Your 14 Days Magical Kenya Uganda and Rwanda Tour will take you to Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Kenya & Uganda borderless combo safaris with Loyal Tours & Safaris will give you the best chances of exploring Kenya & Uganda top tourist destinations. Top Uganda’s tourist destinations to tour will be Murchison Falls National Park, the source of the Nile, the world’s longest and most disputed river, Kibale Forest National Park famous for chimpanzee trekking, Queen Elizabeth National Park abundant in wildlife animals and famous for its tree-climbing lions, Lake Bunyonyi and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park for your mountain gorillas trekking. You will depart Uganda for Kenya passing through Rwanda for a small visit to Kigali Genocide Memorial and Golden Monkeys trekking. Reaching Kenya you will visit Lake Nakuru National Park ideal for game drives, Maasai Mara National Reserve which tops all Kenya parks in wildlife animals, Lake Naivasha and you will end your tour in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya where you will visit the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage before you get back home.
14 Days Magical Kenya Uganda and Rwanda Tour
Day 1: Arrival in Uganda
You arrive at Entebbe International Airport which is the principal international airport of Uganda. This marks the start of your 14 Days Magical Kenya Uganda and Rwanda Tour. Located about 45 minutes from the main campus of Kampala International University, near the town of Entebbe, on the shores of Lake Victoria, and approximately 40.5 km by road south-west of the central business district of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda, there you meet our professional guide and transfer you to the hotel of your choice in Kampala.
Day 2: Kampala to Kibale Forest National Park
After an early breakfast, our professional guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfers you to Kibale Forest National Park. This is a 5 hours’ driving distance to the park. Kibale Forest National Park is one of the best safari destinations in Africa for chimpanzee trekking in Uganda. Kibale’s 795km2 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 primate coupled with chimpanzees. On your way to Kibale Forest National Park stops and enjoy lunch in Fort Portal town.
Overnight stay at a hotel of your choice.
Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking & Bigodi Wetlands Sanctuary
No time to waste! Have an early breakfast before your chimpanzee trekking adventure in Kibale forest, reputed for having the greatest variety and highest concentration of primates in East Africa. In addition to a large community of chimpanzees, there are 13 other primate species, including red, black and white colobus monkeys, red-tailed, vervet and blue monkeys, grey-cheeked Mangabeys, olive baboons, as well as four species of nocturnal primates. Break for lunch and in the afternoon visit Bigodi Swamp found within Kibale forest. This visit will be arranged in the afternoon after chimpanzee trekking. The tour will last three hours walking for 4 to 5 kilometers through swamp boardwalks, villages and forest pathways. The term Bigodi was borrowed from a Rutooro word Kugodya meaninng to walk in a tired way because whenever people were going to Kibale forest, they had to pass through Bigodi wetland. Walking past the swamp was very tiring that they often had to sit down and rest before proceeding to the jungle. Bird watching and nature walks are among the activities you will perform together with our professional guide. Birding in Bigodi wetland will leave even the most seasoned birder impressed. After Bigodi wetlands sanctuary, you will head back to your hotel for dinner and overnight sleep.
Day 4: Kibale Forest National Park to Queen Elisabeth National Park Boat Cruise
Wake up, enjoy your healthy breakfast and depart Kibale Forest National Park for Queen Elisabeth National Park, a journey lasting almost three hours. Queen Elisabeth National Park Wildlife tours offers you the best chance of encountering tree-climbing lions, buffaloes, elephants, various antelopes, 10 primate species like chimpanzees and 95 mammals including big game. Queen Elisabeth National Park stretches from the crater-dotted foothills of the Rwenzori ranges in the north, along the shores of Lake Edward to the remote Ishasha River in the South, incorporating a wide variety of habitats that range from wetlands to savannah to lowland forest.
Boating in the afternoon. After reaching the park during lunch hours, you will first check-in the hotel, have lunch and proceed with boat cruise. This is a launch cruise along the amazing Kazinga channel, a major highlight of the safari to Queen Elizabeth National Park. While boating, you get closer to great numbers of wildlife including elephants, crocodiles, hippos and buffaloes. For bird watchers there are many bird species such as eagles, pelicans, kingfishers, doves, herons and jacana converging at the channel waters to enjoy a sip of the natural waters.
Head back to your hotel & relax overnight.
