13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda

13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

Overview of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

The 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda is a Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour and Uganda wildlife safari to the prime safari destinations of the two countries. On a 13 days Uganda-Rwanda safari you tour and have an encounter of the beautiful wild at Lake Mburo National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park and Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda. In Rwanda, you visit Volcanoes National Park, Nyungwe Forest National Park and Akagera National Park.

Arriving at Entebbe international airport in Uganda and departing via Kigali International Airport, your safari starts from Uganda with a drive from the airport to a booked hotel in Kampala-Uganda’s capital. The next day you are driven to Lake Mburo National Park where you have a boat cruise and nature walk then continue to Queen Elizabeth park for a game drive and boat cruise then after go to Lake Bunyonyi. From Lake Bunyonyi you are driven to Rwanda’s Volcanoes national park where you undertake Mountain Gorilla and golden monkey trekking then after continue to Nyungwe Forest National Park for a canopy walk and chimpanzee trekking. You then continue to Akagera National Park for wildlife sightings. You later on depart via Kigali international airport in Rwanda.

Highlights of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

DAY 1: You arrive at Entebbe international airport where you meet a professional driver guide for a drive to a booked hotel or lodge in Kampala.

DAY 2: After breakfast, you take a drive to Lake Mburo National Park for an evening game drive with a stop at the equator line.

DAY 3: In the morning, you go for a morning nature walk in Lake Mburo National Park and undertake an evening boat cruise.

DAY 4: You have morning breakfast then transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park where you undertake an evening game drive.

DAY 5: You undertake a morning game drive in the Kasenyi sector of Queen Elizabeth then undertake an evening launch trip on the 45km long Kazinga channel that joins lakes Albert and Edward.

DAY 6: After relaxed breakfast, you are driven to lake Bunyonyi where you undertake an evening canoe ride to the amazing punishment island then relax at the shores of Africa’s deepest lake

DAY 7: You have relaxed breakfast at the shores of lake Bunyonyi then after transfer to Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda.

DAY 8: After breakfast, you are driven to Volcanoes National Park where you go gorilla trekking lasting about 2-6hours.

DAY 9: This morning, you go for golden monkey trekking then after transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park.

DAY 10: You go for chimpanzee trekking in the morning then after undertake an evening canopy walk.

DAY 11: From Nyungwe Forest National Park, you are then transferred to Akagera National Park arriving in the evening then relax at a booked lodging facility close to the park.

DAY 12: You go for a morning game drive at Akagera National Park then undertake an evening boat cruise at lake Ihema.

DAY 13: After breakfast, you are driven to Kigali international airport for a departure flight via Kigali city.

Day by day detailed itinerary of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

Day 1 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

On arrival for your awaited trip at the shores of Lake Victoria at Entebbe international airport, you will meet a Uganda wildlife safari guide who welcomes you and gives a hand in transfer to your safari vehicle. With a briefing on the whole trip you transfer to a hotel/lodge in Kampala. Upon arrival at the lodge, you check in, relax, have dinner and spend the night as you rest from jet lag and prepare to start the road trip to the countryside the next morning.

Day 2 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

Your professional safari driver guide will pick you up from your hotel or place of residence as early as 7:00am for a road trip to Lake Mburo National Park. After an 80km drive from Kampala, you will have stop at the equator line in Kayabwe for a zero-latitude experience and photography. This will last maximally one hour according to your interests and thereafter proceed to Lake Mburo National Park. Upon arrival, you will check in to your accommodation facility, have lunch and then after go to the park headquarters for an evening game drive at 4:00pm. The game drive lasts about 2-4hours then after return for dinner an overnight stay at an accommodation in Lake Mburo National Park.


Accommodation options: Luxury/Up-market: Mihingo lodge Mid-range/Standard: Rwakobo rock lodge/Arcadia lodge Mburo

Day 3 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

A cup of African coffee starts your day then after you take a morning nature walk with a ranger guide within Lake Mburo Park. The park hosts calm animals and the best safari destination in Uganda for a walk in the wild. You have lunch and then undertake an evening boat cruise on Lake Mburo. You then take a late evening game drive en route to your lodging facility where you spend the night.

