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Focusing on; Murchison Falls, Kibale and Queen Elizabeth National Parks, Gorilla Trekking in Kinigi - Rwanda.
Day One: Arrival at Entebbe Airport
Day Two: Transfer to Murchison Falls National Park
Day Three: Murchison Falls Game drive
Day Four: Murchsion Falls
Day Five: Murchison Falls - Transfer to Kibale Forest
Day Six: Chimpanzee Trekking
Day Seven: Kibale National Park - Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National Park
Day Eight: Game Drive (Queen Elizabeth National Park)
Day Nine: Queen Elizabeth National Park – Rwanda
Day Ten: Gorilla Trekking in Rwanda
Day Eleven: Sight Seeing and Golden Monkey
Day Twelve: Drive around Kigali
Day Thirteen: Departure
End of Safari
Focusing on; Murchison Falls, Kibale and Queen Elizabeth National Parks, Gorilla Trekking in Kinigi - Rwanda.
Itineraries
Day One
Arrival Entebbe
Arrival at Entebbe International Airport, for meet and greet by the company representative who then transfers you to The Windsor Lake Victoria hotel in Entebbe for check inn. Time allowing, visit the famous botanical gardens. The Windsor Lake Victoria Hotel is a four star colonial Hotel with 99 rooms, beautiful gardens and a swimming pool. Overnight The Windsor Lake Victoria Hotel
Day Two
Entebbe – Murchison Falls National Park
Drive to Murchison Falls National Park via Masindi and Biso. The drive is a bout 7 hours with a lunch stop over en route. From Biso drop down the escarpment of the Great African Rift Valley with spectacular view of Lake Albert. Drive along the valley floor to the southern banks of the Victoria Nile River. Located on the banks of the Victoria Nile is Nile Safari Camp. The Camp has tented rooms with each room overlooking the River. Each room has a deck at the front on which to relax plus en suite shower and toilet at the rear. The bar and Restaurant also overlook the river with beautiful view of the Sun setting over the river. A swimming pool too is available. Overnight Nile Safari Camp.
Day Three
Game Drive (Murchison Falls National Park)
Drive to Paraa and take a ferry across the Nile to game drive in the Northern sector of the park. Game in this National Park is concentrated in the northern section of Victoria Nile and East of the Albert Nile and Lake Albert. It’s in this part of the Park that “The African Queen” movie was filmed. Game often seen include Elephant, waterbuck, Buffalo, Jackal, Genet, Mongoose, oribi, bushbuck, warthog, topi, hartebeest, hyena, giraffe, sitatunga, bush pig, leopard, lion and bat eared fox. Overnight Nile Safari Camp.
Day Four
Murchison Falls National Park
Drive to Paraa to take a launch/boat trip on the Victoria Nile to the base of Murchison Falls. The launch trip takes a bout three hours. The launch boat introduces you to aquatic birds including a chance of seeing the Shoebill stock and viewing game plus other birds en route. Also in abundance are Nile crocodile and Hippopotamus. Drive to the top of the falls for lunch and nature walk in the area to obtain an excellent view of the falls where the Nile is forced through a 20-foot wide gap in the rocks and drops 145 feet over an escarpment. This scenery is said to be the largest natural force of water in the world creating what appears to be a boiling caldron of water. Overnight Nile Safari Camp.
Day Five
Murchison Falls National Park – Kibale Forest
Drive to Kibale National Park area. The drive is a full day of approximately eight hours. The drive takes you through beautiful agricultural countryside where various fruit and vegetables are grown. On reaching Kyenjojo, in the lower foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains, the drive now goes through beautiful tea plantations and into Kibale tropical rain forest area to Ndali Lodge. The beautiful Lodge is situated on high saddle between two crater lakes. The breathtaking view and cooler climate at Ndali Lodge are some of its best features Ndali Lodge was built by the late Captain Mark Price, a British tea farmer and is today managed as a working farm by his family. The rooms are decorated in local craft material, with mosquito nets. The en suite baths have hot and cold running water and flush toilets. There is no Electricity at this lodge but apple candle and oil lamps are provided in the evening. This creates a romantic feel of “old Africa” Overnight Ndali Lodge
Day Six
Chimp Trekking (Kibale National Park)
Today, drive to Kibale Park activity starting point. The morning is characterized with birds and primate viewing including Chimpanzee. Walking is not difficulty as paths have been made in the forest and all walks are in company of excellent local guides. Afternoon we take a walk in Bigodi swamp/visit the local community. Overnight Ndali Lodge
Day Seven
Kibale National Park – Queen Elizabeth National Park
Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park. The drive takes us through Fort Portal and then South along the Eastern length of The Rwenzori Mountains with the hope of seeing the glaciated peaks of the Rwenzori. Here we gently descend into the great African rift valley onto Queen Elizabeth National Park. Mweya Safari Lodge is situated on a peninsula overlooking the Kazinga channel and Lake Edward offering a good view of the Park and the Rwenzori Mountains in the background. The recently renovated lodge offers high standard with excellent rooms, bar area, restaurant and en suite facilities. A launch trip of about two hours on Kazinga channel for bird viewing and game including the hippo is the afternoon activity. The Channel is belied to have the largest concentration of world’s hippopotamus. Overnight Mweya Safari Lodge.
Day Eight
Game Drive (Queen Elizabeth National Park)
Morning game drives in search of the big five and other game. This afternoon, drive to Maramagambo forest for a nature walk, visiting bat caves where one can see thousands of bats and possibly pythons and monitor lizards catching bats. Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of the best birding parks in Africa with “560” + recorded bird species and recorded “296” bird species seen in a 24 hour period.
Day Nine
Queen Elizabeth National Park – Rwanda
Today we drive through Kigezi hills which offer a beautiful scenic area known as the Switzerland of East Africa. The drive passes through rolling and terraced hills with excellent scenery and sight seeing. Lunch en route; proceed to the border crossing region of either Katuna or Ruhengeri into Rwanda. Overnight Gorilla Nest Lodge.
Day Ten
Rwanda - Gorilla Trekking
After breakfast, and with our packed lunch, we drive to Kinigi the starting point for gorilla trekking.
Day Eleven
Sight seeing & Monkey
This morning we set off to visit the genocide memorial sites and the museum. We also go for a walk to view golden monkeys
Day Twelve
Your Plan
This day we drive around Kigali town
Day Thirteen
Deoarture
Transfer to Airport for flight connections
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- Transfers from Airport on arrival and last day
- Transport in a 4 x 4 wheel drive vehicle with fuel & driver/guide
- Entrance to the named Parks
- 1 Chimpanzee permit per person
- 12 nights accommodation and meals
- A Launch/boat trip on Kazinga channel
- Drinks (soft and alcoholic)
- Laundry
- Tips and gratuities
- Any expenses of a personal nature i.e. phone calls, antiquity purchases, etc
- Personal insurance
- Charter flights
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