On your arrival at the airport in Kigali, you will be welcome by your tour guide who will then transfer you to the hotel.

Meals: Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Hôtel des Mille Collines

After your healthy breakfast, depart for Kibuye visiting Bisesero genocide memorial, Kibuye church and Nyange school genocide memorial. Then in the afternoon, take a boat to Amahoro Island, the Island of Peace.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Moriah hotel

Leave after your breakfast to Gisenyi and visit the fishing village, hot springs, visit DRC-Rwanda border (Gisenyi town) and relax at the lake side in the evening.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Lake Kivu Serena Hotel

Depart and head for Ruhengeri for the ethno botany experience. Afternoon go to the twin lakes of Burera and Ruhondo, visit bee hive locations.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

Early morning breakfast then transfer to the Kinigi headquarters for briefing and allocation of the gorilla group as you experience traditional dancers and learn about Rwandan drumming, singing and dancing. Then go to the forest for gorilla tracking returning in time for lunch. Later in the afternoon at the Ebi’wachu where you learn about Rwanda's tradition

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Mountain Gorilla View Lodge

After breakfast, drive and cross to the Uganda on Cyanika border to Kisoro then proceed to southern part of Bwindi National Park.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge

This morning you will have to wake up very early to get ready for Gorilla tracking. The guide will drive you to the headquarters for briefing before you set off in the interior of the forest. Do not forget to take your lunch boxes and all the necessary gear to track the rare Mountain Gorilla, perhaps one of the most exciting wildlife experiences on this Planet. There are now only 650 left in the world. The tracking may take between 3 and 6 hours but it’s well worth the effort. There are always park guides with you who interpret the flora and fauna and the lifestyle of the Gorillas. The rainforest is spectacular as it offers a dramatic, heavily forested and dense landscape crisscrossed by numerous animal trails, allowing access for tourists. Recorded mammals here include the endangered mountain gorilla, the rare golden monkey, buffalo, elephants, black-fronted duikers, bushbucks, leopards, giant forest hogs as well as other animals.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Lodge

After breakfast, depart Bwindi for Lake Bunyonyi passing through Kabale with beautiful scenery and terraced farming arriving in the afternoon. After lunch, you may decide to relax in your room or go for a Village walk.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Arcadia Cottages

Spend the whole day visiting various historical Islands including the punishment Island, Lepers Island, Bushara Island, the upside down Island, visit the Batwa (pygmies ) community, retuning at the lodge in the evening. Do not forget to take your lunch boxes. This also provides a good chance for the birders to view different water and swamp bird dwellers.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, depart Bunyonyi for Lake Mburo National Park arriving in the afternoon. Go for the evening game drive or for the boat trip on Lake Mburo. Lake Mburo is an extension of the north-western Tanzanian Plains and eastern Rwanda with big herds of Zebra, Impala, Eland and other savannah mammals. For birders, this is one of the best place to find African Fin foot, Papyrus yellow warbler, papyrus gonolek, Bush Shrike, Brown-chested plover, Southern ground hornbill, Spot-flanked and many others.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

After breakfast, game drive as you depart Mburo and then proceed to Queen Elizabeth National Park arriving in the afternoon. Relax at the hotel or go for the late evening game drive

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Queen Elizabeth Park View Lodge

This morning, you will have a game drive to the Kasenyi area to look for Lion prides and other wildlife like, waterbuck, Oribi and Uganda Kob that mate around this area returning at the Lodge for breakfast. Queen Elizabeth is the Uganda’s most popular and certainly one of the most scenic. It stretches from the crater-dotted foothills if Rwenzori range in the north, along the shores of Lake Edward to the remote Ishasha River in the south, incorporating a wide range of a variety of habitats that range from savanna and wetlands to gallery and lowland forest. This gives the park the diversity of bird species of over 550 and a list of 95 mammal species. Then go for the afternoon boat trip along the Kazinga Channel. Here Hippos huff and spray mere feet away from the boat, Buffalos linger in the shallows, a tremendous variety of birds grace the grasses on the shores. Great White and Pink-Backed Pelicans, Great and Long-Tailed Cormorants, Open-Billed Stork, African Jacana, Malachite and Pied Kingfishers are commonly seen.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Queen Elizabeth Park View Lodge

