8-Day Rwanda Volcanoe Gorillas and Uganda Zebra Safari

• You’ll be collected from the airport (or hotel).
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

On arrival at the Airport, You will be picked up by our professional Yala Safaris Drivers and Guides. This day depending on arrival time you get a chance to view the beautiful clean city of Kigali. You will then be driven to your Hotel for checkin and have a rest as we get ready for the next Days Expedition.

Main Destination:

Kigali (Rwanda)

Accommodation:

Step-Town Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located in or near Kigali

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast you will visit the Genocide memorial site where thousands of innocent people lost their lives during the genocide of the mid 1990s in Rwanda and listen to the touching narratives of how people were cruelly put to death. During this you willmove and tour around the city, You will have lunch and later visit the Presidential Palace Museum, we later to transfer to Ruhengeri near the Volcanoes National Park.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Rwanda)

Accommodation:

Muhabura Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located just outside Volcanoes NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

You will have an early breakfast and move to the Park headquarters where you will receive a briefing on the rules of gorilla tour trekking and be allocated the gorilla group you will be trekking. You will after the briefing be led by the ranger guides into the forest to search for the gorillas in the Volcano Virunga Hills and the verdant Valley. Once traced you will spend a maximum of one hour observing the gorillas in their natural setting. The tracking will be a 2-5 hour exercise after which you will transfer to Kigali.

Main Destination:

Volcanoes National Park (Rwanda)

Accommodation:

Muhabura Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located just outside Volcanoes NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Have a free day to relax by beautiful Lake Bunyonyi.
There is a short list of optional activities: canoeing, swimming (safe in this lake), hiking on Bushara trail along the lake-shores, return to the hotel and relax / canoe ride along Lake Bunyonyi with small resident and exotic bird species singing. This can be an option for the next day as well.

Main Destination:

Lake Bunyonyi (Uganda)

Best Time to VisitJune to August and December to February

High SeasonJune to September (Gorilla permits are scarce)

Best WeatherJune to July and December to February (Less rainfall)

Wildlife in Bwindi Impenetrable NP

Gorilla

ChimpanzeeRare

ElephantRare

White RhinoNone

Black RhinoNone

LionNone

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Accommodation:

Bunyonyi View Resort

• Mid-range resort located outside Bwindi Impenetrable NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Bunyonyi means “place of little birds” and as the name suggests, there is plenty of birdlife around the lake. The landscape around the lake is made up of terraced hills protruding from the water’s edge. You will choose either to go for a canoe ride, swim on the lake or hike to the view point on the hills to see the exceedingly beautiful scenery of this part of the country.

Main Destination:

Lake Bunyonyi (Uganda)

Accommodation:

Bunyonyi View Resort

• Mid-range resort located outside Bwindi Impenetrable NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast transfer to Lake Mburo, the ‘Zebra magnet’. Leave Lake Bunyonyi and continue driving through the hilly areas. Arrive in the park and have lunch at the lodge before heading for an afternoon game drive for view of Zebras, Topis, Warthogs, cape buffaloes and impalas.

Main Destination:

Lake Mburo National Park (Uganda)

Best Time to VisitJune to August and December to February

High SeasonJune to September (Peak time for Uganda)

Best WeatherJune, July and January to February (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Mburo NP

Buffalo

Zebra

Hippo

GiraffeOccasional

LeopardOccasional

HyenaOccasional

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Accommodation:

Rwakobo Rock

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Lake Mburo NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Early morning safari walk, get early up to visit the hyenas den, chance to see Leopards, zebras, waterbucks, birds buffaloes in there day break jungle life! Get back for breakfast and start the drive to kampala. Have early lunch in Masaka and a stopover at the Equator.

Main Destination:

Kampala (Uganda)

Accommodation:

Marie’s Royale Hotel

• Mid-range hotel located in or near Kampala

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After Break Fast depending on the Flight Time, Transfer to Entebbe International Airport.

Main Destination:

Entebbe International Airport (Uganda)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You’ll be dropped off at the airport (or hotel).