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ONE | Arrival. Drive from Kigali Airport and go have a city tour in case you reach. Transfer to hotel for dinner and a night.
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Transfer to Kigali
City tour Accommodation Kigali Serena hotel |
TWO | Today morning after breakfast, you will check out from the hotel for which you will transfer to Akagera National Park.
You may take some time for Community interaction and continue to connect to your hotel in the park, check in. Lunch, dinner and a night at the lodge.
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Transfer to Akagera national park
Accommodation Rusizi lodge Akagera game lodge |
THREE | After an early breakfast we take a game drive in search of these animals, the game drive will take u to the northern part of the park where most of the animals prefer to inhabit.
Look out for the Zebras, Giraffes and Impalas which are usually scattered along the game tracks. Return to the lodge for lunch, relax. As you wait for dinner and a night at the lodge.
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game drive in Akagera national park
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FOUR & FIVE | After all the intense activities there is no better place to chill and relax than at the beautiful sandy beaches of Lake Kivu, enjoy the beautiful weather and wonderful scenery, see lots of water birds, eat fresh fish. There also water activities you can do on the lake such as boat rides. | Transfer and explore Gisenyi
Accommodation Paradise Malahide |
SIX | After your breakfast, check out of the lodge and transfer to Volcanoes National Park. | Drive to Volcanoes National park
Accommodation Five Volcanoes hotel Mountain Gorilla view lodge |
SEVEN | Have morning breakfast. After transfer to the park headquarters for short briefing done before the Golden monkey excursion starts.
Golden monkeys are mostly found in the mountainous bamboo forested areas. While in the jungle you are exposed to other wildlife species. In the evening you visit the ibywachu cultural village for cultural performances and highlight about the Batwa people.
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Golden monkey tracking – Ibywachu cultural village |
EIGHT | You will breakfast as you prepare to drive out from Volcanoes to Uganda. Lunch enroute, dinner and overnight at the specified lodge. | Transfer to Uganda
Accommodation Gorilla mist Ihamba residence lodge
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NINE | After morning breakfast transfer up to the park headquarters for a briefing about how to behave while in the Jungle. Thereafter enter into the jungle to search for the mountain gorillas.
Meet these apes and you are allowed to be in their presence for only one hour. See them playing, laughing, feeding and more. After gorilla trek return to lodge for dinner and overnight.
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Gorilla Trek in Ruhija sector Bwindi |
TEN | Breakfast, drive to Lake Bunyonyi. Have lunch on arrival. In the afternoon you will go for a boat ride. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge | Transfer to Bunyonyi
Boat cruise Accommodation Arcadia Bunyonyi Bunyonyi Overland
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ELEVEN | After morning breakfast at your lodge, start the drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park via the Ishasha sector route.
If you are lucky, you will be able to see the popularly known tree climbing lions resting up in the fig tree branches. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. |
Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Accommodation Ishasha Jungle lodge Enjojo Safari Lodge
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TWELVE | After breakfast at your lodge, you will go a game drive at Ishasha sector and if you are lucky, you will be able to see the popularly known tree climbing lions resting up in the fig tree branches. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. | Lion Trekking in Ishasha sector |
THIRTEEN | Have Full day Game drive exposing you to multiple Wildlife species in the Park. These experiences take 2-3 hours and thereafter return to your lodge or Mweya canteen for lunch.
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Full day Game Drive |
FOURTEEN | After breakfast, transfer to Katwe Lake Katwe is located in the North of Mweya Peninsular of Queen Elizabeth National Park in the western district of Kasese. This place is famous for the most exalted crater lakes in this part of Uganda. The area has up to 52 craters that can be explored on several tours over days. Some of the craters in this part of the park include Lake Katwe and Lake Nyamunuka.
Take an afternoon launch cruise along the Kazinga Channel. You will see different aquatic species like hippopotamus, crocodiles, water birds and other wild animals including elephants, buffaloes, warthogs and more. After return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
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Salt Mining at Lake Katwe
Boat Ride in Queen Elizabeth NP |
FIFTEEN | Enjoy breakfast and start your long, scenic journey to Kibale national park. This is a 5 hour drive and you will have lunch en-route in Fort portal city. Proceed to Kibale arriving late afternoon. Relaxation, Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
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Transfer to Kibale National Park
Accommodation Chimpundu lodge Kibale Safari lodge |
SIXTEEN | Wake up to an early morning breakfast and head out to the park headquarters to attend briefing and later embark on the trek together with the park ranger guides. Kibale Forest National Park is one of the best destinations in Africa for chimpanzee tracking. Kibale National Park contains one of the most beautiful and with the most varying tracts of tropical forest in the whole of Uganda. This is place to a number of forest wildlife, most especially 13 species of primates coupled with chimpanzees.
After trekking, you will eat your packed lunch from the lodge and later visit Bigodi wetland area for a great nature walk and remarkable bird life. Spend your evening relaxing at the lodge. Dinner and overnight as above |
Visiting Bigodi wetland
Chimp trekking in Kibale NP
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SEVENTEEN | After breakfast, check out and you transfer to Lake Mburo national Park. | Transfer to Lake Mburo
Accommodation Rwakobo lodge |
EIGHTEEN | After completing the morning game drive, you will go back to your lodge for lunch, refreshments and relaxation. | Full day Game drive |
NINTEEN | Have breakfast, the Driver will take you for an early morning boat ride close to the shores of Lake Mburo. Birders will be able to spot countless birds on the shores of the lake including the African fin foot, African grey hornbill, Brown Parrot, Common Scimitar bill, Crested Francolin, fish eagles, herons, Nubian Woodpecker, papyrus bush strike, pelicans, shoe bill stork, weaver birds, white winged warbler and Yellow breasted Apalis.
After lunch go for horse riding. In the evening return to lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
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Afternoon Boat cruise
Horse riding |
TWENTY | Have morning breakfast, proceed to Kampala with a stop at the equator for photographs, reach by afternoon, enroute lunch then proceed to the airport for your departure flight. | Drive back to Entebbe |