On arrival, you will meet and be greeted by the company representative who will brief you about the tour while on your way to the hotel for dinner and overnight at Gorillas Hotel BB.

Day 2 Nyungwe Forest and Kigali City Tour

Drive to Nyungwe forest. On the way visit the reconstructed King’s palace at Nyanza, Butare Museum and Murambi Memorial. Lunch stopover at Butare. Overnight ORTPN guest House BB

Day 3/4 Coloured trails of Nyungwe

Spend these days following different trails to visit various primate troops, enjoying their charming displays in the forest canopy and all see other forest habitats that use the forest as there comfortable home. This activity is too adventurous and interesting. Overnight Gisakura Guest House BB.

Day 5 Relaxed activities (boat ride to the island or even cross to Goma, beach volley ball)

After breakfast, drive to Gesenyi a base to explore Goma and the nearby active volcano of Nyiragongo plus track gorillas in Virunga National Park. However one can enjoy a boat ride to the islands or even across into Goma.  Beach volley ball is available at the Kivu Sun Serena.  Swimming in the lake is allowed.  Arriving in the evening. Overnight Palm Beach Hotel/Serena hotel Kivu BB.

Day 6 Transfer to Ruhengeri for the first Gorilla Tracking

After breakfast, drive to Ruhengeri for gorilla tracking and experience the fascination and thrill that accompanies each encounter but as you have lots of fun, remember that the activity is too tiresome and it requires a lot of patience and endurance. Have a picnic lunch and overnight at Gorilla Nest BB.

Day 7 Optional Kigali City Tour

Past a delicious leisure breakfast, spend the morning on an optional city tour. In the evening, transfer to the airport for home flight and that mark the end of your safari trip.

End of 1 Week Safari in Rwanda

After turning up at Entebbe international Airport, perhaps the friendliest in Africa, get in touch with the African Secrets guide who will brief you about the land of vast African adventure which you will discover from the very first day of your safari. There after, set off on the southbound road to Queen Elizabeth National park with an enroute to the royal drum makers, Equator, and also get a chance to bargain at the roadside markets. Proceed to the Queen Elizabeth National Park while keeping an eye out for viewing the lovely vegetation of the pearl of Africa. Dinner and Overnight at Mweya safari lodge. (FB).

Day 2: Morning game drive and Evening game drive.

Before breakfast leave for the early morning game drive to seek out wildlife in one of the trails in the park ( Typical African Savannah ) an activity that will weak up most wildlife from there habitats and draw them close to you. These may include Elephants, Lions, Leopards, Hyenas, Buffaloes, Waterbucks, Uganda Kobs and Warthogs among others. Later return back to the lodge for a relaxed breakfast, lunch while awaiting for the evening game drive an activity that will enable you exhaust all the wildlife from the park. Return back to the lodge for dinner and overnight. (Mweya safari lodge).

Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking in Kyambura Gorge plus a nature walk.

Past  early breakfast ,leave for an excursion to Kyambura Gorge to track the fast moving and indefinable chimpanzees, the man’s friends for life. The chimp population is quite mobile and viewing is unpredictable but the walk is charming. However, for more fun with the primates, you can have an optional nature walk in Maramagambo Forest to see other primates, the bat cave and the blue lake.

After lunch, go for a boat trip on the Kazinga Channel where different animals and birds come to the 34km tranquil Kazinga Channel for relaxation, sun bathing and shoring and tourist see variety of them like large crowds of Hippo and solitary Buffaloes, elephants, reptiles like Crocodiles and Lizards, water birds like Pelicans, Egyptian goose, Saddle-billed Stork, African Fish Eagles, African Jacana and Kingfishers among others. Late evening return back to Mweya safari lodge for dinner and overnight. (FB).

Day 4: Transfer to Bwindi via ishasha with a stopover to view climbing lions.

Following breakfast, set off for Bwindi Impenetrable Forest via Ishasha a home of the tree climbing lion with another Morning  game drive looking for climbing lions, leopard, elephant and more wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park one of the most outstanding treasures of Uganda, and has been designated a Biosphere Reserve for Humanity under UNESCO auspices. Then proceed to Bwindi for dinner and overnight at Gorilla nest.

Day 5: Gorilla trekking safari uganda plus a Community walk.

Early morning gorilla tracking an exciting activity that requires patience and endurance but if you miss it in your safari, you would have mist the life time experience of African treasures. However, the activity requires trackers to walking up steep densely forested hills before finally coming across the gorillas camouflaged in the vegetation. “It real an inspiring moment”. Later after depending on the Tracking time, have an optional community walk before you retire for dinner and overnight at your lodge.(FB).