Day 5: Valley of Apes; Chimps trekking into the Queen Elizabeth National Park
After the heavy breakfast at your hotel, head to Kyambura game headquarters for a briefing before embarking on the amazing chimps trekking in the Valley of the Apes. The extensive Kyambura George pronounced by locals as chambura, is the magnificent valley of apes in the Queen Elisabeth National Park. It was formed by disorderly water of river kyambura, it’s about 100 meters deep the site of the landscape is so breathtaking and one of the best you can find in the world.
Head back to your hotel relax and overnight stay.
Day 6: Ishasha Game Drive to Bwindi National Park
Wake up early, breakfast and head to Ishasha sector, the southern part of the park for game drive. The Ishasha sector is notably recognized for its resident Tree climbing lions that are an exceptional attraction and one among the highlights on all safaris taken within Queen Elizabeth National park. Throughout the entire world there are only two places in which you can find populations of these tree-climbing lions, one being in Lake Manyara national park found in Tanzania and the other being the Ishasha sector within Queen Elizabeth National Park. It is a very breathtaking sight to see the King of the animals perched up high on one of the branches of the huge fig trees in this area, lazily resting away as the day goes by. In addition to the fascinating population of the Tree Climbing Lions within the Ishasha visitor will also come across huge buffalo herds, numerous antelopes that keep crossing your path, there are also a number of elephants that have actually settled within the Ishasha area and also watch out for the numerous hippos an actually the only thing not plentiful here are tourists. After the completion of this game drive, you leave Queen Elisabeth National Park and head to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. From Queen Elisabeth National Park, the drive time to Bwindi Forest National Park is approximately 5-6 hours passing through Ishasha section of the park. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is famous for its endangered mountain gorillas.
Overnight & relax at the hotel of your choice.
Day 7: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Gorilla Trekking
No time to waste! Wake up, breakfast and drive the short journey to Buhoma gate of Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park. With packed lunch in your carry-on, the guide will deliver you to the tracking start point before 8:00 am for registration and a briefing on what to expect before commencing your tracking. You will spend one hour with the gorillas sometimes moving around to stay with the gorillas or following them. The guide will ensure you are in the best spots to take the most beautiful pictures and experience the breathtaking experience properly. It is an extraordinary feeling. Before leaving the park, please remember to collect your certificate that confirms that you have tracked gorillas in Uganda.
Day 8: Bwindi Impenetrable Forest Park to Iby’Iwacu Village tours in Rwanda
After the completion of your gorilla trekking you will cross the Uganda-Rwanda border and stay in Musanze. You check-in the hotel of your choice in Musanze and head for a cultural walk in Musanze. Visit Iby’Iwachu Cultural Village, get an insight into the authentic Rwandan cultural practices. After the cultural walk head back to the hotel for overnight stay and dinner.
Day 9: Volcanoes National Park Golden Monkey trekking to Kigali Genocide Memorial
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Wake up at sunrise and drive the short journey to the park headquarters for the briefings. Hikes to see the smaller and nimbler monkeys are a fun and adventurous way to explore the forest. Named because of their bright orange bodies, they are indigenous to the region and more elusive than the gorillas and these fast-moving monkeys will certainly keep you on your toes. After this impressive golden monkeys trekking you return to the park headquarters to get ready for your transfer to Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda. Enjoy the lunch in Musanze town and then head to Kigali.
Reaching Kigali you visit the Genocide Memorial, which, through education and peace-building, honours the memory of the more than one million Rwandans killed in 1994. The three permanent exhibitions and burial gardens form part of a meaningful tribute to those who perished, and provide a powerful educational tool for visitors.
After your Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre visit, our drive guide will drop you to Kigali International Airport 2 hours before your evening flight to Nairobi. You arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport; JKIA, an international airport in Nairobi, the capital of and largest city in Kenya. JKIA is located in the Embakasi suburb 18 km southeast of Nairobi’s central business district. There you meet our professional guide who will transfer you to the hotel of your choice in Nairobi for next day’s trip to Lake Nakuru National Park.
Day 10: Nairobi to Lake Nakuru National Park Game Drives
Also known as the beautiful wildlife heaven, Visitors within the park can enjoy the wide ecological diversity and varied habitats that range from Lake Nakuru itself to the surrounding escarpment and picturesque ridges. Lake Nakuru National Park is ideal for bird watching, hiking, picnic and game drives. The Park has Kenya’s largest population of rhinos. The surface of the Lake Nakuru occupies about a third of the park. It supports a dense bloom of the blue-green Cyanophyte Spirulina platensis from which it derives its colour and is a food source for flamingos. During peak season over millions of flamingos and Pelicans congregate on the lake.
