22 Days Best of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda Safari

You will get the chance to see all five of the Big Five creatures and primates, including mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and golden monkeys, during your 22-day Best of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda Classic Wildlife Safari. You will travel to Rwanda, Uganda, and Congo. This journey offers you the opportunity to go on the major life-changing experiences that any tourist would like to have in Rwanda, Uganda, and Congo. The best site to start this journey would be Kigali, Rwanda, but you can start it in Kinshasha, DR Congo, Kigali, Rwanda, or Entebbe, Uganda. Please let us know so that we can make the necessary arrangements.

Day by day

DAY 01:  Pick up from Kigali and Transfer to Bukima in Congo

The driver will pick you up from the hotel or Kigali airport early in the morning and give you an overview of the 22-day Best of Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda Classic Wildlife Safari, which includes the chance to see all five of the Big Five animals and primates, including mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, and golden monkeys. After that, you will travel to Bukima in Congo, where you will stop for lunch after a four-hour drive to Goma town. After lunch, he will keep driving to Bukima, where you will spend the night. Overnight and dinner.

DAY 02: Gorilla trekking in Virunga National Park-Congo

Your guide will take you to the Park Headquarters for a briefing after your early breakfast, where you will join other people before beginning your gorilla walk in the Virunga forest. Depending on where you are assigned to hike with the mountain gorilla family on that specific day, this trek may take anything from thirty minutes to seven hours. After locating the gorillas, you will have the opportunity to spend an hour with them, observing their behavior and taking pictures. Following this, you will be required to return to the Park Headquarters to conclude your journey.

DAY 03: Transfer to Goma for overnight

DAY 04: Nyiragongo hiking to the summit

After an early morning meal at the Lodge, you will travel to Bukima for a briefing and be accompanied by an informed guide. Starting at 10:30 am, you will trek for approximately five hours to reach the summit of Nyiragongo Volcano, during which you will rest twice. There will be thorns and tall trees along the way, and the path will be steep, muddy, and slick. Dinner and lodging at the mountain camp tents upon arrival at the summits

DAY 05: Descend the Nyiragongo Volcano and drive to Lake Kivu for overnight

After breakfast, you will meet the driver and head back to Goma, where you will take a city tour, explore the Goma caves, and spend the night at Lake Kivu after descending from Nyiragongo volcano mountain.

DAY 06: Travel to Volcanoes National Park

You will travel to Kinigi in Ruhengeri by car in the morning. After checking into your accommodation, you will go to Iby’wachu village to see traditional dance performances.

DAY 07: Golden Monkey tracking and Hike to the Dian Fossey Tomb

You will attend a briefing at the park headquarters in the morning. There will be a packed lunch and drinking water available. After that, follow the golden monkeys across the forest. Depending on how the golden monkeys travel across the forest, this exercise could take you anywhere from one to five hours. You will return to the resort for lunch and some downtime after spending no more than an hour with the golden monkeys. After that, you will go to the Dian Fossey Tomb, a former well-known gorilla tourism conservationist.

DAY 08: Drive to Akagera National Park for an evening game drive and overnight

Following breakfast at your lodge, you will travel to Akagera National Park in eastern Rwanda, which borders Tanzania. This park features stunning undulating plains with rolling grasslands, lighter acacia woodland, and dense, broad-leafed woodland, as well as a vast network of lakes connected by papyrus swamps that form a vast wetland.

DAY 09: Game drives and boat trip on Lake Ihema

Take a game drive in the park early in the morning. Hippos, elephants, buffalos, giraffes, hyenas, crocodiles, and several other creatures, as well as birds, will be seen during the game drives. Following a late breakfast, you could choose to spend some time in nature or unwind at the lodge before the afternoon canoe trip on Lake Ihema.

DAY 10: Transfer to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

Following breakfast, you will travel north to Bwindi National Park, where you will stop for lunch and possibly visit the Kigali Genocide Museum before continuing on to Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.

DAY 11: Gorilla tracking and optional community walk

You will receive a briefing from Uganda Wildlife Authority ranger guides at the park headquarters following breakfast at the accommodation. Following the briefing, the ranger will take you into the dense, impenetrable forest to begin your hunt for the rare and endangered mountain gorilla species. Every gorilla hunt starts at the location where they were last spotted the day before. You will only be permitted to spend an hour interacting with these well-known creatures once you get at their location, and you should always maintain the utmost silence when around gorillas. You are permitted to take pictures and so forth.
It can take you anything from three to eight hours to locate the gorillas, making it a really exhausting experience. But if you get to meet these gorillas, you’ll quickly forget the difficulties you had to overcome to locate them and instead cherish the positive experiences you will have with them. Following the encounter, you will arrive at the lodge late for dinner and spend the night there.