Day 6: Optional Nature walk or Second Gorilla trek.

Enjoy the second gorilla tracking by having a final moment with another family of the gorillas and at the end of the activity, you will have had a lot of fun that will always bring joy in your memories about the African gorilla safari or go for a guided nature walk in the thick forest rich in birds, butterflies and monkeys. Alternatively go for a stroll around the Lodge. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla nest (FB).

Day 7: Transfer to Mgahinga with a stop over at Kanaba gap/Ridge.

Leave for Mgahinga. Make brief stops at places of interest including Kanaba Gap to view the dramatic Virunga volcanoes and the beautiful terraced hills. Proceed, via the frontier town of Kisoro, up the mountain to Mgahinga at Mgahinga forest campsite for dinner and overnight/Volcanoes Mount Gahinga lodge (FB).

Day 8 Relaxation and transfer to Rwanda.

Have a leisure breakfast at your lodge plus a simple tour in and around the lodge and later transfer to Rwanda after lunch. (Clocks go backward one hour meaning don’t have late lunch as a result of time. Then in the late evening, simply take in the panoramic sunset over the volcanoes. Dinner and overnight at Volcanoes Virunga lodge (FB).

Day 9: Gorilla trekking safari Rwanda.

Before breakfast, leave for gorilla tracking in Parc National des Volcans. Tracking the gorillas is through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga which is a magical experience and if you are lucky, you can get to the gorillas in a shortest time that is less expected, spend an hour with them, and then get back at the base in time for a late lunch! Some gorilla families however are more elusive, and tracking can take a full day, especially when it is wet and muddy. Dinner and overnight at Virunga lodge (FB).

Day 10: Have optional relaxed activities in Kivu.

Past breakfast, drive to Gisenyi and participate in optional relaxed activities like a swimming, boat ride and sun bathing that will refresh you from the tiresome activities. Then dinner and overnight at Palm Beach resort.

Day 11: Transfer to Kigali for a city tour.

Following breakfast, Leave  for a city tour in Kigali  including a visit to the market, a pottery project, handicraft shops and the genocide memorial and later transfer to the airport to catch up with your flight  back home.

End of 11 day wildlife and gorilla trekking safari rwanda uganda

Day 2: Chimpanzee tracking safari and monkey viewing.
Past morning breakfast, proceed to Nyungwe Forest at 6:00am to search for both chimpanzee and colobus monkeys and also have a chance to view the other habitants of the forest like birds, reptiles and butterflies (14 species of primates, including large troops of colobus monkeys that often travel in groups of 300 or more individuals, 280 avian species, 26 Albertine Rift endemic species, 121 forest species and also 43 species of reptiles where 23 of which are endemic, 31 amphibians. However, later after lunch you may decide to have an optional guided walk in the forest for more fun. Dinner and overnight at Gisakura Guest House.

Day 3: Transfer to Akagera National park for Evening game drive.

You will be transferred to the East of Rwanda to Akagera National Park bordering Tanzania, which has beautiful undulating plains with dense, broad-leafed woodland, lighter acacia woodland and rolling grassland with an extensive series of lakes linked by papyrus swamps forming a sprawling wetland. Before dinner, leave for an evening game drive an activity that brings in open all animals that move and eat at night. Dinner and overnight at Akagera Game Lodge.

Day 4: Game drives and boat trip on Lake Ihema
you will have an early morning game drive in the park.  The game drives will involve seeing hippos, elephants, buffalos, giraffe, hyenas, crocodiles and many other animals plus bird life. After a late breakfast, you may decide to have a relaxed moment at the lodge while preparing for the canoe ride on Lake Ihema in the afternoon. There after, return back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Day 5: A full day city Tour in Kigali.
After a leisure delicious breakfast at the lodge, leave for a city tour in Kigali where you will unveil all Kigali hidden cultural and adventure treasures like a number of historical sites that have been developed mainly the museums, art and crafts centre and genocide memorials to remember the death of thousands of people in Rwanda. Return back to Kigali for dinner and overnight at Des Milles Collines hotel.

Day 3: Departure
Following late  breakfast, relax up at the lodge while preparing for your  home flight and later have a mavarious delicious  farewell lunch  that will leave a permanent mark  in your thoughts  when you think about a safari in Africa. Transfer to  the airport for your international flight at aright time.

