Day 1: Arrival in Kigali, reception city tour and transfer to Uganda: Upon your morning arrival in the Remarkable land of a thousand rolling hills of Rwanda, your Epic Gorilla  Trails safaris enthusiastic guide will warmly welcome you for your advance booked safari in Rwanda and Uganda. Your airport reception at Kigali international airport will be done with our safari customized fleet of safari land cruisers fitting only your small group of 6 pax and your guide.  Ashort and precise briefing from your guide will be conducted; luggage fitted in the vehicle and after you’re driven to your first city exploration trip into the rolling realm of Greenery into Kigali city. You will later proceed to the Genocide museum exploration tour. Depending on the arrival timings, your lunch Break can be planned in Rwanda and later we will drive to cross Kyanika boarder into Uganda. Our chosen hotel for your first overnight in the pearl of Africa is anticipated in Kisoro.

Day 2:Aday of Golden views tucked into the Virunga massif: Having slept your night in the medley of Albertine Rift wonders at the foot hill of the extinct volcanic chains of Mt.Muhavura,Sabinyo and Gahinga, this is your day to immerse yourself into the natural fabrics of the Virunga massif. After your delicious breakfast from the lodge, you will be driven to meet your rangers at Ntebeko visitor center who will lead your whole day trek inside this forest. After general safety briefing, you will be partitioned into groups of maximum eight individuals and commence your walking trail at Ntebeko to the natural forested bamboo zones and Afro-montane vegetative cover to later identify this specie of monkeys. Golden monkey is a specie of Blue monkeys only restricted to high altitude regions of Africa, they like playing on the ground when it’s windy but sometimes are found while frolicking the bamboo shoots. After your time with them inside the forest, you will come back and have an evening exploration of Kisoro at your lodge.

  Day 3:Transfering from Kisoro via Lake Mutanda and Community Batwa forest experience. After your morning Breakfast from your lodge, we will transfer to Lake Mutanda village. This is your days of village walking tours, Lake Mutanda Dugout canoe trekking and evening cultural Gala in Rubuguri with the Batwa people who are well known as keepers of the forest due to their back in history lifestyles and love for nature. Your day will be to learn, experience, immerse and interact with them. Your overnight will be spent at the southern sector of Bwindi Impenetrable National park.

Fact file:The Batwa are forest gatherers who once lived inside Bwindi impenetrable national park sharing close bonds with the mountain gorillas and the chimps until 1994 when they were evicted from the forest to pave away for effective mountain gorillas’ conservation. They still live in hanging villages at the forest boundary and own some responsible demonstrations of their ancestral cultural trails inside the impenetrable forest.

Day 4: Top of the world village expo and the Craft village exploration trip: After Breakfast from the lodge, together with your guides to day we are waking up to another photogenic panoramic trail adjacent to Bwindi forest. This will include moving with your community guides through village trails while witnessing the vibrant rhythms of traditional Uganda. Your day will take you to the top of the world, appoint quite stunning for the whole tri-views of the three countries of the Albertine Rift valley Uganda, Rwanda and D.R.Congo. We will enjoy the views and have a total glimpse of the meandering stretch of the Great East African rift valley as it leaves the virunga volcanoes to the verdant Edward Flats on aclear weather. Lunch will be enjoyed here inform of picnic or forest roast BBQ and later we will come back to our last part of the day. We will move to Kora craft assembly where a group of women come together for storytelling, sharing life views, while making all forms of basketry. They own a micro-saving village pool and you will be overjoyed to learn from them. Most of the ladies are single moms and widowed. Later we will come back to our lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Day5:Bwindi ultimate Gorilla experiential trail for your First Mountain gorilla tracking inside their natural home: This is the long awaited for day of your safari  meant for Mountain Gorilla encounters into their natural habitats. You will leave your lodge early at sunrise after a healthy breakfast and today’s goal is to penetrate the forest interior either at Rushaga or Nkuringo, the two southern park entrances of Bwindi National Park for visitor reception. We want to track the rare mountain gorillas in their natural habitat i.e Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. After breakfast and with appropriate dressing code for the day,your driver guide will take you to UWA center to meet your ranger and attend the general safety briefing about your Mountain gorilla tracking. You’re expected back after the activity in the evening and we transfer back to our hotel into the southern corridors of Bwindi forest.

Safari Factfile: Even though tracking the gorillas is a one-hour activity, you have the whole day for this activity, so afterwards, we will take the chance to drive back to the lodge in the evening and relax at our lodge. There are also opportunities to discover the surrounding of your lodge on a self-guided Rubuguri village short walk for additional photography of the Virunga massif from the highest point in the region while sipping a bottle of locally brewed Ugandan Nile beer from home grown sorghum and natural waters of Nile River. Time can be arranged as well to have an evening town experience in Rubuguri, exploring the open market experiences and evenings here are calm and cool as more of the youths are getting out to play football in Rubuguri playground. Another overnight is spent in the southern sector of Bwindi impenetrable national park.

