14 Day Uganda, Rwanda Congo Primate and Wildlife Photo Safari

14 Day Uganda, Rwanda and Congo Primate and Wildlife Photo Safari itinerary:

Day 1: Arrival in Entebbe

Upon arrival at Entebbe International Airport meet with the company representative and transfer you to your hotel in Entebbe.

Overnight stay at Boma Guest House Entebbe/Karibu Guest House Entebbe.
Meal plan: B/B

Day 2: Entebbe – Murchison Falls National Park

Have breakfast and then transfer to north-western Uganda via Gulu highway with an amazing stop over at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for Foot Rhino Tracking and lunch. After transfer Murchison Falls park with en-route visit to the top of the falls and game drive to spot some wildlife and bird species. Thereafter drive to your accommodation.

Dinner and overnight Sambiya River Lodge /Pakuba Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 3: Game Drive & Boat Ride

Dawn game drive looking for the early riser and nocturnal wildlife species and other which includes the lions, elephants, leopards, buffaloes, giraffes, warthogs, antelopes among others. The experience takes 3-4 hours and after return to lodge for lunch, after transfer to the shores of River Nile waiting for boat cruise towards the bottom of the falls and on this boat expect to take amazing photos for the wildlife, bird life and cliffs alongside the shores of the River. The boat cruise experience takes 3 hours and much can be experienced and there is a lot of fun.

Dinner and overnight Sambiya River Lodge /Pakuba Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 4: Murchison Falls National Park – Kibale Forest National Park

Have your early breakfast, transfer to Kibale Forest National Park with lunch en-route, driving passed the tea plantations, and on a clear day you can view the unforgettable view of the fabled mountain of the moon, continue with your drive to the Kibale forest.

Dinner and overnight Turaco Treetops lodge / Chimpundu Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 5: Chimpanzee Trekking – Transfer Queen Elizabeth National Park

Have breakfast and after transfer to the park headquarters for briefing about the chimpanzees and the rain forest. Enter into the jungle searching for the chimpanzees and you stay with them half day understanding their life style, eat, live, and on this experience you will spot more other primates, birds and plants. Return to the lodge for lunch and after transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park.

Dinner and overnight Elephant Hab Lodge / Buffalo Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 6: Queen Elizabeth National Park (Volunteer with Uganda Carnivore Program & Boat Cruise)

Breakfast and go volunteer with the Uganda Carnivore Program experiencing with the Lions examination experiential work and en-route while game viewing at the same time you will see animals like elephants, buffaloes, water and bush bucks, warthogs among others.

After lunch take launch cruise along the Kazinga channel that connects Lake George to Lake Edward and spotting more wildlife along the shores of the channel. Evening photographic game drives looking for wildlife species.

Dinner and overnight Elephant Hab Lodge / Buffalo Safari Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 7: Mweya Peninsula – Ishasha Southern Sector – Bwindi Forest National Park

After breakfast go for the early morning game drive looking for more game wildlife species like elephants, buffaloes, topi, oribi, warthogs, water and bush bucks among others. Afternoon search for the African tree climbing lions in the branches of the fig trees. Lunch, after transfer to the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park where you will experience gorilla trekking the next day.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Mulehe Gorilla Lodge / Mutanda Lake Resort
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 8: Gorilla Trekking Experience – Volcanoes National Park

Early morning breakfast and after head to the park headquarters for the briefing about the gorilla trek experience and the park. After visit one of the families habituated for this experience and this activity takes like 1 hours with gorillas taking the photos, videos and understanding the life style of mountain gorillas in the mist. Return to the park headquarters for your gorilla trekking certificate.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Mulehe Gorilla Lodge / Mutanda Lake Resort
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 9: Drive to Rwanda - Ruhengeri

After breakfast you will drive to Rwanda and transfer to Ruhengeri - Volcanoes National Park via the Cyanika border.

Dinner and overnight at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge / Amarembo Gorilla Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 10: Golden Monkey Tracking – Or Optional Rwanda Gorilla Trek – Transfer Gisenyi

Breakfast, after go for golden monkey tracking safaris in the Volcanoes National Park and you can have this experience after briefing at the park headquarters and then allocated to your gorilla family. Once you meet the primates take the unforgettable gorilla photos and videos. Return to the lodge for lunch and after transfer to Gisenyi.

Dinner and overnight stay at Lake Kivu Serena Hotel/Gorilla Hotels Gisenyi/Paradise Malahide Guest Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 11: Goma – Mikeno Lodge, Virunga National Park

Have breakfast and after transfer to Goma border clearing with the Rwanda side and cross to the DRC Congo and clear again and then head to Virunga offices and after transfer you to Rumangabo staying at Mikeno Lodge and then in the evening visit the Senkwekwe Gorilla Orphanage Centre and experience the gorilla conservation programs.

Overnight stay at Mikeno Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 12: Congo Gorilla Trekking

Breakfast and after go for the briefing and about the mountain gorillas and after enter into the jungle and look for the primates and once you meet them take photos and videos and then return to the lodge and relax and then dinner and overnight.

Overnight stay at Mikeno Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner

Day 13: Rumangabo – Mount Nyiragongo Hike

Breakfast and after transfer to the Kibati patrol starting point where you will start your hiking experience. This exercise starts at 10 am and the trek takes 8 – 9 hours depending on the hiking speed of participants and you will have overnight stay at the summit in the Nyiragongo Volcano Shelters. Meal plan: F/B

Day 14: Descend Nyiragongo – Kigali

Breakfast and after descend down and then transfer to Goma – Lake Kivu and then transfer back to Kigali. Lunch, after transfer to the Kigali airport for your return flight back home.

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