10 Days Rwanda Uganda Budget Safari
This 10 days Rwanda Uganda Budget Safari is the perfect safari package if you are looking for a honeymoon retreat or with family and friends. During your 10 days Rwanda Uganda budget safari, you will hike Mount Bisoke in Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park, gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, game drive and launch cruise in Murchison Falls National Park, rhino trekking at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and whitewater rafting in Jinja. Pick up in Kigali, Rwanda and drop off in Entebbe, Uganda.
Highlights for 10 Days Rwanda Uganda Budget Safari
Day 1: Kigali City tour and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
Day 2: Bisoke Hike and cultural tour
Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda
Day 4: Gorilla Trekking Bwindi Forest
Day 5: Fort Portal stopover
Day 6: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park.
Day 7: Game drive and launch cruise along the Albert Nile
Day 8: Rhino trekking in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and Drive to Jinja
Day 9: Half-Day White Water Rafting and Transfer to Entebbe
Day 10: Departure
Detailed Itinerary for 10 Days Rwanda Uganda Budget Safari.
Day 1: Kigali City tour and Transfer to Volcanoes National Park
On arrival, you will be met by our company representative who will pick you up from your hotel, you will do a city tour and visit places like the Museum, Genocide memorials, and the handcraft markets for souvenir shopping if time allows.
Later proceed to and transfer to Ruhengeri – the nearest place to Volcanoes National Park found in the northern province of Rwanda. The journey is a 3 hours drive from Kigali. You will check in at your hotel and then do an optional community tour around Ruhengeri for a Rwanda cultural experience or unwind and spend the evening at leisure. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Day 2: Bisoke Hike and cultural tour
You will enjoy breakfast and set out for Mount. Bisoke Hike which is part of Volcanoes National Park; is home to Rwanda gorillas. On reaching the summit, you will discover a beautiful crater lake and the whole experience is overwhelming! Along the trail, you will discover a lot of bird life and captivating scenery – the reason Rwanda is referred to as the “land of a thousand hills
After spending the hike, you will go and have lunch then connect to enjoy the Ibyi’wacu cultural tour. Dinner and overnight stay at lodge as above
Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda
Breakfast will be served early and drive to Kisoro through the Cyanika border to your lodge in Bwindi impenetrable national park. Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge in Bwindi Forest.
Day 4: Gorilla Trekking Bwindi
You will enjoy an early morning breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters with your packed lunch and bottled drinking water for a briefing by the park ranger guides at 7:00 am. After the briefing, you will start your gorilla trekking journey accompanied by the ranger guides in search of the mountain gorillas; this takes 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas. After your 1-hour encounter with the gorillas, you will return to your lodge for lunch.
If you are feeling energetic, you may go for an optional community walk around the community. Before nightfall, return to your lodge. Dinner and overnight stay as above.
Day 5: Fort Portal stopover
You will set off early morning from Bwindi and embark on your transfer to Fort Portal. This is an 8-hour drive where you will sleep in Fort Portal to rest from the long journey. Dinner and overnight at a hotel.
Day 6: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park.
Wake up early morning to continue to Murchison Falls and upon arrival, visit the Top of the falls where water thunders through different rapids from a 7-metre gap to fall over 40 meters Gorge below and proceed to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 7: Game drive and launch cruise along the Albert Nile
After an early breakfast, you will go for a game drive on the Northern Bank of River Nile. The activity takes about 3 to 5 hours and Wildlife in the Park includes elephants, Rothschild giraffes, buffaloes, lions, Hartebeest, Uganda kobs, Oribis and waterbucks.
After the drive you will return to the lodge for lunch and in the afternoon; go for a launch cruise on the Albert Nile which will give you an exciting panoramic view at the bottom of the mighty Murchison Falls. Along the cruise, you will encounter crocodiles, hippos, and birds on the river banks like kingfishers, cormorants, bee-eaters and the rare shoebill stork. Dinner and overnight at the lodge as above
Day 8: Rhino trekking in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and Drive to Jinja
After breakfast, you will meet your driver to take you to continue on your transfer to Murchison Falls National Park with an en route visit to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for rhino tracking which lasts 2 to 3 hours and proceeds for lunch en route. Proceed to Jinja for dinner and an overnight stay at your resort/lodge.
Day 9: Half-Day White Water Rafting and Transfer to Entebbe
Enjoy breakfast and transfer to the Nalubale rafting camp where the crew will welcome you and transfer you to the starting point. Spend the day rafting on the Nile with a very experienced team. Lunch will be served there and spice up the adventure with a cold bottle of Nile special beer (free) as you get out of the river!
You will then set off for your journey to Entebbe. Dinner and overnight at your resort/lodge.
Day 10: Departure
You will enjoy breakfast, leave the hotel, and transfer to Entebbe airport in time for your flight back home.
End of the 10 Days Rwanda Uganda Budget Safari.