Once you reach Nakuru, you check-in the lodge; enjoy your meals before proceeding with the game drive and birdwatching within the park. Lake Nakuru Birdwatching is the main tourist activity within the park but other tourist attractions include game viewing, camping, Mammals, View-points, Hills, Waterfalls and Unique vegetation and Events. Bird watching within Lake Nakuru National Park is about flamingos; (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds including a variety of terrestrial birds numbering about 450 species in total. The park counts over 56 different species of mammals including white rhinos and waterbuck amongst others.
Day 11: Lake Nakuru National Park to Maasai Mara National Reserve
Wake up very early, enjoy your breakfast depart Nakuru for Maasai Mara National Reserve. Maasai Mara National Reserve; is one of the most popular tourism destinations in Kenya and Africa. The reserve is located in the Great Rift Valley in primarily open grassland. Wildlife tends to be most concentrated on the reserve’s western escarpment. The annual wildebeest’s migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November. Nowhere in Africa is more wildlife abundant.
The Mara is known as one of the finest wildlife destinations in the world, with an excellent chance of seeing the big five, cheetah, serval, hyena, bat-eared foxes, black-backed and side-striped jackals, hippo, crocodile, baboons, warthog, topi, eland, Thompson’s gazelle, Grant’s gazelle, impala, waterbuck, oribi, reed-buck and zebra. Reaching in time for lunch, head to the lodge or campsite, have lunch and get ready for the afternoon game drive.
Day 12: Full Day Maasai Mara Game Drive
Unrivalled full day game drive! Wake up very early and to be part of a sunrise game drive where you will have a chance to come in contact with “Big Cats” hunting for prey. This is the best time to see the cats actively searching for the day’s meal. Nowhere in Africa is more wildlife abundant. The Mara is known as one of the finest wildlife destinations in the world, with an excellent chance of seeing the big five, cheetah, serval, hyena, bat-eared foxes, black-backed and side-striped jackals, hippo, crocodile, baboons, warthog, topi, eland, Thompson’s gazelle, Grant’s gazelle, impala, waterbuck, oribi, reed-buck and zebra. After this early morning game drive, return to your hotel for breakfast and then have a guided nature walk where you will be explained how wild herbs and trees can be of great help to support human life. Enjoy your lunch and after lunch proceed with an afternoon game drive; to return in late evening hours for dinner and overnight stay at your hotel.
Day 13: Maasai Mara National Reserve to Lake Naivasha
Wake up early, have your healthy breakfast, check out the room and depart Maasai Mara for Lake Naivasha. A journey lasting approximately 6 hours’ driving. Reaching to the lake in the time of lunch, enjoy your lunch; relax to the lodge before driving to the lake for boat cruise. Lake Naivasha boat cruises are the only way to get the best chances of viewing Kenyan hippos.
Lake Naivasha is a beautiful freshwater lake, fringed by thick papyrus. The lake is almost 13kms across, but its waters are shallow with an average depth of five meters. Much of the lake is surrounded by forests of the yellow barked Acacia Xanthophlea, known as the yellow fever tree. These forests abound with bird life, and Naivasha is known as a world class birding destination. The waters of the lake draw a great range of game to these shores. Giraffes wander among the acacia, Buffalo wallow in the swamps and Colobus monkeys call from the treetops while the Lakes large hippo population sleeps the day out in the shallows.
Day 14: Lake Naivasha to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage & Departure
As you wid up your 14 Days Magical Kenya Uganda and Rwanda Tour, you will wake up, enjoy your breakfast and depart Naivasha to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi a journey lasting almost 3 hours driving. The orphanage is visited between 11:00AM and 12:00 PM. This orphanage, for elephant calves and rhinos from all over Kenya was founded and still managed by Daphne Sheldrick, the widow of one of Kenya’s best known Game Wardens David Sheldrick, who was at the centre of the 1970’s ivory poaching wars in Tsavo National Park. During this tour to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage you will enjoy a heartwarming sight of the calves being bottle fed on their milk formula, and after, a happy, playful and splashy mud bath like toddlers, to keep cool under the harsh sun. Inquire NowAfter this wonderful visit to the elephants orphanage you will then enjoy your lunch in one of Nairobi restaurant then be transferred to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for departure. If your flight is in late evening hours you may do some Nairobi guided tours for an extra cost where you may visit Nairobi National Museum or Karen Blixen Museum.
End of the 14 Days Magical Kenya Uganda and Rwanda Tour.
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