13 Days Rwanda and Uganda Safari

13 Days Rwanda and Uganda Safari Highlights

Day 1: Transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park

Day 2: Chimpanzee tracking and canopy walk in the forest

Day 3: Transfer to Akagera National Park

Day 4: Game drives in the park

Day 5: Transfer to Bwindi National Park

Day 6: Gorilla Trekking

Day 7: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park

Day 9: Transfer to Kibale National Park

Day 10: Chimpanzee tracking and Bigodi nature walk

Day 11: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park

Day 12: Game Drives and Boat trip

Day 13: Transfer to Kampala/Entebbe

Detailed 13 Days Rwanda and Uganda Safari

You will be picked by our representative from the airport/hotel and will be given a briefing about the 13 Days Rwanda and Uganda Safari. You will then be transferred by road to Nyungwe Forest National Park. Depending on the arrival time, you may have an optional nature walk around Gisakura tea estates.

Dinner and overnight stay at Nyungwe Top View Hotel

You will be transferred to the park headquarters for a briefing ahead of chimpanzee tracking. You will track chimpanzees and will have an opportunity to see other primates including the golden monkey, troops of Angola colobus, vervet monkey, silver monkey and the Olive baboon among others. You will also spot several bird species like the great blue turaco; the long tailed blue bird and the paradise fly catcher among others.

You will enjoy a canopy walk in the afternoon.

Dinner and overnight stay at Nyungwe Top View Hotel

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Akagaera National Park by orad which is Rwanda’s biggest game conservation. You will arrive in the afternoon and you will enjoy a boat ride on Lake Ihema on arrival, in which you will have an opportunity to see several animals on the banks of the Lake. You will be taken to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay after.

Dinner and overnight stay at Akagera Game Lodge

You will start the day with an early morning game drive through the park in search of lions, Elephants, Buffalos, Masai Giraffe and many others.

You will have a lunch break to enjoy your packed/picnic lunch and you will have another game drive in the afternoon after in search of more animals including Gazelles, Impala, Baboons, Oribi, Butchel’s zebra, Topi, Bush baby, Leopard and bushbuck, Elands. You will return to the lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight stay at Akagera Game Lodge

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, the home of mountain gorillas. You will be taken through the Rwanda-Uganda border and the guides will guide you through the process.

You will enjoy the beautiful scenery of the hills and vegetation enroute. You will arrive in the afternoon and will relax by the lodge awaiting trekking in the morning.

Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Mist Lodge

After breakfast, transfer to the park Headquarters in which you will be briefed about gorilla trekking. Bwindi National Park is renowned for its impressive mountain gorillas, although it is unpredictable for how long you will track before finding them since it all depends on their movement.

You will be availed with Walking sticks by the park rangers. Visitors are allowed to spend only one hour with the gorillas for the purpose of conservation.

The ranger guide will brief you on how to conduct yourself while in the presence of the gentle giants. In the evening, proceed to the village for a cultural walk to interact with the local people and participate in captivating traditional performances.

Dinner and overnight stay at Gorilla Mist Lodge

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Queen Elizabeth National Park through Ishasha sector. You will have lunch at the lodge and will enjoy a boat ride on Kazinga channel in the afternoon for about one to two hours and will have an opportunity to see hippos, crocodiles and several birds. You will have dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.

Day 8: Game Drives through the park

You will get back early morning for a game drive through the park in search of animals like the Elephant, lions, Buffaloes, bushbucks, and Uganda Kob, Antelopes, Warthogs, among others. You will have lunch and will have another game drive in the afternoon.

Dinner and overnight stay at Parkview Safari Lodge

After an early breakfast, embark on an early morning game drive along Kasenyi track in search for Africa Lions, Leopards, and herds of Elephants and Buffaloes among others and proceed to Kibale National Park after.

You will enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Rwenzori Mountain ranges enroute. On arrival, you will have lunch and relax by the lodge.

Dinner and overnight stay at Kibale Forest camp

After breakfast, will be taken to the park headquarters for a briefing ahead of the chimpanzee tracking.

You will then embark on primates viewing in the forest spending half a day searching for chimpazees and other primates including Phoestes, Red-Colobus, Blue, Red-tailed and Grey cheeked Mangabeys swinging through the dense forest and birds, butterflies and many small insects. You will return to the lodge for lunch.

In the afternoon, you will have a visit to Bigodi swamp eco-tourism site in which you will also encounter beautiful flora and fauna. This walk is excellent for viewing different bird species like the Great blue Turacco, Rwenzori Turaco, Narina Trogon, and little Bulbul. You will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight stay at Kibale Forest camp

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Murchison Falls National Park reaching in the evening. The park is a home to over 76 species of mammals and 451 birds.

You will have a chance to see the big five and will enjoy a boat cruise on the calm Victoria Nile. You will have lunch enroute. On arrival you will rest by the lodge.

Dinner and Overnight stay at Kabalega Resort

Embark on a game drive early morning on the northern bank of the river Nile. Expect to view elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, lions, leopards, different species of antelope and many tropical birds during the game drive.

The guide will help you spot elephant, lion, cape buffalo, Roth child’s giraffe, hartebeest, waterbuck, oribi, bushbuck, bohor reed buck, hyena and if you are lucky, the leopard.

After lunch, go for a boat ride upstream the calm Victoria Nile to the base of the falls where you will see the river Nile, one of the world’s longest rivers crushing through a narrow gorge and forming the magnificent Murchison falls.

You will also view the hippos and crocodiles. You may also spot many birds like goliath heron, Egyptian goose, pelican bee-eater, kingfisher, hornbill, cormorant and the rare shoebill stork.

Dinner and overnight stay at Twinga Safari Lodge

After breakfast you will be transferred back to Kampala or Entebbe Airport for departure.