15 Days Burundi, Rwanda Uganda combine wildlife and culture safari will take you to explore and reward with true african wildlife and culture experience with one flight on one trip in 3 countries. You will be totally immersed in African soil going crazy exploring most of the beautiful attractions within each country as you get to explore the country side to learn about the people and their surroundings.
DETAILED ITINERARY – 15 Days Burundi, Rwanda Uganda combine wildlife and culture safari
DAY 1: ARRIVAL IN IN BUJUMBURA AND CITY TOUR
On arrival, enjoy a city tour, Belvedere Climb offering a nice view of Bujumbura city, Independence hero monument, Musee Vivant, the Snake & Culture Museum, Explorers Memorial, a huge rock in the Suburbs of Bujumbura, commemorating the meeting between explorers Stanley and Livingstone Sion Market/ Village market to get an idea of how our markets look like (optional). • Transfer to the Hotel Overnight Kiriri garden Hotel
DAY 2: TRANSFER TO KIGALI CITY AND CITY TOUR
You will have very great delicious breakfast and check out of the hotel in bujumbura to transfer to Kigali Rwanda the commercial of town of Rwanda the region of thousand hills and known as Switzerland of Africa
The journey will take about 4-5 hours drive and you will reach Kigali city by lunch time and have relaxational lunch before participating in the city tour of the cleanest city in Africa Kigali city the capital city of Rwanda and were many political offices of Rwandan government are located, you will have visit Rwandan genocide memorial center for emotional experience to witness the graveyard of thousands of Rwandans genocide victims including young children, later driver through cleanest peace and calm city overnight at hotel Rwanda (hotel des mille collines)
DAY 3: GOLDEN MONKEY IN VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK AND CROSS TO UGANDA
You will have early morning breakfast and start you journey to volcanoes national park for Golden money tracking, along the way you will enjoy the scenic views and interesting sceneries of hills and tea plantations. After Golden monkey experience you will drive to toward Uganda boarder and cross to Uganda home to half of the remaining mountain gorilla population and stay either in Kisoro, Rushanga Gorilla Camp
Dinner and overnight and luxury booked hotel
DAY 4: GORILLA TREKKING IN UGANDA IN UGANDA
The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park is a World Heritage Site and the opportunity to see endangered mountain gorillas is the highpoint of your exciting safari. Today after a very early breakfast, you report to the trekking assembly point for pretrekking briefing. You visit a different group of your assigned habituated gorillas. The trek can take between one and six hours, at altitudes in excess in 7,500 feet and over rough terrain. Although the hike may be physically demanding, the anticipation of the experience is invigorating and the beauty of the forest and its inhabitants fascinating. When you encounter gorillas, your fatigue is quickly forgotten. Observing a wild gorilla family in its natural habitat and on its terms is considered by many naturalists to be the most profound wildlife experience in the world. Each strictly regulated 60-minute visit passes all too quickly and you must depart, leaving the gorillas to their fragile existence. After a visit with the gorillas and a picnic lunch in the forest each day, you return to the lodge with unforgettable memories of a rare and wondrous experience
Rushanga Gorilla camp
DAY 5: TRANSFER TO QUEEN ELIZABETH NATIONAL PARK
You will have early morning breakfast and check out of the lodge to transfer to queen Elizabeth national park, you will start with game drive through ishasha sector looking for tree climbing lions and other wildlife and later procced to mweya safari lodge for dinner and overnight
DAY6: MORNING GAME DRIVE AND AFTERNOON BOATCRUISE ON KAZINGA CHANNEL
Wake very early and have an early morning breakfast. At around 6:30am, go for a game drive on the northerly parts of the park along the Kasenyi track. This is the best time for opportunities of viewing the cats in action. Explore all the tracks in the park for different game like Elephants, Uganda Kobs, Buffaloes, Jackson heartbeest, Oribis, and many others. After lunch at 2.30, take a boat cruise on the Kazinga for solitary Buffalo, Hippo and other animals at the edge of the channel as they cool off. So many bird species including the migrant ones like the terns and gulls congregate here in large flocks. Dinner and overnight at mweya safari lodge
DAY 7: TRANSFER TO KIBALE NATIONAL PARK
You will have early breakfast and check out of the lodge with en-route game drive as you Kibale Forest is scientifically one of central Africa’s best-known regions. Of the forest’s 11 primate species, most are well studied, and many are accustomed to human observation, you will reach by lunch time in fort portal town have lunch and proceed with cater drive reaching booked hotel in kibale by dinner and overnight at chimpundu lodge
DAY 8: CHIMPANZEE TREKKING AND BIGODI SWAMP WALK
On this day we will assemble at the park headquarters for a chimpanzee tracking morning session, a Uganda wildlife ranger briefs travelers the do’s and don’ts while in the national park, rules/regulations on primates will be communicated as well, chimpanzee are man’s closest relatives, they have been scientifically proven to share up to 98 % of the human DNA, living in tis forest. Kibale forest has got the highest concentration of chimpanzee in Uganda in that there are higher chances of seeing them here compared to any other place, it takes 2-3 hours tracking the primates. We will then return to meet your guide for lunch and an afternoon Bigodi swamp walk, expect to see more of primates like the black and white colobus monkeys, red tailed monkeys, vervet monkeys and many birds of the forest.
