8 DAYS UGANDA GORILLA AND CHIMPANZEE TREKKING AND WILDLIFE SAFARI

Have breakfast and later transfer to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest   national park. The drive will take through winding roads and terraced hills of Rwanda on to Ruhengeri and finally Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park Uganda.  You will be in time for lunch and later in the afternoon visit the Batwa cultural village and later return to the accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.

Today is the long-awaited day for gorilla trekking! Be up early have breakfast and transfer to the Volcanoes National Park offices for paper work before the general briefing by the park rangers   about the Dos, do nots, the general history of the park and the group allocated for tracking that day by the lead ranger guide. You will enter the jungle in search for the gorillas; the trekking time will depend on the movements and steep slopes of the landscape. Once you meet the gorillas you will spend an hour observing the gorillas in their natural habitat, feeding, grooming, playing and dis playing dominance.  After an hour you will return to the starting point where you entered the jungle from and later drive to the accommodation.

Wake up early morning have breakfast and transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda via Ishasha sector famous for tree climbing lions, arriving in time for lunch combined with enroute game drive as you drive to lodge.  After lunch you will go out for the guided game drive and later return to lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Have breakfast and begin your day with an early morning game drive along the channel track and Kasenyi plains in search for lions, leopard, elephants, buffalos and many anti lope species for 4 hours and return to the lodge for lunch break. Later in the afternoon you will take a boat ride along the Kazinga channel which is natural channel joining two lakes George and Edward. During the boat safari you will be able to see crocodiles, elephants and buffalos taking water and it’s a paradise for birders.

Have an early breakfast and head out to Queen Elizabeth National Park Kyabura sector famous for the Chimpanzee trekking.   Chimpanzee trekking is the activity where by you go to the jungle and look for the chimpanzee in their natural habitat.  Upon finding the Chimpanzee, you will spend an hour with them as the feed swing up the tress and groom the young ones.  The Chimpanzee are our close relatives since they 98% DNA like human beings. Return to the starting point and drive to Lake Mburo National Park. You have enroute lunch and reaching Lake Mburo afternoon and combine enroute drive with game drive to the booked hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

Wake up early and transfer to Lake Mburo National Park for walking safari with an armed ranger. The walking safari takes you up close to wildlife as compared to game drives, the walk takes 2hours and later return the lodge for breakfast and later check out and transfer to Lake Bunyonyi reaching in time for lunch and later take on a boat cruise along lake Bunyonyi and return to the booked lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Have breakfast and transfer to Kigali Kanombe International Airport via the Katuna border post. Depending on the departure time you can visit the genocide memorial in Kigali before heading to Kanombe airport for out bound flight back home.