Best in Travel 2021 Exciting Tour for you in Africa for the Best 21 Days of Rwanda and Uganda African Safaris

 

Best in Travel 2021 Exciting Tour for you in Africa for 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari.

This 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari. This tour allows you to explore the best of what Rwanda and Uganda has to offer on your Safari to Rwanda and Uganda. 

You will visit the Genocide Museum en-route to the Park or after your Gorilla Trek on the last day. This tour can start from Kigali and End in Entebbe or From Entebbe and End in Kigali.

21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Wildlife and Gorilla Safari Highlights



  • Safari starts and ends in Kigali (Rwanda) or Uganda Kampala/Entebbe
  • You will use an open-sided 4×4 Customized Safari vehicle throughout the tour for transportation by the best tour operator, Top Safaris Uganda.
  • A transfer from and back to the airport (or hotel) is included if needed.
  • At the same time, additional tour accommodation before the tour departs and on the last day can be arranged for an extra cost.

Important Notes for 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari.

  1. Tour can depart any day
  2. Age the limit for tracking is 15years, but for under ages we can as well secure for them a special permit, Now Inquire for More Information from Top Safaris Uganda Tour operator in Uganda.
  3. Solo travelers can join.
  4. Can be scheduled to be a group tour.
  5. Uniquely, Can be customized to your interests

Check Out the detailed Itinerary for The First 8 Days Rwanda Gorilla, Big Five Animals, African Cultural Tour, and Nyungwe Forest National Park.

Day one: Arrival at Kigali International Airport and Transfer to Volcanoes National park for overnight.

You will be picked up by our safari guide from either a guest house/Lodge in Kigali if you arrive a day before or from Kigali International Airport if you arrive in the very early morning hours, then drive to Volcanoes National park in south Western Uganda where you will spend two nights. This journey is about 2-3 hours’ drive but very enjoyable as you will be driving through various local communities and towns along the road, the drive as well takes you through the beautiful cascading and rolling hills of commonly tagged Switzerland of Africa. You will as well have an opportunity for an en-route stopover for photography and sightseeing experience. 

  • Tour Accommodation: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board.
  • Drive time: 2-3 hours’ drive.

Day Two for the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safaris: Gorilla tracking experience day.

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and joining others for a gorilla trekking briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Rwanda Gorilla Trekking Tour. Once this is done, you will trek through the montane forests of Volcanoes National park with your ranger guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you from half an hour to three-quarters of the day. During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable. This is indeed an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful endangered Creatures.

  • Tour Accommodation: Le Bambou Gorilla Lodge.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day Three of the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari: Transfer to Nyungwe National park for an overnight.

You will be picked up by our safari guide from either a guest house/Lodge in Kigali if you arrive a day before or from Kigali International Airport if you arrive in the very early morning hours, then drive to Nyungwe National park in south Western Uganda where you will spend two nights. This journey is about 4-5 hours’ drive but very enjoyable as you will be driving through various local communities and towns along the road, the drive as well takes you through the beautiful cascading and rolling hills of commonly tagged Switzerland of Africa. You will as well have an opportunity for an en-route stopover for photography and sightseeing experience. 

  • Tour Accommodation: Nyungwe Forest Lodge.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch
  • Drive time: 2-3 hours’ drive.

Day Four for 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari: Chimpanzee tracking experience day:

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and joining others for the chimpanzee trekking briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Rwanda Chimpanzee Trekking Tour. Chimpanzee trekking starts in the morning and it's best to carry a day pack where you have a couple of liters of water have long trousers, a long-sleeved shirt, rain jacket, hiking boots, and a hat. There will also be a maximum of over 8 people in your group that sets out to track the chimpanzees. These chimps at Nyungwe forest has been and is being habituated which means that they are used to human beings. During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable. This is indeed an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful closest cousins to humans as they play in Nyungwe forest national park.

  • Tour Accommodation: Nyungwe Forest Lodge.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day Five  for 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari:  Nyungwe Forest Canopy walk and the Hike.

After your breakfast at the lodge you will go for a canopy walk and hike. This canopy walk is also the first treetop forest canopy walk in East Africa and the third in all Africa. This canopy walk is 50 meters above the ground and this can also be dizzying heights for some people, you will see the monkeys move around in the treetops, the birds that are flying above you and below you, and a beautiful view of the huge Nyungwe forest. It’s also an amazing sight, a break taking, and a lifetime experience.

  • Tour Accommodation: Nyungwe Forest Lodge.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch
  • Day Six: Transfer to Akagera National park.

On this day you will drive to Akagera National Park for 2 nights at Akagera Game Lodge, the park is located along the border of Rwanda with Tanzania in North East of Rwanda. Akagera national park is known for its Big Five wild animals with a variety of habitats including grassland, acacia woodland, forest, and water which has enabled it to sustain a wide variety of wildlife among them the Big 5 animals which you will enjoy viewing while you stay here.

  • Tour Accommodation: Akagera Game Lodge
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch
  • Drive time: 4-5 hours’ drive

Day Seven for  21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safaris: Wildlife viewing in Akagera National park.

