Today you will arrive, and you will be met by your guide that will transfer you to your hotel in Kampala. 

Main Destination: Kampala (City, Uganda)

 Accommodation: Ivory Castle

                              > Mid-range hotel located in or near Kampala

Meals & Drinks: > Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)

                              > Drinks not included

Today we will depart for the most beautiful protected area in Uganda: Murchison Falls National Park. En route, we will make a stop at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, home to the only wild rhinos in Uganda. The reserve was created to reintroduce rhinos to the country which had been extinct since 1982. Together with a guide you will track the rhinos and observe them in their habitat at a very close and safe distance. Have lunch at the Rhino sanctuary and thereafter we will drive to Murchison Falls National Park and drive for an hour deeper into the National Park to the site of Murchison Falls after which the park is named– one of Uganda's most beautiful sights.

Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park(Uganda)

 Accommodation: Fort Murchison (Room)

                              > Mid-range lodge located just outside Murchison Falls NP

Meals & Drinks: > All Meals Included 

After an early breakfast, we start the day with a game drive on the northern bank of the Nile, with chances of seeing Rothschild Giraffe, elephants, lions, Jackson Hartebeest, Oribis, Waterbucks, different species of the savannah woodland birds, and if lucky even the elusive leopard to top Africa’s “The Big 5” amongst a multitude of African plains game before returning to Baker’s Lodge for lunch

In the afternoon, enjoy a Nile launch cruise to the bottom of the waterfalls for game viewing at close quarters, after the launch cruise, get off from the bottom of the falls and hike up to the top of the falls where you will be rewarded with amazing views of the Nile.

Main Destination: Murchison Falls National Park(Uganda)

 Accommodation: Fort Murchison (Room)

                              > Mid-range lodge located just outside Murchison Falls NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

After breakfast, we depart the National Park and calmly transfer to Kabwoya Game Reserve, along with Lake Albert. Enjoy the fishing Village tour to learn more about the surrounding communities and their way of living. Later will transfer to Fort Portal with lunch en route. The lovely town of Fort Portal rests in the shadow of the fabled Mountains of the Moon and is famous for the many tea plantations.

Main Destination: Kibale National Park (Chimps)

 Accommodation: Isunga Lodge

                              > Mid-range lodge located just outside Kibale NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

Following the pre-tracking briefing, you will walk or drive to the trailhead for the start of an unforgettable adventure – hiking in the footsteps of the habituated family of chimpanzees. En route, your guide will enthrall you with stories and facts about the forest and its other inhabitants including other species of primates and birds, and other big mammals. 

Upon sighting the chimpanzees, you will spend an unforgettable one hour with them as they go about their daily life - feeding, playing, grooming, taking care of their young, howling and screeching, in their natural habitat.

Return back to the lodge for lunch then in the afternoon, drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park.

After checking out, visit and enjoy sightseeing around the scenic crater lakes that surround the dense forest of Kibale National Park. Afterward, you will proceed south alongside the majestic Rwenzori ‘Mountains of the Moon’ to Queen Elizabeth National park.

Main Destination: Kibale National Park (Chimps)

 Accommodation: The Bush Lodge (Banda)

                              > Mid-range banda located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

After your breakfast, you will go in search of the game through both the Mweya and Kasenyi Plains areas known for Lions and the elusive leopard. 

In the afternoon we take on a boat cruise along the Kazinga Channel, a natural channel between Lake Edward and Lake George. The channel is 33 km long and 2-3 km at its widest points. The scheduled 2-hour boat ride (beverages and snacks included!) will cover a 12-14 km stretch of the channel, with almost guaranteed excellent wildlife sightings including multitudes of a hippopotamus – possibly the world’s highest concentration – Nile crocodiles, wallowing buffaloes on its reedy banks, elephants, and many birds.

Main Destination: Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda)

 Accommodation: The Bush Lodge (Banda)

                              > Mid-range banda located just outside Queen Elizabeth NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

Today, we will depart the beautiful area of Queen Elizabeth and drive to the southwest. En route, enjoy a game drive in Ishasha Climbing lions’ sector and proceed. After a calm and scenic drive, we will arrive at the shores of Lake Mutanda in the afternoon.

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)

 Accommodation:Mutanda Lake Resort

                              > Mid-range lodge located outside Bwindi NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

Arise early today and prepare for the highlight of your safari, an unforgettable encounter with the Gentle Giants!

Following breakfast, transfer to the national park offices where you will be allocated a gorilla family in groups of 8 as well as a gorilla tracking guide. After a pre-tracking briefing by your guide touching on the gorillas generally, your assigned gorilla family as well as appropriate safety precautions, you drive to the trailhead for the start of a thrilling adventure. Expect to walk between 2 and 8 hours in steep and sometimes muddy conditions with rain overhead, which can be tough and require a degree of (average) fitness. However, the thrill of coming face to face with a giant Mountain Gorilla silverback completely makes up for the effort!

