi. It is through education that we can prevent mass atrocities from occurring in our communities. A number of educations programmes are run by the memorial, both onsite and in communities across Rwanda.
- A new museum, Campaign Against Genocide Museum, has opened in Kigali at the parliamentary buildings. This museum tells part of the many Rwanda’s sad stories of the yesteryears, of despair, struggling to free a people from the yoke of subjugation, the efforts and the sacrifices that were suffered and written during the time of rescuing the Tutsi from the strangling hands of Interahamwe; the campaign that was started from the parliament buildings and became successful, a “Campaign Against Genocide ” (CAG Museum) was built in the parliamentary compound.
And if time allows will visit vision city, kigali Economic zone etc. ………. Then back to the hotel for relaxing, dinner and overnight.
Day 10: Departure
Today after a relaxed breakfast you will be transferred by your driver/guide to Kigali International airport to catch your flight back home. Sadly, this is where you say goodbye to Rwanda & Uganda.
