A perfect Rwanda- Uganda Gorilla trekking safari package
Gorilla trekking safari packages overview
A perfect trip to Rwanda- Uganda experience for the breathtaking Gorilla trekking safari packages along with Africa’s big 5 game (lions, elephants, buffaloes, leopards, rhinos), chimpanzee tracking, primate species, wildlife walking tours, zebras, giraffes, kobs, antelopes, hippos, birding expeditions among others. These come along activities such as hiking, photography, game drives, sceneries, cultural tours, city tours, lodges & food cuisines all on the Africa safari packages.
Gorilla trekking safari packages highlights
Arrival & departure: Kigali- Entebbe
- Day 1- arrive, city tour
- Day 2- Akagera national park
- Day 3- gorilla trek; Bwindi Impenetrable forest N.P
- Day 4- Queen Elizabeth N.P game drive & boat cruise
- Day 5- Queen Elizabeth chimpanzee tracking & game drives
- Day 6- Lake Mburo N.P nature walk
- Day 7- Kampala city tour & night life
- Day 8- botanical tour, Lake Victoria shores & departure
Detailed Gorilla trekking safari packages itinerary
On arrival at Kigali international airport, our tour guide will pick you up and lead you to your booked accommodation in the heart of the city for a brief rest and will later on take you around Kigali city; one of the cleanest cities in Africa with its malls, eco parks, resorts, golf courses, restaurants and lounges, hand-made art and craft shops, museums, archeries, horse riding, recreation parks among others (the duration of this tour will depend on time of arrival).
Accommodation: The Manor hotel (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Rwanda’s Africa big 5 destination with green savannah and wetland wilderness at Akagera national park with lions, leopards, buffaloes, rhinos and elephants along with giraffes, hippos, crocodiles, hyenas, wild dogs, antelopes, kobs, water bucks, monkeys, baboons and more than 300 bird species. the park provides various safari options such as day and night game drives, boat safari cruises, hot air balloons and walking safaris. Later in the afternoon, you will head out of the park and head to Uganda.
Accommodation: Akagera transit lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Starting from the gorilla park headquarters, you will have a briefing on the gorilla behaviors, livelihoods and how to handle their reactions to the human presence. Gorilla trekking safari packages in Uganda is a 100% chance experience backed up by the high gorilla population in this region. After gorilla trekking, you will have a tour through the Batwa community who have for all their life time co-existed with the forest and its species. During this nature walk you will experience numerous bird species with particularly 23 Albertine endemics that are habitats to only the Albertine region. Later on you will set out to the Ishasha sector of the Queen Elizabeth national park best known for its tree climbing lions as vast grassland and its plains will keep you amazed at the wonderful wild game and set up along with beautiful scenes of the Rwenzori mountains and great rift valley.
Accommodation: Mweya safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Queen Elizabeth national park’s savannah grassland is anchored by lake Edward, lake George, Kazinga channel and 52 crater lakes. At the Kazinga channel boat cruise, you will have a glance at the world’s largest concentration of hippo pods numbering above 5,000 members, Nile crocodiles, buffalo herds, water birds, elephant herds, lions, water bucks, giraffes, kobs, kudus among others also coming at the banks of the Kazinga channel to quench their thirst. After the boat cruise, you will embark on a game drive around this channel and beyond into the vast savannah grassland to enjoy more game viewing at more lion and elephant families, among other creatures, scenery views of the ice capped Rwenzoris. This drive will head you out of the park to Lake Mburo National park.
Accommodation: Mihingo lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Lake Mburo ungulates national park offers a wide range of touring options from board rides, horseback riding safaris, walking safaris, game drives, biking/cycling safaris and community walks. Lake Mburo game park has 70 mammals and 332 recorded bird species and is richly gifted with various acacia and papyrus endemics such as the papyrus gonelek, papyrus yellow warbler, white-winged warbler and shoebill; as the acacia species are wide spread elsewhere in the park. Mammals include burchell’s zebras, Nubian giraffes, hippos, leopards, buffaloes, topi, elands, antelopes, warthogs, bushbucks, reedbucks, olive baboons, sitatungas, hyenas, impalas, crocodiles, reptiles etc. Later in the evening hours, you will head out to Kampala city crossing another equator landmark along the Kampala- Masaka highway.
Accommodation: Serena golf course hotel (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
This day will find you in Kampala city and you will embark on a city tour around the hills of Kampala. Kampala city tour will get you to various historical administrative, economic and cultural sites and centers in the city have affected the development of Uganda as a country such as the Kasubi tombs where 3 ancient Buganda kings are buried, Lubaga cathedral, Namirembe cathedral, Qaddafi mosque, Baha’i temple etc.
Accommodation: Serena golf course hotel (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Day 8 Botanical gardens & Departure
This day will find you at the shores of Lake Victoria in Entebbe and early in the morning after your breakfast you have a tour around Entebbe town and there after a walking tour at the cool 40.7 hectare botanical gardens along the shore of Lake Victoria. Botanical gardens are also common for biking/ cycling safari, monkey feeding, birding safari and 500 plant species including both foreign and indigenous. After here you will head to the airport for departure after the gorilla trekking safari packages.
Accommodation: N/A
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Inclusions
- Gorilla trekking permits
- Chimpanzee tracking permits
- Park entrance fees
- All activities in the itinerary
- Transport 4×4 safari landcruiser
- Government taxes
- Driver & guide
- Airport transfers
- Bottled drinking water
Exclusions
- Travel insurance
- International flights
- Visa fees & processing
- Tipping & gratitude
- Extra activities, meals, alcohol/ liquor
- Accommodation after the end of the trip
- Any changes to the itinerary
- Souvenirs & snacks
- Anything not mentioned
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