6 Days Rwanda and Uganda safari
6 Days Rwanda and Uganda safari is a great African safari that travellers can take on to enjoy chimpanzee tracking in Nyungwe National Park as well as a canopy walk, Kigali city tour to learn of Rwanda’s culture and history. Travellers will also get to enjoy gorilla tracking in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a Batwa cultural experience, game viewing and launch cruises on Queen Elizabeth National Park. This 6 Days Rwanda and Uganda safari has travellers exploring the prime attractions of both Uganda and Rwanda, giving a wonderful experience to travellers. The safari starts in Kigali Rwanda and ends in Entebbe in Uganda.
Tour Summary of the 6 Days Rwanda and Uganda safari
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali International Airport, transfer to Nyungwe National Park
Day 2: Chimpanzee Tracking in Nyungwe, Canopy walk in Nyungwe
Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Batwa cultural experience
Day 4: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi
Day 5: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, afternoon launch cruise on Kazinga channel and an evening game drive
Day 6: Morning game drive, Departure
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Kigali International Airport, transfer to Nyungwe National Park
Our corporate driver-guide will pick you up at Kigali International Airport or your Rwandan hotel or apartment on the first day of your six-day safari through Rwanda and Uganda. After the driver-guide gives you an overview of your safari, you may take a city tour of Kigali to learn about Rwanda’s history and culture, depending on when you arrive. The city tour will have you visiting the Rwanda genocide memorial, the Rwanda national museum, and a number of other monumental places. Thereafter, you will proceed to transfer to Nyungwe National Park. Check in, relax as you await dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.
Day 2: Chimpanzee Tracking in Nyungwe, Canopy walk in Nyungwe
During your six-day safari in Rwanda and Uganda, you will need to rise early on the second day. Following breakfast at the lodge, you will meet other hikers and park officials at the park headquarters. You will learn about the regulations and standards to adhere to when tracking chimpanzees in Nyungwe. The next step is to search for the noisy, incredibly active chimpanzees in their natural habitat. Other sights in Nyungwe National Park are worth seeing, such as the numerous kinds of birds, animals, primates, plants, and butterflies. Given their loud noises that are audible from a distance, chimpanzees are not particularly difficult to locate.
Chimpanzees can be seen playing and jumping between trees while they eat, groom, or do anything else they think is appropriate. Chimpanzees live in larger groups of more than 25 individuals. They are very active so travellers will also need to be so since they are very mobile. You can take pictures and make videos if you want to. The chimps will only be with you for one hour. It can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours or longer, depending on where the chimps are.
Canopy Walk in Nyungwe
Thereafter, you will have lunch and then proceed for a canopy walk in Nyungwe still. The canopy walk in Nyungwe National Park is one of a kind as it gives travellers an opportunity to have a bird’s eye-view of the forest. The canopy walk is very rewarding with great views of the forest and far beyond. You might chance to see chimpanzees again, along with other park animals especially the primates like baboons and a number of monkeys. Great pictures can be taken while on the canopy walk, be sure to carry a good camera. Binoculars are also a must carry if you want to see much more.
Awaiting dinner and an overnight stay, you will then head back to the lodge to unwind.
Day 3: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Batwa cultural experience
Today, you will wake up early enough and get to enjoy a mouth-watering breakfast at the lodge. After, proceed to check out and be transferred to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, the home to the highest number of mountain gorillas in the world. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is a UNESCO world heritage site that hosts well over 4|00 gorillas, making it a gorilla tourism hotspot. You will drive through Rwanda to Uganda via the Cyanika or Katuna border, with very beautiful sceneries that will leave you mesmerized.
Arriving in Bwindi in time for lunch, you will then go on to a Batwa cultural experience, where you will learn about the Batwa people, who lived alongside the gorillas and were hunter-gatherers who relied entirely on the forest for their survival until they were recently forced out of the park. Visiting the Batwa on a cultural trail will have you being shown their way of life back then say how they locally cooked back then, their hunting skills, fighting skills, how they made fire with just a stick, among so many others.