End of 6 days Primate safari ,wildlife rwanda

Day 2: Transfer to Akagera National Park.
Wake up and have breakfast then depart for Akagera National Park in the east of Rwanda and arrive in the time for lunch with 30 minutes relaxing time at the poolside. Then later, leave for an afternoon game drive an activity that will draw you close to wildlife animals and also get the opportunity to take right positioned photos. Then return to Akagera game lodge for a welcome dinner and orientation at the lodge.

Day 3: Game drive in Akagera National park.
Past breakfast leave for a morning game drive that will offer you a chance to see variety of birds, elephant, hippo, giraffe, spotted hyena, buffalo and crocodiles. In the afternoon you will enjoy a canoe ride on Lake Ihema, which is too impressive and it will take you up to the main Hippo recreation ground in Rwanda. During this activity you will enjoy the moving cool winds of the lake and even get great adventure in your safari by being a long side a large number of hippo, the huge Nile crocodile and many birds. Dinner and over night at the lodge.

Day 4: Transfer to Volcanoes National Park.
Following breakfast in the morning, you will depart towards Kinigi in the north-west of Rwanda with a lunch enroute in Kigali. There after; have a visit to the Genocide Memorial, where you will be told stories of survival and the heart-warming stories of recovery and rebuilding hope. The journey goes through the beautiful terraced hillsides that characterize much of Rwanda’s landscape, gradually climbing to the base of the awesome volcanoes and sometimes with as many as five peaks visible. You will return to the lodge in the evening and then meet one of the veterinarians from the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, and hear about their ongoing efforts to protect the Mountain Gorillas. You will have cocktails and dinner with them, and share some of the stories, challenges, and successes of their important work.

Day 5: Gorilla safari vacation rwanda.
After breakfast, drive to the headquarters of Volcanoes National Park where you will meet the ranger guides and other trackers awaiting to start the activity. Later, head up the slopes of the Virunga Volcanoes for the search of mountain Gorillas.Note, only one habituated groups will be seen out of the five and the number of tracker should be only eight per day.  Therefore, be assured of having an intimate experience with the group, whichever group you visit. The trek can be quite tough that it takes a lot of time and endurance so you should be able to hike for two or three hours on Steep Mountain trails. Dinner and overnight at Virunga lodge/Kinigi guest house.

Day 6: A visit to the African Gorilla Hero.
Following breakfast you will visit the grave of Dian Fossey, located next to that of Digit. The grave site is located at the former Karisoke Research Center where Dian spent some twenty years studying the Mountain Gorillas, and the trek to the site is quite spectacular, passing through bamboo forest and afro-montane habitats – indeed the trails are criss-crossed with the tracks of forest buffalo and elephant. You may also see all the behaviors of wildlife as we make our way up and down to Karisoke, nestled between the volcanic peaks of Karisimbi and Bisoke. Alternatively you can relax at the lodge, visit some of the local villages, or trek to see the endangered Golden Monkeys that also make this area home.

Day 7: Second Gorilla safari vacation trek at Volcanoes National Park.
Have breakfast and go trek the Mountain Gorillas the second time. You will be able to visit different Gorilla group than the first visit. You will return and visit the local market. You will have a farewell dinner tonight with the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project Field Staff.

Day 8: Virunga Lodge to Kigali, Rwanda.
You will have a relaxed morning, just immerse in the ambiance of this lovely place, thinking about the adventures of the past week, and prepare to get back home. Depending on your flight schedules you may have lunch at the lodge then depart for Kigali and return flight home.

End of the 8 days wildlife and gorilla safari vacation

Day 2: Transfer to Nyungwe Forest National Park.

Past breakfast, you will be transferred to Nyungwe Forest National Park with enroute stopover at the old palace in Nyanza on your way to the park and learn more of Rwanda acient life and history. Then proceed to the park. Dinner and overnight at Gisakura Guest House.

Day 3: Chimpanzee tracking
After a very delicious early morning breakfast, leave for chimpanzee tracking an activity that starts at 6:00am.In this process you will also track the colobus monkeys in the forest and have a chance to view the other habitants of the forest like birds, reptiles and butterflies. However, past lunch you may decide to have an optional guided nature walk in the forest. Dinner and overnight at Gisakura Guest House.

Day 4: Avisit to the cultural Museum plus departure
After breakfast, transfer to Kigali for a visit to the cultural museum in Butare and then later leave for Kigali Airport for your international flight

End of Culture Safari and Chimpanzee safari in Nyungwe

Day 1: Arrival Transfer to Ruhengeri.

Meet our safari guide at the airport who will transfer you to Ruhengeri in northwestern Rwanda for gorilla trekking the next day. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Nest Lodge/Kinigi Guest House.