Accommodation options: Luxury/Up-market: Mihingo lodge Mid-range/Standard: Rwakobo rock lodge/Arcadia lodge Mburo

Day 4 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

In the morning, you have breakfast at your lodge at Lake Mburo National Park then you are driven to Queen Elizabeth National Park. On arrival at Queen Elizabeth National Park, your driver guide will transfer you to an accommodation in Queen Elizabeth National Park where you check in and have refreshment. In the evening, you go for an evening game drive where you sight several wild species with possible sightings of lions, kobs, Antelopes and many more. You later then return to your lodging facility where you spend the night.

Accommodation options: Luxury/Up-market: Mweya safari lodge Mid-range/standard: Enganzi Lodge

Day 5 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

 By 7:00am, you will be in Queen Elizabeth park for a morning game drive that lasts about 2-4 hours. After the game drive, depending on your lodging facility, you will return to your lodging facility for refreshment and have a meal or have picnic lunch then after go for an evening boat cruise. The launch cruise is undertaken on the 45km long kazinga channel that joins lakes Edward and George home to the largest concentration of Hippos in Africa. You return to your lodging facility where you spend the night.

Accommodation options: Luxury/Up-market: Mweya safari lodge Mid-range/standard: Enganzi Lodge

Day 6 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

In the morning, you have relaxed breakfast then after embark on a drive to Lake Bunyonyi for an amazing adventure. You arrive in the afternoon, have lunch at a booked accommodation in lake Bunyonyi. After then, you have a canoe ride to the historical punishment island on Africa’s deepest lake. Along with a local guide, you have a moment to listen to the tales of the island. In the evening, you spend the night at your booked accommodation.


Accommodation options: Luxury/Up-market: Birdnest @ Bunyonyi Resort Mid-range/standard: Lake Bunyonyi Rock Resort

Day 7 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

In the morning after this adventure experience and probably the last Uganda safari activity, you check out then embark on a drive past the Uganda-Rwanda border to Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. You spend a night at an accommodation close to the national park.

Accommodations options: Luxury/Up-market: Mount Gorilla View Hotel/Sabyinyo Silverback lodge Mid-range/standard: La palme Hotel/Da Vinci Gorilla lodge

Day 8 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

After breakfast at your accommodation in Volcanoes National Park, you are transferred to the park for gorilla trekking. Your Rwanda gorilla trekking safari experience starts with briefing at 8:00am by the park rangers on the Rwanda gorilla trekking etiquette. You then get into the jungle alongside 7 other trekkers and an armed park ranger where you spend about 2-6hours in the jungle and a single hour in the presence of the gentle mountain gorillas. You return to the trek start point where you meet your driver guide for a drive back to your lodging facility for relaxation.


Accommodations options: Luxury/Up-market: Mount Gorilla View Hotel/Sabyinyo Silverback lodge Mid-range/standard: La palme Hotel/Da Vinci Gorilla lodge

Day 9 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

Again, this day be ready to return to Volcanoes National Park where you go for golden monkey trekking. In the whole of Rwanda, this is the only safari park where mountain gorillas co-exist with golden monkeys and only 2 destinations in the whole of the world the other being Mgahinga Gorilla National Park in Uganda. You trek golden monkeys for about 2-4hours then after be driven to Nyungwe Forest National Park on a 273km drive taking about 5-6hours. Arriving in the evening, you check in and spend the night at a booked accommodation in Nyungwe Forest National Park.

Day 10 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

Waking up on the other side of the beautiful land of a thousand hills, expect to wake up early and get ready for a drive to Nyungwe Forest Park for chimpanzee trekking on this Rwanda wildlife safari. Chimpanzee trekking starts at 8:00am as you go in search of man’s closest relatives alongside a park ranger spending about 2-4hours. After the trek you have lunch then go for a canopy walk which is found only in this park in the country. The canopy walk is not an ordinary walk however a walk on a suspended bridge 170m high and 2km long on top of a tropical forest. Here you not only enjoy the fresh air but also sight several bird species for about 2 hours. In the evening, you are driven to your lodging facility where you spend the night.

