11 Days Uganda Rwanda Classic Safari
This 11 Days Uganda Rwanda Classic Safari allows you to experience the highlights of both countries in one trip! During this 11 Days Uganda Rwanda Classic Safari, you will visit the most beautiful and frequented national parks in Uganda and Rwanda. Enjoy guided game drives in Queen Elizabeth National Park, gorilla trekking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda; golden monkey trekking in Volcanoes National Park and chimpanzee trekking in Nyungwe Forest National Park. This tour begins in Entebbe/Kampala, Uganda and ends in Kigali, Rwanda.
Highlights for 11 Days Uganda Rwanda Classic Safari
Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda)
Day 2: Game drive and Launch cruise
Day 3: Crater Lakes Exploration and Full Day Game Drive
Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable National park
Day 5: Gorilla trekking
Day 6: Transfer to Volcanoes National park (Rwanda)
Day 7: Golden monkey tracking and nature walk
Day 8: Dian Fossey hike and Transfer to Lake Kivu
Day 9: Transfer to Nyungwe forest National Park
Day 10: Chimp trekking and Canopy walk / Colobus monkey trekking
Day 11: Transfer to Kigali
Detailed Itinerary for 11 Days Uganda Rwanda Classic Safari
Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda)
On arrival at Entebbe International Airport, you will meet our representative for a transfer to Queen Elizabeth National park. Enjoy scenic views of hills in the western part of Uganda, have a stopover at the equator for photographs to symbolize your crossing the equator and in Mbarara for lunch. Proceed to the park with a wide game view of animals like Uganda Kobs, Savanna Elephants, and Waterbucks among others. Dinner and overnight stay at lodge.
Day 2: Game drive and Launch cruise
After breakfast, you will set off for an early morning breakfast to catch up with the morning game. Expect lots of animals including; elephants, Lions, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, Uganda kobs among others.
You will then visit Omwani Women’s Coffee Cooperative for a coffee plantation tour and learn about the different stages of coffee and return to Mweya for lunch.
After lunch, you will enjoy an afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga Channel for a number of hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes and several water birds. Dinner and overnight stay at lodge.
Day 3: Crater Lakes Exploration and Full Day Game Drive
After your breakfast, you will head out to the park and visit some of the crater lakes in the Katwe area of the park. Most of these crater lakes were formed as a result of volcanic activity. There are two major crater lakes that you can visit in the park which include Katwe crater lake, the Bunyaruguru crater field along the Kichwamba escarpments.
After your visit to the crater lakes area, you will embark on a full day game drive in the park before heading back to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi impenetrable National park
In the morning after breakfast, you will embark on a transfer to Bwindi impenetrable forest National Park via Ishasha sector that gives a chance of seeing the tree climbing lions at a closer range. Continue to Bwindi with lunch en route and arriving in the evening for, check in the lodge and relax. Dinner will be served at your lodge.
Day 5: Gorilla trekking
After an early morning breakfast, you will head to the park headquarters for briefing, immediately you will be directed to enter the forest with the park rangers leading in search for the gorillas. This will take you about 2- 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorilla in the wild, meet and stay with the gorillas for a maximum of one hour, then you will return and relax at the lodge. Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge.
Day 6: Transfer to Volcanoes National park (Rwanda)
Wake up for a transfer to Volcanoes national park. The drive goes through the beautiful country side and peoples homesteads along with dramatic views of the Virunga Volcanoes. On arrival at Ruhengeri, check in at your selected lodge. Dinner and overnight stay in Bwindi lodge.
Day 7: Golden monkey tracking and nature walk
After an early morning breakfast, transfer to the park headquarters for briefing and later enter the forest and hike while in search of the golden monkeys. Tracking the golden monkeys rewards views of other primates such as the black and white Colobus monkeys, Olive baboons among others. In the afternoon, enjoy a nature walk to the twin lakes or visit the Iby’iwacu cultural village.
Dinner and overnight stay at lodge.
Day 8: Dian Fossey hike and Transfer to Lake Kivu
In the morning after breakfast, you will take a visit to the Karisoke research center for a hike o the Dian Fossey tombs. After lunch, transfer to Lake Kivu for a boat ride on Lake Kivu. Dinner and overnight stay at your hotel resort.
Day 9: Transfer to Nyungwe forest National Park
After breakfast, set off for Nyungwe Forest National Park. It is a scenic drive that goes through people’s homesteads and different hills of Rwanda – the land of a thousand hills. Arrive in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 10: Chimp trekking and Canopy walk / Colobus monkey trekking
After a heavy breakfast, you will head to the park headquarters to track the chimpanzee that also gives an opportunity of encountering a variety of forest birds. In the afternoon, you may have a canopy walk in the forest or choose to go for Colobus monkey tracking where you will encounter other primates. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 11: Transfer to Kigali
After breakfast, you will set off for Kigali with en route visits to Nyanza Kings palace for cultural visit, Butare national museum and Murambi genocide museum among others. You will arrive Kigali late afternoon / early evening and drop-off at your booked hotel in Kigali.
