This 19 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife Safari takes you to fully explore the most popular tourist destinations in both Rwanda and Uganda. Take part in tracking mountain gorillas, chimpanzees and explore the best of African wildlife on this tour. Contact us today to book this epic combined Rwanda and Uganda safari.
19 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife Safari
Day 1: Kigali to Akagera National Park
As you start the 19 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife Safari, you will wake up early, enjoy your breakfast and depart Kigali for Akagera National Park, a drive lasting two to three hours. The journey is mainly on tarmacked good quality roads until the final section. Akagera National Park is a home to The Big 5 (Lions, Elephants, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhinoceros). In addition to the Big 5, the park hosts zebras, waterbucks, roan antelope and eland. Arriving in the park, you will first check in the hotel of your choice and have lunch. Later in the afternoon you go for boat cruise at Lake Ihema. During your boat cruise you will encounter crocodiles, hippos and too many bird species. On this tour you can opt to add night game drive for night wild animals. The night prior your transfer to Akagera National Park can be booked through us on an extra cost.
Head back to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 2: Full Day Akagera National Park
Wake up early for early breakfast before proceeding with your full day safari game drive accompanied by our professional tour guides, driving through the incredible landscape of Akagera National Park. The varied landscape is shown through the different species spotted here. Visitors to the park will be able to view a range of wildlife on expertly-guided game drives, walks and boating trips, including buffalo, lion, leopard, elephant, giraffe, spotted hyena, zebra and more. The game drive takes around five hours. Lunch will be served picnic lunch style. In the afternoon you go for Bird watching which is also impressive, the Park also boasts almost 500 species of birds including the spectacular shoebill with its implausibly massive bill and the near-endemic red-faced barbet. After birding you can opt to add some cultural tours before heading back to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3: Akagera National Park to Kigali Kandt House Museum
Wake up at sunrise, breakfast at your hotel and depart Akagera National Park for Kigali city. Reaching Kigali during lunch time, you will be taken to local restaurants to test some of Rwandan traditional cuisine. After lunch, it’s time for your Kigali city tour. Kigali is developing rapidly, with new shopping malls, world-class sports & entertainment arena; Kigali arena, office buildings and a world-class convention centre built in the style of the King’s Palace of olden days, which lights up the night sky atop of one of the many hills.
Your Kigali city tour heads to Kandt House Museum. Richard Kandt was the first colonial governor of Rwanda, on behalf of Germany, until the early 1900s. At present, the Kandt House Museum in Kigali comprises three main parts. The first part presents Rwandan life in all its aspects; social, economic, and political before the colonial period. The second part traces the experience of the Rwandan people during the colonial period. The third part covers the history of Kigali, before, during and after the colonial era. Kigali was made the capital upon independence in 1962.
Stay the night at a hotel of your choice in Kigali.
Day 4: Kigali City to the Rwandan Cultural Heritage Corridor in Huye
Wake up at sunrise; enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, check out the hotel room and be ready for your transfer to the Cultural Heritage Corridor of Rwanda and visit the King’s Palace and the Ethnographic Museum in Huye, former Butare. It is an almost 3 hours’ driving distance. A reconstruction of the traditional royal residence, the King’s Palace is a beautifully-crafted thatched dwelling shaped like a beehive. In olden times, Nyanza was the heart of Rwanda. According to oral tradition, it was the site of battles and power struggles. For a long time, the monarchy was mobile, moving the court between various locations. When it eventually settled in one place, Nyanza was the obvious choice. The capital of the kingdom had as many as 2,000 inhabitants, and huts built with the same methods as seen here. At the back live a few long-horned Inyambo cattle, descended from the king’s herd, whose keepers carefully tend and sing to them, keeping alive a unique tradition.
After your visit to the Kings’ Palace you will proceed with the Ethnographic Museum. The nearby Ethnographic Museum in Huye houses one of Africa’s finest ethnographic collections, and makes a good combination with the King’s Palace. A gift from Belgium’s King Badouin in the late 1980s, the Ethnographic Museum now houses one of Africa’s finest ethnographic collections. Seven galleries display historical, ethnographic, artistic and archaeological artefacts accompanied by visual aids, giving visitors a rich insight into the Rwandan culture. The exhibits open with geographical and geological displays, moving on to items used in hunting, agriculture, animal husbandry, pottery, weaving and woodwork.
After this amazing cultural tour, you head to the hotel of your choice in Huye for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5: Rwandan Cultural Heritage Corridor in Huye to Nyungwe National Park Canopy Walk
Wake up at sunrise; enjoy your breakfast at the hotel, check out the hotel room and be ready for your transfer to Nyungwe National Park home to 75 different species of mammal. A two and half hours driving distance will take you to the home to habituated chimpanzees and 12 other primates’ species (including a 400-strong troop of habituated Ruwenzori Black & White Colobus),Nyungwe National Park is also a birdwatcher’s paradise with over 300 species, including 16 endemics. In the afternoon at 3PM, experience the only canopy walk in East Africa after lunch. Getting to the canopy is about 2 hours from the starting point at Uwinka visitor Centre. This bridge adjourned between the huge trees one on the feel of the fresh air, 60m above the forest floor. Apart from the freshness in the air and the wonderful aerial view of the trees, you will also enjoy the sights of blue monkeys, L’Hoest monkeys, black and white colobus, the red tailed monkeys and the fantastic birds that fly across as you enjoy the walk. After the canopy walk you will head to your hotel to relax & refresh. Overnight stay and dinner.