They will also show you medicinal plants and leaves that you might otherwise not have noticed. Visiting the Batwa takes you back to the stone age era. After, you will be transferred back to the lodge where you will have your dinner from and an overnight stay.
Day 4: Gorilla trekking in Bwindi
Gorilla trekking in Bwindi is one of the most anticipated and sought-after activities on day four of your six-day safari across Rwanda and Uganda. Following your lodge breakfast, you will be taken to the park headquarters for a gorilla trekking briefing.. The park officials will also state the rules and guidelines to be followed while gorilla trekking in Bwindi and after, you will be placed in groups of 8 and allocated gorilla groups to track.
Then, while keeping an eye out for various birds and other park creatures like forest elephants, you will continue your quest for the gentle apes in their natural habitat. Under the supervision of park rangers, gorilla trekking is conducted. Once you encounter the gorillas, you will spend an hour with them during which time you can take pictures and make videos of the near-human gorillas as they play, feed, groom each other, making nests, nap or whatever else they might be doing. The silverback is always watchful, be sure not to leave your group, look straight in any gorilla’s eyes, or even touch any of them especially the infants and the juveniles, much as the juveniles are very curious.
Trek back after an hour has passed, stopping for lunch somewhere in the jungle to eat the food you brought. After that, continue your journey to the headquarters, where your gorilla trekking certificate will be issued. Gorilla trekking in Bwindi can take between 30 minutes to 6 hours or more, depending on the location of the ever-moving gorillas. Your driver-guide will be ready to transfer you back to the lodge, from where you will spend the rest of the day resting, dinner and then an overnight stay.
Day 5: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, afternoon launch cruise on Kazinga channel and an evening game drive
In the morning Check out and leave Bwindi and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park after breakfast at the lodge. Arrive at the Ishasha sector which is well-known for its tree-climbing lions, after a four-hour trip. Enjoy looking at the lions as they dangle their tails down tree branches, or them roaming around in search of prey. As you drive to the restaurant for lunch, you will also spot more untamed creatures.
Once you have enjoyed a delicious lunch, you will embark on an afternoon launch cruise on the Kazinga river, which links Lakes Edward and George. On a launch cruise, you will witness a variety of aquatic species and birds, Nile crocodiles, and serried ranges of hippos as they busk in and out of the waterways. Elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, and a variety of other animals can be seen at the shoreline when people come for a drink in the afternoon. Two hours are needed for the launch voyage.
Evening Game Drive
After the afternoon launch cruise, you will go on an evening game drive throughout Queen Elizabeth National Park. you will see wild animals returning from the long day’s hunt and grazing. African elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, waterbucks, warthogs, and others. You might even spot jackals and lions. After the game drive, you will proceed to your lodge and have dinner and an overnight stay.|
Day 6: Morning game drive, Departure
After an early breakfast at the lodge, you check out and depart for an early morning game drive. On this day , an early morning wildlife drive can reveal returning nocturnal species following a hunting night. other animals will be seen when they rise to depart for the day. Take as many pictures as you can of Queen Elizabeth’s bird species and mammals while enjoying the game drive.
Leave the park and get to Entebbe. After lunch , you will continue on to Kayabwe, where you can snap pictures, buy souvenirs, and take part in a polar water experiment. You will drive straight to Entebbe International Airport for your departing flight.
Inclusions;
- Gorilla Trekking permit
- Chimpanzee Tracking permit
- Comfortable 4*4 safari vehicle great for game viewing and photography
- Full time English speaking driver-guide
- Full board accommodation
- All en-route lunches
- All park entrance fees and activities listed in the itinerary
- Bottled drinking water whilst in the tour vehicle
Exclusions;
- Air Ticket
- Visas
- Beverages
- Tips and souvenirs
- Extra activities not included in the itinerary
- Personal expenses like cigarettes, laundry, telephone