Day 2: Mountain Gorilla trekking and Transfer to Nyungwe National park.
After an early morning breakfast, report to the park headquarters for a briefing from the game rangers. Begin trekking the mountain gorillas at 08.30 am local time and encountering the mountain gorillas may take you between 2 to 8 hours depending on their movement in the jungle. After tracking proceed to Nyungwe National park for dinner and overnight at Gisakura Guest House (FB).

Day 3: Chimpanzee trekking safari.
Take an early morning breakfast, and proceed to Nyungwe Forest at 6:00am to track chimpanzees and the colobus monkeys plus viewing other inhabitants of the forest like birds and butterflies, then return back to the lodge for late breakfast. There after, take a forest guided walk for more fun in the forest, have lunch and a relaxed evening at the lodge. Dinner and overnight at Gisakura Guest House (FB).

Day 4: Departure
Transfer back to Kigali with a visit to the cultural museum in Butare enroute. Then to Kigali airport for your return flight to your home country. End of the safari.

End of Rwanda vacation tours trekking gorillas and Chimpanzees.

Have a cup of tea at your hotel where the company guide/representative will pick you up and transfer you to western Uganda (Bwindi Impenetrable National Park).As you enjoy the travel, you will have a stop over at the Equator to take some photos and also experience changes in your body weight. There after continue to Mbarara town where you will stop for lunch before heading through the grasslands of Ankole. Here you will enjoy the outstanding long horned cattle before going on to the highlands of Kigezi referred to as the “Switzerland of Africa”. Arrive in Bwindi  late evening, freshen up as you wait for dinner and overnight  at Gorilla Resort  hotel/Buhoma community Bandas.

Day 2: Gorilla trekking Uganda Bwindi National Park.

After breakfast, assemble for briefing from ranger guides who will lead you through the impenetrable forest. Tracking the Gorillas through the thick forest is an overwhelming experience that every one wishes to be part of the drama. If you are lucky you can get to see the gorillas, spend 1 hour with them, and be back at the lodge in time for lunch and it’s the vise versa because some times the tracking takes the all day.  Commit to memory to carry with you packed lunch, enough water as this activity is so tiring, its also important to wear good hiking boots of an ankle level and long trousers for protection against stinging nettles. Some times the slope may be steep so you should carry some walking sticks for support. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Resort hotel/Buhoma community Bandas.

Day 3 Transfer to Rwanda

Following breakfast, depart for  Rwanda passing through the Ankole region, where you will see the typical Ankole cattle, coffee plantations and the different vegetations of the pearl of Africa up to the terraced and cultivated hills of the Kigezi region, best known as “the Switzerland of Africa”. Kisoro is positioned at the base of Muhavura volcano at the borders between Uganda, Rwanda and Congo. The vicinity has one of the best sceneries as you continue past the border and reach Ruhengeri in Rwanda. Arrive in time for dinner and overnight at Gorilla Nest Lodge/Kinigi guest house.

Day 4: Final Gorilla trekking Rwanda.

After breakfast, drive to ORTPN offices for briefing after which set off in the forest for Gorilla trekking. Gorilla trekking is so very tiring but enjoyable on encounter of these gentle giants. Carry with you a parked lunch and plenty of water. The excitement of your coming across with these calm giants will wipe away your complexity of the potentially tough trek. Spend time watching gorillas, watch the adults feeding their young ones, brushing and resting as the youngsters play from vines in a pleasantly playful display. Return back to the lodge for dinner and overnight at Gorilla Nest Lodge/Kinigi guest house.

Note: Alternatively if you complete you’re tracking very early,   our guides are accepted to transfer you to Kabale to shorten the distance in case you are to catch up with you back home flight from Uganda.

Day 5: Transfer to Kampala or Departure plus an optional city tour.

After breakfast drive back to Kampala. Lunch en route arriving in the early evening in the time of the return flight back home.

OR If your departure flight  is at Kigali Airport, Have a morning leisure breakfast with an optional city tour ,Then later transfer to the Airport in the time for the flight back home and that marks the end of your safari.

Day 1: Kampala – Fort portal

After breakfast we will depart Kampala and head west to Fort Portal. Driving through the luxuriant countryside green vegetation, and on the way keep your eyes open in order to have a clear view of the beautiful pearl of Africa.  However, Fort Portal rests in the shadow of the legendary Mountains of the Moon. Therefore expect to have lots of fun in the mountain shadow environment. Dinner and overnight at Primate Lodge Kibale/
luxury tents of Primate Lodge Kibale.

Day 2: Chimpanzee safari Kibale.

