18 Days Uganda Rwanda Safari Adventure

This 18 Days Uganda Rwanda Safari Adventure is a long safari tour that takes visitors through Uganda and Rwanda for a memorable wildlife viewing experience and primate adventures. The 18 Days Uganda Rwanda Safari Adventure allows visitors to experience a number of top safari activities like mountain gorilla trekking, chimpanzee trekking, wildlife viewing, and boat cruise safaris. You’ll visit some of the top safari destination in both Uganda and Rwanda including Murchison Falls National Park, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Kibale National Park, Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Volcanoes National Park, and Akagera National Park.

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Day 1: Arrival – Hotel

You will be picked up from Entebbe International Airport and be transferred to your respective Forest Cottages. Relax, have dinner, and get ready for the following day’s trip to Murchison Falls National Park

Day 2:  Kampala – Murchison Falls Via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary

From Kampala, after breakfast, Departure at 7 o’clock, head north through the districts of Luwero and Masindi with their traditional farms and villages, stopping at Ziwa Ranch Rhino Sanctuary for Rhino viewing. After rino tracking,  proceed to Murchison Falls National Park. After lunch, tour the Top of the Falls, where the Nile crashes through 7 7-metre gorge to fall 45 metres. Numerous scenic viewpoints are the photographer’s delight! You return for your dinner and an overnight at Red Chilli/Parkside Safari Lodge

Day 3: Murchison Falls National Park Game Drive

After breakfast, cross to the Northern bank, you cross with the Ferry crossing, and set up for an early morning game drive. Your guide will help you spot elephants, lions, giraffes, buffaloes, and rare hyenas that hide, and butterflies are abundant. After your lunch, you take a boat cruise to the base of majestic Murchison Falls, crocodiles bask in the sun, and hippos yawn on the way. Spectacular bird-life is found here, including the rare shoebill stork, and you lare ikely to see numerous species of animals. Return for your dinner and overnight. At Red Chilli/Parkside Safari Lodge

Day 4: Travel to Semliki National Park 

Early morning after your breakfast, head depart Murchison Falls National Park and drive to Semuliki National Park. You’ll drive through Fort Portal, pass Rwenzori as the seat of the Toro kingdom, go to Semliki National Park you will reach late dinner and overnight at Semliki Lodge

Day 5: Game Drive in Semliki National Park

Wake up early in the morning, have breakfast later, proceed for an early game drive, whereby you will spot so many species of animals like Leopards, Buffaloes, Elephants, and Sitatungas which are not found in any of the National Parks and other primates it’s fantastic and. It will take 5/6hours later, you will return for your lunch and relax in the evening, go for forest walks, it’s rich for bird viewing when you’re a birder, you really enjoy the evening after returning to your respective accommodation for dinner and an overnight at Semliki Lodge

Day 6: Shoebill, Birding in Semliki – Queen Elizabeth N.P.

Wake up early in the morning, have your respective breakfast, and set off for the views of the hot springs, both the male and the female. You enjoy the scenery; it’s a photography delight.  Semliki is rich in the rare shoebill storks, which are spotted in swampy areas. It takes about 3/4hours due to the search for shoebills in the swamps if lucky its 2/3hours later. Proceed to Queen while game driving, have your packed lunch enroutes and proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park it’s a volcanic formation of the western Rift Valley towards Queen Elizabeth N.P. The descent reveals a stunning panorama of Lakes George and Edward amidst game-filled plains.

By 4 o’clock, go for the unique Boat Cruises that take 2hrs on the Kazinga channel and onto L.Edward. The trip passes through possibly the highest hippo concentration in Africa and many mammals may be seen drinking water. The cruise offers an excellent platform for photography and game viewing. The birdlife is colorful and abundant. Later your dinner and overnight return to  Kazinga channel View Resort/Tembo Safari Lodge.

Day 7: Game Drive in Queen Elizabeth National Park 

Wake up early morning, have breakfast, go for the game drives, to look out for different wildlife like Lions, Leopards, Giant Forest Hog, Buffalo, Elephants, Dik-dik, Water Buck, Topi, Uganda Kobs are so many and bush buck, which are not found in Murchison Falls, and it takes 3 hours. Return for your lunch, relax for a few hours, and then in the evening take a Nature Walks, visit the Bat Caves,  and Kyambura Escapements and Forest Walks,Blue Lake and Salt Lakes where you will have a cross glance of so many species both flora and fauna like butterflies are abundant and different primates with tree species inclusive. Then return at your respective accommodation at Kazinga channel View Resort/Tembo Safari Lodge.

Day 8: Tree Climbing Lions in Ishasha Sector (QENP)

After your breakfast, early morning visit Ishasha sector, where we find Tree-climbing lions as the only sector for tree climbing lions. Queen Elizabeth National Park diverse eco-system of grassy plains, tropical forests, rivers, swamps, lakes, and volcanic craters is home to an incredibly abundant wildlife. Then, after proceeding to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, you will reach late evening, have a nature walk, and then go back for dinner and overnight at Broadbill Forest Camp.