Day 6: Nyungwe National Park Chimpanzee Trekking and Birding
No time to waste! Wake up early; enjoy your breakfast at your hotel & go for chimpanzee tracking in the Nyungwe Forest. After a short briefing by our professional guide, walk through stunning tea plantations before entering the thick luscious forest. There are over 13 species of monkey found in the forest and excellent birding opportunities with over 100 species of butterflies and the occasional chameleon.
One of the oldest rainforests in Africa, Nyungwe is rich in biodiversity and spectacularly beautiful. With us, the excursion will last from one to four hours but you will definitely hear the chimpanzees from the moment you enter the forest. Once found you will stay for an hour with the chimpanzees, watching them play, fight and eat in the atmospheric forest.
In the afternoon after lunch you start your bird watching within the park. Nyungwe National Park Birdwatching star attraction is undoubtedly the Red-collared Babbler and Rwanda is the only safe place to see this stunning bird. Other specialities include RwenzoriTuraco, Handsome Francolin, Rwenzori Nightjar, Grauer’s Warbler, Regal, Blue-headed and Purple Breasted Sunbirds, Grauer’s Swamp Warbler and Neumann’s Warbler. All of these and more can be seen easily from a well-maintained network of trails with the help of the park’s expert bird guides. Return to your hotel; relax & refresh.
Day 7: Nyungwe National Park to Lake Kivu
Wake up, enjoy your breakfast, check out the hotel room and depart Nyungwe National Park for Lake Kivu. For adventurous travelers, an exciting way to explore Rwanda is a kayaking tour on Lake Kivu. From Nyungwe National Park, we transfer you to Lake Kivu along the beautiful coastal road. The drive lasts around three hours and offers some of Rwanda’s most beautiful scenery. Part of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Lake Kivu in the west of Rwanda is surrounded by magnificent mountains and has deep emerald green waters covering a surface area of 2,700 km2. It is Rwanda’s largest lake and the sixth largest in Africa.
Relax by kayaking and swimming in the lake. Head to the hotel of your choice dinner and overnight sleep.
Day 8: Lake Kivu to Volcanoes National Park
Enjoy the breakfast at your hotel & head to the lake to relax. You can even do some Rubavu city tour before we transfer you to Volcanoes National Park in the afternoon.
Relax at your hotel near Volcanoes National Park, do some non-guided Musanze city tour in this small city of Musanze. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 9: Volcanoes National Park Gorilla Trekking and Iby’Iwacu Cultural Tours
Unrivalled Gorilla trekking! Wake up, breakfast and drive the short journey to the park headquarters before 7:30 AM where briefing, porters and tea and coffee will be given before starting the adventure into the forest. Local porters can be arranged and help with the guide to complete the gorilla tracking experience. Gorilla trekking is probably the highlight of this 19 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife Safari.
Tracking can be between 90 minutes and the whole morning depending on what family group is assigned. 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.
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After the trek, return back to your hotel for refreshments and lunch. After lunch set off for Ib’iwachu Cultural Village, get an insight into the authentic Rwandan cultural practices.
Return to the hotel to freshen up & relax.
Day 10: Volcanoes National Park Dian Fossey Tomb Hike
In the morning right after breakfast, you may wish to take a hike up to the Dian Fossey graves at Karisoke research center. Here you will explore and learn more about the activities of Dian Fossey an American Primatologist who worked hard to conserve the population of mountain gorillas. Dian Fossey Tomb Hiking history is an attraction itself. On July 9, 1967, soldiers arrived at the camp to escort her and her research workers down, and she was locked up at Rumangabo for two weeks. Fossey eventually escaped through bribery to Walter Baumgärtel’s Travelers Rest Hotel in Kisoro, where her escort was arrested by the Ugandan military. With the advice from Leakey, Dian gave up going back to Congo and started her research on the Rwandan side of the Virungas where she established her camp at a place between Mt. Karisimbi and Visoke, which was to later be known as Karisoke after combining the two names, Karisimbi and Visoke.
The trek involves a 30 minutes’ drive from the park headquarters to the trail head to access the Karisoke research camp where visitors walk for 10 minutes to the park boundary. The walk from the park boundary to the research center where the Dian’s grave is, takes about an hour to 1 hour and a half hours and affords good views of forest hogs, forest elephants, a variety of primates and bird species
After the hike return to the hotel to freshen up & relax.
Day 11: Volcanoes National Park Golden Monkey Tracking to Lake Kivu
Wake up; breakfast and head back to the park for golden monkey trekking. 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 the trek, return to your hotel for lunch and refreshments and depart for Lake Kivu. Dinner and overnight stay at a hotel of your choice near the Lake.