Following breakfast, set off to Kibale Forest National Park, the highly regarded park with variety and uppermost concentration of primates in East Africa. Enjoy a guided nature walk in the tropical rainforest in search of the wild chimpanzees, red-tailed monkeys, black-and-white colobus monkeys and many others. After lunch , leave for Bwindi National park arrive late for  Dinner and overnight at Gorilla resort/Buhoma community Bandas.

Day 3: Gorilla safari Bwindi National Park.

Before breakfast, start the Journey to the park for Gorilla trekking briefing where you will meet other trackers and game rangers ready to give you brief knowledge about the activity. There after, have a chance to track the mountain Gorillas by passing through a simple and enjoyable Hike in the bamboo forest and once you meet them, spend one hour observing and taking pictures of the gorillas before you return to your lodge. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla resort/Buhoma community Bandas.

Day 4:  Uganda to Rwanda
Past break fast, and all the fun enjoy full activities in the African Switzerland land of Uganda scenery; drive to Kisoro and cross the border to Rwanda the land of thousand hills which is blessed with variety of attractions with picnic lunch. There after, proceeds to Ruhengeri the base of Rwanda attractions. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla Nest Hotel or Kinigi Guest House.

Day 5: Gorilla safari rwanda Park des Volcanoes
After breakfast you will be driven to park headquarters for the morning Gorilla briefing which ends at 8.00.am and later, start off the adventure with trackers. Tracking gorillas may take 2- 8 hours depending on where the gorillas built there nest last night. However, if they built it near the starting point for the tracking, you will see them in even less than an hour. But it can also take a full day so one should be little patient and enduring. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla nest hotel/Kinigi guest house.

Day 6: Transfer to Nyungwe forest.

Following relaxed breakfast, transfer to Nyungwe National park famously known as the great place for primate viewing in Rwanda. If you arrive early, take a tour around the lodge plus the near by neighbouring villages. Retire with dinner and overnight at ORTPN Rest house/Gisakura guest house.

Day 7: Chimpanzee safari

Early morning, leave for chimpanzee tracking an activity that will enable you to see variety of forest habitants like Butterflies, Monkeys, Amphibians, and reptiles and many others. At the end of the activity one will be able to make a difference between Gorillas and chimps of both Uganda and Rwanda. Dinner and overnight at ORTPN Rest house/Gisakura guest house.

Day 8: Departure back home plus an optional city tour.

Have late leisure breakfast at your lodge; organize for the departure Journey back home. Later transfer to the airport for your onward flight. However, if time allows you can have a city tour before departure.

End of 1 Week  safari uganda rwanda gorillas and Chimps

Day 1: Transfer to Ruhengeri plus an optional city Tour.

Arrive at Kigali, meet and greet the company representative and there after leave for an optional city tour which will depend on arrival time. Following the tour, drive north to Ruhengeri through the beautiful terraced hillsides that show much of Rwanda’s landscape, gradually climbing to the base of the awesome Virunga volcanoes; sometimes five peaks can be seen. Dinner and overnight and dinner at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge/Kinigi guest house (FB).

Day 2; First Gorilla Trekking holiday safari

Breakfast is enjoyed at the lodge before departing for your morning drive to the park for Gorilla trekking (using your first gorilla permit). Gorillas are tracked through the light mountain forest on the slopes of the Virunga and it’s a very wonderful experience which make every day of stay interesting. Incase you are lucky; you can get to see the gorillas, spend an hour with them, and get back at the lodge in time for a late lunch. However, some gorilla families are more mysterious, and tracking can take a full day, especially when it is wet and muddy. Therefore, the activity requires a lot of patience and endurance. Dinner and overnight and dinner at Volcanoes Virunga Lodge (FB).

Day 3: Final Gorilla Trekking  plus an optional visit to Gisenyi.

Wake up and have breakfast, then go for gorilla trekking again in Parc National des Volcanoes (second gorilla permits) where you might have a chance to see what you missed seeing the previous day. This magical experience takes you about an hour if you lucky.However,have an optional afternoon visit to Gisenyi, a charming place on the shores of lake Kivu a place where you will refresh and get full rest from the tiresome activities. Dinner and overnight and dinner at Serena lodge/Palm beach hotel (FB).

Day 4 Relaxation and Departure.

Enjoy your final leisure delicious breakfast at the hotel and there after, relax up walking around the city, shopping for Rwandan souvenirs while waiting for your transfer to the Airport for your flight back home. That marks the end of your life time memory safari trip.

End of Gorilla trekking holiday safari