Upon arrival at Entebbe airport, clear immigration and exit the arrivals hall where our representative awaits to transfer you approximately 10 minutes to your hotel.
Today transfer to Entebbe Airport for your morning scheduled flight (0700/0930) to Kasese Airstrip where your private Guide awaits to drive you to your lodge for lunch (2 hours).
In the afternoon either go for a guided community visit or crater lake walk.
Depart the Lodge at 05:30 and transfer (1 hour and 20 minutes) to Kibale.
Starting as early as 07:00, you will accompany the Chimps on their journey through the forest and observe their daily routines.
You may have to hike for long distances if the Chimps are on the move but you will be extremely privileged to spend a complete day with a chimpanzee family, something very few people outside the world of primatology will have had the chance to do.
This morning, we will take a guided walk through the forest, following the well-marked trails in search of Chimpanzees (half day chimp tracking).
We will return to the Lodge for lunch.
In the afternoon we will visit the Tooro Kingdom Palace for a cultural experience and the cave Amabera ga Nyinamwiru (Breasts of Nyinamwiru).
Today we transfer (3 hours) to the northern section of the Southern Queen Elizabeth Park for an afternoon’s shared boat cruise on the Kazinga Channel.
After the cruise we will transfer to the Lodge for dinner and overnight.
This morning you will go for a game drive before transferring (3 hours) to Southern Queen Elizabeth for a late evening game drive.
At 07:00 transfer approximately 1 hour to Kihihi Airstrip and check in for your scheduled flight (0830/0840) to Kisoro Airstrip. ON arrival, transfer approximately 3 hours to Volcanoes National Park and crossing Uganda and Rwanda borders en route.
Your private driver will meet up with you later in the evening.
It will be an early start on each Gorilla tracking morning. We will walk to the nearby park headquarters for a briefing and to select our Porters for the day. Then we’re off on a drive to the trailhead nearest our appointed Gorilla family. The drive may take between 10 minutes and 2 hours before we start our Gorilla tracking. Tracking can be strenuous because of the steep slopes and the high altitude. Initially, we will walk along established paths, our Ranger coordinating with the advance trackers by radio to guide us in to the Gorillas’ last known location. As we get to where the Gorillas are, we will leave the paths and begin hacking our way through the slippery underbrush. Our Porters will stay back because only our privileged party of 8 and our Ranger may approach the Gorillas to spend our magical hour with them. This hour always passes too quickly before it’s time to reluctantly make our way back to our waiting vehicles.
Today transfer approximately 2 hours 30 minutes to Kigali for a city tour and after transfer to the airport and check-in for your schechuled departure flight.