DAY 12: Drive to Queen Elizabeth National Park for an evening game drive and overnight

To meet our driving guide, get up early, eat breakfast, and check out. The incredible journey to Queen Elizabeth National Park will begin. Check in at the lodge when you arrive in the evening.

DAY 13: Morning Game Drive – Afternoon Boat Cruise on Kazinga Channel

To catch the early risers, have breakfast in the morning and then drive a safari vehicle over the Kasenyi plains for morning game. Elephants, buffalos, lions, leopards, bushbucks, kobs, and more are among the creatures to view.
After two to three hours of driving, head directly to Mweya for lunch at the canteen. As you prepare for the afternoon trip down the Kazinga Channel, eat lunch. Return to the lodge for dinner, rest, and overnight after the cruise.

DAY 14: Transfer to Kibale Forest National Park

You will leave Bwindi today and go to Kibale National Park, stopping along the way for lunch. Upon arrival, you will have the opportunity to take a nature walk in the Bigodi Swamp, where you may witness the local birds and monkeys.

DAY 15: Chimpanzee Tracking

After finishing an early breakfast, you will be led to the Kanyanchu headquarters for a briefing regarding the track you will be running in a few hours. From there, you will begin following chimpanzees, but you will also observe twelve other primate species, including baboons, vervet monkeys, and gray-cheeked mangabeys, among others, today.

DAY 16: Drive to Murchison Falls National Park with an en route visit to the top of the falls and an evening game drive

Following breakfast, you will travel by car to Murchison Falls National Park from Kibale Forest National Park. Enjoy a game drive along the way through the park’s northern region, known as Para, where you may see a lot of mammals and, with any luck, big cats hunting. Spend the night at the Park after crossing the ferry.

DAY 17: Game drive and Amazing boat cruise

On this day, you will get up early for a cup of tea or coffee and go on a morning game drive to look for early risers and predators that are making their way back to their hiding places. During this game drive, expect to see the following animals, African lions, Leopards, Elephants, Buffaloes, Antelopes and Giraffes among others. While we wait for lunch, head back to the resort for a late breakfast. After lunch, refuel for an amazing launch trip to the bottom of Murchison Falls, a birder’s heaven with over 450 species and massive crocodiles, hippopotamus, and elephants lounging on the bank.

DAY 18: Transfer to Kidepo Valley National Park for an evening game drive and overnight

Drive to Kidepo Valley National Park after breakfast, ideally very early in the morning. You will cross a few seasonal rivers, take in some picturesque vistas of the few hills separating Karamoja and Acholi Land, and not miss the magnificent Manyatas. You will reach Kidepo Valley National Park in time for lunch, leisure, and an evening wildlife drive in Narus Valley.

DAY 19: Game drives in Narus Valley

Drive to Narus Valley for your morning game drive after enjoying a hot cup of tea or coffee. Mammals like elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, antelopes, zebras, and birds are common in the Narus Valley. Since the Narus Valley is the sole permanent water source, a lot of animals visit it to feed and drink. The biggest herds of buffalo may be found there, more than anywhere else on Earth. Additionally, there is a very good chance of seeing big cats hunting. If lucky, you may spot the rare cheeters too. After lunch and some downtime, head back to the Lodge for an evening game drive in Narus Valley.

DAY 20: Game drive in Narus and Hotsprings visit in Kidepo Valley

Drive to Narus Valley for an additional game drive after breakfast in order to track down any wildlife that you might have missed on the two previous game excursions. You won’t be let down by Kidepo Valley National Park, which is the greatest. You are welcome to use one of the binocular-equipped observation spots in the park. After a little rest and lunch at the lodge, travel to Kidepo Valley to see the hot springs, the Ugand-Sudan border, and, if you’re lucky, the enormous ostriches that are native to the area but have been severely poached by Sudanese. This side has seasonal rivers, so expect to be interrupted for a few hours during the rainy season. Go back to the lodge to spend the night.

DAY 21: Drive to Gulu for overnight to break the Journey back to Kampala

next breakfast, you will go to Gulu to break up your journey to Kampala. You will stay overnight at Africa Roots Guest House, which will also let you to see rhinos in Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary the next day.

DAY 22: Transfer to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary for Rhino tracking and after proceed to Kampala/Entebbe to end the tour

Following breakfast at the lodge, you will say goodbye to the staff before continuing on your journey to Kampala or Entebbe, where you will be dropped off at your hotel or taken by plane back home. Before enjoying a hearty lunch at Amuka Lodge, you will make a detour at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary to track rhinos on foot.

End of your safari