Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport; meet our representative, greet and transfer to your lodge for refresh and overnight

After breakfast, you will depart Rwanda on a scenic drive from Kigali through thousands of hills, coffee, tea and banana plantations to the border post foothills of the Mt. volcanoes and into the beautiful Pearl of Africa – Uganda. Check into your lodge for an evening canoe treeking.

Today is the big day… Prepare yourself for an encounter with one of Bwindi’s gentle giants: the rare Mountain Gorilla. For most people this is the absolute highlight of their tour in Uganda. You will be required to wake up early in the morning then be led to the visitor’s reception center for a briefing about the park. You are allocated guides before heading into the forest in search of Mountain Gorillas. Bwindi Impenetrable Forest boasts of both Mountain Gorillas and Chimpanzees - the only forest in Africa which can make this claim in fact. It also hosts five other species of primate, 113 species of mammal, over 200 butterflies and 360 birds. Your trek will be an exciting journey along forested slopes, entwined vines, bushes and bamboo before you eventually reach the Gorillas’ habitat. En-route, your guide will point out signs of previous Gorilla activity, including dung, nests and chewed bamboo shoots. Once the Gorillas have been located, your group will be allowed a maximum of one hour with them. Coming face-to-face with a Mountain Gorilla is a truly humbling and emotional experience. This is a fantastic and privileged opportunity to get up close and personal with Uganda’s very own ‘Gorillas in the Mist’

Today you will wake up early and head to the park headquarters. Same as in Bwindi, you will be briefed and assigned a ranger guide to track the gorillas with you. In Mgahinga, you will also stand a chance to see the cheerful and fashionable golden monkeys if you lucky. In fact, that is the only place in Uganda where you can see these endangered golden monkeys. At the end of the gorilla encounter, you will head back to your hotel for a relaxing evening - or even engage in other community-related activities. There is Nice Boat Cruise for Evening Sundowner as you refresh Your Minds thinking about the Experience of the Life time with the Gorillas The most popular community activity in Mgahinga is the Batwa Experience trail. The Batwa are a minority tribe that used to live in the forest as hunter-gatherers until 1994 when the forest was gazetted as a national park. The trail will bring you first-hand encounters to what their former way of life was like - and how they managed to co-exist with the forest ecosystem without harming it.

After breakfast you will transfer back to Rwanda and have a city tour of Kigali. Explore the history of Rwanda as she dates back centuries, Kigali being part of it for 100 years. Founded in 1907 as a German settlement, Kigali did not become the capital until Rwanda’s independence in 1962 when it replaced the colonial seat of power in Butare. Visit the former presidential palace, the craft centers and the genocide memorial site. Learn about Rwanda’s history from pre-colonial times to the 1994 genocide. Also get to learn about other genocides in the world and how this country has dealt with that past. Tour more and see the new developments in Rwanda; the recovery has been incredible, a testament to humankind’s resilience. After City tour we take our flight back home