Dinner and overnight at chimpundu lodge
DAY 9: TRANSFER TO MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK
Murchison falls national park is up-close from kibale, following an early morning breakfast, we will be transferred back to Uganda’s largest conservation area, it is home to the so called big four of the wilderness, it is famous for the great Murchison falls, the park is one of the oldest conservation areas of Uganda bisected into 2 by the Victoria Nile, it has 2 precious banks the northern and southern bank, the northern bank of Pakuba qualifies with higher numbers of animals compared to the south. The journey takes approximately +/- 4 hours’ drive to arrive at the destination, dinner and staying overnight at the hotel that has been booked paraa safari lodge or nile safari lodge
DAY 10: MORNING GAME DRIVE AND AFTERNOON BOAT CRUISE
Breakfast, on this day after breakfast, we will drive to the northern bank in search of animal species, the biodiverse ecosystem is comprised of a different habitats which act as home to wildlife species that call this home, through the well distributed trails expect to see lions, side stripped hyenas, waterbucks, bush bucks, warthogs, Jackson hartebeests , and man bird species to encounter, returning for lunch and an afternoon boat cruise along to the bottom of the falls, this is one of the highlights of the park it is superb to view along the banks of the river , expect to see water animals like the Nile crocodiles and hippos
Dinner and overnight at previous lodge
DAY 11: TRANSFER TO KIDEPO VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
Murchison falls national park is up-close to Kidepo, following an early morning breakfast, we will be transferred back to Uganda’s third largest national park located in the remort corner of Uganda, you will reach kidepo valley national park by lunch time check into the booked lodge for lunch and evening relaxation at lodge optional evening game drive, expect to see wildlife like waterbucks, Jackson hartebeests, oribi, buffaloes, the drive will end in sundowner along the rock kopjes dotted in so many spots of the national park returning for dinner and staying overnight
Dinner and overnight at Apoka safari lodge
DAY12: FULL DAYS KIDEPO VALLEY NATIONAL PARK
Wake up to a mouth dropping breakfast, you will then be guided to the park in search of wildlife, look out on the rock kopjes for lions, rock hyrax, through the endless savannah grassy lands there is more life on animal activity like zebras, elands, Rothschild’s giraffes, leopards, ostriches, bushbucks, warthogs, elephants. The dotted borassus palms along the dry river beds gives the park a composure of one of the best places to be, returning to the lodge for lunch and an after visit to the Karamojong community, they are a group of nomadic pastoralists living along the slopes of mountain morungule, they will perform their traditional dance, jump, and entertain, travelers are free to join in on participation, returning to the lodge on game drive and sundowner.
DAY 13: TRANSFER TO KAMPALA EN-ROUTE VISIT ZIWA
You will check ou of the lodge and transfer to Kampala with en-route visit to ziwa rhino sanctuary for rhino tracking, this will make it for complete African wildlife big five safari with primate, you will reach ziwa by lunch time and later procced for rhino tracking led by the ranger guides. After ziwa you will proceed to Kampala and overnight at booked lodge
Accommodation at hotel NO 5
Dinner and overnight at hotel no 5 Entebbe
DAY 14: FULL DAY MABAMBA TOUR
You will be picked from your accommodation using safari vehicle car by your tour guide. You will be driven to Mabamba swamp where you will meet local tour guide and you will be driven in a paddled canoe to the wetland, your local guide will assist to spot and move in the marshy swamp. Some of the bird species that you can spot are the four endangered bird species are blue swallow, papyrus Gonolek, White- winged warbler and Pallid Harrier. Other birds to spot includes Northern brown-throated weaver, Carruthers-Cisticola, Papyrus Canary, Goliath herons, Papyrus geese, White winged black terns which are migratory, Whiskered terns, Grey headed gulls and many more after the experience you have lunch then embark on Bird watching with in the surrounding before heading back to your destination /accommodation or hotel
DINNER AND OVERNIGHT AT HOTEL NO 5 ENTEBBE
DAY 15: KAMPALA CITY AND TRANSFER TO ENTEBBE AIRPORT FOR THE DEPARTURE FLIGHT
On this final day with us you will be picked from accommodation after your relaxed breakfast and transfer to Kampala for the city tour, you will visit different historical sites in Kampala like the Gadaffi mosque the tallest mosque in east Africa, visit bahia temple and the fisrt temple in east Africa, Uganda museums, later you will return to the lodge for lunch and relax until departure flight to be transferred to the airport
