Welcome to the Pearl of Africa! The airport in Entebbe will be your arrival destination. You will be welcomed by our professional tour guide and given a brief overview of the 11 days ahead. Our recommendation is to arrive the day before so that you can do some sightseeing in Kampala and Entebbe before transferring to Lake Mburo National Park. We are happy to assist with any planning. 

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At 7:30 am, our guide picks you up personally from your Kampala accommodation after breakfast to start your journey to Lake Mburo National Park. During your journey to the park, you will stop at the equator for a lovely picture. Take a stand with one foot in the southern hemisphere and the other in the northern hemisphere.

After our break, you will continue your journey to Lake Mburo National Park in Kiruhura District and have a lunch break at Igongo Hotel. There is a good chance of seeing animals such as zebras, giraffes, buffaloes, and birds when you arrive at Lake Mburo National Park.

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Start your day with breakfast, then head for a morning game drive where you can see Zebras, which are rare animals in other Ugandan parks. In addition, you will also see impala, buffaloes, elands, waterbucks, birds, and aquatic animals sunbathing on the lake shores if you are lucky.

Once you have checked-out from the lodge, you will drive approximately four hours via Kasese to Queen Elizabeth National Park. For lunch, you'll stop en route to Queen Elizabeth National Park in a nice restaurant. In its stunning setting on the rift valley floor, Queen Elizabeth National Park is Uganda's most popular and diverse conservation area.

The park is surrounded by lakes, escarpments, and the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountain. With more than 95 mammals, 612 bird species, and habitat for tree-climbing lions, the park has one of the highest biodiversity ratings of any national park in the world. As you drive through the park to your lodge, you will see wildlife including buffalos, lions, waterbuck, leopards, uganda kob, and warthogs.

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You will meet your guide early in the morning and head out on a game drive through the park to see the variety of wildlife that inhabits the Park. As you return to your lodge for lunch, you'll have the opportunity to see a lot of African wildlife, including elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopards, antelope, tropical birds, and more.

Following lunch, you'll take a boat ride along the Kazinga Channel to see hippos, crocodiles, elephants, buffalos, and birds. You will be watching some animals drinking water, taking baths, and playing joyfully in the east African sun.

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Welcome to Rwanda - the land of the thousand hills. Start your day with an early morning breakfast, check out of your lodge by 6:30 am, and our professional driver guide will drive you across borders via Kisoro to Rwanda, passing through beautiful topography along the way to Volcanoes National Park.

The park is located in northwestern Rwanda. It covers 160 km² of rainforest and encompasses five of the eight volcanoes in the Virunga Mountains, namely Karisimbi, Bisoke, Muhabura, Gahinga, and Sabyinyo.

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Begin your safari day with breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters with packed snacks for refreshment, solid hiking shoes, a camera, a raincoat, and binoculars. At the Volcanoes National Park, you will join a small group of adventurers for a pre-trekking briefing from Park Rangers. Additionally, they will cross-check your documents as they explain the rules for trekking with gorillas. After a briefing from the Park Rangers, begin trekking the mountain gorillas through the ancient Volcanoes National Park which typically takes a couple of hours depending on the location of the mountain gorillas. You will spend one full hour observing these magnificent animals in their natural habitat. This once-in-a-lifetime experience will put a smile on your face for the rest of the tour. On the way back keep an eye out for forest species such as buffaloes, elephants, black-fronted duikers and bushbucks.

A leisurely lunch will be served at your lodge later on. Optionally, in the afternoon, you will visit Gorilla Guardians former Iby’iwacu cultural village, which showcases the traditional lifestyle of Rwandese including dress code, food, wedding ceremonies among others.

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Your day begins with an early morning breakfast at your lodge, followed by a check-out by 6:30 am and a drive to Nyungwe National Park. Traveling via Ruhengeri - Gisenyi Road nonstop takes approximately 6 hours. Your journey to Nyungwe will take you through Nyanza district, where you will see the newly constructed King's Palace, a beautifully-crafted thatched dwelling shaped like a beehive. The King's Palace Museum provides details about Rwanda's monarchy and its abolition after colonialism in the early 1960s.

You will take a tour for approximately 1 hour and have lunch in a local restaurant and proceed to Nyungwe National Park. Part of the park lies near the Burundi border in southwest Rwanda. A vast area of mountain rainforest is home to many species of chimpanzees, as well as owl-faced and colobus monkeys.

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Start your 8th safari day with breakfast and transfer to the park headquarters with good hiking shoes, a camera, rain coat, and binoculars. At the entrance, you will join a small group of adventurers for a briefing. Following a briefing from your ranger guide, begin trekking the chimpanzees through the tropical rainforest, and along the way you might spot primates like the colobus monkeys, birds and butterflies. 

As you trek, you will see chimpanzees, who are the closest relatives of humans. Observe our ancestors chilling, playing or eating in the dense jungle. Their faces and their movements will leave you speechless. After observing chimpanzees, you will return to your lodge for lunch, refresh and drive to Uwinka visitor’s Center for the canopy tour. 

The Canopy Walkway, part of the Igi Shigi Shigi Trail, is a high suspension bridge with views over the valley and surrounding forests, also known as a treetop walk. A trail runs to the Kamiranzovu Marsh, with its birdlife, orchids and waterfall. You will walk on top of Nyungwe Forest and have a bird’s aerial view of the forest and spot the wide variety of species that thrive there, including primates and a broad variety of bird species.

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As usual, you will start your day with an early morning breakfast in your lodge. After that, you will check out your lodge by 6:30 am and we will drive you to Akagera National Park which lies on the border with Tanzania. This region is characterized by woodlands, swamps, low mountains, and savannahs. Zebras, giraffes, elephants, lions, and hundreds of bird species live in the varied terrain, including the rare shoebill stork.

Hippopotamus and crocodiles live in the vast Lake Ihema in the southern part of the park. On Your way to Akagera National Park, you will enroute stop for lunch and refreshments in a local restaurant. Dinner will be served in your accommodation.

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In the morning, head out for a game drive in Akagera National Park to catch up with late hunters and early risers. Elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, rhinoceros, lions, leopards, and rhinos are among the big mammals you'll find on the game drive.After lunch, you'll return to your lodge before embarking on another boat cruise into the wilderness for more adventure. 

We will take you on a boat trip on Lake Ihema where you will see hippos, crocodiles, and other animals drinking or bathing. In the evening we return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

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Depending on your flight time, you will start your day with an early morning breakfast and check out of your hotel. If there is time we will drive straight to Kigali Genocide Memorial Site where you will be taken through the history of this cruel episode. After this tragic chapter in the history of Rwanda, the country now ranks among the most peaceful countries in Africa. 

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