This 5 Days Uganda Rwanda double gorilla trekking safari includes double mountain gorilla tracking in Bwindi forest national park and volcanoes national park as well golden monkey tracking. The tour will start from Uganda and end in Rwanda.
Day 1: Transfer to Bwindi forest national park
Early in the morning after breakfast you will depart Kampala to Bwindi forest national park in south western Uganda, through Mbarara- kabale high way. The journey is long about 8- 9 hours with enroute stop overs for lunch and important sightings. Bwindi forest national park is a huge protected tropical rain forest that in habits over 400 mountain gorillas with 17 habituated gorilla families. The park is also a birders haven with over340 bird species including 20 endemic species of the Albertine rift valley. You will reach in the evening for dinner and overnight at Gorilla safari lodge(budget)Rushaga gorilla camp(midrange) Clouds Mountain Gorilla lodge (luxury)
Day 2: Gorilla tracking experience
Have early morning break fast and your safari guide will drive you to the park center for briefing about gorilla tracking experience, do’s and don’ts. you will then be allocated a gorilla family to track in groups of 8 individuals. Endeavor to carry packed lunch, enough drinking water, and have the right gear. The ranger and lead guide will then lead you to the thick forest in search of the gorillas. The exercise usually takes 2-6 hours depending on the movement of the gorilla till you find a settled family. Take time to observe, take photographs, videos, ask question to the guides. Mountain gorillas behave like human beings a part from living in the wild, you will be able to see mothers cuddle and nurse their young ones, infants playing, feeding and a giant silver back lead the family in their movement. Return form tracking and visit lake Bunyonyi, aplace of so many little birds and 29 islands include prominent ones like punishment island among others. Dinner and overnight stay at Bird nest safari lodge(deluxe)
Day 3: Transfer to volcanoes national park
Have a relaxed morning breakfast, tour around the lake on motorized canoe boats and embark on the road to volcanoes national park in Rwanda crossing through kabale katuna border. You will have enroute stop over for lunch and visiting important places like the genocide memorial sites. Reach early evening and check in the lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Mountain Gorilla View Lodge/Muhabura Hotel. (deluxe)
Day 4: Mountain gorilla tracking in volcanoes national park
Morning breakfast and your safari guide will drive you to Kinigi park headquarters for yet another gorilla experience in volcanoes national park. Briefing starts at 7:00 am and you will drive to the starting point at 8:00 trekking begins with the lead guide and ranger in groups of 8 people per gorilla family. Ascend into the park forest in search of the mountain gorillas until you find them, once you find them, utilize the 1-hour time allowed to take as many pictures as you can, later descend back to the starting point and return to the lodge for hot lunch. In the evening you will visit the local traditional iby’iwachu cultural village for cultural entertainment through plays, dance and storytelling. Dinner and overnight on day 3
Day 5: Golden monkey tracking and transfer back to Kigali
You will have early break fast before going for briefing at the park center, ascend the forest where you be able to find a troop of golden monkeys playing up in trees in search of food, along the way you will be able to spot some bird species too. On return you will transfer back to Kigali and drop off at the hotel of airport for departure.
End of Safari