After an early morning breakfast, you will go for game drives for wildlife viewing you will have a chance to see the Big Five animals depending on your Luck that day, big herds of Buffalos, Antelopes, Uganda Kobs, Warthogs among the wildlife and return to the lodge for lunch then later in the afternoon you will do a boat cruise on River Akagera. This boat cruise offers a chance to spot species of water birds, many wild animals as they flock to this channel for drinking water.

  • Tour Accommodation: Akagera Game Lodge.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day Eight for  21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safaris: Transfer to Mgahinga National park for Batwa cultural trail experience.

After your breakfast, you will drive to Mgahinga National Park for check-in at the Lodge and Lunch then later in the afternoon you will go for Batwa cultural trail experience this walk will expose you to other attractions in the park before returning back to your hotel for overnight. The Batwa or ‘Twa people are one of the last groups of short-statured people also known as ‘pygmy’ people, and until the Mgahinga Montane forest area was gazetted as a National Park they lived a hunter-gather lifestyle in the forest. They are now some of the poorest people in the world with a high infant mortality rate and low life expectancy.

As the original dwellers of this ancient jungle, the Batwa were known as “The Keepers of the Forest.” The history of these small-statured people is long and rich. The Batwa survived by hunting small game using arrows or nets and gathering plants and fruit in the rain forest. They lived in huts constructed of leaves and branches, moving frequently in search of fresh supplies of food. The Batwa lived in harmony with the forest and its creatures, including the mountain gorillas, for millennia. Some anthropologists estimate that pygmy tribes such as the Batwa have existed in the equatorial forests of Africa for 60,000 years or more.

  • Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  • Lodge: Kisoro Traveler’s Inn/Lake Chahafi Resort.

Day Nine  for  21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari: Full day Golden monkey tracking and optional activities around the park.



After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and joining others for a Golden Monkeys trekking briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Uganda Golden monkey Trekking Tour. Once this is done, you will trek through the montane forest of Mountain Mgahinga National park with your ranger guides to find the beautiful Golden Monkeys, which can take you from half an hour to three-quarters of the day. During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable. This is indeed an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful endangered Creatures. Once you find them you will spend one hour encounter with them and then return to your lodge for relaxing and overnight.

  • Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  • Lodge: Kisoro Traveler’s Inn/Lake Chahafi Resort.

Day Ten for the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National park.

On this day you will go for a morning walking safari experience and then after you will drive to Bwindi Impenetrable forest National park in southwestern Uganda where you will spend two nights. This journey is about 4-5 hours’ drive but very enjoyable as you will be driving through various local communities and towns along the road, the drive as well takes you through the beautiful cascading and rolling hills of the Kigezi region. You will have stops in Mbarara en-route lunch after proceed to Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda for overnight.

  • Tour Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge or Trekkers Tavern Cottages.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board.
  • Drive time: 2-3 hours’ drive.

Day Eleven for  the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari.: Gorilla tracking experience Day.

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and joining others for a gorilla trekking briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Uganda Gorilla Trekking Tour. Once this is done, you will trek through the tropical rain forest of Bwindi with your ranger guides to find the Gorillas, which can take you from half an hour to three-quarters of the day. During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable. This is indeed an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful endangered Creatures. You will be awarded a certificate for participating in gorilla trekking and thus contributing to the conservation of mountain gorillas.

  • Tour Accommodation: Rushaga Gorilla Havens Lodge or Trekkers Tavern Cottages.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day Twelve for the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safaris: Transfer to Lake Bunyonyi for a canoe boat cruise and encounter the Batwa Pygmies.

On this day you will drive from Lake Mburo National Park to Lake Bunyonyi in Kabale District. Lake Bunyonyi is one of the three Lava damned Lake which was formed when lava flowing from one of the volcanoes blocked a river channel and water was forced to flow back hence filling the space to create lake Bunyonyi. Bunyonyi locally means small birds due to the abundance of small birds in this area. Lake Bunyonyi is said to be the deepest lake in Uganda and the second deepest in East Africa, it as well as many traditional attachments by the local people. You will do a boat cruise as well visit the Batwa Pygmies having a chance to view the 1000 islands on the lake.

  • Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
  • Lodge: Crater Bay Cottages/Birdnest Resort.
  • Drive time: 4-5 hours

Day Thirteen. Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National park Ishasha Sector for viewing Tree Climbing Lions.

On this day you will drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park Ishasha section for 1 night at Enjojo Lodge/Ishasha Jungle Lodge, you will arrive at the lunchtime hours check-in at the Lodge and have lunch, then relax at the lodge, you will later go for an evening game drive to search for tree-climbing lions and other late grazers after you will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Tour Accommodation: Enjojo Lodge/Ishasha Jungle lodge

Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Drive time: 4-5 hours’ drive.

Day Fourteen: Game drives in Ishasha sector to search for tree climbing lions while encountering other wildlife.

On this day, after early morning breakfast, you will go for game drives in Ishasha plains for viewing Tree Climbing lions depending on your luck that day, you will as well have an opportunity of viewing other wildlife.

