10 Days Fly Rwanda Uganda Adventure
This 10 Days Fly Rwanda Uganda Adventure fly to Kigali Rwanda and do gorilla trekking and Wildlife adventure in Uganda reflects on the longer journey of driving from Kampala to Bwindi Impenetrable southwestern Uganda. So, for travelers who don’t wish to take this long blank drive, can suggest this option. A drive from Kigali Rwanda to Bwindi is about 4 hours and a drive from Entebbe to Bwindi is a full day about 9hours of driving. Wish the suggestion sounds betters, all adventures are done in Uganda but your inflight comes to Kigali Rwanda and the outbound flight at Entebbe International Airport.
Trip summary
- Day 1: Arrive in Kigali
- Day 2: Kigali city tour and Transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
- Day 3: Volcano hiking
- Day 4: Trek gorillas
- Day 5: Lake Bunyonyi
- Day 6: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
- Day 7: Game drive and Boat cruise
- Day 8: Chimpanzee tracking at Kyambura
- Day 9: Transfer to Kampala
- Day 10: Kampala city tour and flight back home
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Arrive in Kigali
This day you will arrival at Kigali International Airport, depending on your time of arrival, when time allows will take a city tour to Kigali Genocide memorial museum. Will also visit some of the shopping to make your desired shopping for the trip. Then, will have to check-in at your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Luxury: Afrika Boutique Hotel
Day 2: Kigali city tour and Transfer to Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Will consider taking a simple Kigali city tour, among the key places to visit include Kisozi genocide memorial museum. Then will drive to Kimironko market, and with lunch en-route will drive northwards of Kigali capital and cross borders to Uganda. Then your final destination will be Mgahinga Gorilla National Park for your dinner and overnight.
Midrange: Mount Gahinga Safari Lodge
Day 3: Volcano hiking
Your adventure is initially getting challenged with a volcanic hiking. Energize with breakfast and packed with your lunch, enough drinking water and hiking boots, will take a hike to Mt Sabinyo (3,669m) Volcanos. The hike to the summit of the volcano takes about 8hours and have to be prepared. With a lead of the guide will embark to trek through various formed hiking trials. This will lead through valleys, slopes, and hills of bamboos and tropics alongside various wildlife views including monkeys, and several birds. After will drive to Nkuringo section of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. You’re exhausted and just need to have your dinner and rest for another long day at your lodge
Luxury: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
Day 4: Trek gorillas
A plus of the morning breakfast, drive to the starting point for the briefing and grouping. All that start at 7:30am get assigned to an armed and roll into impenetrable rolling landscape hiking through the inflatable thick terrain of the forest. Remember to wear long pants, jungle boots, carry at least 1 litter of drinking water and rain proof gears. Nkuringo sector is known to the most challenging trekking section due to thick forests and will tilted landscape. The trek can last 30 minutes to 6 hours, walking and searching for the endangered giants. Gorilla are followed considering where they had their previous night, and meeting them, trekkers have an hour before them. Watching gorillas is one of the few mesmerizing moments in the wild, looking face to face with the silverback you realized these are really human closest relatives. After seeing the gorillas you will return to the starting point, enjoy your relaxed lunch and take a rest at your lodge.
Luxury: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge
Day 5: Lake Bunyonyi
Today, take an early morning drive to this gorgeous historical Lake Bunyonyi. This lake is the 2nd deepest lake in Africa, and jeweled with a simple and unique landscape view. Reaching at the lake you will take a boat ride to one of the islands. Then will check-in at your lodge and relax under the melodies of many small birds like the name suggests. Dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Midrange: Bunyonyi Overland Resort
Day 6: Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
This morning following your scenic breakfast at the balcony of your lodge, will board for long journey drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. You will reach the park in afternoon hours at Ishasha sector. With lunch en-route will take a moment, but consider a lunch en-route along the drive. Then will check-in at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Luxury: Ishasha Wilderness Camp
Day 7: Game drive and Boat cruise
This morning you will set for a drive after breakfast to Kasenyi for the morning game drive. Kasenyi is the bleeding zone for several wildlife in Queen Elizabeth National Park, enjoy hundreds of Uganda Kobs at the entrance of Kasenyi at the mating grounds. It’s an opening of watching lions, elephants, buffalos, warthogs, bushbucks, duikers among so many others species.
Refresh with your lunch and take an afternoon boat cruise at from Mweya peninsular on Kazinga channel. This is one of the rewarding wild boat cruise that exposes you to variety of both water and land species. Along your cruise will watch crocodiles lousily laying on the shores, hippos back almost hitting your boat, monitor lizards, and other many land mammals coming to draw water at the river banks, and many of the bird species. Dinner and overnight
Luxury: Parkview Safari Lodge
Day 8: Chimpanzee tracking at Kyambura
Today you will drive to the deep of the Kyambura gorge in the racks of Rift Valley to search for chimpanzees in the tropics. Kyambura is the 2nd place in Uganda that has statured to offer opportunities of watching chimpanzees in their natural state. The chimpanzees here are well habituated, and trackers have an opportunity for the close-up encounter. Chimpanzees tracking can last for about 3o minutes to 3 hours and finding them you have a limit of an hour in their presence. Then will return to your lodge and relax, take a walk around and make the overnight.
Luxury: Parkview Safari Lodge
Day 9: Transfer to Kampala
Take a relaxed morning breakfast, then embark on a drive through Mbarara city. Will have an en-route for lunch according to time and another stopover at the Equator to take photographs and then continue to your lodge/hotel in Kampala.
Midrange: Mestil Hotel
Day 10: Kampala city tour and flight back home
Enjoy a morning drive around Kampala and visit some few sites like Kasubi tombs a world UNESCO Heritage site, visit Uganda’s biggest mosque and Mengo Palace. Then you will drive to Entebbe International Airport for your next flight back home.
On behalf of Early Trial Expedition Uganda, our driver guide will say goodbye to you. Then, take your flight back to your home. We believed after this 10 Days Fly Rwanda Uganda Adventure you become our next ambassador for Early Trail Expeditions Uganda in your country and area. Thank you!
Trip inclusive;
- 4×4 safari vehicle
- All trip fuel with unlimited mileage
- All meals and soft drinks
- All Park entrances
- Gorilla permits
- Chimpanzee permits
- Hiking
- Boat ride
- Accommodation
- City guided tour
- Driver guide
Exclusive;
- Visa and air ticket
- Laundry
- All hard drinks
- Souvenirs
- Tips
- Any other service or activity not mentioned in this itinerary