Please remember to bring your passport for registration, appropriate, waterproof hiking boots, and a light raincoat. To protect from stinging nettles, we recommend long pants and long-sleeved tops. A pair of old gardening gloves can help grab onto the vegetation while most hotels/lodges provide a walking stick that comes in very handy, especially when hiking downhill. A small waterproof backpack is an excellent idea to carry a light snack, bottled water as well as protection for your camera.

Upon sighting the gorillas, you spend the allowed one hour with them as they go about their daily life; feeding, moving, playing, raising their young, and sometimes wrestling with the juveniles – it is a totally unique and unforgettable experience!

Main Destination: Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Gorillas)

 Accommodation: Mutanda Lake Resort

                              > Mid-range lodge located outside Bwindi NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

After breakfast, drive to Mgahinga National Park. Accompany the game rangers and porters in the morning to track golden monkeys.

A unique experience that will enhance your primate safari in Uganda! Golden Monkey might not be the most well-known primate, but is certainly an enjoyable, little creature that is worth visiting. It is a small curious monkey, golden in color, and loves to scamper around the trees. There are an estimated 3000-4000 individuals lining the bamboo forests of Virunga Volcanoes, though researchers claim that they are still very much endangered as they face the same difficulties as their cousins the mountain Gorillas.

Later, drive through the beautiful rolling hills with stops at places of interest, cross the Uganda and Rwanda border, and drive to Ruhengeri the base for Gorilla trekking at the Parc National des Volcans. Ruhengeri town itself, located only 25km from the Uganda border, is relatively a small city. The constant flow of humanity is quite remarkable. The Town has great views of the surrounding volcanoes. People are very friendly here and although a former Belgian colony (and thus French-speaking), many people speak English here.

Main Destination: Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

 Accommodation: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge

                              > Mid-range lodge located just outside Volcanoes NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

Early breakfast at your lodge;

The Dian Fossey trek involves a 30 minutes drive from the park headquarters to the trailhead 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 Dian’s grave is taken 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.

This hike is an incredible experience physically, emotionally, and intellectually. It is so inspiring to learn about someone who was so dedicated and left a legacy that exists even today. The hike involves moving through the forests and hiking up the slopes and therefore requires some relative degree of fitness and patience.

At the site, you will find the house from where Dian Fossey was mysteriously murdered in 1985 but the more peaceful is the place where she was buried just next to her favorite gorilla friend, Digit, and about 20 other mountain gorillas either killed by poachers or suffered death for other reasons.

After the trek, join your driver-guide for a transfer back to your lodge to check out and transfer to Nyungwe National Park.  

In the afternoon, you will go for the canopy walk which offers a splendid view over the lush forest with its magnificent biodiversity. Hardwood trees dominate the upper canopy while the lower part is beautified with a large selection of orchids, flora, and fauna that flourish better in the higher altitudes

Main Destination: Volcanoes National Park (Gorillas)

 Accommodation: Gisakura Guest House

                              > Budget guest house located inside Nyungwe NP

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

After Breakfast, join the briefing team and enjoy the trek alongside the Large troops of black and white colobus monkeys that reside in Nyungwe Forest. These primates often travel in groups of over 300 individuals. It is possible to purchase a permit to trek these animals. Walking through the mountain rainforest and being surrounded on all levels by these active and cheeky monkeys is an experience not to be missed.

Main Destination: Nyungwe Forest National Park (Chimps)

 Accommodation: Paradise Malahide

                              > Mid-range hotel located in or near Rubavu

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

Have Breakfast and Relax at The sun sandy beach on Lake Kivu as you get your meals outside the Hotel, later in the afternoon have a sunset boat safari to Napoleon Island, and you can have a nature walk to the bat cave as you come across Birds and communities.

Main Destination: Lake Kivu (Lake, Rwanda)

 Accommodation: Paradise Malahide

                              > Mid-range hotel located in or near Lake Kivu

Meals & Drinks: > All meals included (Drinks not included).

Today you will enjoy the scenic drive back to Kigali, then take up a city tour of Kigali including a visit to the Genocide Memorial site, a grim reminder of a senseless massacre of innocent’s lives in 1994. Learn about Rwanda’s history from pre-colonial times to the 1994 genocide; learn about other genocides in the world and how this country has dealt with that past. Tour more and see the new developments in Rwanda; the recovery has been incredible, a testament to humankind’s resilience.

 Depending on your flight time, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight to your next destination.

Main Destination: Kigali (City, Rwanda)

 Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks: > Breakfast & Lunch (dinner & drinks not included).