  • Tour Accommodation: Enjojo Lodge/Ishasha Jungle lodge
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day Fifteen for the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safaris: Morning game drive in the Ishasha sector to search and Transfer to Queen Elizabeth National park.



On this day, after early morning breakfast, you will go for game drives in Ishasha plains for viewing Tree Climbing lions depending on your luck that day, you will as well have an opportunity of viewing other wildlife and you will later in the afternoon drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park for 2 nights at Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Resort Lodge, the park is located along the Equator in South-Western Uganda. Queen Elizabeth national park is Uganda’s most popular and diverse conservation area situated in the western rift valley floor with a variety of habitats including grassland, acacia woodland, forest, and water which has enabled it to sustain a wide variety of wildlife among them the Big 4 animals which you will enjoy viewing while you stay here.

  • Tour Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Resort Lodge.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day sixteen of Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari: Morning game drive for wildlife viewing in Queen Elizabeth National park and afternoon boat cruise on Kazinga Channel.

After an early morning breakfast, you will go for game drives in Kasenyi plains for wildlife viewing you will have a chance to see the big herds of Buffalos, Antelopes, Uganda Kobs, Warthogs among the wildlife and return to the lodge for lunch then later in the afternoon you will do a boat cruise on the Kazinga channel by far known as the highlight of all activities in this park. This boat cruise offers a chance to spot over 400 species of water birds, many wild animals as they flock this channel for drinking water and above all, Kazinga the channel has the highest concentration of hippos in the whole world

Tour Accommodation: Elephant Hab Lodge/Buffalo Resort Lodge.

Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day seventeen of the 21 Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safari: Transfer to Kibale Forest National park.

On this day you will drive to Kibale Forest National Park for 2 nights at Chimpanzee Forest Guest House, the park is East of Rwenzori Mountain captured with tropical rain forests. The park is best known for its 13 species of primates which include Uganda’s largest population of Chimpanzees and other large mammals such as Elephants, Buffalos, and giant forest hops which are however, really seen.

Tour Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House/Kibale Homestay.

Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade

Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day Eighteen: Chimpanzee tracking experience and Bigodi Wetland walk.

After an early morning breakfast, you will drive to the Park headquarters for registration and joining others for Chimpanzee trekking briefing about the dos and the don’ts during your Uganda Chimpanzee Trekking Tour. Once this is done, you will trek through the tropical rain forest of Kibale Forest National park with your ranger guides to find the Chimpanzees, which can take you from half an hour to three-quarters of the day. During your trek, you will have a chance to encounter other wildlife including, various bird species and tree species which your guide which gives you information about to make the trek enjoyable. This is indeed an extraordinary feeling being with these beautiful Creatures. After or before your chimpanzee trek, Bigodi wetland walk an initiative that was set up to support the cause of the local community and all the proceeds earned are reinvested back in the community

  • Tour Accommodation: Chimpanzee Forest Guest House/Kibale Homestay.
  • Tour Accommodation type: Low Mid-range/High Budget but open to upgrade
  • Meal Plan: Full Board/with packed Lunch

Day Nineteen for the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safaris: Transfer to Murchison Falls National park.

On this day you will drive to Murchison National Park for 2 nights at Pakuba Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge, the park is located along the Longest River in the world River Nile. Murchison Falls National park is Uganda’s largest national park and is situated in Uganda’s largest conservation area situated is the Albertine rift valley floor with a variety of habitats including grassland, acacia woodland, forest, and water which has enabled it to sustain a wide variety of wildlife among them the Big 4 animals which you will enjoy viewing while your stay here.

  • Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge
  • Meal Plan: Full Board
  • Dive time: 6-7 hours

Day Twenty for the Best 21 Days of Rwanda and Uganda African Safaris: Game drives and Boat Cruise to the bottom of the falls.

After an early morning breakfast, you will go for a morning game drive and afternoon boat cruise to the base of the falls and at the end of the boat cruise, you will hike to the top of the Falls to have a clear view of the Victoria Falls from above. You will have opportunities for sporting large herds of buffaloes, elephants, giraffes, hippos, Antelopes, warthogs, some birds, and of lucky lions. Return to the jetty for your afternoon boat to the base of the falls. Apart from visiting the falls, this boat will expose you to many water animals, water birds, and others that flock to this place to drink water. You will enjoy your stay while here.

  • Overnight: Pakuba Safari Lodge/Murchison River Lodge
  • Meal Plan: Full Board.

Day Twenty-One for the 21 Days Best of Rwanda and Uganda Safaris.: Drive back to Entebbe/Kampala via Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for foot Rhino tracking and after proceed to Kampala/Entebbe to end the tour.

After your breakfast, you drive to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for foot Rhino tracking which will mark the end with the encounter of the Big Five animals, you will have lunch and then after be driven to Kampala or Entebbe for your post-tour Tour Accommodation or you may choose to fly out of Uganda today.

  • Meal Plan: Half Board.
  • Drive time: 4-5 hours’ drive.





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