Journey time: 1 Hour

Upon arrival at Entebbe Int. Airport, you will be received by our safari guide. Have a meet and greet with a transfer to the hotel in Kampala – Check-in and stay at leisure. Best for early arrival and optional: Kampala City Tour or Mabamba Shoebill Tour.  

Overnight: Midrange: Gazelle Guest House – or similar

Luxury: Lake Victoria Serena Golf Resort – or similar

Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast

Journey time: Approx. 6 Hours

Pickup Time: 06:30AM. After an early breakfast, start off your journey to Kibale National Park. Arrive for a traditional lunch at Tinka’s Homestead. After lunch go for Bigodi Community Tour (cultural visits only). Planned Activities include: Bigodi Coffee experience, Taste banana beer and local vodka, admire local arts and crafts, Cultural songs and dances, Learn about herbs and their various uses. Head to the lodge after the cultural visit and stay at leisure.

Overnight: Midrange: Turaco Treetops – or similar

Luxury: Chimpundu Lodge – or similar

Meal Plan: Half Board (Dinner and Breakfast)

Pickup Time: 06:30AM. After an early breakfast at the lodge, be handed a lunchbox and mineral water to put in your backpack; for a later picnic during the habituation adventure. Kibale Chimpanzee Habituation Experience – Be at the park’s visitor centre by 07:0AM for briefing – You will then join a team of researchers, armed rangers and trackers, ready to take you on adventure. Habituation is the process of taming the chimpanzees – to get them used to human presence for future tracking. The process of habituating the chimps takes a much longer time up to 3 years before they are ready for tracking just like mountain gorillas. Uganda has about 4,950 chimpanzees and of these, 1500 chimps are within Kibale National Park. During your habituation adventure, you will be offered more time with the noisy primates (between 5 – 6 hours) for a detailed insight into the life of the chimps – an experience far different from the conventional chimp trek. What to pack: a lunchbox with water bottles, hiking shoes, a face mask, gaitors, hat/cap, an insect repellent light rain jacket, long-sleeved shirt, trousers, binoculars.

Return to the lodge late afternoon and stay at leisure. Dinner included.

Overnight: Midrange: Turaco Treetops – or similar

Luxury: Chimpundu Lodge – or similar Meal Plan: Full Board (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)

Journey time: Approx. 06 Hours

Pickup Time: 08:00AM. Breakfast at the lodge and check-out.  As scheduled, depart Kibale for Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Lunch at a restaurant En-route). Arrival at Bwindi is foreseen late afternoon, to the lodge and check-in to stay at leisure.

Overnight: Midrange: Four Gorillas Lodge – or similar

Luxury: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge – or similar Meal Plan: Full Board

Pickup Time: 06:30AM. After an early breakfast, you will be handed a lunchbox to put in your backpack. Thereafter, transfer to the park by 08:00AM for briefing.

Bwindi Gorilla Habituation Experience – Similar to Chimp habituation, the mountain gorillas are also tamed using the same process to be accustomed to human presence. A maximum of 4 visitors are offered permits each day, which requires a prior booking (6 months to the habituation date). You will be accompanied by trackers, researchers, and armed rangers: A complete primate habituation process takes a period of 2 to 3 years. Unlike gorilla tracking (which lasts up to an hour), a day’s Gorilla Habituation experience takes up to 04 hours with the gorillas. During the habituation process you will get to understand the gorillas deeper and individually explore their unique traits. Following the same process; the current habituated gorilla families include Habinyanja, Rushegura and Mubare at Buhoma Sector, with Mishaya, Bweza, Nshonji, Kahungye and Busingye at Rushaga Sector and the Nkuringo Sector gorilla group alongside Ruhija Sector groups; Oruzogo, Kyaguriro and Bitukura.

After gorilla habituation return to the lodge and refresh for dinner at leisure.  

Overnight: Midrange: Four Gorillas Lodge – or similar

Luxury: Nkuringo Bwindi Gorilla Lodge – or similar Meal Plan: Full Board

Journey time: 1 – 2 Hour to MGNP | Approx. 3 Hours to KGL

Pickup Time: 06:30AM. Have an early breakfast at the lodge with a lunchbox handed to you for a picnic. After breakfast, leave Bwindi for Mgahinga Gorilla National Park: Arrive in the right time for briefing. Planned Activity: Mgahinga Golden Monkey Trek – After briefing, your morning golden monkey trek may start at 08:00AM, trekking through the rain forest to reach the golden monkeys; on a moderate hike since the golden monkeys stay in the relatively lower bamboo areas of the forest. Spend approx. 1–2 hours with the golden primates and take pictures as you loosely observe their behaviour. You must wear hiking boots, long sleeves, trousers, carry a backpack, an insect repellent, drinking water, a face mask, and a walking stick, or feel free to hire a porter for your backpack.

Return from the golden monkey trek and travel across the border into Rwanda – After immigration procedures; continue to Kigali city. Arrive towards the evening and check-in at your hotel to refresh and relax. 

Overnight: Midrange: Mille Collines Hotel – or similar

Luxury: Kigali Serena Hotel – or similar Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast

Journey time: Approx. 40 Minutes

Pickup Time: 08:30AM. Breakfast is served at the hotel and check-out, followed by a city tour (subject to change based on flight timing) with a later airport drop-off.    

Time permitting: Take a brief tour of Kigali City – This city excursion is the best way to explore Rwanda’s hilly capital and largest city. Kigali has an all-year-round moderate climate allowing you to visit any time of the year, and ranks among Africa’s cleanest and safest cities. On your city tour visit Kigali’s historical and cultural sites: places such as Kandt House – a former residence of Dr Richard Kandt. Head to Mount Kigali for splendid views of the city, to the Natural History Museum. Tour the Presidential Palace Museum; once a residence for two former Presidents of Rwanda. Included is a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Site: Following the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, this site and others were converted into burial grounds for the genocide victims.

After exploring Kigali, proceed to the airport to check-in for your onward flight.  

Meal Plan: Breakfast only