Understanding your mountain gorilla tracking trail: Currently considered as the greatest of the wildlife trails on the planet, your time spent while tracking mountain gorillas will be quite memorable and humbly exciting. You will be partitioned in groups of eight pax maximum and each group will be entitled to track one family of Mountain gorillas for one hour each day. Your gorilla trek is led by trained ranger guide and feel free to ask him any question about your gorilla tracking while expecting an answer in return.By following atrail you will be guided inside the tropical rain forest,each trail is used once and left to regrow for effective wildlife conservation agendas. Your ranger guide will keep in touch with the advance team of trackers who leaves early to allocate the gorillas for you. Mountain gorillas are mobile and they do allocate their current position basing on their nests of the last night. Together with your guides and porters you will be led to follow Gorilla trails inside the forest and finally come in presence of your tracking group. With no windows, metal bars and doors you will find yourself in their home, the silverback (a dominant adult male) will be happy to welcome you and endure your presence for one hour. You’re allowed one-hour time for responsible Eco-tourism and this one hour is for you to observe, learn, ask questions and for photography. Feel free to interact, ask questions, and learn about the wild while discovering the gorilla behavior on a daily basis.

Day 6: Transfering from Bwindi to Queen Elizabeth national park, ishasha sector:  This day we will leave the impenetrable memories of Bwindi behind to enjoy our savannah game experiences of Ishasha sector. It is within Ishasha sector where we have lions pulling out their rare survival magic of fitness to survive by climbing the fig trees, with your guide you will be able to prove why? This endemic safari moment is only enjoyed here in Uganda and Tarangire National Park of Tanzania. Game driving in Uganda is monitored and controlled for responsible Eco-tourism, on all the game drives we will observe the rule of procedure not to off track throughout all experiences.Your next hotel is booked in the southern sector of Queen Elizabeth national park.

Day 7:Whole day game watching experience and Mweya boat cruise:  This day is meant for your whole day game experience inside Queen Elizabeth national park. An Early morning breakfast is the start of the day preparing you for this whole-day safari game viewing experience. Before the morning sunrises over this flat undulating Savannah meadow we will drive to the forest once again, remember park gates are opens at 7;00 Am and closes at 7:00 Pm. Today we will wakeup, have Breakfast from the hotel, checkout and with packed lunch to commence driving through numerous defined game tracks to Mweya peninsular. Your overnight is booked in the Northern part of this park.

Safari fact file: Your whole day game watching into the savannah is meant to explore game channels of Kasenyi and Mweya sectors while identifying and spotting varieties of wildlife.  Later you will continue to do game watching over Kazinga channel with aboat cruise at lunch while capturing those moments of an aquatic safari style at Mweya. An extension of your game watching can include visiting Katwe salt pans and Bunyampaka and a small community that got concession from UWA to own and manage a fishing village inside the park. Your launch cruise will be carried on Kazinga channel connecting two Great lakes of the Albertine rift valley i.e Edward shared by both Uganda and Congo and Lake George.

Day 8:Transfering from Queen Elizabeth to Kibale National Park:

After the morning Ugandan platter of a healthy Breakfast from your hotel, we will check out and transfer to Kibale  National Par. Along this journey, will encounter additional safari memories of traditional roadside tourism by daily community life patterns. We will proceed to enjoy the rare Equator crossing line, here you will stop for photosque moments and proceed. Your safari continuation of today will reveal the authenticity of awell preserved cultural value and varied wildlife territories of Kasese the land of Bakonzo, we will proceed to our next destination passing through the Rwenzori blocks and Queen Elizabeth conservation area. Overnight is anticipated in Kibale National Park.

Day 9: Chimpanzee Tracking Inside Kibale Tropical Rain Forest: Today is reserved for another great forest Trek, we plan to enter this dense and tropical rain forest on chimpanzee tracking. On this tour, we expect to find large troops of chimpanzee families amidst other primates inside the forest and spend time with it. Note that Kibale is a natural home to 13 primate species both diurnal and nocturnal. We have more monkeys like red-and-white colobus monkey and black-and-white colobus monkeys. Your Instinct safaris guide will drive to the visitor reception center at Kanyancu,while here you meet your UWA ranger guide to  lead your chimpanzee trek. You will come back into your hotel, relax and later in the evening we attend to another Village, primates and Swamp walk in Bigodi community. Another overnight stay in Kibale.

Attending to chimps tracking safety briefing: Your daily lead guide from Uganda wildlife Authority will talk to you before the activity, this general briefing is for your safety and please do pay attention. For your information, Kibale forest is one of Uganda’s most forested areas and has the highest concentration of wild and freely roaming chimpanzees totaling to 4,500. Expect to see a buffer zone of  tea plantations scattered all over the forest boundary to solve animal crop problem, numerous explosion craters and hills form the majority of the forest  neighborhood which give the region its characteristic name – the “Mountains of the Moon”.

Coming face to face with chimps inside Kibale: While with chimpanzee you will be allowed to take as many photographs as you can but never pretend to imitate their calls as you might not know their language hence not sure what you’re doing. Maintaining the required distance between you and the chimps is beneficial to you and the chimps, they can break this rule but for you don’t.  Chimps being our closest neighbors to whom we share about 99% of our DNA with, you can spread diseases to chimps or them spread to you easily hence the need to observe all the rules and regulations for your tranquil wild experience. You will always find keeping your voices very low and dressing appropriately with no shouting colours any time you’re in the forest to yield much for your wildlife encounters.

Day 10:Transferring back to Kampala and Ebtebbe for the connecting flight back home:  Today we are coming closer to the last trip memory of the highly cherished realities of Uganda safari, you will wake up for a hearty menu of Breakfast, then assemble luggage and together we fit everything back into our vehicle for the drive as we come to the end of your safari. Your tour to Uganda will end with successful check in at Entebbe international airport for the flight back home. Time is allowed to explore the capital city of Uganda Kampala and Entebbe botanical gardens as we wind up our safari experience. We will finally arrive at Entebbe and check you in the departure terminal hence ending your safari to Uganda in style.