Day 9: Gorilla Trekking in Bwindi Forest

Wake up early in the morning have your breakfast prepare properly your parked lunch have a small briefing then enter in the jungle to trek the fascinating endangered gorillas the rare animals and you will have a chance to sight other primates like the blue, red tailed monkey and other species of animals, your guides will help you so much to catch and have a lot of information and you will come back with memorable moments. Gorilla Trekking takes 6/7hrs almost the whole day. Return to the lodge for a refreshing meal, relaxation, Dinner & an overnight stay.

Day 10: Transfer to Kibale National Park. 

Following an early morning breakfast, depart the lodge and drive to Kibale National Park. You’ll arrive at Kibale in time for lunch and proceed to your booked safari lodge. Have Lunch and go for a guided nature walk in Bigodi Wetland. Later return to the lodge for dinner and an overnigt stay.

Day 11: Chimpanzee in Kibale National Park

After your breakfast early morning you will have a small briefing with you guides for chimpanzees trekking  after get your packed lunch and enter into Kibale Gorge for chimp’s visitors can climb through tropical forest and catch a glimpse of a variety of primates, including chimpanzees and monkeys with other species like butterflies are abundant  It can take  you 6/7 hours trekking later return and relax for less hours after in the evening go for Bigodi swampy are for the nature walks their you will have a chance to see so many species of birds and butterflies are abundant After come back  dinner and overnight at Turaco Tree Top

Day 12: Travel to Mgahinga National Park

Early morning after breakfast drive to Mgahinga national park for gorilla trekking it is found between Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic republic of Congo you will reach a bit earlier but late for trekking gorillas  you will have your lunch immediately go for forest walks and volcanic climbing  and  bike riding, hiking trails where you would have a chance to see the three countries at once though it’s kind of tiresome it needs strength and energy for you to reach on top of the volcanoes can take you the whole day and  later you will go back for the dinner and an overnight at your respective hotel Mgahinga lodge

Day 13: Mountain Gorilla Trekking 

Wake –up early in the morning have breakfast after get your packed lunch as well as a small briefing from your guides then after set-off head to Mgahinga forest for the gorilla trekking fascinating endangered gorillas the rare animals that has human characters where by spitting and feasting in the jungle it’s not allowed it can easily affect gorillas healthy and you will have a chance to sight other primates like the blue, red tailed monkey and other species of animals, your guides will help you so much to catch and have a lot of information and you will come back with memorable moments. Trekking gorillas takes 6/7hrs almost the whole day and later come back for your dinner and overnight at your respective hotel, Mgahinga lodge

Day 15: Gorilla Tracking in Volcanoes National Park

Wake up early in the morning have your breakfast head to Rwanda virunga forest in Volcanoes national park for gorillas and other primates you will reach late noon time and go for nature walk, where you will reach at Dian fossey the great old volcanoes towering up almost 15000 feet covered with rich green rain forest the rich mosaic of montane ecosystem later return back for the dinner and an overnight at Virunga Hotel/Muhabura Hotel.

Day 16 Gorilla trekking

Wake up early in the morning, have an early breakfas,t get ready with your packed lunch, with a small briefing from your guides and head to the jungle for the gorilla trekking it will take you 5/6hours and you will have a chance to see other primates after proceed to Akagera national park you will reach late dinner and overnight at Camp

Day 17: Akagera National Park

Wake up early in the morning, have breakfast set off for the game drives at Akagera basin is above all big game country! Herds of elephant and buffalo emerge from the woodland to drink at the lakes, while lucky visitors might stumble across a leopard, a sported hyena or even a stray lion giraffe and zebra haunt the savannah and more than a dozen types of antelopes inhabit the park, most community the handsome chestnut-coated impala, but also the diminutive oribi and secretive bushbuck as well as the ungainly tsessebe and the world’s largest antelope, the statuesque cape eland. The game drive will take you like 7/8 hours it’s a vast land later go back for lunch at your camp

In the evening, go for the nature walks bansin it’s at a relatively low altitude on the border with Tanzania. It is comprised of swamps and lakes that follow the meandering course of the Akagera River the most remote source of the Nile. This is an archetypal African savannah landscape of tangled acacia woodland, interspersed with open grassland

Akagera is a truly mystical introduction to the wonders of the African bush pods of 50 hippo’s grunt and splinter throughout the day while outsized crocodiles soak up the sun with their vast jaws menacingly agape .magically the air is toned apart by the unforgettable duet ting of a pair of fish eagles, asserting their status as the avian monarchs of Africa’s water ways. lining the lakes are some of the continents densest concentrations of water birds, while the connecting arshes are the haunt of the  endangered and exquisite papyrus gonolek and the bizarre shoebill stork the latter perhaps the most eagerly sort of all African birds. Later get back for the dinner and an overnight at your respective camp

Day 18: Akagera Kigali 

Wake up early in the morning, and enjoy breakfast at your lodge. After breakfast, depart the lodge and drive to Kigali International Airport for your out bound flight back home.

NOTES;

• Availability of accommodation, permits and activities is not guaranteed until confirmation. Permits are sold on ‘first come first serve’ basis.
• Gorilla permits can only be secured after receiving the requested deposit
• The chimp tracking in Kibale Forest may take place either in the morning or afternoon, depending on the availability of the permits for chimp tracking.
• The safari will be made with an International Travel Company, East African Jungle Safaris has no discrimination in Nationality, Gender, Age or any other details of the participants