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6 Days Rwanda-Uganda Safari Adventure

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6 Days
Availability : Jan 01' - Dec 31'
Kigali Airport
Min Age : 15

Explore the beauty of Rwanda and Uganda on your 6 Days Gorilla & wildlife tour with a visit to Akagera National Park Wildlife Safari. Akagera National Park is located in Eastern Rwanda on the border with Tanzania will give you a great experience to explore this only savanna national park where safari game drive can only be carried in Rwanda. You will as well be able to do Kigali city tour, and a visit to Lake Kivu, before crossing to Ugamda for gorilla trekking adventure. This is an incredible adventure safari packed with fun.

Itinerary

DAY 1: TRANSFER TO AKAGERA NATIONAL PARK FROM KIGALI. 2,5 HOURS

On your arrival early in the morning, you will be picked by our guide and leave for Akagera national park at, the journey to Akagera national park takes about 2.5 hours depending on the stopovers along the way, with the beautiful un winding landscape en route to the park, feel free to ask the guide for stopovers to capture some photos. On arrival at the park, you shall proceed to the reception and later head for a boat trip on Lake Ihema watch Hippos and crocodiles in the water or by the shores and meet the buffaloes and elephants wallowing by the water banks and game drive. Later return to the lodge for dinner and evening stay. Ruzizi tented lodge (Luxury), Akagera game lodge (Midrange/Budget)

DAY 2: GAME DRIVE AND TRANSFER TO BWINDI VIA KATUNA BORDER .

Depart your lodge with packed breakfast and lunch for an early morning game drive in Akagera national park to catch up with late hunters and early risers as you exit the park. We will be searching for the big mammals like Elephants, Giraffes, Buffaloes, several Antelope species, and recently the re-introduced Lions and Rhinos. The park is a varied habitat for wildlife and a number bird species with over 500 bird species in the park making it a birding paradise.

This game drive will last about  2 hours which might be more or less depending on your interests before starting the journey back to Kigali and later connect to Bwindi impenetrable national in Uganda. You will take the route along the lake which more often has a variety of animals to site along. Dinner and overnight at Gorilla safari lodge (Luxury), Rushaga gorilla camp (Midrange and budget)

DAY 3: ULTIMATE GORILLA TREKKING

Begin your day with a delightful early morning  with a cup of coffee, then prepare for the briefing from the Uganda wildlife officials and thereafter enter the jungle to search the shy mountain gorillas and enjoy their life style in their real home. After meeting the gorillas, you can sit around these great apes for a whole hour gazing into their big round eyes. On a gorilla safari, a reasonable degree of fitness is required as well as walking shoes, packed food and mineral water, insect repellent, sun screen and hut. The gorilla tracking experience takes half or whole day depending on the movement of these primates. After this gorilla tracking experience in Uganda you will have informative memorable experience in life. In the afternoon you will have lunch and head for a community batwa experience to meet the local batwa(OPTIONAL). Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.

DAY 4: TRANSFER TO GISENYI. (TRAVEL TIME +3HRS)

After a relaxed breakfast, you will checkout of your rooms and head for a scenic drive to Gisenyi via Cyanika border with an en route lunch at Migano in Musanze. You will spend the evening relaxing at your leisure at the beach. Dinner at overnight stay at Lake Kivu serena hotel (Luxury), Kivu hill view hotel (Midrange), Kivu peace view hotel (Budget).

DAY 5: TEA TOUR EXPERIENCE AT PFUNDA/BOAT TRIP

Following a relaxed breakfast, you drive and visit a Tea Tour Experience that will  takes you to Pfunda Tea Estate company which is the largest and most renowned tea estate company in Rwanda producing the highest volume of its Tea. Lying below the Virunga volcano, the tea estate gets most of its fertile soil for tea growing from the erupted soils of the Volcanos which helps to contribute to a higher tea quality in the region. The Pfunda tea estate plantation stretches into hundreds of hectares and farmers can be seen planting, tending or harvesting tea depending on the period of visitation which an enthusiastic traveler may also wish to divulge into. In the afternoon you will head for a wonderful boat trip on Lake Kivu to explore this hiden secret lake with beautiful islands harboring a number of bird species. Dinner at overnight stay at Lake Kivu serena hotel (Luxury), Kivu hill view hotel (Midrange), Kivu peace view hotel (Budget).

DAY 6: ENJOY MASSAGE AT NYAMYUMBA HOTSPRING/ KIGALI. (Travel Time +5hrs)

After your relaxed breakfast, you will visit Nyamumba hot springs for a local massage before checking out of your hotel, and drive back to Kigali with an en route lunch, and later you will either be dropped at your lodge or at the airport to catch up with your evening night flight. If time permits, visit art galleries and local markets for shopping and later be tranbsfered to the airport for your flight back home.

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