Day 11 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

From a lodging facility at Nyungwe Forest National Park, you have breakfast then after embark on a drive to Akagera National Park. This is a 7-8hours drive taking you 349km within the land of a thousand hills. Driving past beautiful landscapes you arrive in the evening for a night stay at a booked accommodation in Akagera National Park.

Day 12 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

You wake up early morning for a cup of hot coffee then after embark on a drive by your driver guide to Akagera park for a wild game drive that brings you up close to the big five wild animals. Meeting the early risers, you have chance to sight antelopes, giraffes, Elephants, Buffalos, bush bucks among many others. After about 2-4 hours on the drive, you go for lunch at your lodging facility or have picnic lunch. Thereafter, you take an afternoon boat cruise on Lake Ihema, where you are rewarded with sight of wildlife like the hippos, crocodiles alongside numerous bird species. In the evening after the boat cruise, you are driven back to your lodging facility where you spend the night.

Day 13 of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour

After breakfast, you check out of your lodging facility and be driven to Kigali town where you undertake a short city tour on a visit to the genocide memorial center. You can also do some shopping in case you need some crafts before your driver guide takes you to Kigali international airport for a departure flight.  

End of the 13 Days Gorilla Trekking Safari Rwanda Wildlife Tour Uganda/Rwanda Gorilla Tracking Tour      

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

WHERE CAN YOU FIND & SEE GORILLAS IN UGANDA AFRICA?

Image
Uganda has only two national parks where one can see gorillas i.e Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and this is where g orilla trekking in Uganda is done to search and find  the rear endangered Mountain Gorillas . With about 1063 mountain gorillas that still exist on earth today, Uganda is home to more than half of all these endangered Great Apes making it one of the only 3 countries in the world where mountain gorillas live and Uganda gorilla tours are only done in there two national parks. Uganda has 20 gorilla families that have been habituated and already set for tourism purposes , 19 of which are tracked/found in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and only 1 is found in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one  of the places where you can see Gorillas in Uganda Africa. The appropriately named Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (also called “The Place of Darkness”) is the world’s premier gorilla t
Read more

Mountain Gorilla Behavior,Diet,Threats and Predators

http://www.primeugandasafaris.com/gorilla-safaris/5-days-uganda-gorilla-safari.html Behavior  Although strong and powerful, gorillas are generally gentle,shy ,retiring rather than ferocious and treacherous . They live in groups of 2-40 individuals, averaging about 11. Groups are led by a dominant male, the Silverback, named for the silvery gray hairs that grow when the male matures. The Silverback serves as the chief leader and protector of the group, to whom all group members defer. He decides when and where to go, rest and sleep, arbitrates disputes among his family members and protects them from rival Silverbacks or human predators. Gorillas usually seeks no trouble but will valiantly defend its family group if threatened. An adult male called a silverback named for the silvery gray hairs on its back normally leads each group, serving as its chief protector and defender. Gorillas
Read more

SHELLEY’S CRIMSONWING; THE BIRDS OF UGANDA – UGANDA SAFARI NEWS

Image
With over 1057 species of birds, the birding safaris and tours in Uganda go beyond the ordinary. Among these species of birds, there is the eye catching Shelley’s Crimsonwing scientifically referred as Cryptospiza Shelleyi. The Shelley’s Crimsonwing is categorized among the estrildid finch species thrives in closed canopy moist forests, close to water valley bottoms, low secondary growth at the edges of forests, glades and forest clearings marked by extensive herbs, moorland and Bamboo thickets. The birders on Uganda safaris can explore the Shelley Crimsonwing in the Mountains of the Albertine rift valley including Rwenzori Mountains. This Species stretch to other famous parts in the region including the Virunga Mountains, the Kahuzi Biega Mountain, Itombwe Mountain as explored on Congo Safaris and tours and Nyungwe Forest National Park and Gishwati Mukura National Park as explored on Safaris in Rwanda . Bwindi Impenetrable National Park to the south west of Uganda is
Read more