Car Rental: Standard Cover (SUV/4×4 or similar vehicle) with unlimited kilometers, GPS, Rwanda-Uganda cross-border documentation & vehicle fee.
Accommodation and meals
1 Gorilla permit Volcanoes per person to be paid in advance.
1 Gorilla permit Bwindi
1 Chimpanzee permit, per person.
Boat ride Kazinga Channel
Game drive
All Park entrance fees
1 liter bottle of mineral water per day per person during safari.
Safari exclusions:
Expenses of personal nature like: Air fare, Visa, drinks, laundry, tips to local guides, telephone, porter fee while trekking, personal insurance, personal shopping bills, souvenirs and cigars
Self drive Rwanda to Uganda itinerary
Day 1: Pick your Hired Car in Kigali
While in Rwanda, you can explore Kigali National Genocide Museum, windows’ quilt selling/sewing cooperative/project, art galleries, the market, handicraft shops, including Kaplaki, the Women to Women Coop, Cards from Africa. Travel to Ruhengeri and Parc National des Volcanoes
Day 2- 4: Gorilla Tracking in Volcanoes National Park
After an early breakfast, you will drive to park headquarters with a packed lunch and water and have a briefing about the ‘Dos’ and ‘Don’ts’ while with gorillas. Gorilla trekking through steep and slippery Virunga jungle grounds can be very strenuous but is at times very easy taking from 2-8 hours depending on gorillas’ movements. You will have one hour with these gentle giants, later descend to your lodge for a rest and if time allows, you will explore the Ruhengeri area for more craft markets
Day 5: Transfer to Uganda via Cyanika Border
The breathtaking drive to Bwindi, sometimes referred to as the Switzerland of Africa, is along winding mountain roads and through thick forests. The long journey through the rapidly changing landscape takes you to Bwindi – Bohoma where half of the world’s gorillas live. Depending on your arrival, there may be time to visit the local villages and orphanage or a relaxation
Day 6: Gorilla Tracking
After enjoying an early breakfast, you set off for gorilla tracking. Trekking through the steep, densely forested hills and then finally coming across the gorillas camouflaged in the vegetation is an inspiring and privileged moment. This activity requires physical fitness. Depending on the time you get back from the gorillas, you can have a walk through the local village, and learn about community projects, such as the Amagara project that assists local farmers and their communities, and Bwindi Community Hospital which started as a health clinic under a tree and now provides vital medical and educational services to over 50,000 people might be rewarding
Day 7: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park
After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the southern part of Queen Elizabeth National Park called Ishasha, this is an area very popular for the tree-climbing lions. Check in at Ishasha Wilderness Camp and embark on an evening game safari, Leopards, Hyeanas and lions are always luckily seen.
You will encounter a variety of savanna birds and several raptors, there are many chances of the Broad Tailed and African Moustached Warbler, White Headed Barbet, African Oriole, Grassland, Long Billed and Plain Backed Pippit, Ovambo Sparrow and African Cuckoo Hawk, Bateleur, Leivellant’s Cuckoo, Senegal Plover, African Quil Finch and many more overnight at Ishasha Wilderness Camp
Day 8: Game Drive and Boat Safari in Queen Elizabeth National Park
After breakfast a morning game and more chances of finding the tree climbing lions, you have lots of game and bird which include among others the hippos, crocs, African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Uganda Kob, Waterbuck, Bushbuck, Giant Forest hog, predators among others may include the Lion, Leopard, Hyeana and the birding today will produce the Gulls and Terns, African Open Billed, Yellow-billed and Saddle-billed Stork, Malachite and Grey Headed Kingfisher, African Spoonbill, Grey, kitilitziz’s and African Wattled Plovers, White-browed and Brown Backed Scrub Robin, Rufous napped, Flappet and Red Caped Lark, Red-chested, Copper, Scarlet chested and Marico Sunbird, Lesser Masked, Hollub’s Golden, Golden Backed, Slender Billed and Black Backed Weaver
Day 9: Chimpanzee Tracking in the Kyambura Gorge
The Kyambura Gorge is an extraordinary natural environment and forms a stark contrast to the surrounding grasslands. Here you can track one of our closest relatives, the chimpanzee. The chimp population is quite mobile and viewing can be unpredictable but the walk itself is enchanting. In the afternoon take a walk through the Immaramagambo forest and later to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay
Day 10: Drive to Kampala
After your breakfast, drive back to Kampala / Entebbe Airport where the tour ends. Depending on your flight you can have a Kampala city tour and reach out to her famous places such as the Kasubi tombs, Buganda Kabaka’s(king’s) Palace, Kabaka’s lake, Iteso cultural dance near Kasubi, Namugongo martyrs shrine, Uganda Museum, Makerere University, the famous Bahai temple, Namirembe and Rubaga gothic cathedral, Gadafi & Kibuli mosques, craft shops such as Buganda road and National theatre. This tour will give you a true insight into Kampala and Uganda at large given the great history attached
After enjoying an early breakfast, you set off for gorilla tracking. Trekking through the steep, densely forested hills and then finally coming across the gorillas camouflaged in the vegetation is an inspiring and privileged moment. This activity requires physical fitness. Depending on the time you get back from the gorillas, you can have a walk through the local village, and learn about community projects, such as the Amagara project that assists local farmers and their communities, and Bwindi Community Hospital which started as a health clinic under a tree and now provides vital medical and educational services to over 50,000 people might be rewarding