9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari

9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari will take you to Rwanda for a great hike and golden monkey trekking, then journey you to Uganda for a primate escapade that refreshes your adventurous soul.

9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari

Highlights of the 9 Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari

  • Day 1: Iby’wachu Cultural Village
  • Day 2: Mount Karisimbi Ascend
  • Day 3: Mount Karisimbi Summit and Descend
  • Day 4: Golden monkey trekking
  • Day 5: Twin lakes and transfer to Bwindi National Park
  • Day 6: Mountain Gorilla trekking
  • Day 7: Transfer to Kibale National Park
  • Day 8: Chimpanzee trekking
  • Day 9: Amabere Caves and transfer to Kampala

Detailed Safari Itinerary

Day 1: Iby’wachu Cultural Village

  • Transfer to Volcanoes: Day one of the 9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari, will start in Kigali where the tour guide will pick you up at a location of your choice at 10 am and then you will head north of Kigali city to Volcanoes National Park, where you will arrive just in time for lunch.
  • Iby’wachu Cultural Village Experience: You will have lunch, check into your accommodation and have some time to relax before you head out for a Rwandan Culture experience at the Iby’wachu Cultural Village. The cultural experience takes about 2 to 3 hours and after you will head back to your accommodation for dinner and night rest.

Day 2: Mount Karisimbi – Ascend

  • Hike up Mount Karisimbi: Day two of the 9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari, You will be up early, have breakfast and the head to Kinigi for registration and a brief about the hiking, you will also have an opportunity to hire a porter at this point to help you will you hiking and camping gear. You will be assigned a hiking ranger and at 10 am you will start your hike up the Volcano through the ridges, bamboo forests, calderas, and steep trails. You will have a pit stop for the day, a few metres from the summit where you will pitch camp, have dinner and rest for the night.

Day 3: Mount Karisimbi Summit and Descend

  • Descend: Day three of the 9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari, you will be up early, have a morning snack and hike up to the Karisimbi summit where you will have scenic views of the Virunga region, and the entire East African region.  You will spend about 30 mins or an hour at the summit, because of the low temperatures at the top, it’s not advisable to spend more than an hour up there, and you can easily suffocate for lack of oxygen. After your time at the summit you will descend the mount, reaching Kingi in the late afternoon for a late lunch and then head back to your accommodation for an afternoon at rest. Later have dinner and night rest at your accommodation.

Day 4: Golden monkey trekking 

  • Golden monkey trekking: Day four of the 9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari, You will be up early, have breakfast and then head to the park headquarters for a golden monkey trekking briefing.  After the briefing, you will head into the forest with the ranger for your trekking experience, where you will meet these rare golden monkeys and an hour with them. After the one hour with the monkeys, you will then head out of the forest and head back to your accommodation for lunch and the rest of the day at leisure. This golden monkey trekking experience takes about 4 to 5 hours. You will have dinner and a night rest at your accommodation.

Day 5: Twin lakes and transfer to Bwindi National Park

  • Transfer to Musanze: Day five of the 9 days Safari, will start with breakfast at your accommodation, check and then head to Musanze where the twin lake tour starts. At Musanze you will have a short brief about the lakes and then go on for the tour; you can either cycle or walk through the trails. The twin lakes are Lake Burera and Lake Ruhondo and a tour of both will take the whole morning ending at lunchtime.
  • Transfer to Bwindi: So after the tour, you will have lunch and after lunch, you will embark on your journey to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. You will arrive in Bwindi in the evening, check into your accommodation; have dinner and night rest.

Day 6: Mountain Gorilla trekking

  • Mountain Gorilla trekking: Day six of the Safari, you will be up early, have breakfast and then head to the park headquarters for a gorilla trekking briefing at 7:30 am. After the briefing you will then head into the forest to search for the gorillas, when you find the gorillas, you will spend an hour with them and then head out of the forest. This entire gorilla trekking experience will take up to 6 or 7 hours and after you will head back to your accommodation for a late lunch and the rest of the day at leisure, you will have dinner and a night rest at your accommodation.

Day 7: Transfer to Kibale National Park 

  • Transfer to Kibale: Day seven of the 9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari is a travel day; you will spend about 6 to 7 hours travelling to northwestern Uganda to Kibale National Park. You will be up early, have breakfast and after breakfast, start your journey to Kibale National Park where you will arrive in the late afternoon, check into your accommodation and rest from the long travel. You will have lunch en route. Later you will have dinner and a night rest at your accommodation.

Day 8: Chimpanzee trekking  

  • Chimpanzee trekking Experience: Day eight of the 9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari, you will be up early, have breakfast and then head to park headquarters for a chimpanzee trekking brief before you head into the forest to search for the endangered chimpanzees. When you find the chimpanzees you will spend one hour with them and then head out of the forest. The entire chimpanzee trekking experience will take about 5 to 6 hours and after the trek, you will head back to your accommodation for lunch and an afternoon at leisure.
9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari
9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari
  • Bigodi Swamp Walk: You can have a nature walk in the Bigodi swamps to see the numerous birds the live in the forest. You will have dinner and a night rest at your accommodation.

Day 9: Amabere Caves and transfer to Kampala  

  • Amabere Caves: On the final day of the safari, you will be up early, have breakfast, and check out of your accommodation and head to fort portal for a tour of the Amabere Caves. After the tour, you will have lunch in Fort portal town and then head to Kampala. You will be in Kampala in the evening, and the guide will drop you at a location of your choice in Kampala or Entebbe.

End of the 9 Days Best of Rwanda & Uganda Primates Safari

Package includes

  • All the activities mentioned above
  • Accommodation and meals in Murchison falls
  • English Speaking Tour Guide
  • Drinking-Water
  • 4WD Safari Vehicle with Fuel and driver (tour guide)
  • Gorilla and Chimpanzee trekking Permits

Package excludes 

  • Visas
  • Tips and Gratuities
  • Alcoholic Drinks
  • Laundry Services
  • Telephone calls and any other items of personal nature
  • Air Flights
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