After breakfast, depart Queen Elizabeth to Kibale Forest National Park. This park is known for the highest number of primate species in Africa. The activity starts in the morning hours, and there is also another lot for the afternoon depending on the time of your booking and itinerary. When tracking chimpanzees, you may come across other primates including phoestes, Red-Colobus, Blues, Red-tailed and grey cheeked Mangabey in the canopies of the dense forest and birds, butterflies and many small insects. The guides provide explanations about primates and other forest's fauna and flora, ensuring that your walk is both informative and enjoyable.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Kibale Guest Cottages

This morning you will go for the morning Chimpanzee tracking in the forest, When tracking chimpanzees, you may come across other primates including phoestes, Red-Colobus, Blues, Red-tailed and grey cheeked Mangabey in the canopies of the dense forest and birds, butterflies and many small insects. The guides provide explanations about primates and other forest's fauna and flora, ensuring that your walk is both informative and enjoyable. Later in the afternoon, you will go for a guided walk through Bigodi Swamp. This Wetland is managed by the Kibale Association for Rural and Environmental organization formed in 1992 with the aim of achieving social and economic development for local communities. This swamp is a home to about 137 bird species.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Kibale Guest Cottages

After breakfast, set off to Murchison falls arriving in the evening.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Pakuba Safari lodge

After breakfast, you will go for an early morning game drive where you may have chances of viewing Lions, Giraffe, Hartebeest, Buffalo, Elephant, Bohor Reedbuck as well as many of the other mammals of the park. For the bird lovers, you can come across the Sported Morning Thrush, Silverbird, Buff-bellied Warbler, Black-headed Batis, Black headed Gonolek, Vitelline masked weaver, Green winged Pytilia, Blue-naped Mouse bird, Secretary Bird, Black Chested Snake Eagle, Tawny and Marshal Eagles, Northern and Southern Carmine Bee-Eaters and many others. In the afternoon, go for a boat trip to the foot of Murchison Falls where the Nile thunders through a small 7-meter gap, or down river to the delta where the Nile empties into Lake Albert. The banks of the Nile are home to many species. You may see huge Nile Crocodiles, Hippos and other wildlife that may come down to drink from the river.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Pakuba Safari lodge

After breakfast, you will proceed to Kidepo Valley National Park. The park lies in the rugged and Semi-arid valley of Karamoja. This is Uganda’s most remote National Park which borders Sudan in the north. The park also suffered the same fate of poaching like other Ugandan Parks which left some game herds depleted. But the park has recovered for the last 2o years of stability with 80 species of mammals and a bird list of 475 species and amongst the host of dry eastern “specials” not found in any other Ugandan park like Karamoja Alpalis and Black-breasted barbet.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Kidepo Savannah Lodge

After breakfast, you will go for an early morning game drive to the Kidepo valley plains where you may have chances of viewing Lions, Giraffe, Hartebeest, Buffalo, Elephant, Bohor Reedbuck as well as many of the other mammals of the park. Later in the afternoon, you can go for the evening game drive or go for optional nature walk

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Kidepo Savannah Lodge

After breakfast, drive to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary in Nakasongola. In Uganda, Rhinos were depleted in the early 1980s, after a period of civil wars and severe poaching. This sanctuary has now been established to breed black and white rhino in phase one and two to restore Rhino populations in Uganda so that they can be re-introduced to their natural habitats.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Amuka Lodge

Have early morning breakfast, go for Rhino trekking then drive to Jinja arriving in the afternoon.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Jinja Nile Resort Uganda

After breakfast, you will go and visit the source of the Nile and the spectacular with an option of half or full day rafting returning to Kampala.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Sheraton Hotel

After breakfast, go for the city tour and visit Kasubi Tombs, The King’s Palace, The Buganda Parliament, Naggalabi (the coronation site), Katereke prison, Uganda Museum, Old Churches, Bahai Temple, markets etc.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Sheraton Hotel

After your breakfast, you will be transfer to Entebbe Airport to catch your flight back home.

Meals: Breakfast