Day 12: Lake Kivu – Rwanda to Lake Bunyonyi – Uganda
The 19 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife Safari takes you over to Uganda starting with visiting Lake Bunyonyi. Wake up at sunrise, breakfast and head for Lake Kivu adventure. For adventurous travellers, an exciting way to explore Rwanda is a kayaking tour on Lake Kivu. Part of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Lake Kivu in the west of Rwanda is surrounded by magnificent mountains and has deep emerald green waters covering a surface area of 2,700 km2. It is Rwanda’s largest lake and the sixth largest in Africa. Relax by kayaking and swimming in the lake. After lunch depart Kivu for Uganda, crossing via the Chanika border. Dinner and overnight at a hotel of your choice near the lake.
Day 13: Lake Bunyonyi to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Wake up early for an early breakfast and explore a bit of Lake Bunyonyi. You may choose one of these activities; canoeing, boat riding, local tours, swimming, hiking the highland near the lack, pygmy village tour and birding before you proceed for Queen Elisabeth National Park via Ruhija& reach Ishasha sector for a short game drive to see the tree-climbing lions. Later in the afternoon, you will enjoy a boat cruise along the Kazinga channel where you will see lots of bird species, crocodiles, hippos, buffalos, and elephants among others. Depart for a hotel of your choice for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 14: Queen Elisabeth National Park to Kibale National Park
Wake up early, take breakfast at your hotel and start your safari within Queen Elisabeth National Park. The park’s diverse ecosystems, which include sprawling savanna, shady, humid forests, sparkling lakes and fertile wetlands make Queen Elisabeth National Park the ideal habitat for classic big game, ten primate species including chimpanzees and over 600 species of birds. Four of the Big Five (Lions, Elephants, Buffalo, Leopard) are present only rhinos being the absentee, with the park one of only two places on earth where you can hope to see tree-climbing lions. It is home to 95 mammal species and over 500 bird species. After this amazing game drive, head to Kibale Forest National Park home to 13 primate species. Dinner and overnight stay.
Day 15: 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 meaning 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 16: Kibale National Park to Murchison Falls National Park
Have an early breakfast and depart Kibale National Park for Murchison Falls National Park via Zziwa Rhino sanctuary via Zziwa Rhino Sanctuary situated in Nakasongola District, near Nakitoma Village, in the north of Kampala along Kampala-Gulu highway. Established in 2005, the sanctuary was used to re-introduce the Rhinos by the Rhino Fund Uganda. Zziwa is the only place where you can track rhinos on foot; it is really great and exciting as you watch the white rhinoceros. After this amazing visit to rhinos, you leave the sanctuary to complete your drive to Murchison Falls National Park while you enjoy lunch along the way. Dinner and overnight stay
Day 17: Hot Air Balloon Flight & Boat Cruise
Wake up early and be taken to the launch site for the hot air balloons. While here, you will be able to watch them do last minute preparations like pumping air into the balloon before you could soar high during the morning sunrise then given a brief on the safety precautions, rules and regulations as you get ready to hop aboard the balloon. When up there, you will be able to have a great view of the Savannah below you teaming with all kinds of wildlife. Most of this happens above the treetops to make it much easy for you to see the majority of the wildlife. Admire herds of buffalo, elephants, Rothschild’s giraffe and other game as seen from above.
In the air, you have the chances to take many great photos of scenery, landscape and wildlife below. The Balloon ride lasts for about an hour after which the balloon lands and guests receive their participation certificates. After the game drive, you will return to the hotel for lunch. In the afternoon after lunch, prepare for a boat trip on placid Victoria Nile, upstream, to the base of the fall. The Murchison Falls National Park derived its name from the Murchison falls and it offers boat trips to the bottom of the falls with en-route sights of hippos, buffaloes, crocodiles and various bird species. Head back to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 18: Chimpanzee Tracking in Budongo
Wake up at sunrise, breakfast and drive to Budongo Forest situated approximately 3 hours’ drive northwest of the capital city Kampala on the way to the prominent Murchison Falls National Park. This is the biggest Mahogany forest found in the whole of East Africa as well as habitat to the largest number of chimpanzees throughout Uganda. You go in search of the habituated chimpanzee family in this forest. Its isolation once in a while offers a safe haven for the Lions, Leopards as well as Buffaloes. The Chimpanzee Tracking experience is the number one priority here. Starting in October up to January, the time when the fruits are shorter in supply, the chimps move a lot covering a wider area. Once you find the chimps, you will stay in their presence for one hour as you watch them feed, play and groom one another. In the afternoon after lunch at your hotel, you have the rest of the day to yourself. Overnight at your hotel.
Day 19: Budongo Forest to Kampala
As you wind up your 19 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife Safari, you will wake up at sunrise, breakfast, and check-out the hotel room around 10AM. After check-out, you will start your drive to Kampala with a lunch stop in town. Inquire NowOnce you reach Kampala, you can stay a night and explore Kampala nightlife or head straight to Entebbe International Airport for the evening flight back home.
End of your 19 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife Safari.
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